Sagner Apartments Drives Back Drug Trafficking Amid Community Effort
Frederick’s east end residents and city officials credit a joint campaign for reclaiming their turf from narcotics. Police patrolled daily, a private owner cleared a drug hideaway, and residents reported safer front yards, kids’ play areas, and Saturday anti-drug marches. A Just Say No club teaches youth the dangers of drugs.
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Sagner Apartments
Frederick
East End
Charles Wedge
Thelma Dorsey
Sagner
Big Brother Lives In Our Suburban Surveillance Era
A writer fumes about overzealous code enforcement and growing government intrusion. He cites Bowie Maryland ordinances, curbside timing, and overreaching policing including radar cameras on the Beltway and Supreme Court rulings that erode Fourth Amendment protections. He warns that privacy liberties may vanish, likening the situation to Big Brother.
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Moinide Granaiee
Bowie
Annapolis
Atilla the Hun
Beltway
Virginia
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Maryland
Capital Beltway
George Orwell
Supremes
High Court
Big Brother
Nuclear whistleblower targets Palo Verde safety flaws
Linda Mitchell, electrical engineer and whistleblower, accuses Arizona Public Service of stifling a federal probe into Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station safety problems. NRC Inspector General reviews her claim that the utility discredited an NRC investigator after a March 1989 blackout exposed failed emergency lighting and near reactor shut down. Mitchell, a mother and grandmother, becomes the central figure in a long running critique of nuclear plant safety and regulatory oversight.
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Washington
Linda Mitchell
Palo Verde
Phoenix
Ariz
Mitchell
Arizona Public Service Co
Arizona Public Service
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
NRC Inspector General
Nuclear whistleblower at Palo Verde sparks probe and fear
Mitchell, a veteran nuclear energy employee, faces retaliation after exposing ongoing failures to fix a faulty lighting system at Arizona Public Service's Palo Verde plant. NRC fines $250,000 for safety violations. internal pressure and manipulated reports follow, undermining inspector Ramsey. Mitchell warns of national risk if regulators are ineffective.
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Arizona Public Service
Mitchell
Scott Sleek
NBC
Charles Ramsey
Ramsey
Palo Verde
Mikhail Gorbachev
Germany
Red Army
Kremlin
Europe
Afghanistan
Gorbachev
Sidewalk Days Carnival Lights Frederick Downtown
Twenty years ago Frederick's downtown hosted Sidewalk Days with shoppers vendors and live entertainment. WFMD host Happy Johnny Zufall broadcast as antique cars and food lined the sidewalks while merchants showcased wares in a festive street scene.
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Frederick
WFMD
Happy Johnny
Zu Fall
Newe-Fest Yesterday Items June 19 1940
The column notes high Poland food prices including butter at 3.50 a pound and meat at 2.00 a pound. A Warsaw District Methodist official writes about shortages while his Frederick ties are noted. A Bethesda child, Benny Slack, 3, survived a car accident after a door handle opened, with minor head injuries. Frederick water quality issues spark resident concerns about taste and pipe damage.
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Gaither P. Warfield
Frederick
Warsaw
Poland
Robert L. Warfield
Benny Lee Slack
Bethesda
Frederick-Jefferson Highway
Benny
Frederick City Hospital
Volunteer fire service needs people's time
In Frederick County, volunteers drive fire and rescue, yet time is the bottleneck. Barbara Farkas urges residents to join firefighting, EMS, and support roles, noting day and night calls require ready volunteers, and warns that without civic effort a fire tax could emerge.
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Frederick County
Frederick County Fire and Rescue Association
Readers defend spelling bees as school pride and effort
In a letter from Marsha M Wise of Middletown, the writer rebukes Roberta Hauver for dismissing spelling bees as a measure of learning and praises students who compete. She urges credit for all who represent their schools and calls for recognizing positive achievements across all county schools.
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Roberta Hauver
Haover
Jessica Kenyon
Hauver
Not My Tax Dollars Protest Against Funding Abroad
A Monrovia reader named Quentin S. Clingerman urges Congress to oppose the Kostmayer Amendment funding international abortion groups led by International Planned Parenthood. He argues such support contravenes morality and constitutional limits, urging constituents to contact their representatives promptly.
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Kostmayer
International Planned Parenthood
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