Graduation Scenes Highlight Local High Schools
Graduates from Catoctin High School, Brunswick High School, and New Life Christian School prepare for commencement at Mount St. Marys College Knott Arena and local venues. Catoctin cheers over 200 graduates, Brunswick records 156, New Life Christian School graduates 19. Students pose, smile, and manage nerves before ceremonies in a lively, community-centered scene.
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Catoctin High School
Katie Maser
Corey Reed
Catoctin High
Mount St. Mary's College
Knott Arena
Brunswick High School
New Life Christian School
Sarah Kemp
Katie Bayles
Tisha Gray
MedImmune plant in Frederick on track for 1998 output
MedImmune plans a 68 000 square foot Frederick manufacturing center costing 50 million dollars with production to begin in 1998. The facility will create about 280 new jobs across Frederick and Montgomery County with average salaries around 60 000 dollars. Hiring will occur over this year and next, with some staff transferred from Gaithersburg. Jobs include plasma and cell culture production, packaging, maintenance, QC labs and regulatory compliance.
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Frederick
Fredericking
Gaithersburg
Julie Adamou
the Triple
Centerpark
Solarex
Conducted
Ederick
Adamou
Montgomery
Med Immune
Maryland Job Service
David Linthicum
MedImmune
Infec
Grimes seeks reelection as Frederick mayor in 1990s bid
Frederick Mayor Jim Grimes announced a four year run for reelection with general elections set for November 4 and a primary on September 9. He cited a $48.6 million balanced budget a two cent tax cut and strong intergovernmental ties as proof of a strong economy. Grimes emphasized public safety economic development and leadership experience as core campaign themes and voiced optimism for the city’s future.
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Frederick
Jim Grimes
Grimes
Millenium bug warnings urge quick action at NIST conference
Time is running out to fix the millenium bug as computer systems worldwide risk crashes when changing from 1999 to 2000. Rep. Connie Morella warned the public about the impending crisis while Bruce Hall of Trigent Software called January 1, 1999 the ugliest day for unprepared systems. The challenge lies in COBOL and year references across aging code amid a programmer shortage.
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Gaithersburg
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Connie Morella
House Science Committee
Bruce Hall
Trigent Software
Hall
MontCo official arrested in murder-for-hire plan
Ruthann Aron a 54 year old Montgomery County planning board member and former U S Senate candidate was arrested on two counts of soliciting to commit murder for hiring someone to kill her husband and an attorney. She allegedly left 500 as a down payment and was denied bail pending a review.
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MontCo
Rockville, Md
U.S. Senate
Montgomery County
Ruthann Aron
Montgomery County Planning Board
Barry Aron
Arthur G. Kahn
Baltimore
Levin & Gann
Fred Ailes
Ms. Aron
Gaithersburg
Ailes
Montgomery County Central Processing Center
Derek Baliles
Montgomery County Detention Center
Eight Teens Face Vandalism Charges in Middletown Case
Seven Middletown High School students and a Boonsboro resident are to be charged as investigators allege a vandalism spree over months. Sheriff deputy Sherrill Schultz said the group specialized in spray painting an obscenity and were identified after a student received threatening calls, a tire was slashed, and a family's mailbox was destroyed.
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Middletown
Boonsboro
Sherrill Schultz
Town Commission
William Folden
Detrick Researcher Known Fort-Strong Native Soldier
Col. George Anderson Jr. stands out at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases USAMRIID as a native who grew up near Frederick and is the son of a local figure, highlighting his deep ties to the Fort Detrick community.
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Col
George Anderson Jr
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Usamriid
Col. Anderson
Frederick
USAMRIID scientist pursues plague vaccine breakthrough
George and Irma Anderson are graduates of Gov Thomas Johnson High in 1971. The article profiles Col. Anderson, chief of USAMRIID pathogenesis and immunology, who is developing a plague vaccine. He notes plague persists in developing nations and parts of the southwestern United States, with 1980 1994 US and global deaths. The current vaccine is imperfect and does not protect against pneumonic plague.
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George
Irma Anderson
Gov. Thomas Johnson High
Usamriid
United States
Col. Anderson
Koenig appoints public defender in double murder case
Bruce Wayne Koenig, 48, charged with killing his parents Jans 7 and Ruth 64 in June 1994, suddenly sought legal counsel in Frederick County Circuit Court. Public Defender Franklin Stillrich appeared for Koenig, while standby counsel Thomas Barse was dismissed, and the judge considered Koenig’s request to define standby role and access to documents.
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Bruce Wayne Koenig
Frederick County
Koenig
Franklin Stillrich
Public Defenders Office
G. Edward Dwyer Jr
Thomas Barse
Jans
Ruth
Maryland
Dwyer
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