City pays huge price for Goodwin parking deck parcel
Frederick City bought the Goodwin Galleries property on East Patrick Street for 1,887,500 to enable a third parking deck. The deal includes a two and a half year leaseback allowing the gallery to continue operations and rent collection. Officials say price rose amid condemnation worries and rising land values as they pursued a 669-space deck project.
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Ronald Young
William and
Harriet Goodwin
Goodwin Galleries
Patrick Street
Young
Goodwin
Goodwins
Mr. Young
Salt pile runoff worries Maryland farmer near Blue Mountain
Frederick County farmer Paul Toms says runoff from a county highway salt pile has killed trees and may contaminate groundwater. He describes a 25 to 30 foot high uncovered mound on Blue Mountain Road with leached saltwater. Officials claim seepage cannot cross the road. runoff goes to a holding pond. Toms notes years of exposure and ongoing lack of action.
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Thutment
Paul Toms
Frederick County
Mr. Toms
Safe and Sane Graduation Prize Car Won by Student
Lou Koontz celebrated his June graduation from Singanore High School with no alcohol or drugs and won a free 1981 Chevrolet Camaro at a party hosted by his parents. He accepted the prize Wednesday at Jones Motor in Mount Airy and will leave for college Friday. The event was organized by the Committee for a Safe and Sane Graduation to keep teens sober on graduation night.
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Lou Koontz
Singanore High School
Lou
Jones Motor, Inc
Mount Airy
Singapore
Walesa May Become Polish Prime Minister In Solidarity Push
Lech Walesa and allied leaders meet President Jaruzelski in Warsaw to seek a coalition led by Solidarity. The plan aims to form Poland’s first non communist government with candidates discussed for prime minister and key ministries. The move reflects broad backing from United Peasant and Democratic parties and a 264 seat majority in Sejm.
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Poland
Lech Walesa
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Walesa
United Peasant Party
Roman Malinowski
Democratic Party
Jerzy Jozwiak
Jaruzelski
Belevedere Palace
Solidarty
Bronislaw Geremek
Mr. Jaruzelski
Solidarity
United Peasant and Democratic
Communist Party
Valesa
Soli
Darity
Malinowski
Jozwiak
Geremek
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Solidarity Union
Tygodnik Sandarnose
Defense
Gdansk
Independent Solidarity Union
Changes on horizon at Urbana
Urbana faces a slow growth path as Kiplinger Washington Editors and Ward Development Corp own about 2800 acres around town. Frederick County planners foresee Urbana becoming a regional hub with 10 000 residents, offices, neighborhoods, schools and retail, but development is at least five years away.
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Urbana
Kiplinger Washington Editors
Ward Development Corporation of
Rockville
Frederick County
Kiplinger Group
Ward
Byron tours district as constituents raise diverse issues
Rep Beverly Byron conducts a nine day tour through 72 towns from Oak land to Ellicott City to Potomac meeting 436 constituents in Frederick. Major topics include catastrophic health insurance social security benefits and federal child care legislation with concerns also about Antietam National Battlefield zoning Washington bypass routes and Laytonsville waste disposal plans drawing many residents.
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Beverly Byron
D-6th
Byron Gard
Antietam National Battlefield
Washington
Laytonsville
Weather Outlook for Western Maryland
Partly cloudy tonight with a 29 percent chance of rain and lows in the mid 60s. Friday will be cloudy with a chance of rain and possibly thunderstorms, high in the mid 70s. MAP OD PARC miessetseie and courven noted as stray text.
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Parc Miessetseie
Courven
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