School board OKS funds for Paces and Changes school
The board approved engineering expenditures totaling 56,450 for site and building work on the Paces and Changes Alternative School planned on a Taney Avenue site opposite the American Legion Hall. The project, a 30,000 square foot facility with eight classrooms, aims for a June 1988 completion and a total cost near 2 million dollars.
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Board of Education
Pew School
Taney Avenue
American Legion Hall
Wayne Hayden
John F. Stann
Hayden
Frederick News-Post schedules Fourth of July holiday closure
The Frederick News-Post will not publish Friday July Fourth as staff take a holiday. The business office reopens Saturday July 3. Wishing readers a safe and happy holiday.
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Frederick
Parents object to carnival prizes at Walkersville event
At the Walkersville Volunteer Fire Company carnival parents protest knife and cigarette prizes. Ronnie 14 and Kelly 10 collected blades from ring toss games while cigarettes were offered at another stand. Fire company president Jim Rice doubts age restrictions and notes signs were added after complaints.
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Walkersville
Vicki Lydard
Kelly
Ronnie
Lydard
Jim Rice
Walkersville Fire Company
Rice
Frederick Fair
Meese concedes defeat on affirmative action
Associated Press reports that the Reagan administration signals defeat in its five year effort to overturn the Supreme Court’s support for affirmative action. Attorney General Meese says the court did not accept the administration’s position as two key rulings broaden protections for minorities including women. NAACP lawyer Julius Chambers notes the court’s decisions give minorities and disadvantaged groups new confidence.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Edwin Meese
Julius
Levonne Chambers
Legal Defense and Educational Fund
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Meese
High Court
Downs bids for Dist. 3 Senate seat
Gerald Edward Downs II, promoter and first president of Washington County Tourism Inc., campaigns for the District 3 state Senate seat held by Republican Sen. John W. Derr. He touts tourism as economic development, supports a tourist information center and proposes cutting amusement taxes to boost local revenue and job growth.
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Boonsboro
Crystal Grottoes
Gerald Edward Downs II
Downs
Repubblican
John W. Derr
Washington County Tourism Inc
Maryland
Maine
Frederick County races heat with Stephen Nee bid
Stephen Nee 33 a Frederick resident and Kenmar Inc. Buckeystown businessman joins six Republican candidates for Frederick County commissioner in the September 9 primary. Nee and his wife Joann own the band Off Broadway and vow to bridge citizen needs with the office through organized effort and listening to all sides.
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Stephen Nee
Frederick
Nee
Kenmar Inc
Buckeystown
Joann
Richard L. Grossmickle
J. Anita Stup
Gordon E. Irons
Mark
Levitt Sentenced Considerations After 30 Year Claim
Jeffrey Levitt, former millionaire and savings and loan executive, stood in a Baltimore courtroom facing a possible 30 year sentence for stealing 14.7 million from Old Court and First Progressive Savings and Loan. He claimed he did not see criminality in paying himself large fees and diverting funds for real estate deals as prosecutors pressed for long punishment. The judge weighed Levitt’s rambling defense as depositors and prosecutors awaited the outcome.
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Baltimore
Jeffrey Levitt
Savings and Loan
Levitt
Edward Angeletti
Old Court
First Progressive Savings and Loan Associations
William Hundley
Angeletti
Buss
Weather and Festival Notes In Urbana
Clear and comfortable tonight with low 54. Friday brings sunny dry weather and highs around 75. Western Maryland forecast features map on page. Fireworks displays dusk tonight and a music festival headlined by The Bellamy Brothers on July 13 in Urbana. Story and photo. Ideas are only words unless you act.
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Maryland
Bellamy Brothers
Urbana
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Flag handout to youngsters brightens morning scene
Jennifer Martin aged seven and her sister Laura five joined customers and friends of the beak in receiving a small American flag during the morning flag distribution. The event drew families and local shoppers into a brief, cheerful ceremony.
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Jennifer Martin
Laura
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