tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79297642009-02-20T22:26:29.604-05:00A guide to living, working, and playing in Frederick, Maryland.hornblowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421462449812882959noreply@blogger.comBlogger317125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929764.post-1136132259479896512006-01-01T11:17:00.000-05:002006-01-17T14:35:52.186-05:00

I'm moving FredNet from Blogger to WordPress.com. Blogger provides a great service, but the comment spam and the measures used to prevent it are just becoming too much.I hope you will follow FredNet to it's new address http://frednet.wordpress.com/. Most of the posts and comments from here have been moved to the new address. I also feel that some of the features WordPress offers will make it

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I hope you and your family have an awesome ‘06! As with every New Year’s Day it’s the season for resolutions. I’m making my usual one - to loose weight. So you will see me at Fitness First plugging along on the treadmill most mornings before work.What about you? What’s your resolution? Leave a comment if you really want to make that promise to yourself concrete by putting it in writing on a

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In the recent edition of Frederick Magazine their is a great article about Frederick bloggers. The article covers what blogs are and how easy it is to set one of your own up.The article also profiles three of Frederick’s very own bloggers - Michele Clemence, Sarah Dylan Breuer, and yours truly.Thanks to the author, Chad Capellman and the photographer, Bettina Strauss. They made it really fun to

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The January 2006 issue of Frederick Magazine reports that the Cheesecake Factory may be coming to Frederick. Mathew Robb reports In The Dish that the Factory will be located ” … within a stone’s throw of FSK Mall.”If this tidbit is true it would be great! I wouldn’t have to travel down to White Flint to get my White Chocolate Chunk Macadamia Nut cheesecake fix. Until this dream comes true you can

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An interesting story from the Frederick News-Post:Each weekday morning, more than 100,000 people in Frederick County older than 16 get up and commute to work, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Some travel to jobs in Frederick while 41.1 percent of commuters travel on I-270 and I-70 to head out of town for the workday.I’m one of the commuters that schlep down 270 every work day. This week has

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Who knew Frederick had it’s own music mogul.Perhaps because so much of music is rhythm — time cut into metric pieces — it has the power to rearrange, obliterate or reclaim time. So as we reach the part of the year when we become most attuned to the passage of days, it’s worth looking back at some releases that reach into the past and pull it gloriously into the present.Appropriately, a couple of

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If you live in the City of Frederick be prepared to drive your Christmas tree to a designated drop off point.If you plan on throwing your Christmas tree out with the trash this year it won’t go much farther than your sidewalk, if you live in Frederick.“Once Christmas is over we take it down we got two little kids running around and it’s nice to get everything out of there,” said Don Lindsey, a

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The Frederick News-Post has a great article on the Carroll Creek Park Project.Luxury apartments are now under construction at the corner of South and Market streets; new restaurants are doing plenty of business on nights and weekends; and construction workers are busy along Carroll Creek Park, which could one day become the economic center of Frederick city."This is the next logical step for the

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The family and I went to G. Hunter’s last night for dinner. The restaurant is located just past the Frederick Towne Mall off the Golden Mile.Read the rest of this post at the new FredNet.

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If you want to help others in need during this season of giving, the Frederick Gazette has a suggestion.The Frederick Community Action Agency is holding its annual fund-raiser to support both the soup kitchen and food bank.Both programs have operated almost exclusively through donations. The goal for the fundraiser is $60,000 to support operations through 2006. Additional money raised will

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My family and I would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas. And to those that do not celebrate Christmas we hope you have an awesome holiday season. May you and yours have safe and happy time.I would also like to thank you all for reading FredNet and being part of the little community we have going here. FredNet is nothing without you all.Thanks!

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I love Old Town Frederick, the restaurants, the shops, the lights at Christmas, just the whole feel of it. Old Town is so uniquely Frederick. But with the Carroll Creek Project speeding to completion the make-up of Old Town may be changing.For example, the Homes at Market Square is a new residential development that is being built in Old Town. It consists of condos and townhouses with prices

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Check out this article from the Baltimore Sun about Frederick’s own WestSide Cafe.When owner Rod Deacey opened the WestSide Cafe in May, Frederick got a new laid-back watering hole and acoustic performance space.Vibe // Cozy. The ceiling is painted sky blue and dotted with the occasional puffy white cloud, so no matter what the weather is outside, it’s always springtime.Music // The cafe features

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A FredNet reader asked me about some new construction starting in Frederick. I haven’t been able to turn anything up so I thought I would ask the great FredNet readers if they knew anything. Here is the question …Can you possibly find out details on what is about to be built on the land along New Design Road across from the Robin Meadows community? The property was rezoned as MXD several years

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I had to go to the CVS last night to pick up some Lotrimin AF for my babies’ horrible yeast infection/diaper rash. I don’t know if you have ever seen this particular product, but the words “Jock Itch” are displayed prominently all over the package. You’d think their sales would go up if they placed those words in smaller print, maybe on the bottom of the box.So I go to check out and the cashier

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News bits and bites for Frederick and beyond …Frederick company, Eastalco begins the process of closing its doors this week. The company will shut down the plant due to a dispute with over the cost of electricity with Allegheny power. About 600 hundred employees will be laid off when it’s all said and done. Hopefully they will find new jobs quickly.Walkersville and the City of Frederick both have

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According to the Frederick News-Post the Jefferson Technology Park (reg req’d) could bring 7,000 new jobs to Frederick County when completed.A 173-acre business park that could bring 7,000 jobs to Frederick County was approved by the county planning commission Wednesday.The economic development project, which could potentially cut the county’s already low unemployment by a third, received

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We went on a hunt for a Christmas Tree this Sunday and had one heck of a time finding one. Maybe we started too late, but the couple places we tried were expensive, closed, or had crappy trees.We finally went to Wal-Mart, of all places, and got a tree for 25 bucks. The tree is a little small and has a double trunk (which made for a pain in the ass when putting it in the tree stand), but decent

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I enjoy beer, but I don’t get to drink as much as I used to. Now I concentrate on quality instead of quantity and the Frederick Brewing Co. provides some quality beer.To punctuate that fact a recent article by Bob Batz Jr. from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette places Frederick’s SnowGoose as one of the Twelve Beers of Christmas …For winter and the holidays, many brewers create extra-special brews –

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Ever wonder what the fair was like a hundred years ago. Now you can find out …Three Frederick County residents have researched and written a book on the history of The Great Frederick Fair.Ann Lebherz, Sarah Drenning and Loraine Nicklas received permission from the fair’s Board of Managers to have free access to the fair’s archives and to use the fair’s administrative building to work, according

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Here is an interesting story about a Frederick company designing interactive displays about Lewis and Clark's amazing adventure.Ruth Bielobocky wants to educate the public about Lewis and Clark. But the owner of Ion Design, a Frederick, Md. company, said part of her goal in designing eight interpretive wayside exhibits for Omaha's Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Headquarters is to help

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I'm not sure if it snowed last night (I was sleeping in my nice, warm bed), but everything was covered in ice when I woke up this morning. I took a picture of icicles hanging from a fence post in my backyard.I know it's December but it seems to early for this. Besides, I thought the woolly bear caterpillars predicted a mild winter?

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The Washington Post has a cool story about a Frederick County Community.The hills and valleys around Frederick within interstate commuting distance from Washington are awash with new subdivisions. But atop Braddock Mountain off Alternate U.S. Route 40, there's still what appears to be a Victorian small town with a view.Braddock Heights has undergone generations of change since it was founded at

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Looking for something to do this weekend?This Friday you can take in the Kris Kringle Procession, which starts at 6:30 p.m. on East Street in Frederick, and ends with the lighting of the City tree in Baker Park. Check out this site for a list of more Frederick Holiday events.Get your shopping done at the Maryland Christmas Show taking place at the Frederick Fairgrounds.Nothing says Christmas like

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I pass the construction of the new ramp connecting Route 26 to 15 North every day. Thankfully the project doesn't back up traffic in the morning. According to this story from the Gazette it will be finished by next Fall.

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