Media Coverage - Brunswick Main Street organized the first Brunswick Bicycle Festival held Saturday at Railroad Square as a way to say thank you to the cyclists who visit the town.

Media Coverage - Poised to fix the only gap in America’s longest national park, officials gathered along the C&O Canal National Historical Park on Saturday to celebrate the start of the repair.

Trust News - The Trust is now hiring a program manager to oversee C&O Canal Pride Days, Canal Quarters, and other volunteer programs.

Media Coverage - The house welcomes visitors with its old pine floors, fireplaces and wooden folk toys for kids.

Park News - A $17 million project to replace the deteriorated Big Slackwater section of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park will result in an impressive structure that uses a precast deck for a new section of the towpath, a park official said.

Media Coverage - The canal and the town teamed up to sponsor the three-day Retreat through Williamsport: Civil War Weekend.

Park News - The construction project to repair the only broken section of the C&O Canal National Historical Park’s towpath has begun.

Media Coverage - The New York Times lists Canal Quarters as one of 12 unexpected history trips.

Media Coverage - About eight town officials and others conduct a town assessment.

Media Coverage - It was a fun way to pay homage to Hancock’s history as an important shipping point along the canal, which once was a vibrant transportation system.

Media Coverage - Local officials gathered Tuesday afternoon at Williamsport’s Cushwa Basin to celebrate the opening of a pair of half-mile-long bike lanes they hope will bolster the town’s economy by drawing more C&O Canal towpath users off the trail and into town.

Park News - Because park officials wanted to have a visitors center that was closer to users of the towpath, they set their sights on opening the Bowles House to the public.

Park News - The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park held a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open its new Hancock Visitors Center along the towpath by Lock 52.  

Media Coverage - Relief is on the way from odors along the C&O Canal due to the 50-mile long Potomac Interceptor sewer. The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC WASA) and the National Park Service (NPS) broke ground today on the first of six odor-scrubbing facilities that will remove the vents that have for years emitted sewer gases to the open air above.

Park News - The effort toward rewatering the C&O - Canal, one that has been in the works since 2007, is back on track after CSX decided not to allow the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad to connect to its main line last week.