Housing Fair showcases wide range of Frederick area options
The Fourth Annual Housing Fair at the Frederick Community Action Agency on South Market Street highlights options from Historic District architecturals to affordable town houses and large estate homes. It details emergency loans, low interest mortgages, short term rent aid, weatherization, and income based housing, plus private programs Project HOUSE and Interfaith Housing.
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Frederick City
Frederick
Department of Social Services
Great Equity
Project House
Maryland
Public figures push shock to grab attention and ratings
Roy Meachum critiques celebrity sensationalism as Ellen DeGeneres comes out and Oprah Winfrey cancels Dennis Rodman interview. He argues privacy rights, laments media hype, and urges readers to boycott the trashy TV churn. The column laments the erosion of public taste and calls for resisting sensationalism.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Oprah Winfrey
Dennis Rodman
Mr. Rodman
Ms. Winfrey
Elliose
You
Liberace
Docking Mobutu as Anti Communist Dictator Ends in Regret
Scripps Howard News Service argues that U S support for Mobutu of Zaire, once praised as anti-communist, collapsed as his regime looted and brutalized the nation. The piece contrasts U S actions in Vietnam and Afghanistan, suggesting the long anti-communist stance produced widespread harm and questions future policy.
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Germany
Japan
America
Vietnam
Mobutu
Africa
U.S
Zaire
Scripps Howard News Service
Frederick transit extends service and cuts link to Libertytown
Col Charles N Staley leader of the Frederick City Transit Co announced bus service expansion in the eastern and southern Frederick areas and the discontinuation of the Frederick Libertytown route. Frederick bought 47 acres of the Grimes farm on Hughes Ford Road east of the city for 22000 to support airport improvements and other developments. Hood College hosted its annual spring horse show with a color guard drill team and championship classes as May Day activities began. Upper Elm Street School classes in Frederick studied industry and farming during a bus tour of local production plants and farms. Frost and ice damaged fruit and early garden produce in parts of Frederick County while winds over 50 mph downed lines and trees in a late cold front. New Market used original town voting boxes for elections. Six Frederick County residents earned Phi Kappa Phi honors at Hood College: Joanne Reeder, Brenda Haugh, Susan Tremaine, Donald Beachley, Vicke Alexander, and Dixie Miller. Maryland School for the Deaf students and instructors cleaned debris from Carroll Creek and the banks of the stream between Carroll and East Patrick streets. MSD senior Maurice Abendhuchan chaired the effort.
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Frederick County
Hood College
Joanne Reeder
Brenda Haugh
Susan Tremaine
Frederick
Donald Beachley
Myersville
Vicke Alexander
Middletown
Dixie Miller
Thurmont
Maryland School For the Deaf
Mary Sue Hodges
Mary Ann Schoenberg
Carroll Creek
Carroll and
East Patrick Streets
MSD
Maurice Abendhuchan
Quiet, competent board praised by critic in Frederick
In a concise critique James L Hartley argues that elected boards invite loud, self serving advocates while neglecting funding for rising education costs. He favors appointed boards for their quiet, competent focus on children and warns against controversy prone leadership.
County payroll critique targets school board spending
Letter writer Daniel Shoemaker questions county budget priorities in the Board of Education, outlining a multi million dollar staff chart with seven directors, multiple superintendents, specialists, coordinators and psychologists, and suggesting training and therapy spending.
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Board of Education
Crossing the line with list of salaries letters
A reader objects to publishing county employees salaries and a list of 400 workers earning over 50,000. The letter argues privacy rights, questions the paper’s rationale, and criticizes agencies for releasing the data. It includes a personal account of a family pet incident tied to the issue.
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Frederick County
News-Post
On the Loose Dogs Injure Resident on Mount Philip Road
A resident reports two large dogs, one with Rottweiler coloring, ran loose in Mount Philip Road Feagaville area early Sunday. The animals terrorized the yard, leaving the writer in fear and wounded after trying to scream for help.
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Mount Philip Road
Feagaville
Green land in and around Washington faces clearance pressure
Citizens in the Washington region weigh growth versus preservation as green spaces face housing and commercial development. The viewpoint of local residents should guide the outcome, beyond politicians and developers, in deciding the fate of green land.
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Washington, D.C
Frederick News-Post Letters to the Editor Policy
The Frederick News Post accepts exclusive letters for four dollars including writer name address and home and business phones for verification. Some letters are abridged for space and poetry or form letters are not published. Submissions may be mailed to Letters to the Editor Frederick MD or faxed or emailed.
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Frederick
Frederick News-Post
Patrick
Fox
Fredericknewspost.com
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Vichy
Leonard Larsen
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Charles N. Staley
Frederick City Transit Company
Libertytown
Francis R. and
James C. Grimes
Hughes Ford Road
Elm Street
New Market
James L. Hartley Frederick
Daniel Shoemaker Jefferson
Walter Bailey Jefferson
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Emergency Animal Center
Hyattstown
Suzanne Marsteller
Alex Athey
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