Catoctin High teachers push four period day plan
Catoctin High School teachers voted to adopt a four period per day schedule with 90 minute classes and alternating days for the year if approved by the Frederick County Board of Education. The plan mirrors other county schools but faces small-school challenges and mixed student support.
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Thurmont
Catoctin High School
Frederick County
Catoctin
Earl Miller
Miller
Jennifer Irvine
Brunswick
Frederick
Lingapore
Heather Ridge
Poffenberger farm selected for Civil War preservation
Maryland will pay William Poffenberger more than 140000 dollars to preserve his 14.8 acre farm along U.S. 40A west of Middletown as part of the South Mountain Battlefield. The site directed Union forces during the 1862 Battle of South Mountain. A conservation easement will keep farming and historic interpretation, with the land later sold but not to be developed. The plan includes 71125 dollars in Program Open Space funds, 56900 dollars in ISTEA funds, and 14225 dollars from State Highway Administration.
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Annapolis
Middletown Valley
South Mountain Battlefield
Board of Public Works
State Department of Transportation
William Poffenberger
Middletown
George McClellan
South Mountain
Maryland
Maryland Environmental Trust
Board
State Highway Administration
White House
U.S. 40A
Fox Gap Road
Central Maryland Heritage League
Iron Brigade
Quintuplets Grow and Adjust at Home in Maryland
The Groff quintuplets in Burkittsville Williamsport area include Maureen born 3 pounds 5 ounces and Ian the smallest at 3 pounds 0 ounces. They share cribs, with a home health nurse five nights weekly and planned immunizations next month. Community support includes car seats from Midas Muffler and drives for diaper needs, while parents describe the babies as easygoing and in sync with baths, naps, and feedings.
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Maureen
Ian
Van
Groffs
Wayne Allgaier
Brunswick-Jefferson
Mr. Groff
Mrs. Groff
Midas Muffler
Century Ford
Burkittsville Raritan
Quints
2-104
Flooding forces evacuations as rivers rise across Midwest
Rain swollen rivers push residents from Missouri to West Virginia into shelters and churches. In Valley Park Missouri evacuees ride out floodwaters as volunteers stack sandbags and rescue crews operate nonstop. A 115 year old resident recounts repeated flooding while others describe devastation from last year and earlier this year. In Mingo West Virginia rescuers form a human chain to carry a laboring woman through three feet of water to an ambulance where a paramedic delivers the baby en route.
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Lisa Cardillo
Valley Park
Missouri
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Illinois
Jack Ward
St. Lows
Roger Daegele
Mingo
W.va
Serbs confront French U.N. troops near Sarajevo depot
Serbian forces massed outside a depot near Sarajevo confronted French U.N. troops guarding artillery seized from the Serbs in February. Officials described a tense standoff raising concerns about Serb aims in Bosnia and potential NATO or U.S. responses. The Serbs previously handed over artillery within a 12 mile zone outside Sarajevo after an ultimatum.
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Washington
Sarajevo
U.N
Bosnia
United States
NATO
Two U S Blackhawk helicopters shot down in Iraqi no fly zone
Kurdish spokesman detailing the incident says two U S Blackhawks were downed by Iraqi warplanes in the northern Iraq no fly zone near Zakho. He cites 12 aboard and reports all presumed killed, while noting involvement of U S British French and Turkish officers and Kurdish leaders’ planned meetings in Salahaddin.
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Haushar Zobari
U.N
Iraq
Associated Press
Washington
Zobari
Kurdistan Democratic Party
Amada
Bekhma
Agrah
Blackhawk
Safeen Dizayhe
Anakara
Turkey
Saddam Hussein
U.S
Air Force
Saddam
Security Council
Kuwait
Bosnian war toll climbs with Tuzla shelling reports
Maj. Holloway could not confirm who fired as Serb guns hit Tuzla airfield and center. Four projectiles detonated in Sarajevo while Bosnian army says rockets were used. U N officials call them rockets. Bosnian war deaths and disappearances reach about 200,000 since April 1992.
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Maj. Holloway
Tuzla
Sarajevo
U.N
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Catoctin High
Daniel Gadra
Thurmont-area
Fish Hatchery Road
Frederick County Steps
Harry Hahn
Poffenberger
Department of Natural Resources
Federal Highway Administration
ISTEA
Francis Scott Key
Sun
Ocean
Ofter
Melart Jewelers
Francis Scott Key Mall
Frederick Towne Mall
Groff
ST. Louis
Midwest
Motorola
Servic
ATG
Uniden
E. Patrick St. Frederick
Eusa Alent
Atgith
Sardaraan
Frederick Pia
Rte
Ee, Kendall
Copters
Salterini Il
Hammyend
West 7Th Street
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