Due to the recent heavy snow fall in the area, most fire hydrants are covered by snow. In order to prevent delays during a fire emergency, residents are asked to remove snow from fire hydrants near their homes.
The City of Cumberland announced today that efforts in snow removal will continue through the week.
“While the City had five or six trucks out throughout the snow event to handle main routes and assist in emergency calls , city crews beginning around 3 p.m. on Saturday, started branching out in the secondary streets,” stated City Administrator Jeff Repp.
School Board Meeting, Parent Conferences Rescheduled
School Board Meeting, Parent Conferences Rescheduled Due to Inclement Weather
February 16th Now a 3-Hour Early Dismissal for Students
Due to the recent inclement weather and predicted storm on Tuesday and Wednesday, the February meeting of the Allegany County Board of Education has been postponed until Tuesday, February 16, 2010. The work session will begin at 5:00 p.m. and the business meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday night's scheduled boys basketball game between Bishop Walsh and Allegany will be played Saturday at 2:30 at Allegany.
Tom O'Rourke Memorial Award
The Tom O'Rourke Memorial Award for the most articulate high school football player is an award established to honor the professional public speaking accomplishments of the former play-by-play announcer and sports director of WCBC.
He was known for over thirty years as the voice of Allegany and Bishop Walsh football, and his booming "Touchdown, Allegany," became synonymous with his reporting. In addition to calling these games, he was thrilled to have the opportunity to broadcast many Fort Hill High School and Beall High School games. He was part of the team that covered the first Mountain Ridge High School home game as well.
Tom's untimely death on June 16, 2008, physically silenced his great voice, but that voice still echoes to many who loved him, especially his wife and daughter, who are pleased to sponsor this award in his memory. It is with pride that Tom's family honors senior football players from Allegany, Bishop Walsh, Fort Hill, and Mountain Ridge who demonstrate proficiency in the spoken word as Tom did.
The football coaching staff with the assistance of the English department chair should select the senior football player who demonstrates the following when speaking for interviews, to his coaches, to his teachers and adults, and to his peers: articulation, confidence and sincerity, grammatical correctness and expression, non-repetitiveness.
The Mountain Ridge High School football award winner is Ryan Delaney.
Michael Jackson's doctor pleads not guilty
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AP - Michael Jackson's doctor pleaded not guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop star at a brief hearing that had all the trappings of another sensational celebrity courtroom drama.
Astronauts inspect shuttle on way to space station
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AP - Endeavour's astronauts inspected their ship early Tuesday for any launch damage as they raced toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the International Space Station.
Criminal probe is launched in Conn. plant blast
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AP - Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn't rule out negligence.
Rep. John Murtha, voice for veterans, dies at 77
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AP - Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday following complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77.
AP - A sheriff's dispatcher says fires have struck two more rural east Texas churches, just hours after investigators announced that a blaze last week marked the eighth arson against a house of worship in the state this year.
