Maryland seeks to block outer beltway plan across state
Maryland legislators push a bill to halt planning or building a massive outer beltway through Virginia countryside and Anne Arundel County, while State Highway Administration denies current plans and studies U S 301 in Southern Maryland. The debate centers on bypass routes around Washington to ease 1-95 and Beltway congestion, weighing costs land disruption and political involvement.
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Capital Beltway
Annapolis
Virginia
Maryland
Washington, D.C
Richmond
Philadelphia
D.C
Virignia
Washington
Potomac River
Montgomery
Frederick
Mount Airy
Anne Arundel County
Frederick County
State Highway Administration
U.S. 301
Reader letter challenges Cullen coverage and calls for scrutiny
Dann Fox from Sabillasville criticizes The Frederick News-Post for praising the Victor Cullen Juvenile Incarceration Center without analysis. The letter questions center size, vendor profits, program goals, and the handling of at risk youths, urging more informed reporting and scrutiny of tax dollars and state facilities.
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Iam
Victor Cullen
Cullen
Frederick News-Post
Sabillasville
Academy
Hickey
Baltimore
News-Post
Paul de Mure
Children and Youth
Pennsylvania
YSI
Common Sense Urges Frederick County School Board Action
Ernest E Musser Sr from Mad deteran writes that common sense should guide the school board. He argues for preserving education programs, criticizes cuts, and urges reallocating savings to expand programs such as music and outdoor education under Superintendent Noel Farmer.
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Noel Farmer
Frederick County
Big Four of Black History Die Within Days of Each Other
The piece honors Dizzy Gillespie Thomas Dorsey Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Ashe as a rare quartet of Black leaders who died within days of each other during Black History Month. It praises their legacies and imagines a table conversation among them while noting ongoing Black history across stamps sports law and civil rights.
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Dizzy Gillespie
Thomas Dorsey
Thurgood Marshall
Arthur Ashe
Be-Hop
Gillespie
Dorsey
Marshalls
Ashe
Percy Julian
Hank Aaron
Gordon Parks
Julius Chambers
U.S
Carol Mosley Braun
Maya Angelou
Mae Jemison
Marshall
Supreme Court
Naacp Legal Education and Defense Fund
Columbus
George Bush
Pzrence Thomas
America
Ffore Marshalls
Dorseys
Gillesses
Fragmentary note on yesterday’s incident
Yesterday an unclear report mentions rams tram the files of the hey wie. The text is fragmented and lacks identifiable names places or dates to provide concrete details.
50 years ago february 20 1943 freight train pulls out from norris city
A train of tank cars departed Norris City for the Atlantic seaboard using the Big Inch pipeline. The 24 inch 531 mile line was built in under six months crossing eight rivers. Springlike weather ends ice skating on Culler Lake and prompts fishermen to seek streams. Plumbers using gas torches set fire to the Montevue main building roof cornice. firefighters extinguished sparks and inspected for remaining embers. Grand Jury members watched the incident. The Francis Scott Key Mustang Club voted to liquidate assets of 252 30 and donate to National Foundation March of Dimes. The National Association of Home Builders appointed J William Brosius to its 26 member executive committee. Debris cleared from Elks Club site on West Second Street as razing begins for a vest pocket park from a January 22 1970 fire. Warren E Lammotte reported a 450 stolen in the Zayre lot by two youths armed with a small revolver while en route to vacation.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Norris City
Texas
Big Inch
Montevue
Independent Hose Company
Grand Jury
Francis Scott Key Mustang Club
Frederick
Frederick County
National Foundation-March of Dimes
Remove licenses of drunk drivers
A reader argues for tougher penalties for DUI. He cites groups like SADD and MADD and urges the state to suspend licenses for a year after brief jail time to deter intoxicated driving and protect sober motorists.
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Students
Letters call for higher judgment on a hateful comparison
A Jefferson reader denounces equating Jewish suffering in the Holocaust with homosexual rights as anti Semitic propaganda. The letter condemns the play as lacking redeeming value for the Frederick community and laments absence of photo coverage and print reporting of the student concert. Helen Rensburg.
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Nazi Germany
Frederick
Reader condemns Bent play as trash at Frederick arts council
A reader, alarmed by what she calls societal filth, criticizes the play Bent by Martin Sherman staged at the Einberg Center. She cites necrophilia and graphic scenes as degrading and questions the value of shock art. The letter urges the Frederick Arts Council to consider public standards.
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Bent
Martin Sherman
Frederick
Thank God for Police Officers Warned About Qualifications
A Thurmont note by William B. Bruchey praises police discipline, notes entry rules for applicants, and defends officers amid accusations of brutality. The writer argues education is essential, rejects racism claims against qualified officers, and emphasizes gratitude for the police force.
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Police Department
Police Academy
All County Music Groups Shine at Frederick Concert
On Wednesday night February 3 thirty four hundred students from sixteen Frederick County schools performed at TJ for the annual All-County Band and Chorus Concert. Middle School and High School choirs and bands presented individual numbers before a final combined finale featuring the American flag. Guest conductors praised the students and thanked parents and administrators for supporting the music program.
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Frederick County
City letter debates police hiring plan and racism issue
Ronald S Brown of Frederick replies to Wade W Parrish letter criticizing a police hiring plan that bans applicants who believe any race is inferior. He argues the plan protects equal rights and questions how racist attitudes influence policing and hiring, asking how many qualified Black applicants were denied opportunities.
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Wade W. Parrish
Parrish
Mr. Parrish
Frederick
Letters to the Editor at The Frederick News Post
Readers are invited to send letters to the editor to The Frederick News Post at 200 Penrck St Frederick Md 27705 or P O Box 678. Letters may be telexed to 652 2299 with preferred dates.
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Frederck News Post
Penrck St
P.O
Frederick
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Monk
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Culler Lake
National Association of Home Builders
George C. Martin
Louisville
J. William Brosius
National Association
Dente Brashear
Robert Boyer
Elks Club
West Second Street
Warren E. Lammotte
Winchester
Ind
Zayre
U.S. 49
Frederig
Vaation
Matt Lillard
Union Bridge
Newpaper
Helen Remsburg
Jefferson
Susan Thayer Frederick
William B. Bruchey Thurmont
Ronald S. Brown Frederick
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