Frederick County Students Return to School With New Builds and Courses
Frederick County students head back to classes with Orchard Grove Elementary reopening after a one week delay while a new building is prepared. Urbana High School pilots a pre engineering class using lasers robots and computers. A new video and computer communications class joins a strengthened language arts curriculum. The DARE program is replaced by COP with officers and teachers delivering the instruction.
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Frederick County
Orchard Grove
Urbana High School
William Miller
Miller
Elizabeth Mor
Gan
Raymond Barnes
Frederick teachers launch Priority One campaign
Frederick County Teachers Association plans a Priority One drive to win support from the Frederick County Commissioners and Board of Education. President Kim Lewis says teachers will attend meetings and speak for students first while the year unfolds. The union earlier clashed over a one year contract with two offers rejected and $200 half step approved by similar margins.
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Frederick County Commissioners and
Board of Education
Frederick County Teachers Association
Kim Lewis
Lewis
FCTA
Teen in custody over grenade case in Maryland
Justin Edward Keeney, 17, remains in juvenile detention in Prince George's County after entering East Sykesville Shelter Home with a grenade to locate his girlfriend. A hearing next week will decide if he can be tried as an adult. His mother, Janet Peterson, says the system is broken as she recounts a Florida car theft, a cross country journey, and failed custody attempts. Continued on Page A4.
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Justin Edward Keeney
East Sykesville
Prince George’s County
Maryland State Police
Westminster
Carroll County
Janet Peterson
St. Petersburg
Fla
Justin
Florida
Maryland
Frederick County
Peterson
Calvin
Iraq Moves to Crush Kurdish Rebels in Northern Iraq
Iraq ordered troops into northern Iraq to curb Iranian backed Kurdish rebels amid regional tensions. Tariq Aziz cited a limited operation in response to the Kurdistan Democratic Party. U.S. and Turkish officials urged restraint as fighting escalates near Kurdistan and Iraq borders.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Saddam Hussein
Iraq
Tariq Aziz
Kurdistan Democratic Party
London
Kurdistan
Iran
U.S
Warren Christopher
Tansu Diller
Ankara
Turkey
Christopher
Associated Press
Edouard Could Disrupt Holiday Weekend Coastal Weather
Hurricane Edouard, a broad system expected to move northward at 10 mph, threatened North Carolina to Delaware with tropical storm winds and heavy rain as forecasters warned the last summer weekend could be unsettled. Rain and showers were likely inland, with Sunday worst and Monday improving. Weather watches covered Cape Lookout to Cape Henlopen as Edouard hovered about 400 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras with 120 mph winds.
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Edouard
North Carolina
Delaware
Bertha
Joe Cline
National Weather Service
Tim Myers
Frederick County
Cape Henlopen
Del
Cape Hatteras
Pertussis Outbreak Hits Frederick County with 26 Cases
Frederick County leads Maryland in a pertussis outbreak with 26 identified cases. Health officials say the first case was diagnosed in June and the illness has spread rapidly, with statewide totals at 118. Vaccination and antibiotics are emphasized to curb spread.
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Maryland
Frederick County
Gloria Shaulis
State Health Department
Shaulis
Ms Shaulis
Dog Awaited Fate In Custody Battle For Peete Puppy
District Court Judge Frederick J. Bower ruled that the 11 month old Peete puppy must await a decision in the Frederick County Humane Society kennels after Richard Wolfe Jr and his father turned the dog over to the society. The custody dispute pits the former owner against the humane organization in a case that continued beyond Friday.
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Kelly Hahn
Eleanor Lestinneester
Walkersville Middle School
Porshin Jackson
Waverly
Douglas Tallman
News-Post
Matthew Barakat
Inside the News
Frederick News
Frederick News Post
Krista Glielmi
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