September 24th, 2014 by WCBC Radio

A host of state and local elected officials were on hand Tuesday afternoon for an open house of the new Allegany County Sheriff’s Office.  The one-story facility, which is adjacent to the County Office Complex on Kelly Road in Cumberland  cost an estimated  $700,000 to build with the county maintenance department doing in-kind work estimated at $300,000.  The new 6,600 square-foot office nearly triples the size of existing office. It now has two evidence rooms, a deputies’ room, supervisor offices, a lunch room and a one-vehicle garage so that work on patrol cars can be done indoors. Sheriff Craig Robertson said the new facility, with a targeted late November opening, represents the first true, specifically designed law enforcement offices for the department…