City man fights city ban on racing pigeons in Frederick
Meredith Painter, 78, keeps about 70 homing pigeons at 118 W 3rd St amid a new Frederick ordinance banning fowl within 280 feet of neighbors. He trains and cares for them daily, cites imports from Poland and France, and fears he may have to euthanize his flock if an exception isn’t granted.
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Frederick
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Th St
Frederick Board of Aldermen
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France
Frederick County
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Washington
Belgium
Mount Airy asbestos concerns surface as school plans delay
Carroll County officials previously pledged to address asbestos during a 2.5 million modernization of Mount Airy Elementary, but state funds were deferred. Parents, PTA leaders, and the White Lung Association spar over visibility, safety, and whether asbestos is sealed in the old building while renovations and surveys proceed.
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Carroll County
Kathy Sutphin
Carroll Board of Education
North Main Street
Sutphin
Bok
White Lung Association of Maryland
White Lung Association
Mount Airy
Boe
Westminster
Lester Lurber
Surber
Margo Yokay
Mount Airy Elementary School Parent Teachers Association
Bor
PTA
Elaine Dean
Mount Airy Middle School
Dear
Damascus Band Boosters Push to Fund D-Day Trip
Damascus High School marching band seeks funds for a 11 day tour to England and France for the D-Day 40th anniversary celebration. About 226 dollars per student has been raised for 155 members with 1961 cholera epidemic noted in one line and multiple fundraisers planned. The trip departs May 29 from Dulles and returns June 9. performances include Arc de Triomphe in Paris and Omaha Beach.
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Damascus High School
France
Dale Griggs
Damascus
England
Griggs
Boosters
Damascus Methodist Education
MD. 108
Paris
Omaha Beach
Normandy
Hopkins chaplain Wickwire retires after 31 years at Johns Hopkins
The Rev. Chester L. Wickwire will retire as chaplain of Johns Hopkins University at the end of the academic year after 31 years, leaving the post’s future uncertain. University leaders weigh whether to replace him with a religious or secular staffer or end the position, while Wickwire will keep an office on the Homewood campus to continue his social and religious work begun in 1953.
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Chester L. Wickwire
Johns Hopkins University
George W. Fisher
Wickwire
Chet Wickwire
University
Steven Muller
Johns Hopkins
Chaplin
Homewood
Hopkins
Yale University
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