Boundary shuffle looms in Frederick schools plan
Frederick County faces redistricting as Farmbrook families may shift to South Frederick Elementary and several students from South Frederick Parkway and Waverley could move to Urbana. Officials debate bus use and who drives, with exceptions for Farmbrook third and fourth graders and their siblings. Dr. Noel Farmer weighs boundary lines and potential chaos if families live near the new mileposts.
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Frederick
South Frederick
Parkway
Waverley
Carroll Manor
Urbana
Farmbrook
Noel Farmer
Howard County
Frederick County
Frederick Post
Shepherd College
Post-Christmas musings from the Annapolis bureau chief
Robert C. Reid muses on Boxing Day myths and the after Christmas shopping rush. He notes gifts returns and batteries as the true draw, recalls government house decorations, poinsettias, and a canceled Maryland School for the Deaf party, ending with a local pit bull warning.
Canteen Cup Caper Reveals Pentagon Procurement Folly
A sprawling distillation of defense procurement woes traces an Army canteen cup contract to Israel's S. Hanany Metal Craft, the Buy American Act dispute, late deliveries, and a messy search for an American bidder. Pacific Fabrication sues as GAO FBI probes.
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Pentagon
Potomac
Army
Defense Department
S. Hanany Metal Craft of
Israel
Pacific Fabrication Co
California
Hanany
Pacific Fabrication
Pacific Fabricators
General Accounting Office
GAO
FBI
Hanang
U.S
Readers voice concern over Coplay cement overburden and growth
A Buckeystown reader protests Coplay and Genstar overburden, quarry dust, and rapid Frederick growth. He cites air quality promises, planning limitations, and traffic, urging officials to enforce restrictions while criticizing development and rezoning. The letter also notes gratitude for local goodwill from Frederick Schwinn in a separate anecdote.
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Buckeystown Pike
Buckeystown
Frederick
Genstar
Martin Marietta
F.C. Day
Coplay and Geastar
Florida
Christmas-time snippets from Frederick and vicinity
Yesterday’s News-Post files reveal a holiday crowd on Record Street and other addresses as many visiting their parents. John D. Shaff husked 1057 shocks of corn on Frederick-area farms. Coca-Cola Bottling’s first employee Christmas party, andWilliam Spencer announces UHF broadcasts for Thomas Johnson Junior High and area elementary schools. The Junior Woman’s Club buys a portable TV for the Senior Fellowship Center with cable rental for a year. Montevue Auxiliary donates a 16 mm sound projector to the county home funded by ham sandwich sales.
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Government House
Maryland School For the Deaf
Frederick
Harry Hughes
William Donald Schaefer
Schaefer
Yale
MSD
Marvin Spencer
Frederick County Board of Education
Washington
Thomas Johnson
Pioneer
Spencer
Junior Woman's Club of
South Court Street
Charles F. Corbell
Montevue
J. Arthur Throne
Edward Seligmann Jr
Eugene Zebovitz
Dave Gordon
Frank Fraley
Ralph Vosdingh
Pat Pette
Alice McEwen
Milton Gordon
Jane Kemp
Inns for Hospice tour raises support for Frederick hospice
Ronald Luther thanks donors and volunteers in Poolesville as nine inns in The Inns of The Blue Ridge host a Christmas tour for Hospice of Frederick. The Frederick News-Post reporter Linda Gregory and WFMD On the Town boosted the event, with hundreds of ticket buyers supporting the fundraiser.
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Hospice of
Frederick
Farm preserve blasted as dump site plan by Montgomery official
A Montgomery County official, Sidney Kramer, is accused of labeling a family farm in a rural preserve as a suitable site for a massive dump. Critics say a nearby industrial pit and transfer station could bury decades of trash, urging recycling and base filling at Travilahi Quarry while condemning political motives.
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Montgomery
Sidney Kramer
WSSC
Shady Grove
Travilahi
Bev Thoms Dickerson
Buckeystown man funds bicycle for needy boy
Daniel R. Pelz of Buckeystown notes that a friend sent a 26 inch boys bicycle to be given to a needy child. He singled out a boy recently evicted due to an unpaid electric bill, whose family has since found housing but remains in need.
Traffic light requested at Route 395 and Md 355 truck stop
Rita Mahajan of Gaithersburg warns of a growing danger as tractor trailers from the I 70 Truck Stop pull onto Route 355 without stopping at the stop sign. She urges a traffic light to improve safety and reduce near collisions.
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Route 395
Rita Mahajan Gaithersburg
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