Cross recalls canal life and family in old Maryland hometown
Mr Cross, now a Redland resident, shares memories of life along the Potomac and the Chesapeake canal era. He describes his grandmother’s death, his father’s youth, Lavinia’s canal boat birth, and a poverty life with no electricity or running water. He recalls railroading, canal work, and returning home for a visit, reflecting on family roots and community memories.
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Samples Manor
Harpers Ferry
Lavinia
Mr. Cross
G.L Cornel Co
Gaithersburg
Cross
B&o
Potomac
Three cousins arrested after Hood College ruckus
Frederick City Police arrested three cousins after a Sunday incident at Hood College. Christopher G. Eddis, 20, faced charges of disorderly conduct, second degree assault and hindering an officer and remained jailed on $500 bail. Joseph B. Eddis, 20, was charged with disorderly conduct and released on recognizance. A 17 year old from Brownsmills was charged with trespass and disorderly conduct. The arrests followed a report of a fight at Memorial Hall. Officers Pue and Green made the arrests.
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Hood College
Frederick City
Michael Pue
Steve Tuel
Memorial Hall
Christopher G. Eddis
Somerdale
N.J
Frederick County Adult Detention Center
Joseph B. Eddis
Strafford
Brownsmills
Pue
Eddie Green
Crowded schools top concern at New Market meeting
Frederick County leaders and residents debated school crowding and possible busing to Walkersville and Gov. Thomas Johnson High schools. Officials urged waiting for state funding estimates before decisions, while planners warned builders add units. Public libraries and library use in growth plans also discussed.
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New Market Town
Frederick County
Walkersville
Gov
Thomas Johnson
Board of Education
Jack Dale
Dale
Dr. Dale
Thurmont
Planning Commission
Iona Hogan
Spring Ridge
Lake Singapore
C. Burr
Ballenger Creek Park Opens Third Phase With New Facilities
The Frederick County Ballenger Creek Park added a large playground, picnic pavilions, soccer and Little League fields, a new parking lot, and water utilities in its third phase. Officials from the Frederick County Commission and Park and Recreation Commission formalized the ribbon cutting as 30 to 40 locals attended.
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Ballenger Creek Park
Frederick County
Park and Recreation Commission
Ballenger Creek Recreation
Dylan Bryan
Riley Corbin
Kristin van Ness
Amy Corbin
Recreation Council
Bill Green
Ballenger Area
Ballenger Creek
Gail Fitzgerald
Ballenger Creek Recreation Council
BCRC
Barry Christy
Maryland Project Open Space
Bob Failor
Keith van Ness
Frederick County Parks and Recreation Commission
Kevin Aurandt
BCRA
David Gray
Amy
Mark Hoke
Nona Hogan
Terre Rhoderick
Maryland Episcopal elects new bishop suffragan John Rabb
In a decisive Hood College vote, Episcopal delegates chose Rev John Rabb over five rivals on the third ballot to serve as bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Maryland. Rabb, 53, currently rector at St. Anne's in Atlanta, will be consecrated in early October and succeeds Bishop Charles Longest.
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Episcopal
Diocese of Maryland
Hood College
John Rabb
Coffman Chapel
Robert Shloff
Rabb
St. Anne’s Episcopal Church
Atlanta
Maryland
Joe
Sunny
Arbutus
Gaithersburg
Charles Longest
Ihloff
Shloff
John
Easton
Washington
AIDS Awareness Day draws small Hood College crowd
About 20 people attended AIDS Awareness Day at Hood College. Trisha Grove urged open discussion to erase stigma, while HIV testing and counseling were promoted. Organizers expect higher turnout for the AIDSWALK event. free testing is available daily at the Frederick County Health Department. Call 301-694-1752 to schedule.
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Trisha Grove
Hood College
Whitaker
Ms. Grove
People With Aids Committee of Maryland Inc
Grove
Wes Andrews
Andrews
Frederick County Health Department
Obituary notices Honor Stull and Myers in Maryland area
Obituaries for Katherine M. Stull 85 of Frederick and Anna Lucille Myers 73 of Brunswick note burial in Mount Olivet and Park Heights. services at Keeney and Basford Funeral Home with multiple survivors and memorials to local care facilities. Jane L. Lakin 58 of Jefferson mourned with graveside service and church involvement. Ruth Catherine Hause 79 of Frederick formerly Cheverly also listed.
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Katherine M. Stull
N. Market St. Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Charles Wilson Stull
Walkersville
Andrew C
Carrie B. Eyler Morgan
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Stull
Fifth and
Bentz Streets
Frederick
Francis Scott Key Post 11
American Legion Auxiliary
Mary Louise Filler
Woodsboro
Arthur Stull
Margaret
Dickerson
Erma
Grove
Sandra C. Zimmerman
Harry A. Morgan
Keeney and Basford
E. Church St
Etchison
Anna Lucille Myers
Brunswick St
Brunswick
James Boyd Myers Jr
Keyser
Gilbert Russell
Nannie Carol Swain Litten
Myers
Bon-Ton
First United Methodist Church
Women of the Moose
Steadman-Keenan
American Legion
Kerry L. Myers
Knoxville
Ryan P Myers
Evelyn Wolfe
Martinsburg
W.va
Margaret Vohees
Florida
Ruby Kimble
Lexington
Virginia Jacob
Utah
Mildred Biser
Burlington
Nancy Litten
Wade Litten
Gibsonville
Robert A. McCullough
Park Heights Cemetery
Frederick County
Jane L. Lakin
Lander Read
Jefferson
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
John J. Lakin
Middletown
Franklin G
Mary Thomas Norris
Jefferson Volunteer Fire Co
Jefferson Grange
Jefferson Food Bank
Jefferson Food & Friends
James F. Lakin
Judy L. Derrow
Mike
Jordan Lakin Derrow
Franklin W. Norris
Carol
Leonia M. Rohrer
Conrad
Hyattsville
Fern E. Sigler
Donald
Jefferson Reformed Cemetery
Lakin
Guy A. Wenck
Keeney and Basford Funeral Home
Jefferson Ucc Memorial Fund
Rick Blumenauer
Holter Road
Ruth Catherine Hause
Autumn Leaf Lane
Cheverly
Robert W. “Boo” Faulkner
Danielle Drive
Etchison Memorial Chapel
Albert K. Lane II
Walkersville United Methodist Church
Kevin H. Faulkner
Jeffrey S. Faulkner
David L. Baker
Jason Harry Baker
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Ruth Gaylor Ausherman Younkins
Christ Reformed United Church of Christ
Mark A. Wakefield
Carol Moorefield
Spedden A. Hause III
Linda
Robert E. Hause
Cleveland
Ohio
Katherine H. Vetter
Jerry
Silver Spring
Bettie Tabeling
Chris Vaeth
Michael Vetter
Easton
Shelly Vetter
Laurel
Rachel
Charlotte Vaeth
Coffman
Hood College
Roy Stetler
Brunner
Tissy Wastler
Catherine B. Stull
Calvin S. Burrier
Grayson S. Burrier
Glenn M. Burrier
Paul M. Burrier
Stauffer Funeral Home
Fulton Ave
Multiple Obituaries and Memorials From Frederick Area
Funeral services and memorials are announced for several Frederick area residents. Master Robert W. Boo Faulkner, Ruth Gaylor Ausherman Younkins, Earl George Sigler, Evelyn Remsburg Gletner, Carroll G. Babington, Floyd Wilson, Catherine Myrtle Sagi, Dorothy Norma Fincham, Mildred Milly Brunner and Betty Worth are noted with service details, interment plans, and family survivors. Memorial gifts are requested to local hospitals, churches, or cancer research centers.
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Evelyn Remsburg Gletner
Brunswick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
George Gletner
Petersville
Harry Russell
Anna Mae Remsburg Huffer
Gletner
St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church
Ivan
Donlan J. Gletner
Lovettsville
Paul W. Gletner
Kathy Wilson
Mary Kay Collier
Summit Point
W.va
John D. Gletner
Shepherdstown
Rebeckah Gletner
Nicholas Gletner
Jessie Karns
Baltimore
Maxi
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
Lawrence J. Gesy
Lutheran Cemetery
Middletown
Elizabeth Dos Passos Dies at 89 in West Virginia
WARSAW VA AP Elizabeth Holdridge Dos Passos died Sunday at age 89. She championed her husband John Dos Passos as painter historian and writer from the Lost Generation. She donated his correspondence with e e cummings and Ernest Hemingway to the University of Virginia and helped build his papers. Dos Passos taught at UVA in 1963 and married the author in 1949.
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Warsaw
Elizabeth Holdridge Dos Passos
John Dos Passos
Europe
Hood College Events Calendar Highlights and Tours
Hood College hosts a series of events including the Homework Hotline operated by Jeibies Motors and a tour of Frederick County Tourism sites. The calendar lists times and locations for campus activities, student outreach programs, and local attractions.
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Homework
Jeibies Motors
Greek poet Traiforos dies at 86 after stroke
Athens Greece AP Mimis Traiforos famed poet playwright and songwriter dies at 86 from a stroke his work linked to Sofia Vembo and patriotic anti fascist lyrics they entertained Greek troops at home and in Egypt where a government in exile operated during the Nazi occupation
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Athens
Greece
Mimis Traiforos
Sofia Vembo
Egypt
Joan Lestor dies crusader against apartheid at 66
London AP Joan Lestor former Foreign Office minister and Labour left winger died Friday at age 66 after a degenerative nervous system disease. She led campaigns against Third World poverty and for children s rights. A vice president of the Anti Apartheid Movement she also supported nuclear disarmament and served in Wilson and Callaghan governments before entering the Lords in 1997 after announcing she would not seek re election.
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Joan Lestor
Foreign Office
Lady Lestor
Labor Party
Tony Blair
Lady Lester
South Africa
Labor
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Education Department
House of Lords
The
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Frances ¥. Doody Sigler
George Henry
Mary Elizabeth Lapole Sigler
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Washington County Hospital
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Hagerstown High School
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Fairchild Aircraft
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Dixon- Troxell Post
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Freda V. Sisler Wilson
Shaft
Frostburg
Henry and
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Amcelle
Celanese Corp. of America
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AF & A. Masons
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Doris
Charles Town
Wva
Paul F Wilson
Denver
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Carrol A. Naik
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Mary V. Jodon
Greensboro
N.C
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Jack George
Maryland Veterans Cemetery
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Washington St
Paul Sagi Jr
Roy W. Harrison
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Catherine Carbaugh
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Lee Guessford Jr
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Richard Barker
Steve Sagi
Pat Beall
Joyce Shumaker
Rob Harrison
Winchester
Charles Schildtknecht
Kenneth Leroy Harrison
Dou
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Burl Shaver
John Mowen
Beaver Creek Cemetery
John R. Marsh Cancer Research Center
Medical Campus Road
Dorothy Fincham
Dorothy Norma Fincham
Memorial Hospital
Weldon H. Fincham
Bethesda
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Wellers Cleaners
Wheaton
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Linda Darlene
Mildred Brunner
Mildred “Milly” Burkier Brunner
Broadview Drive
Glade Valley Nursing Home
Harold D. Brunner
Ieay Ree
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Mae Ramsburg Brunner
Glade United Church of Christ
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Bonnie
Robert W. Brunner Sr
Sharon
Charles D. Burrier
Mabel
Gilmer R. Burrier
Ethel
Harold J. Burrier
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Wilma B. Grimes
Gina Ridings
Robert W. Brunner Jr
Dawne Smith
Sherry Cook
Michael Brunner
Michelle Bohn
Dylan Ridings
Aaron Smith
Alison Jacobs
E.ds. Jacobs
Jerry Bohn
Betty Worth
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Olin L. Molesworth Funeral Home
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Damascus
Elizabeth Dos Passos
Frederck NewsPost
Mt Ai City
Fone Banc
Unigtobe
MWA
UDPAC
Mnjor
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Maryland Job Service
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Telesco Corestall
Frederick Arts Council
Delaplaine Visual Art Center
Tina Weinee
Jeaios
Frederck County Toursm
Traiforos
Lestor
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