Program earns high praise for Accept and Challenge week
South Frederick third graders join cooking and reading activities as part of the Accept and Challenge program. Students use measuring, fractions, and the metric system while following recipes and reading directions. The program began in 1965 to provide remedial help for struggling students across nine elementary schools involving 14 teachers and 30 aides.
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Chris
South Frederick
Sylvia Creamer
Joseph King
King
Frederick County
Creamer
Maryland bill delays high school requirement vote
Maryland lawmakers narrow defeat on a bill delaying a mandate that all high schools meet a new requirement. ROBERT C. REID reports from Annapolis on the close House vote and the political stakes surrounding the measure.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Lehigh Portland road move plans clash with road funds
Lehigh Portland may shift Clemsonville Road again pending soil tests as a limestone vein extends southward. The Union Bridge quarry sits 200 feet deep with potential 50 more feet. widening beyond 250 feet is unlikely. Neighbors opposed none. county officials fault planning for past road resurfacing costs. A separate debate over a mandatory writing test for high school graduates ended with a 70-68 House vote, short of a constitutional majority, delaying the measure.
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Frederick County
Clemsonville Road
Lehigh Portland
Hoffman-Seachrist Road
Woodsboro
Union Bridge
Roush
Charles C. Smith
Smith
Cgwudioo
Collins
Aquino weighs response to Marcos era plunder claims
Aquino considers Salonga estimates that Marcos and allies plundered during his twenty years in office. Salonga cites a 250 million dollar shortfall partly from heavy election spending by Marcos party the New Society Movement.
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Salonga
Marcos
The
New Society Movement
Mrs. Aquino
National Assembly
New Society
New Two Week Garbage Rules Target Downtown Pickup
The plan studies two week collections and Sunday street trash. Downtown merchants hope for cooperation as shops stay open all day Saturday and may close Sundays. Trash from Fridays, especially from restaurants, could be set out at 8 a.m. Saturday for a special pickup in a designated area. Persistent Sunday sidewalk trash will incur fines. Existing rules require trash not be placed before 5 p.m. the night before collection.
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Young
Market Street
Spaniards vote on NATO membership referendum
In Madrid thousands of police and soldiers safeguarded a nationwide referendum on Spain’s 4 year NATO engagement. Polls favored a rejection, but Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez urged a pro Europe stance as turnout looked strong and security scaled up across polling sites.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Spain
NATO
Felipe Gonzalez
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Interior Ministry
Gonzalez
Europe
Francisco Franco
Popular Coalition
Manuel Frega
City considers official action to curb double parking
Parking Lee says city attempts to solve double parking for the first time. Kreissig notes concerns about delivery times and impact on business. Only one shop owner attended last night, Allen Merchant of Blue Ridge News Agency. Alderman Betty Floyd backs the proposal as workable. Ashton proposes a two week grace period before enforcement via tickets.
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Kreissig
Tate
Allen Merchant
Blue Ridge News Agency
E. Patrick St
Betty Floyd
Parking Commission
Ashton
Dickerson stack debate over safe incinerator location
Four years ago residents urged 100K at Vickerson to ensure a safe incinerator with a tall stack and proper safeguards. Shady Grove was deemed unsuitable for an incinerator. Erickson warned Dickerson as a likely pollution touchdown site for Poolesville and cautioned about future expansion limits in the 1990s.
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Hulil
Shady Grove
Erickson
Dickerson
Poolesvalle
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