The Deep Creek Blog

Whitewater Course Video

Here's a video tour of the ASCI course currently under construction.  Thanks to the Deep Creek Times for pointing out this link.

Windmill Commentary

In the Baltimore Sun this past weekend.

New mural in Oakland, MD.

Have you seen the mural progressing on the back of the First United Bank & Trust office building in Oakland?  Local artist Mark Stutzman and his project are written up in yesterday's Times-News. 

Local Farm Mention

Firefly Farms of Bittinger got a nice mention in an article about college cafeteria eats going upscale in the Baltimore Sun yesterday.  I've purchased cheese at the Fireside Deli & Wine Shop,  but I'm not sure if it was one of Firefly's.   The cheese looks great and I will definitely seek it out and  give it a try.

Windmills and Warblers

There's lots of talk about putting windmills in Garrett County, as reported on The WBAL  Channel today, but it doesn't look like there is any final plan on the horizon.    On one side of the aisle you have environmentalists concerned about finding "renewable" energy sources.   According to Synergics, Inc.,

the 40-megawatt project would help electric utilities in Maryland meet a state-mandated goal of producing 7.5 percent of electricity from renewable resources by 2017.

On the other side of the aisle are environmentalists concerned about saving the mourning warbler, the Allegheny wood rat and timber rattlesnakes...never mind how the windmills would affects humans. 

I don't know much about windmill energy, but his sounds like a battle of quixotic proportions.  The only parties benefiting from this debate are the attorneys. 

Maisano said a 40-turbine project planned in Garrett County by Clipper Windpower Inc. is tied up in court, and a 24-turbine project planned in Allegany County by US Wind Force was stalled by the company's negotiations with a potential buyer of the electricity