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FINZEL RD - MVC UNKN INJURIES - - MP83 ACSQ16 1701731 17:40

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20971 NATIONAL PIKE - MVC - - MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION. - T86 SQ85 ACA355 A922 ACA359 ACE162 ACSQ16 1701729 17:20

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On This Day in FFD History

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Wednesday, March 10, 1999 - Jeff Alderton Times-News Staff Writer

Fire Guts Old Inn - The Clarysville structure dates back to 1807
CLARYSVILLE - An apparent accidental fire destroyed the 192-year-old Clarysville Inn early Wednesday and left a family of five who operated businesses there for the past four years homeless along with two other tenants.

``I've never been in this position before," said Tom Pecora, who operated the businesses at the Clarysville Inn since March 1995, when he and his family left behind a successful catering business in Baltimore for a new life in Allegany County.

Pecora sipped hot coffee and soup as he collected his thoughts, dressed in clothes given to him after he and his family escaped with only the clothes on their backs. They lost all of their

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On This Day in FFD History

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On This Day in FFD History

From the Cumberland Evening Times, Page 9 – Monday, March 10, 1975

INN FIRE CONTAINED
Quick action by the Frostburg Volunteer Fire department personnel saved the “Billy Goat Inn” from destruction today. The in is located on Big Savage Mountain, about two miles west of Frostburg. The first floor tavern was burned but booster tanks on trucks saved the second floor. Clarysville and Shaft volunteers were called for assistance. The origin of the fire was not immediately determined. The second floor was vacant. 

Frostburg fireman Enoch “Junie” Price is shown hosing down the timbers in the first floor tavern section.

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