Frederick marks 250th anniversary with time capsule burial
Four prominent politicians placed a concrete lid over a time capsule at City Hall to seal Frederick's 250th birthday celebrations. The capsule contains a parade video, patches, a city map, two signed birthday scrolls, and special newspaper issues. About 1,000 residents attended as Mayor Jim Grimes praised the year long festivities and eyed a 2045 reopening.
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Bruce Reeder
Roscoe Bartlett
Frederick News-Post
Frederick Cablevision
Fredericktowne
Gura
City Hall
Grimes
Skip Lawrence
Teia van Horn
City of Frederick
Frederick 250th anniversary celebration at City Hall
Frederick residents express pride in their city and its 250 year history at a Saturday celebration at Frederick City Hall. Speakers include Edna Fritz Burton Kummerow John Gibson and Gura who emphasize community pride heritage and the value of history in the town.
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Civil War Medical Museum
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California
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City Hall
Elizabeth Gura
Maryland lawmakers face range of issues in 1996 session
Maryland legislators prepare for a 90 day session opening January 10 with a broad agenda. They will consider tax cuts gun control auto emission relief and changes to auto insurance to cut rates while sparing other regions. Additional topics include stadium funding race track slot machines abortion funding Medicaid cost controls business regulation smoking restrictions and speed limit increases amid fiscal uncertainty and concerns over revenue.
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Ferguson renews attack on scholarship program
Maryland statesman Timothy Ferguson at the center of a flip flap over lawmakers scholarships. He now drafts a bill to abolish the program, reversing months of criticism and aligning with his 1994 campaign rhetoric. Ferguson argues the funds are patronage and would remove cash grants from legislators. The measure would place awards under state administration, not lawmakers.
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George Littrell
House of Delegates
Senate
Charles Smelser
Maryland
First Baby Born in 1996 In Silver Spring
Dana Cosley traveled to Holy Cross Hos ital in Silver Spring on New Year's Eve for a routine checkup and delivered her second son D'vaughan Jordan Cosley fifteen seconds into 1996. The birth was noted by hospital staff as possibly the first baby born in the United States for the new year.
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D’vaughan Jordan Cosley
Frederick
United States
Holy Cross Hosital
Silver Spring
First Baby of 1996 Born in Frederick County
Jessica Ann Miller was born at 6:30 a.m. weighing 7 pounds 10 ounces and measuring 21 inches at Frederick Memorial. Her parents Mary Elizabeth and Scott Miller of Walkersville watched as the newborn diaper change began, marking Frederick County’s first birth of the year 1996.
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Mary Elizabeth Miller
Walkersville
Jessica Ann Miller
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Mary Elizabeth
Scott Miller
Melody the collie returns to Ball Road after year missing
After a year apart Melody, a pure-bred collie, is found and returns to Ball Road on a Thursday on the exact anniversary of her being lost. Mark Stephen Thomas praises prayers answered as the family ends a year of searching and grieving amid the Adams County community.
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Adamstown
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