Union challenges Montgomery County bus driver drug tests
The union representing over 1,000 Montgomery County school bus drivers fights a drug testing program as unconstitutional and vows to pursue court appeals if a circuit court injunction fails. President Vincent Foo criticizes the policy as overboard while school system spokesman Brian Porter defends it as a safety measure. The union supports testing new hires and including drug tests in annual physicals.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
Vincent Foo
Brian J. Porter
Foo
School bus drivers contest drug testing policy in court
Union leader Mr. Foo criticizes a district policy that requires drug tests after any incident or accident. He cites a rammed bus while the driver was in a bathroom and a rear-end collision at a stop sign, noting two positives among 110 tested including a substitute driver. He calls for common sense, privacy protections, and cost concerns amid the program.
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Foo
Lanham
Quick-thinking safety patrol kids to get medals
In Rockville Montgomery County three school safety patrol members Loretta Moyer 11 Alex Anderson 10 from Rolling Terrace Elementary and Anna Marie Lowery 10 from Oak View Elementary will receive gold medals at Rolling Terrace ceremony. They helped calm students and kept them in seats as emergency crews de activated live wires after a Feb 19 Silver Spring bus crash caused by a distracted driver Mortimer Zerota 65 Takoma Park.
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Montgomery Bureau
Rockville
Montgomery County Police
Harry Geehreng
Loretta Moyer
Alex Anderson
Rolling Terrace
Anna Marie Lowery
Oak View
Douglas McFee Sr
Silver Spring
Geebreng
Mortimer Zerota
Takoma Park
Montgomery County negotiators turn to mediators amid looming school closure
In Rockville, Montgomery County educators and supporting services employees enter mediation as five school days remain. MCEA president Mark Simon cites potential emergency Friday meeting if a deal prompts a membership ratification vote before June 19. SOS officials foresee a report Sunday night for a Monday update. The district halted a planned 6 percent cola for teachers and 5.5 percent for workers after a $42.7 million budget cut by the County Council.
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Rockville
Mark Simon
Montgomery County Education Association
Simon
Vincent Foo
Montgomery County Council of Supporting Services Employees
Foo
Accomplice Gets Suspended Term in Barnesville Robbery Case
Clinton Eugene Imes of Poolesville pleaded guilty in January as an accessory in the robbery of 79 year old Louise Shoemaker of Barnesville, who was murdered last October. He received a five year suspended sentence and five years probation and agreed to testify in the upcoming trial of Timothy Raymond Deadrick, charged with the murder. Imes told the court he had been cleaning up his life and worked four days a week collecting trash in the Poolesville area.
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Rockville
Poolesville
Clinton Eugene Ines
Jerusalem Road
Louise Shoemaker
Barnestown Road
Barnesville
Imes
Montgomery County
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Shoemaker
Timothy Raymond Deadrick
Beallsville Road
Deadrick
Karl G. Feissner
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