Friends help pay burial costs for Debra Houck
In Emmitsburg Maryland friends raised funds at Piggy Dukes Saloon and Nookery on North Seton Avenue to cover burial costs for Debra Jean Houck who died at 45 from a heart attack. Family borrowed $5,300 for her funeral and hope to raise $1,000 to $1,500 from Sunday night contributions to repay the loan.
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Emmitsburg
Debra Jean Houck
Bill
Judy Duke
Ms. Houck
Emmitsburg Memorial Cemetery
Duke
Salo
150 new state laws take effect in Maryland
Beginning Tuesday, a 50 cent bag of potato chips will cost just that. The legislature repealed the 5 percent snack tax enacted in 1992, ending the tax on chips pretzels pork rinds and other snack foods except when bought in snack bars or restaurants unless 10 percent of sales are groceries. Frito Lay pressed the repeal to protect a planned Harford County plant expansion and 650 jobs.
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Annapolis
Frito-Lay
Harford County
ATM Fees Stir Consumers Over Bank Surcharges
A Baltimore area reader story describes ATM surcharges and access fees when using nonlocal machines. Mark Anders and Marilyn Finnemore report paying 15 percent of withdrawn amounts after surcharges. Senator Alfonso D Amato introduced a bill to ban non customer surcharges.
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Mark Anders
Thurmont
Anders
Marilyn Finnemore
Alexandria, Va
Frederick
Aldo Bello
U.S
Alfonso D'Amato
Rn.y
Senate Banking Committee
Talk radio time Ham operators field day in Frederick
Nine amateur radio operators gathered on Canada Hill Road near Myersville for the American Radio Relay League field day. They set up a 50 foot dipole and seven radios powered by a 3 500 watt generator, making voice contacts from 2 PM to 9 PM with places as far as Puerto Rico and New Hampshire.
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American Radio Relay League
John Fitz
Frederick
Canada Hill Road
Myersville
Puerto Rico
New Hampshire
New laws at a glance changes take effect July first
More than 150 new state laws will take effect July 1. A 5 percent sales tax will be applied to snack foods like pretzels and chips, saving taxpayers about 14 million dollars yearly. Schools need not notify police the first time a student brings a pager to school, but police must be called for a second incident. Students may keep pagers in cars if not involved in a crime.
Archbishop Spyridon presides at Frederick Greek church service
Arch bishop Spyridon, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, visited Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church in Frederick to preside over Vespers for the Feastday of Saints Peter and Paul. Parish members, many traveling from area Greek communities, welcomed his arrival after learning of the visit just days before.
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Spytidon
Saints Peter and Pant
Anatasios Konsoulas
Frederick
Spyridon
Saints Peter and Paul
Jane
Spyrdon
America
Western Hemisphere
Shepherd
Peter and Paul
Seventh Street
John Haig
Dado Govotsos
Washington
Baltimore
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