Review committee urges changes at county vocational center
A county vocational training center faces sharp critique from a review committee. The panel flagges counselor bias against students attending the CTC and calls for stronger integration of reading math and science, new pre engineering and pre technical courses, expanded staff development, and joint projects with feeder schools. State review expected next year to monitor progress under superintendent Dr. Noel T. Farmer Jr.
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CTC
Gere Bottomis
Review Board
Education Consortium
Bottoms
Frederick County
Noel T. Farmer
Woodpecker could detour road work
Civic-minded landowners agreed to give up trees and land to widen a scenic two lane highway between Thomasville and Tallahassee. An endangered woodpecker could delay the $11.7 million 30 mile Plantation Parkway project along U S 319 through Georgia and Florida.
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Thomasville, Ga
South Georgia
Florida
Thomasville
Tallahassee
Fla
Poolesville fights sludge tank plans
Poolesville commissioners await a response from the Maryland Attorney General on an appeal to halt a half million gallon sludge holding tank planned on Alfred Spates farm. The panel cites odor, truck traffic, and potential water contamination concerns while Bio-Gro Systems touts safety and a permits pathway.
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Poolesville
Maryland Attorney General’s Office
Charles W. Elgin Sr
Alfred Spates
Darryl M. Kuka
Bio-Gro Systems
Sue Rodgers
Bio-Gro
Damascus
Seneca
Woman Injured In Maryland Motorcycle Crash
A single vehicle motorcycle crash on Bartonsville Road left a woman seriously injured and airlifted to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. William Forester, 21, of Braddocks Heights, the rider, fled the scene. he was uninjured.
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Maryland
Julie Kristen Todd
Bethesda
William Forester
Braddocks Heights
Bartonsville Road
Bells Lane
Jug Bridge
Forester
Ms. Todd
Mr. Forester
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Culler Lake
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Conrad P. Potemra
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Maas
Frederick
Motorola Inc
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Motorola
Bob Blackmore
Hayward Rd
Ladem
Monthra
Star Lawson
Wepapey
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Subaru
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