Christmas lights trimmed by higher costs in area stores
A local survey shows few stores will expand electrical displays this season due to higher power costs. Frederick County Square Center and Frederick Towne Mall report minimal or restrained uses, with backcharging to stores and renovations steering the trend. Shoppers find mostly non electrical ornaments in several shops and chains.
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Kevin Bittman
Bittman
County Square
Henneberger
Frederick
Frederick Towne Mall
William Bulla
Bulla
Dan Kemp
Routzahn's
Frederick High renovation gets new life with IAC review
Frederick County officials told the State InterAgency Committee the nearly eight million dollar Frederick High School project could be funded in two phases. Phase one would cost about five million for education facilities and phase two about three million for athletic grounds auditorium and vo-tech additions. The IAC will refer the plan to staff for further study with a decision hoped by February.
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Newlife
Frederick High School
John L. Carnachan Jr
State InterAgency
Frederick County
IAC
Baltimore-Washington International Airport
Carnochan
Alfred Thackston
T. Meade Felton
Paul £. Fogle
Board of Education
Frederick L. Smith
Frances W. Ashbury
Rita Gordon
Wiliam G. Linehan
Edward P. Thomas
Charles C. Smelser
Del
Julien P. Delphey
Frederick City
Ronald N. Young
Lawrence A. Dorsey
Frederick High Project
James Sensenbaugh
Wladimer Wahbe
George Lewis
General Services
Cr. Bowers
Ou R
Atnochan
Dorsey
Board of Commissioners
Thomas
BOE
Frederick High
Murder case goes to grand jury for indictment
District court Judge Stanley Y. Bennett ruled that the state has produced sufficient evidence to send the murder case of Donald David Smallwood to the grand jury for possible indictment. Smallwood, 20, of the John Hanson Apartments, remains in Frederick County Jail on 100000 bond on charges he murdered David Richard Allen in the early hours of Oct. 26. Det Sgt George R. Himes Jr. testified two informants said Smallwood told them he would kill Allen and later confessed to shooting Allen in Allen’s car in the Elm Street Elementary School parking lot.
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Stanley Y. Bennett
Donald David Smallwood
Smallwood
John Hanson
Frederick County
David Richard
Schoolman) Ailen
George R. Himes Jr
Allen
Himes
Michael Tutson
Elm Street
Ford and Mao Hold Long Peking Talks in Friendly Mood
President Ford met Mao Tse tung for one hour and 50 minutes at Chungnanhai Park in a cordial session described as earnest and significant on wide ranging issues. The meeting included aides Kissinger Bush Scowcroft Lord and marked part of Ford’s five day China visit with no details released.
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Ford
Mao Tsetung
People’s Republic of China
Chungnanhai Park
Forbidden City
Richard M. Nixon
Mao
Betty Ford
Susan
Henry A. Kissinger
George Bush
U.S
Brent Scowcroft
Joseph J. Sisco
Philip Habib
Winston Lord
State Department
Richard Solomon
National Security Council
Kissinger
Bush
Scowcroft
Lord
White House
Teng Hsiao-ping
Li Hsien-nien
Chiao Kuan-hua
Huang Chen
Washington
Wang Haijung
Tang Wen-sheng
Chang Han-chih
Graceham Residents Petition to Remove Predatory Birds
In Graceham Maryland residents rally over booming flocks of blackbirds starlings and grackles circling a 61 acre pine stand. Gloria and Archie Green collect signatures to push county state and federal officials to act now with two petitions including a plan to kill birds if needed.
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Graceham
Gloria
Archie Green
MD. 77
Greens
Gloria Green
Hopkinsville
Graceham Roost
Paul Beale
Frederick County
Armed gunmen hijack Dutch train with 130 hostages
In Beilen a train with about 150 people was halted by two armed hijackers who attached dynamite and demanded flight to an unknown destination. Police said two women and a child were released and the attackers, believed to be South Moluccan extremists, seek Indonesian independence for the Molucca Islands.
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The
Netherlands
Indonesia
Molucca Islands
Southeast Asia
Berlin
Amsterdam
Groningen
Zwolle
Holland
Huh GF
Austrana
Juliana
Historic All Saints Church Hosts Wounded After Antietam Clash
Historic account recalls the Battle of Antietam on September 17 1862 with General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Thousands died and many wounded were treated in Frederick County as the war’s bloodiest day unfolded.
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Army of the Potomac
McClellan
Army of Northern
Dunkard
Lee
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Boston
Hagerstown
South Mountain
Frederick County
United States General Hospital
Frederick
Palestinian refugee camps attacked by Israeli jets
Security brief notes air attacks on refugee camps amid Middle East tension. No casualties or sources confirmed. Other items mention crime and weather unrelated to the main event.
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