Montgomery honors women's vote pioneer
Ninety nine year old Sydell Laskowitz recalls pinning invitation pins to voting lapels during the suffrage movement and casting her first ballot for Roosevelt in 1920. County officials marked the 75th anniversary with praise for volunteers and notes on fashion, progress, and the ongoing value of civic participation.
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Rockville
Sydell Laskowitz
Council For the
Connor
Duncan
Nguyen Minh Chau
Garrett Park
Mrs. Laskowitz
Governor backs Grasmick for another term as Maryland schools chief
Gov. Parris Glendening urged a unanimous Board of Education vote to reappoint Nancy Grasmick to a four year term as superintendent. The move aims to show continuity while pursuing a major overhaul of teacher training school evaluation and reform efforts, despite prior union tensions.
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Baltimore
Parris Glendening
State Board of Education
Nancy 5. Grasmick
Christopher Cross
Grasmick
Glendening
Maryland State Teachers Association
Crime rise in upper MontCo despite fewer homicides
Police report second quarter 1995 shows a 3.6 percent increase in serious crime in the upper Montgomery County Germantown district and a 6 percent countywide rise for the quarter, with robberies up sharply and rapes down in the quarter but up in six months.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
Germantown
Carol Mehming
Upper
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