School board eyes 0.5 class size rise amid budget cuts
Principals warn a 0.5 increase would capsize schedules built for next year. Walkersville and Catoctin face fewer sections and possible lost teaching posts as Frederick County schools prepare for a four period day. Administrators stress class size affects teaching quality and that the budget drive to cut 10 million forces the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunningham
Walkersville
Jay Berno
Berno
Miller
Middletown
George Seaton
Dr. Seaton
Seaton
Frederick County
David Markoe
Norman Quist
Clinton apology letter to gay officials over glove incident
President Clinton sent a letter to gay elected officials who met at the White House apologizing for Secret Service officers wearing rubber gloves while admitting the visitors. The White House fence protest with gloves followed the meeting and Bowron promised renewed training to prevent a recurrence.
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Washington
Clinton
White House
Secret Service
Washington Post
Administration
Elsay B Bowron
Tjamsville Road Bridge Reopening
The Tjamsville Road Bridge will reopen Wednesday after a closing on April 27 due to steel-beam deterioration. The span between Mussetter Road and Prices Distillery Road in Ijamsville will resume traffic. call 696-2937 or 694-1672 for details.
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Tjamsville Road
Frederick Couty Department of Public Works
Mussetter Road
Prices Distillery Road
Ijamsville
Frederick Airport hosts aviation expo with model club
Frederick Municipal Airport welcomed visitors for a fly in featuring the 60 member Frederick Model Airplane Club. Treasurer David Kalins described aircraft construction from plans to two cycle engines while officials discuss a 20 year master plan for hangar space and facilities. Civil Air Patrol volunteers aided event operations. Mayor Grimes touted the Confederate Air Show set for August.
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Frederick
Schuster
Jill Malcolm
City Airport Commission
Mr. Schuster
Cheryl
Michael
Thomas McLellan
Mount Airy
Jim Grimes
Court says St. Patrick's Parade may exclude gays in Boston
Supreme Court rules Massachusetts may not force the St. Patrick's Day Parade sponsor to admit a gay group, preserving the organizers' free speech. The decision upholds 1992 1993 orders that the parade exclude the Gay Lesbian and Bisexual group of Boston, with the parade canceled in 1994 rather than include them.
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Washington
Boston
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
David H .Souter
South Boston
Allied War Veterans Council
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
George Washington
South
Veterans Council
U.S
J. Harold Flannery
St. Patrick
Obituaries for Day Westlake and Heckman relatives in Maryland and Pennsylvania
Obituaries report Sadie Elizabeth Day of Mount Airy died June 17 at Frederick Memorial Hospital with surviving son and three grandchildren. Also noted are death notices for William Ralph Westlake of Daytona Beach and Garnet S. Heckman of Mercersburg with details of families, funeral arrangements, and memorials.
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Sadie Elizabeth Day
Mount Airy
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Langdon Storrs Day
Laytonsville
Collie Martin
Hattie Mae Ridgley Gue
Day
Howard Chapel- Ridgeville
Providence Methodist Cemetery
Kemptown
William Ralph Westlake
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Daytona Beach
Fla
Washington Area
Silver Spring
Westlake
Elmira
N.Y
Bliss Electrical School
Takoma Park
Dorothy Johnson Westlake
Ruth Westlake
Barbara Eshenbaugh
Darnestown
Richard Westlake
Wheaton
Thomas Westlake
Kenneth Peake
Merced
Calif
Charles Peake
Frederick
Garnet S. Heckman
Lemar Road
Mercersburg
Chambersburg Hospital
Chambersburg
Anna F. Sollenberger Heckman
Elwood Heckman
Lloyd W. Gingrich
Evangelical Christian Church of
Market, Pa
Pennsylvania Farmers Association
Janet Yankey
Eleanor Williams
Ray E. Heckman
Roy E. Heckman
Paul J. Heckman
Lininger
Frederick News-Post report on traffic crash injuries
A crash left a 20 year old man from Woodbridge Virginia ejected from a truck and in critical condition. Luckfiel was treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington and Curley was flown to R Adam Cowley Shock Trauma Center, both reported in critical condition Monday as investigators continued the probe.
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Woodbridge
Luckfiel
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Washington
Curley
R Adam Cowley Shock Trauma Center
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Mrs
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William Westlake
Randy Gray
Key 103
Lincoln
B&o Tran
South Market Street
Fredenck
Randy
Acton
Dung Bill Madden
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