Voter Turnout Seen Busy as Polls Open for Tuesday Election
Voters streamed to booths for county and state races with about 31 percent turnout by mid morning. Poller Gennie Suler reported steady flow at the old Frederick Armory. Reports noted some polling places had issues with vote recorders as totals showed Democrats leading Republicans and Independents.
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Gennie Suler
Frederick Armory
Bentz Street
Dtus
Maxine Pratt
Ms. Pratt
Braddock Heights
Paul Rhoads
Eldred van Fossen
South Frederick
Absentee ballots surge as county votes head to polls
More than one thousand seventy absentee ballots have already been cast as voters prepare to cast ballots in person. Election officials note higher registration and anticipate a larger turnout than the primary with polls opening at seven. Machines jam at several sites yet voters continue to stream in amid a hot commissioner race.
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Middletown
Braddock Heights
Walkersville
North Frederick
Pratt
Dottie Green
Thurmont
Most Disgustingly Polite Campaign In Frederick County
Frederick County candidates deny mudslinging and embrace polite campaigning. Republicans Linda Boyer Howard Wilson David Gray and Edward Luke note cross party cooperation while Democrats Gail Bowerman and Sterling Bollinger praise the orderly race. Rumors of female candidate feuds are dismissed as unfounded.
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Linda Boyer
Howard Wilson
David Gray
Mr. Wilson
Gail Bowerman
Sterling Bollinger
Sue Ann Yingling
Gail
Bowerman
PTA
Mount Airy to buy land in controversial annexation move
Mount Airy Town Council surprised residents by saying it plans to buy 81 acres owned by Frall Developers for 1.2 million instead of pursuing annexation. The land lies near Prospect Road and includes a wellhead and separate aquifer, with a public meeting hoped for November 19 to finalize terms.
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Mount Airy
Frall
BGRE
JCA Investments
Delaine Hobbs
Prospect Road
Hobbs
Maryland FFAers Head for National Convention Missouri
Western Maryland weather page notes clear cold tonight with lows in the lower 30s. Wednesday promises sunshine and cool highs near 50 to 55. Agriculture mentions Maryland FFA members traveling to the national convention in Missouri on page 42.
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Maryland
Ise
FFA
Missouri
City to build ponds at Baker Park without HDC sign-off
City officials plan 18 foot deep ponds at North Bentz Street and Carroll Parkway to collect Carroll Creek floodwater for a flood control project opening creek banks for development including the Carroll Creek Linear Park. The Historic District Commission says approval is unnecessary due to location. protests over open walls and water management continue.
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Carroll Creek
Baker Park
Historic District Commission
HDC
N. Lynn Tillery
North Bentz Street
Carroll Parkway
Highland Street
Cite
Commission
Tillery
G. Bernard Callan
Mark Scire
Garsuie Parkway
Victoria Seward
Bush signs 492 billion tax-raising budget plan
President Bush signed a 492 billion tax raising budget bill at his Houston home delaying prime time coverage and election day readers. He called the deficit reduction package the centerpiece of long term growth and noted no one got everything they wanted. He and Barbara Bush voted in Texas before returning to Washington to monitor returns.
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Houston
Bush
America
Barbara
Washington
White House
Texas
Clayton Williams
Congress
$40M LAIR lab to be built at Fort Detrick
Military planners prepare a $40 million Letterman Army Research Institute lab at Fort Detrick for 1995 relocation from the Presidio of San Francisco. LAIR specializes in battlefield trauma and eye safety with 119 military and 107 civilian staff. Architects Fund and Associates and Affiliated Engineers Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin, were chosen to design the 192,370 square foot two story building near USAMRIID main labs, with completion targeted for late 1995.
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Fort Detrick
Letterman Army Research Institute
LAIR
Presidio of
San Francisco
Congress
Chuck Casey
US Army Medical Research and Development Command
Pendarick
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
U.S. Army Biomedical Research and Development Laboratory
Baltimore District Corps of Engineers
Madison
Wis
Bennett
Awana Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases
Usamriid
Point of Rocks recalls 'Baby Agnes' flood memory
In Point of Rocks Maryland residents recall the 1972 Hurricane Agnes flood and the 1995 Potomac River flood that forced hundreds from homes. The town endured overturned equipment, dislodged wood and oil spills while boating became transport and residents prepared for rising water.
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Point of Rocks
Agnes
Lettie Shores
B&b Grocery
David
Sonny
Jerry French
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