Officials to tour Thurmont schools
Frederick County Board of Education members will tour Thurmont Elementary to inspect facilities as part of a drive to address crowding. Governor Glendening will also visit to assess the need for new construction, following a campaign by Thurmont Citizens for Education opposing the busing plan. The district faces 27 percent enrollment above capacity with nine portables and a proposal to move about 100 students to neighboring schools with available seats.
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Thurmont Elementary
Frederick County Board of Education
Parris Glendening
Thurmont
Thurmont Citizens For Education
Glendening
Frederick Community College
Karen Davis
Jack Dale
Dr. Dale
Stacey Brown-Hobbs
Citizens Group
Center to boost regional history at Frederick Community College
The Catoctin Center for Regional Studies opened at Frederick Community College with FCC President Patricia Stanley signing the agreement with National Park Service Director Robert Stanton. Adjunct history professor Diane Weaver said the center will offer courses lectures seminars and internships and plans a database of findings while serving as a forum for public discussion.
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Catoctin Center For
Frederick Community College
FCC
Patricia Stanley
Robert Stanton
National Park Service
Diane Weaver
Weaver
Jack B Kussmaus
Civil War medical museum to become immersive exhibit by 2000
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine plans an immersion transformation costing about 15 million dollars. It will hire an exhibit designer and fabricator to recreate lifelike scenes from recruitment to return home, including field dressings, trenches, and smells. Martinez and Johnson Architects began structural planning with rewiring plumbing and security upgrades, funded by a state grant and a 1 million gift from Judge Edwards Delaplaine's trust.
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National Museum of
Museum Board
Gordon Dammann
Dammann
Lena, Il
Frank Smekar
Michigan
Smekar
U.S. Army
Martinez and Johnson
Washington Architects
Edwards. Delaplaine
Frederick County Naming Mark S Hudson Executive Director
The Historical Society of Frederick County announces Mark S Hudson 33 as executive director moving from Boone County Missouri where he led as curator and as interim head for six weeks. He aims to grow visitation and membership while boosting the society’s technical capabilities during Frederick County’s 250th anniversary year. Hudson previously visited in 1989 and now roots his career in Civil War history with ties to Topeka Kansas and Missouri.
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the Historical Society of
Frederick County
Mark S. Hudson
Hudson
Frederick
Columbia
Boone County Historical Society
Focal Society
Historical Society
Topeka
Kan
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Kansas
Titanic rivets' brittleness eyed by NIST metallurgist
Timothy J. Foecke of Damascus, a National Institute of Standards and Technology metallurgist, has found that Titanic rivets from 1910 contained three times the slag allowed today, suggesting brittleness may have contributed to rivet failure during the 1912 sinking. He awaits an August expedition to recover more hull pieces and rivets to test his theory further.
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Gaithersburg
Timothy J. Foecke
Damascus
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Foecke
Hill Street park eyed with pool and lit ballfields
City officials consider a 16 acre Hill Street site near Hillcrest Elementary for a municipal pool, lighted ballfields, and more. Recreation Director Roekey Myers seeks 20 000 for planning, 650 000 in 2000 for pool and fields, and 500 000 in 2003 for a community center and hockey arena as part of a long term improvement plan.
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Hill Street
Jim Grimes
Hillcrest
Leo Seligison
Roekey Myers
Myers
Edward P Thomas
Diggs Memorial Pool Is Too Small. Mr. Myers
Frederick
Drier spring forecast follows unusually warm winter
Marylanders can expect a spring that is near normal in temperature and slightly drier than average, especially in southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center notes a weak tilt toward drier conditions despite an unusually warm winter, with El Nino influencing but not dominating the outlook.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Robert Livezey
Climate Prediction Center
Pacific
South America
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