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My solo show "What Doesn't Kill You" opens at TAG/The Artists Gallery on October 1, 2021. (Details in my blog.)

08/30/2019

Brunswick resident Kailah Ensley has published her first book, ‘The Big One,’ through Collages LLC. The book addresses substance abuse and mental illness. " I knew I wanted to write a story of my own on the subject matter, giving it my spin," she tells The Citizen this week.

08/15/2019

Brunswick's "Distinguished Citizens" program is honoring a new group of people in 2019. This newspaper has already run profiles on Eleanor Milligan (July 11), five core members of the powerhouse Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance Auxiliary (July 18), and George Chick, the Brunswick dairyman who lived to be 101 (July 25). This week's paper includes a great profile of three-term mayor Carroll Jones. Don't miss it!

Pictures: Carroll Jones with some of his grandchildren. The Souder & Chick Dairy on the west end of Brunswick Street (Mr. Chick is third from the left). The Ladies Auxiliary's Anna Thornton, Ella Spence, Charlotte Barnhouse, and Dorothy Moss, who passed away this month; the late Thelma Spence is part of the group being hononred. And Eleanor Milligan.

06/21/2019

The Brunswick Distinguished Citizens have been announced for 2019. The first of the nominees are profiled in this week's Citizen. Pick up a copy and read all about Joan and Nelson Smith's contributions to our community through the Brunswick Ambulance Company. Pictured: Mark Taylor, Joan and Nelson Smith and Dennis Wenner in 1981, volunteering with Co. 19.

05/01/2019

Brunswick High held its Prom on a Friday night— isn't that a first? And it was so windy that the traditional red carpet entrance was a real challenge. Here are a couple of pictures from this week's Citizen:
• Braving the wind are friends Isabelle Stassi, Emily Rimel, Maria Hadley, Gabrielle Bowie, and Aubrey Smothers.
• Caught inside with boots and hats, a quick picture was taken with some prop hats from the photo booth. The Brunswick Police officers are Corporal Chris Handler and (the one who drew the short straw on hat choice) Officer Sean Kohler. The junior class members photographed are Chris Payne, Jacob Barton and Tyler Pearl. The students advised they are the last of the 'real cowboys' in town and do not live in townhouses.

03/28/2019

One good meeting made more progress on moving the WB Tower than we've seen in the years the City of Brunswick has been trying to relocate the historic railroad signal tower. Why? Councilmember Andy St. John talks about what's happening in this week's Citizen. (Photo by Jerry Knight.)

01/30/2019

“Mirror, mirror …” Lily Klimek may be saying, as she admires her royal earrings during the Princess Party held at the Lovettsville Community Center on Saturday. Story in this week's Citizen.

01/30/2019

Alan Lescalleet has been inducted in the YMCA of Frederick County's Alvin G. Quinn Sports Hall of Fame for his work at Brunswick High, bringing soccer back to the school and heading boys teams that won two State championships. Read the story in this week's Citizen! (Yes, we got the paper out despite the "big" snow...)

11/16/2018

We've gotten behind on our posts. Our series of profiles of Brunswick's 2018 Distinguished Citizens has continued, and while they are not currently on newsstands, we have copies in the newspaper office if you missed one. They make great reading about the people and the community we love!
Stories about Jim Dixon appeared in our September 20 issue, Joanne Runkles on September 27, Leroy Strawsburg on October 4 and Capt. Jennifer Shafer Odom on November 8.

11/14/2018

LOVETTSVILLE ELEMENTARY HONORED VETS on Monday. Here's a glimpse at a wonderful event - https://vimeo.com/300392145

It is an annual event at Lovettsville Elementary School to honor Veterans; this year is no different, directed and produced by John P. Flannery

09/14/2018

This week The Citizen is profiling Denny Moore, who is being honored in October as a Brunswick Distinguished Citizen. Read why, in this week's paper! (Pictured: Volulnteering with the Brunswick Ambulance and Rescue Co. during a recent Freezin' For a Reason on New Year's Day.)

09/13/2018

Due to concerns about the weather, Main Street has rescheduled Abbie Rickard's thank you reception from this Friday to Thurs., Sept. 27 during Main Street's Annual Meeting.

08/24/2018

Estella Belt is one of our 2018 Brunswick Distinguished Citizens, to be honored at a ceremony in October. Read her story in this week's issue.

08/24/2018

The Brunswick High School football program is 50 years old this year. Read Bill Cauley's in-depth story on how the program got started, in this week's Citizen! (Photo from the 1969 BHS yearbook.)

08/17/2018

Brooks Campbell knows what he likes— frogs (above) and blacksnakes (at left)— and he wants to share the joy of herpetology. Read the story about this young Brunswick resident in this week's Citizen!

07/27/2018

Brunswick is a recreation destination for tourists— so how have the ups and downs of the Potomac River affected local rec-based businesses? Read all about it in this week's Citizen. (Photo by Julie Maynard.)

07/27/2018

At the candidates’ forum on July 16, from left: Wayne Allgaier, Nathan Brown, John Dayton, Carroll Jones, Mariah Rodgers, and Andy St. John. The Citizen reported candidates' responses to the questions posed in the July 19 newspaper and this week's July 26 paper, still on newsstands.
(Hobo Harry has, so far, not responded to ANY questions.)

06/29/2018

Brunswick's Po***ck family thought they were concentrating on helping Amanda recover from her seventh brain surgery— but then Amanda's husband, Steve, was diagnosed with heart failure. Now he needs a transplant. Their harrowing story is in this week's Citizen. Pictured: Amanda and Steve Pollack in 2015, and today.

06/29/2018

Carmen Lescure reacts as Brunswick Elementary Principal Justin McCounnaughey announces she has been nominated for the Frederick County Public Schools' Support Staff of the Year award. Read the story in this week's Citizen!

06/21/2018

Juana Anderson has been named Substitute Teacher of the Year by Frederick County Public Schools. She is a regular and long-time substitute at Brunswick Middle School.

06/21/2018

This week The Roving Random reporter
asks random citizens about (gasp!) chickens and bike licenses. One Random Citizen was Ed Waters, pictured volunteering on the Brunswick Heritage Museum's third floor.

05/25/2018

The Random Roving Reporter checks in with five local people to talk about what's new in our area— in this week's Citizen!

05/18/2018

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05/17/2018

It was just a little fire— but it made for a lot of drama in downtown Brunswick last Thursday! (Story in this week's Citizen.)

05/17/2018

New club, new energy! The charter members of the Smoketown Rotary are (from left, in front): Karin Tome, Sue Kelley, Ginger Cayo, Judy Couillard, Linda Fernandez, Carmella Smith-Swafford, with Rotary International District Governor Greg Wims; (in middle) Ernie Stepoulos, Kelly Putz, Abbie Ricketts, David Harrigan; (in back) Rotary International District Governor-elect Rich Glover with Smoketown Rotarians Charlie Harris, Richard Stonebraker, Chris Mourlas, Phil Graves, Vaughn Ripley, Sarah Van Dusen, James Rippeon, Adam Cubbage, Kevin Kenny, and Arthur Hall. Charter members not pictured are David Blackmon, Gonzalo Cayo, Lois Jarman, Eric Johnson, Tara Lebherz, Rob MacKay, and William Shawley. Photo by Maggie Thomas. Read the story in this week's Citizen!

05/17/2018

The future HeroBurgers food truck arrived in Brunswick last winter. Here it is behind the Building Veterans house on South Maryland Avenue. Read the story about this great new Building Veterans project in this week's Citizen!

05/10/2018

Catch our coverage of the 2018 Brunswick High Prom in this week's Citizen! Here are King Maggie Spielman and Queen Jessie Carter reacting to the announcement of who would wear the crowns this year.

05/04/2018

The Roving Random Reporter is back, this time quizzing people about some of the great events coming up in Brunswick. Bennett and Meredith MacLauchlan (pictured with 5-month-old son Emerson) were interviewed while enjoying Trivia Night at Smokehouse Brewery. See the story in this week's Citizen!

05/04/2018

A first for Brunswick High: Makenzie Schnur is the first female scholar-athlete to win county-wide honors at the FCCA Scholar-Athlete Banquet. Joey Intolubbe was BHS's male scholar-athlete this year.

04/27/2018

Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Company is expanding its Cadet program— read all about it in this week's Citizen! PICTURED: Cadet Riley Collins, 14, (left) assists Cadet recruits Fiona McCabe, 14, and Alex Hatcher, 13, along with Cadet Logan Eubank, 13, in administering aid to Company 19's Dennis the Dummy.

04/27/2018

Nate Fontaine and Kris Consaul are the candidates of Mayor in the 2018 Lovettsville election on May 1. At the recent mayoral candidates debate, they agreed on almost everything. Read the story in this week's Citizen.

04/13/2018

Bombardier Martin Sheehan and Captain Laura Shaw, members of the Allied Airmen's Preservation Society, posing in a vintage WWII Jeep for BMS Spirit of America Day. Read about this celebration of service to our country in this week's Citizen!

04/06/2018

Some of the egg hunters at Lovettsville’s Eggstravaganza were dressed in finery designed by Mom, such as Evelyn Beisel, 2. See the story in this week's Citizen!

03/30/2018

We COULD have uploaded a photo from our big First Day of Spring snow, but no one wants to see that now. So here, instead of a spring lamb, is a spring kid, photographed at George's Mill Farm. Lilliana is holding the cuddly kid as her mother, Carrie Bowes, looks on. HAPPY EASTER!

03/16/2018

Mayor Jeff Snoots fires the starting gun and a record number of runners are off for the 36th Forest of Needwood Race. Read the story in this week's Citizen! Photo by Bob Ward.