North Market businesses weathering reconstruction
City street and sidewalk work on North Market Street has detoured traffic with few complaints. Merchants report steady or strong sales, though concerns grow about future disruption as work moves toward deeper blocks. Officials note limited issues and warn of temporary lane closures and sidewalk replacement ahead.
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North Market Street
Jock Friedman
Earl's Shoes
John Learmont
Learmont Records and Books
Learmont
Sam Ya
Nevin Baker
Frederick County National Bank
Patrick Street
McCrory’s
North Market
West Patrick Streets
Don Pickering
Pickering
Bertha Whipp
Wise Discount Mart
Fredericktowne Bank and Trust Co
Ball Menon
Ronald N. Young
Menon
Patrick
Seventh Street
Breakings and Enterings Drop in Frederick City in 1982 and 1983
Frederick Police Maj. Richard J. Ashton notes a 23.2 percent drop in 1982 B and Es. In January and February 1983, 38 burglaries were reported, with 26 in January and 12 in February. Home burglaries totaled 21, businesses 17, with items stolen including baseball cards liquor TVs money and a refrigerator.
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B&es
Frederick City
Richard J. Ashton
Ashton
Beck fills in for late Sen Edward Thomas on two panels
In Annapolis Sen Raymond Beck becomes the first Maryland senator to sit in for a colleague on the Economics Committee while also voting on his own committee and serving on Budget and Taxation. Thomas, hospitalized since December and died March 1, agreed to the arrangement, which has Senate President Steinberg’s approval.
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Annapolis
Maryland General Assembly
Raymond E. Beck
Carroll
Baltimore County
Senate Economic Committee
Edward P. Thomas Jr
Frederick
Thomas
Beck
Senate
Anne Arundel County
Cade
Ray
Barbara Wilkins
Ed Thomas
Mickey
Steinberg
Frederick County
Maryland
House
Notable residents profiled in Uniontown and Maryland figures
Mary Fouche interviews Uniontown resident Mary Fogle amid age unspecified. Lucien Warren profiles Sen. Charles McC. Mathias in Maryland. National Geographic writer Donald Frederick traces Lebanon’s Maronite history. Dette Lambdin reports on humor in public radio programs.
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Mary Fouche
Mary Fogle
Uniontown
Lucien Warren
Charles McC. Mathias
R-Md
National Geographic
Donald Frederick
Lebanon
Dette Lambdin
Eee
Think for Yourself Says Lessing Quote in Amatist
Inside The News discusses the Lessing maxim Think wrongly, if you please but think for yourself. The page feature reflects on critical thinking and individual reasoning as a means to personal discernment. The column comments on intellectual independence and the value of questioning conventional wisdom.
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Gotthold Lessing
Sunshine Returns With Warmer Weekend Inland
A weather update from Western Maryland reports the big storm moving east, clearing skies today for mostly sunny conditions. Highs reach the low to mid 40s in Western Maryland with windy, cold air tonight and milder days Sunday and Monday. Maryland mountains see cooling tonight with lows near 20, then partly sunny Sunday with highs near 40. Yesterday’s temps ranged Frederick 47 to 39, Hagerstown 43 to 37, Westminster 44 to 38, Gaithersburg 44 to 40, Leesburg 45 to 38.
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Maryland
Carrell
Frederick
Reward
Montgomery
Washington Commues
Hagerstown
Westminster
Gaithersburg
Leesburg
David Lesher
ZOMAX to return to drugstore shelves soon after warning labels
Johnson & Johnson officials said the non narcotic painkiller ZOMAX will come back to drugstores after FDA labeling approval. The recall followed reports of allergic reactions including five deaths across several states, with about 1000 total reactions.
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New Brunswick
N.J
Nainkiller Zomax
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Johnson & Johnson
ZOMAX
McNeil Pharmaceutical
James A. Murray
Murray
Massachusetts
Kansas
North Dakota
New York
Reagan orders broad privacy and leak controls on federal staff
President Reagan signed a sweeping security directive requiring hundreds of thousands of federal workers to pledge not to leak classified material and to undergo lie detector testing in leak probes. It adds thousands of high level officials to prepublication review of writings for deletion of secrets. Civil libertarians call it authoritative and restrict public debate. lawmakers skeptical of constitutional viability cite potential overreach.
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Washington
Reagan
Don Edwards
D-Calif
House
Judiciary
John Sturdivant
American Federation of Government Employees
National Security
DCU
U.S
Libya
Summit leaders appeal to Iran and Iraq
New Delhi India AP The week long non aligned nations summit ended with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi appealing for an end to the Iran Iraq war She chaired the six day meeting and urged immediate cessation of fighting toward an honorable just and enduring peace through negotiations Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat also urged Iran and Iraq to unite in support of their liberation struggle
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Iran
Iraq
Gandhi
Suiiat
Traq
Gandhy
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Maryland Senate panel votes to ban cockfighting
A Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee approved a bill by Sen Margaret Schweinhaut to ban cockfighting, aligning Maryland with 43 states. Debate contrasted cruelty of cockfighting with other animal pursuits as supporters cited wartime and local concerns in Cecil County and Montgomery County.
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Annapolis
Senate
Maryland
Judicial Proceedings Committee
Margaret Schweinhaut
Montgomery
Hartt
Welling
Cecil County
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Melvin Steinberg
Baltimore City
Inside the News
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