FOP offers city new proposal to end impasse
The Frederick Fraternal Order of Police gave Mayor Jim Grimes a new proposal Wednesday, breaking a two week stalemate after the FOP rejected the city contract as unfair on salaries and retirement funding. City officials say the proposal is fair and approved it unanimously, with a counterproposal possible. FDP President Kevin Grubb says the document makes significant concessions and includes most changes to the terms.
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Frederick
Ny Fdp
Kevin Grubb
Grmes
Woman becomes first female chair of Frederick County Planning Commission
Marty Rice, a 47 year old Middletown organic farmer, is named chair of the Frederick County Planning Commission, marking the first time a woman leads the panel. She notes persistent gender biases and observes growing citizen involvement, especially mothers voicing concerns on school overcrowding.
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Frederick County
Marty Rice
Middletown
Ms Rice
Pete Adcock
Planning Commission
Sue Ann Yingling
Carole Larson
Frederick
Ms Yingling
Adcock
Winchester Hall
County Planning Commission
Panel votes to close Fort Ritchie amid BRAC backlash
Washington A House committee and Rep Roscoe Bartlett backed an independent commission recommendation to close Fort Ritchie along with 78 other bases. Bartlett, who had fought to omit Fort Ritchie from the Pentagon BRAC list, contrasted the process but ultimately supported the BRAC result in a 43 to 10 vote with 42 other National Security committee members.
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Washington
House
Roscoe Bartlett
6Th
Independent Commission
Fort Ritchie
Bartlett
Pentagon
Chemical used to deter ducks at Culler Lake
Frederick's city officials approve feeding a bitter tasting chemical to ducks at Culler Lake to drive them away. ReJeXaT AG-36 will be sprayed over a five acre area in a bid to modify duck behavior, not kill. Police worry birds may relocate to Whiter area.
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Culler Lake of Ducks
Frederick
Culler Lake
Food and Drug Administration
Fred Eisenhart Jr
Eisenhart
Rejexat AG
Regis Raffensberger
Pleasant 2005 Weather Forecast Promises Prosperity
A weather prognosticator cites a favorable warm-wet pattern from 2000 to 2019, predicting a 2005 mild, pleasant summer with a new renaissance of prosperity and record stock prices. He pins cusp trends on 1995 and 1996, noting hot temperatures and a warm fall in the Northeast with crop losses.
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Chiff Harris
Harris
New York
Maryland to add two more area codes by 1997
Two extra telephone codes are planned within two years as demand for numbers surges since Maryland split into dialing zones. Bell Atlantic and Public Service Commission officials cite explosion of fax machines cellular phones pagers and modems and expect exhaustion of 410 and 01 codes by October 1997 with two new codes under consideration amid industry disagreement.
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Maryland
Louise Gilmore
Bell Atlantic
Frank Fulton
Public Service Commission
Fagan murder case makes legal history in Frederick County
The Fagan murder case, begun January 6, 1992, redefined how police and prosecutors handle homicide. Debo rah Patricia Fagan was found shot in a red car, with estranged husband William Fagan Sr. as the initial suspect. The investigation faced silence, scant physical evidence, and a costly, drawn out process. Detective Rick Stotelmyer, the state crime lab, and a grand jury pursued leads, while relatives and witnesses were drawn into the proceedings.
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Frederick County
Deborah Patricia Fagan
Ms Fagan
William Robert Fagan Sr
Baer
Lawrence A Dorsey Jr
Jerry Barnes
Mr Barnes
Carroll County
Thomas Coppinger
Sherif
Coppinger
Lawrence Grasso
Mark Ward
Fagan
Billy Fagan Jr
Thomas Theodore Fagan
Evelyn Virginia Fagan
Florida
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