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 Budget meeting 7 PM this Thursday night at Community Center
Privation has a way of confirming necessity, or betraying abundance, so that the snowstorms of Februrary Ten may well prove a teaching moment, as the city of Frostburg grapples with budget challenges of unprecedented severity.
Sometimes we only realize how important something is when it’s taken from us. Like being fool enough to get caught in a blizzard with plenty of bread, milk and toilet paper, but not enough beer: Necessity redefined.
Sometimes, though, in being deprived our normal measure, we realize that perhaps we could have done with less all along.
Like trash pickup.
For better or worse, I spent my formative years in Thurmont, Md., gateway to the Catoctins, which is a cool name for both a ... |
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