Deputy stops fight with revolver in Water side incident
Frederick County sheriff's deputy held nine youths and a 20 year old at gunpoint after responding to a fight near Cattail Court. Deputy Robert Scire, off duty, identified himself and ordered the crowd to the ground as one boy wielded nunchuks. Several youths fled while 10 were kept on the curb, with two Brunswick and Walkersville youths among those present. Continued on Page A-16.
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Frederick County
Waterside
Robert Scire
Shire
Leon Widdowson
Sheriff's Office
Scire
Aubrey Shores
Bassenger ‘Creek Pike
Forest banking in Frederick County yields benefits for developers and landowners
Frederick County launches a forest banking program linking developers and conservationists to protect streams. Landowners plant or preserve forests off site and sell credits to developers meeting FAO requirements, with prices ranging from about 7 000 to 13 000 dollars per acre. Donald Pilson of Mount Airy was the first to participate, praising the program. Continued on Page A-16.
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Frederick County
Stephen O’philips
Frederick County Forest Conservancy District Board
John Blake
Donald Pilson
Mount Airy
Forest Banking
Scottish Festival, Wagon Train Visit Beatty-Cramer House
Ceresville hosts a Scottish Festival and a wagon train retracing Susannah Beatty's route, arriving at the Beatty-Cramer House near Israel Creek around 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Hundreds gathered along Md 26 to watch 23 wagons, drawn by mules and horses, circled the historic 1730s house preserved by Frederick County Landmarks Foundation.
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Ceresville
Beatty-Cramer
Susannah Beatty
Beatty
Frederick County
Israel Creek
MD. 26
Emmitsburg
Birch Hotz
Ms. Beatty
Frederick
New York
Frederick County Landmarks Foundation
Ms. Hotz
Ray Kline
Mr. Kline
Man dies in tractor overturn on rural Maryland road
A 34-year-old man, John Wesley Schroyer, was killed Saturday morning when his McCormick Farmall overturned on a hill off Old Liberty Road near Mount Pleasant. James Schroyer found him 50 feet from the tractor. he was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital and did not regain consciousness.
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Mount Pleasant
Here
Itn
Maryland
John Wesley Schroyer
McCormick Farmall
Old Liberty Road
James Schroyer
Schroyer
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Orioles sweep Red Sox in four games
France claims its first World Cup title with a 3 0 victory over Brazil. The Fradenck News Post notes its daily edition prints on 100 percent recycled paper and remains recyclable.
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Orioles
Red Sox
France
Brazil
Pertions
Fradenck News- Post
Resyolabia
Thomas Cresap Maryland Frontiersman in Colonial Conflicts
A Frederick County life article outlines Thomas Cresap as a key frontier figure in Colonial Maryland. It notes his 96 years of frontier experience, defense of Maryland borders, and a reputation as a fighting man with faults but steadfast determination.
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Thomas Cresap
Mr. Cresap
America
Maryland
Kenneth Bailey
France
England
Pennsylvania
Frontiersman Cresap of Maryland and Pennsylvania Legacy
Spanagied notes recount the life of a tough jurist and soldier who served Frederick County in the legislature and acted as an Indian fighter and surveyor. Born in Skipton England circa 1894, he settled near Havre de Grace after marriage in 1727 and ran a Susquehanna ferry, shaping Cresap’s historic role amid Pleasants Gardens land disputes along the 40th parallel.
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Frederick County
Skipton
Yorkshire
England
Havre de Grace
Susquehanna Basin
Virginia
Hannah Johnson
Baltimore County
Maryland
Susquehanna
Mr. Cresap
Pennsylvania
Cresaps
Pleasant Gardens
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Bill Green
Carroll Creek
Fairview Avenue
Krista Brick
News-Post
Timothy Jacobse
Birch Holt
Lindex
Oldtown
Christopher Scinta
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