Trap preference: trapping business owner removes nuisance wildlife
Ronnie Leggett, 53, co-owner of Animal Control in Boonsboro, traps and kills raccoons and foxes harming farms and hay near Buckeystown. He hunts with a .22, often skins furs, and recalls learning trapping at 19 with his dad Pete after a fox challenge.
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Animal Control
Boonsboro
Pete
Buckeystown
Grasmick backs Frederick County school construction plan
Maryland education chief Dr. Nancy Grasmick endorsed Frederick County's 33.7 million state funded school project during a tour of Twin Ridge Elementary and Waverley Elementary. She chairs the IAC which reviews state funding for school construction and noted the state's need to meet growing classroom demands.
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Nancy Grasmick
Maryland
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Twin Ridge
Mount Airy
Waverley
Frederick
Jack Dale
Kim Brent
Keith Harris
H. Peter Storm
Grasmick
Maryland workers comp agency to extend troubled contract
The Maryland Insured Workers Insurance Fund plans to extend its managed care contract with Statutory Benefits Management Corp until June 2000 without bidding. The Sun cites CEO Paul Rose praising SBMC's program while critics cite start-up problems and an auditor's questions about why bidding was halted.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Baltimore Sun
Maryland Insured Workers Insurance Fund
Statutory Benefits Management Corp
the Sun
Paul Rose
SBMC
Rose
SERIC
Medical pioneer Dr. Phillip Thomas and Frederick County medicine
Frederick County history marks its 250th anniversary with Dr. Phillip Thomas as the first recorded physician in the county arriving August 1 1769. Educated in Philadelphia before medical schools existed he became a noted physician patriot and local leader described by Dr Henry Chase who spoke to the Frederick County Medical Society about the early medical society era.
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Frederick County
Phillip Thomas
Thomas
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Frederick Academy
Henry Chase
Frederick County Medical Society
Chase
Medical Society
Founding Five of Maryland State Medical Society
Star Spangled Stories describes early efforts to regulate medicine in Maryland. In 1785 Dr Elisha Hall alerted a Baltimore physician about quacks, leading to talks on standards. The first state medical society formed briefly, then reorganized in 1799, with Dr Chase naming local physicians as the Founding Five.
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Frederick
Elisha Hall
Baltimore
State Medical Society
Chase
State Soci
Frederick police diversity training faces scrutiny from bias claims
Court testimony last summer alleged a Frederick officer used a racial epithet during an arrest. The department logged 54 civilian complaints this year, 13 by Black residents, with 24 percent of 1997 complaints by Blacks. A citizens panel was urged by Col. Raffensberger as police reform continues. State troopers saw fewer minority complaints. Lt. Tregoning notes most are minor. Capt. Moyer cites ongoing training efforts.
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Frederick
Frederick City
Col
Ray Raffensberger
Maryland
Kenneth Tregoning
Frederick Barrack
Tregoning
Steve Moyer
Aron asks court to choose psychiatric hospital over prison
ROCKVILLE AP Former U S Senate candidate Ruthann Aron seeks transfer to a private psychiatric hospital rather than prison after pleading no contest to two counts of solicitation to murder her husband and a lawyer. Her attorney described her as suffering an out of control bus trip and urged psychiatric care at New York Presbyterian.
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Rockville
U.S. Senate
Ruthann Aron
Ms. Aron
Montgomery County
Harry Trainor
Urbana Exceeds Fort Hill in State Championship Prep
Urbana undefeated football team prepares to meet Fort Hill for the state title, with coverage continued on the sports page. The Frederick News-Post notes the paper’s use of recycled content and 100 percent recycled paper.
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Fort Hill
Frederick
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