Koty Wright News Today

CHARLESTOWN — The last of four volunteer firefighters who suffered burns while battling an intentionally-set house blaze near North East earlier this month returned home Friday night - in ceremonious fashion - after spending nine days at the Bayview Burn Center in Baltimore. A motorcade comprised of eight fire and police vehicles streamed into the Charlestown Volunteer Fire Company parking lot shortly after 8 oclock that evening, with sirens blaring and emergency lights flashing. Standing ...

NORTH EAST — There’s an unofficial movement sweeping across the country and right here in Cecil County in an effort to infuse joy into an otherwise dismal year. Koty Wright in North East and Amanda Cameron Vaughan and Britt Fraker in Rising Sun have become the faces of the local effort to get folks to stand outside their homes at 6 p.m. Dec. 24 and ring bells. “It’s just two minutes and it gives us some hope,” Wright said. “I hope a ton of people do it.” â€�...