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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1987
Page
4
Superintendent Sean Berger plans to leave Frederick County schools. The next leader will face boundary redraws, WRSCN concerns, new construction needs, and teacher pay decisions. The job demands guiding growth, change, and controversy through evolving educational ideas.
The Frederick County note marks National Agriculture Day and celebrates Frederick as the heart of Maryland farming. It highlights a changing yet farm rooted community with crops and livestock and cites state agricultural totals including corn soybeans tobacco apples and mushrooms.
Roy Meachum argues William Donald Schaefer used pressure and party tactics in Annapolis to push malpractice premium reform, but the Judiciary Committee rejected the bill 11 to 40. He cites threats, lobbying clashes, and a delayed deadline as failures of leadership, calling for damage control and potential special sessions to address rising physician premiums and costs.
Jorge Diaz Serrano, once PEMEX head and ally of Mexico's José López Portillo, sits at Reclusorio Sur awaiting corruption trial. He defends his innocence, claiming he could have stolen far more, and recalls his career from oil boom architect to diplomat and senator.
A report notes about 100 geese seen flying north over Emmitsburg marking the season’s first sighting. The Francis Scott Key Council reports the third Boy Scout leadership course at Winneshester Hall with three new troops forming and six more units expected in two weeks. WPA plans a 20000 project to clean Carroll Creek in Frederick, including bank shaping and terracing along two miles of stream, awaiting final Washington approval.
About 1400 Maryland teachers heard Harvard professor Dr Robert H. Anderson speak at Gov Thomas Johnson High School for the fourth annual State Teacher's Association meeting. He urged dialogue across ability patterns and cultures in non graded schools and challenged long held teaching myths.
A reader questions welfare help after illness and job loss while contrasting Mount St. Mary’s College as a stable community asset. The letter defends local ethics and criticizes Ski America and its backers, while advocacy against Contra aid and U.S. policy in Central America is urged, citing Congressman Byron and historic judgments. Robert Burkett signs the letter.
A reader cites alternatives to funding the Contras and urges Congresswoman Beverly Byron about her March 11, 1967 vote. The note also praises Robert Burkett for burying a symbolic child's coffin in a gesture tied to the issue.
Baltimore letter from Bernard Survil questions crime priorities citing two women selling PCP with a $21,000 bond and a drunk driver killing two state troopers with a $35,000 bond. The writer argues shoplifting is treated more leniently than drug crimes and officer fatalities, signed Sam Royer in Middletown.
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