Snowstorm climbs East Coast in major winter blast
The East Coast braces for what could be the region’s worst winter storm since 1996 as flakes begin to fall. Forecasters expect up to a foot in parts of New York and Boston, with six inches in Maryland and Virginia and a risk of blizzard conditions from high winds. Residents rush to stock groceries and essentials as road crews prepare plows and salt to meet the approaching storm.
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Ed Camp
Home Depot
Philadelpha
East Coast
Boston
Midwest
New York
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
Jacqueline Logan
Harrisburg
Pent
Sunny skies greet county in morning
Local residents awoke to sunshine as forecasts shifted away from a major east coast storm. Sterling Virginia’s National Weather Service office projected only light flurries with no heavy snow. Crews and equipment were prepped for snow removal while Hobbs Hardware reported high demand for shovels, sleds, and ice melt.
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Sterling
National Weather Service
Thurmont
Hobbs Hardware
Bush seeks broad aid to reshape government transition
President elect Bush taps 474 advisers from governors, senators, and city leaders including Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and Reform Party ally to help overhaul federal agencies after eight years of Democratic rule. Ventura joins a diverse panel tasked with guiding trade relations and executive branch staffing as Racicot takes a key Interior role amid a protracted Florida contest.
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Washington
Bush
Minnesota
Jesse Ventura
Urban League
John Wodele
Ventura
Reform Party
Congress
Clinton
Tokei
Stepodery Iinere Oe Ee Bush
Montana
Mark Racicot
Florida
Racicot
Interior
South Carolina
Year end donation rush aids Goodwill Md store
Bobbie Richardson and the Goodwill crew race to load a large snow threatened donation pile into their Md 5 location. The workers do not itemize or assign values to donations though donors can request a list of clothing sale prices to gauge value.
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Bobbie Richardson
Goodwil’s
MD 5
Sheriff's deputies praise new courthouse facilities
Thirty years after Frederick County built a two room jail and court, the sheriff's judicial section is now high tech with computers and remote cameras. About 30 staff handle 550 civil papers weekly in a space with five holding cells and private rooms for prisoners and attorneys. Lt. Kirby Maybush says the updated area is among the state’s most modern.
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Frederick County
Sheriff's Pudicial
Bles
Kirby Maybush
Weather delays ramp work around Frederick project
An ambitious highway project near Frederick is about halfway finished and on budget officials say. Snowfall has halted lime painting delaying the opening of the eastbound ramp from I-70 to MD 355 while other work realigns I-70 removes an old ramp and eliminates the end stoplight near MD 85 shopping areas. Continued on Page A-16.
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Frederick
Kathryn
News publication schedule for New Year holiday
The note states the News will not publish on Monday January 1 for New Year’s Day and will resume on Tuesday January 2. It contains garbled wording about pricing and a misread phrase implying a different paper, but the core fact is the holiday postponement and the return date.
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Sup Lawrence
Doggone
Casey
Beagle
Frederick County Humane Society
Denise Moore
Associated Press
Douglas Tallman
News-Post Stall
Ings
Barbara Brown
News-Post
Sam Yu
Charlies Sweigert
Marick
Sean Barry
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