NATO escalates air campaign over Kosovo clashes
The Pentagon will deploy five B 1 bombers plus air defense jamming lanes and refueling tankers to Europe for intensified NATO airstrikes on Serb forces accused of slaughtering ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Aircraft can carry 84 500 pound bombs and 30 cluster munitions. targets shift to staging areas amid difficult terrain and bad weather. White House and NATO warn of potential genocide while ruling out immediate ground troops to seal a peace deal.
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Washington
Pentagon
NATO
U.S
Kosovo
Kenneth Bacon
Bacon
Ips
Oyated Palloare
Kogovar
Macedonia
Albania
White House
Joe Lockhart
Lockhart
Clinton
Thomas Pickering
Slobodan Milosevic
Pickering
NBC
Counties oppose bill splitting property tax payments
Frederick County Commissioner Terre Roy Rhoderick says the proposed two-installment property tax schedule would push counties toward short-term borrowing and reduce early-year funds. MACO opposes the bill, warning of increased admin costs and potential taxpayer confusion.
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Frederick County
Terre Roy Rhoderick
House of Delegates
Federal Housing Administration
Maryland
United States
Rhoder
Rhoderick
Maryland Association of Counties
MACO
Michael Sanderson
Frederick County eyes impact fee hike to fund schools
County budget analysts assess revenue from raising the impact fee by 1500 to expand school capacity. Commissioners vote 4 0 with Ilona Hogan absent to task staff on projected funds while a six year capital plan runs over budget in years one through three. James Shaw notes debt capacity remains, but early years are top heavy. Commissioner Jan Gardner leads the motion.
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Frederick County
Ilona Hogan
James Shaw
Jan Gardner
Retiree Ruth Roney Aids Meals On Wheels Efforts
Retired nursing executive Ruth Roney spends her days delivering meals on wheels and volunteering with Advocates for Homeless Families. As a former vice president of nursing at Frederick Memorial Hospital she serves as a trustee of Episcopal Ministries to the Aging, which is overseeing Buckingham Choa continuing care retirement project.
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Ruth Roney
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Ms. Roney
Episcopal Ministries
Buckingham Choi
Abrecht Place
Buckingham Choice board chairwoman leads Md. 85 project opening
Ms. Roney, chairwoman of the Buckingham Choice board, discusses the community under construction on Md. 85 and the planned fall opening. The article notes her recent nomination to a new position as a point of interest in local development.
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MD. 85
Roney
Buckingham Choice Board
Tragic accident teaches bicyclist value of family and life
Lewistown EMT Frani Wachter raced to a Putman Road crash after a cyclist, James Bentz, was hit. The 30 year old racer survived severe injuries and formed deep ties with the Wachters who cared for him and his wife Melinda during recovery.
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Lewistown
Frani Wachter
Putman Road
James Bentz
Mr. Bentz
Bentz
Catoctin High School
Melinda
From Wachter
James “Spankey” Bentz
Melinda Bentz
Pomons of The Freedench New Post Pitted Daily
Local readers note a garbled item about the Freedench New Post with references to recycled paper. The fragment hints at a daily publication practice and a coy mention of papars or press items in a loosely formed sentence.
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Pomons
Freedench New Post
Papar Alsa
AID charges exclusion from planning for CSR Hydra plant
Responsible Industrial Development Inc. says Frederick leadership shut out residents from planning the CSR Hydra Conduit concrete plant. In an open letter dated March 26 RID calls for judicial review of the Board of Zoning Appeals decision to permit a storage facility off Gas House Pike and condemns alleged city penalties against involved residents.
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Responsible Industrial Development Inc
Frederick
CSR
RID
Timothy A. Flo
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Tiffany Ritter
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Tiffany
Michele Ritter
Jim Ritter
Nikki Ritter
Bill Green
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