Farmer cuts 28 administrative positions in Frederick schools
Dr. Noel Farmer plans to trim 28 administrative posts from next year’s budget all transfers within the system ensure no one loses a job though some will take pay cuts. Notable transfers include Walter Brilhart and Jeff Bresee who will be moved from high level construction roles but remain within the district.
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Noel Farmer
Frederick County
Dr. Farmer
Walter Brilhart
Jeff Bresee
Maryland seeks new symbols peppermint lemonade to duckpins
A Maryland lawmaker recounts past state symbol efforts and notes two new ideas in play this year. Astrodon johnstoni the state dinosaur is backed by Sen. Arthur Dorman while Del. Charles Kolodziejski pushes duckpins as the official state sport. The piece also lists established symbols including the Baltimore Checkerspot, Baltimore Oriole, Black eyed Susan, and the White Oak, plus the state fish striped bass and state flag.
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Baltimore
Maryland
House of Delegates
Frank Conaway
Frank
Environmental Matters Committee
Conaway
Arthur Dorman
Prince George’s County
Senate
John Cade
Anne Arundel County
Nero
Rome
Del
Charles Kolodziejski
United States
Poland
Duckpins
Charlie
Kolodziejski
U.S
Bill McAffrey
Chesapeake Bay
Wye Mills
Easton
Crossland
George Calvert
Calvert
General Assembly
Lord Baltimore
State Theater
Center Stage
Olney Theater
Montgomery County
Laurence Levitan
We Are Not With Them Honest Humility in Journalism
A fragmented news industry grapples with collective missteps and public trust. The author reflects on media fault lines, the Clinton case, and the impulse to apologize while noting competing perspectives across papers, radio, and television.
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Kennedy
Bill Clinton
Salter laments press Clinton coverage and seeks accountability
In a San Francisco Examiner column, Stephanie Salter critiques media over coverage of the Clinton affair with Gennifer Flowers. She argues tabloids and mainstream outlets fueled a damaging narrative, urges industry self reforms, and apologizes for her own paper’s role while calling for accountability and improved credibility.
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Stephanie Salter
The
San Francisco Examiner
Scripps Howard News Service
50 Years Ago in 1912 Fire, Traffic, and Civic Notes
Fifty years earlier a Pennsylvania Railroad train struck a car at Woodsboro crossing dragging it 100 feet before stopping. driver uninjured but car wrecked. Camp Braddock Civilian Conservation Corps delivered twenty five stretchers to Dr Elmer Kefauver for Frederick County Civilian Defense. Treasury warned willful evaders of auto use tax would face prosecution. fines of 25 dollars or 30 days jail. Harmon Staley disputed traffic-light crash reports, noting a malfunction showing green and red in all directions. County commissioners asked Annapolis for five laws, including limiting sheriff deputies and reallocating 4.5 million school bonds to general county buildings. Thurmont town council named Roxie Aubel Dean Gillespie Wanda Thompson Charles Colby and Dean Aubol as youth advisers and park commission members. Task Force on Youth urged inclusive problem solving across communities, discussed at the Community Information and Training Center.
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Frederick County
Annapolis
Thurmont
Catoctin High School
Roxie Aubel
Dean Gillespie
Police Commission
Wanda Thompson
Charles Colby
Dean Aubol
Park Commission
Remembering Dr Schipper A physician with lasting community impact
Albert M. Powell Jr. honors Martha Schipper M.D. for local service with the Rock Creek Diagnostic Center Frederick County Health Department Women’s Medical Group of Frederick County and Frederick Memorial Hospital. He notes her national work on Down syndrome and family-centered care published in Pediatrics in 1959 and recalls her modest, gracious influence on patients and colleagues.
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Martha Schipper
Rock Creek Diagnostic Center
Frederick County Health Department
Women's Medical Group
Frederick County
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Schipper
Hubcaps Vanish At Redskins Fans Super Bowl Party
George Morgan of Point of Rocks recalls a Super Bowl party at the Francis Scott Key Holiday Inn where an all you can eat buffet cost $5 per person and Redskins fans filled the venue. He later found all four hubcaps stolen, estimating $45 to replace them and urging fans to keep sport in mind.
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Francis Scott Key Holiday Inn
Redskins
Frederick
Buffalo Bills
Letters to the Editor on Environment and Arts Funding
Readers urge cleanup of smokestacks streams and litter while proposing recycling drives. A separate letter from Richard G Diffenderfer defends taxpayers against funding for a Delaplaine Visual Arts Center exhibit, citing $40,000 already allocated from public funds and demanding accuracy in reporting.
Protest Letter Targets Delaplaine Center Display in Frederick
Sam writes to protest the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center for displaying A Peace Treaty and a New World Order featuring President Bush Dolly Parton and other figures. He notes the Frederick delegation refused a $500 000 matching grant over the exhibit and urges no similar displays in Frederick.
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Sam
Delaplaine Visual Arts Center
New World Order
Bush
Dolly Parton
Frederick
Maryland General Assembly
Painting at Delaplaine Center Draws Satirical Bush Parallels
Peggy A. Clair of Tjamsville recalls visiting the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center and praising a Schutzenhofer painting that satirically portrays President Bush as Nero, remarking on the likeness and the line about Rome burning.
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Delaplaine Visual Arts Center
Schutzenhofer
Bush
Nero
Rome
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Hillary Clinton
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Woodsboro
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U.S. Treasury Department
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East Patrick and
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Dan Roff
Community Information and Training Center
Dr. Schipper
Albert M. Powell Jr., M.D. Frederick
George Morgan
Point of Rocks
Jeremy Lawrence Frederick
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McClellan
Melinda Wimner
Arts Center
Carroll Creek
Richard G. Diffenderfer Frederick
Vadora Kelley Frederick
Peggy A. Clair Tjamsville
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