Wings of Freedom Air Show Delights Despite Sparse Attendance
The Confederate Air Force staged a four hour Wings of Freedom display featuring precision flying, aerial acrobatics, parachuting, and WWII era flybys with ground exhibits. Weekend crowds were thinner, easing lines and parking. heat relief tents and affordable prices added value as visitors enjoyed a sunlit Sunday and cooler skies. The event highlighted wartime manufacturing feats, including a rebuilt Martin Marauder B-26 turret salvaged from Suffolk, Va, showcasing engineering prowess behind the war effort. Willee the reason for the thinned down attendance.
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Confederate Air Force
Eustalco
Red Cross
Middle River
Suffolk
Willee
Hall couple denounces trial coverage as unfair wet basement framing
James and Janice Hall challenge The Frederick News Post coverage of their case against Lowell Regency Homes, arguing the dispute was about building in groundwater and soil conditions rather than a wet basement. They accuse the paper of misrepresenting the facts and cite repeated contempt citations against their attorney, Barry Steelman, as sensationalism.
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Lowell Regency Homes
Kingsbrook
George Dorsey
Frederick News-Post
Julia Robb
Dorsey
Barry L Steelman
Frederick County
Mary Ann Stepler
Frederick News- Post
Frederick News Post
Stepler
Vic Steelman
Frederik News Post
Steelman
United States Naval Academy
Vietnam
University of Baltimore Law School
Frederick News- Fest
News- Post
News-Post
Jamce F Hall Jr
Frederick
State's two-standard VEIP tests considered wasteful
Larry Schander of Frederick argues the VEIP coupon incentive for the more stringent dynamometer test fails logic. He outlines three driver categories, faults the two-test system, and urges adopting a single EPA-compliant Test A and ending discounts or switching statewide to one test to avoid revenue loss and confusion.
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EPA
Larry Schander
Frederick
Ramsburg family among Farm Show injuries and contest winners
Jacob Ramsburg of Frederick prepares to remove a broken arm from a softball injury while his brother Earl Ramsburg, a bank manager, breaks a wrist loading coal. Mehri Ramsburg suffers a broken jaw after a cow kick. Marguerite Saylor and Louise Seiss win first and second in the Petersville Farmers picnic beauty contest judged by local residents Tobias Zimmerman, Robert Windsor, and Leo Duvall.
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Jacob R. Ramsburg
E. Patrick St
Maryland House of Delegates
Earl E. Ramsburg
Ramsburg
Marguerite Saylor
Thurmont
Louise Seiss
Creagerstown
Frederick County
Petersville
Tobias E. Zimmerman
Adamstown
Robert Windsor
New Market
Leo Duvall
Walkersville
Corn Field Day Draws 300 Farmers in Frederick County
Over 300 area farmers and others attended the annual Corn Field Day hosted by the Frederick County Extension Office with cooperators. The event featured lunch, a tour of Eastalco Aluminum Co. test plots, and talks on new corn marketing ideas. JoANN Miller of Catoctin Furnace received the third of 300 FCBC coins for designing the county Bicentennial coin and plate.
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Frederick County Extension Office
Corn, Feed and Chemical Companies
Eastalco Aluminum Co
Joann Miller
Catoctin Furnace
Frederick County
FCBC
Frederick letter defends Hoke remarks and rebukes Aderhold
A veteran reader objects to Bruce Aderhold letter in The Frederick News-Post. defends Mark Hoke and notes quotes may be out of context. He recalls a WFMD interview about using a rope at Fort Detrick’s main gate as a travel control idea and cautions against generalizations about a military background.
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Bruce Aderhold
Frederick News-Post
Frederick County
Mark Hoke
Aderhold
WFMD
Hoke
Fort Detrick
U.S. Marine Corps
Frederick mayor Grimes in dispute with News-Post
A Frederick reader accuses Ike Wilson of bias and sensationalism in coverage of Mayor Jim Grimes. The complainant says August 16 article and a front page follow up repeated wording, alleging a personal vendetta and meddling in municipal affairs.
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Frederick
Public Letter Defends Mayor Grimes and Urges Traffic Safety
A reader defends Mayor Jim Grimes and his administration against criticism, arguing his integrity and service to Frederick and urging accountability only for alleged missteps. The letter also includes a personal obituary note from Peggy Petronchak Waxter, recounting the death of her son in a drunken driving incident on April 9 1995 and urging designated driving to prevent further tragedies.
Amazing perception by a 10 year old letter on drunk driving
Christina Hawkins writes to The Frederick News Post on August 20 1996 about drunk driving as a serious national problem. She highlights Maryland data from 1995 with 188 drunk driving deaths and asks readers to imagine ER scenes of injured loved ones.
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Christina Hawkins
Frederick
Frederick County
Maryland
Crawford optimistic he can defeat Bartlett
The News-Post piece, by Matthew Barakat, portrays Steve Crawford as portraying Dr. Bartlett as extremist while offering no proof. It questions Crawford’s ethics and credibility, noting his attacks on Bartlett and Larry Pratt and a claimed lack of trustworthiness in representing the 6th District.
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News-Post
Matthew Barakat
Crawford
Bartlett
Steve Crawford
Dr. Bartlett
Dr. Crawford
Larry Pratt
Mr Pratt
Letters to the Editor instructions from Frederick News-Post
The Frederick News-Post invites readers to send letters with name address and phone for verification. Due to high volume not all letters are published and some are edited for space or taste. Poetry and letters addressed to others are not published.
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The
Frederick News Post
Fredenck
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Peggy Petronchak Waxter
Robert P. Nalewaik
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