Maryland official pushes plan to curb private handguns
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr proposes a broad gun control package to tighten background checks and fingerprint gun permits while aiming for a future ban on private handguns. He argues for limited handgun ownership to law enforcement, collectors, and security professionals, and suggests lawsuits against gun manufacturers amid a national wave of suits.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Genera
J. Joseph Curran Jr
Curran
Paris Glendening
Nean
House
Casper R. Taylor Jr
Senate
Thomas V. Mike Miller
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Shook family and friends host second annual reunion
A 2nd annual Shook and fiends reunion gathered Oct 3 at Thurmont Community Park with 69 attendees. Terry Boller led the invocation for a pot luck, prizes awarded for oldest Shook attendees, longest married, longest distance traveled, and various remembrance and game outcomes among a large list of named participants. Current officers include Linda Fogle as president and Jenny Shafer as vice president with many attendees named across families Shook, Boller, Fogle, Pryor, Murray, and others from Newark to Thurmont.
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Thurmont
Terry Boller
Elaine Seymour
Melody Pryor
Bonnie Heininger
Jinda Fogle
Shirley Boller
Andrew Boller
Rebecca Shook
Rick Summel
Lauren Boller
Helen Bruchey
Chester Fogle
Chris Boller
Liz Murray
Gerald Shook
Helen Brachey
Shook
John Sumoyyi
Violet Tors
Connor Heller
Enea Shook
Dusty
Roland
Hilda Eyler
Sean
Debbie Burke
Lou
Sookie Borses
Newark
Del
Hilda Shook
Freda Boller
Rick Stummel
Jenny Shafer
Richard Fuller
Pat Shook
Parker Weishaar
Scotty Bane
Kyle Boller
Becky Eaton
Carol Boller
Hazel Compton
Harry Detrow
Linda Fogle
Liz
Mark Heininger
Kim Goulden
Zachary
Troy Heininger
Elaine
Tasha Seymour
Terry
Freda
Jessica
Andrew
Benjamin Boller
Mildred Detrow
Violet Toms
Melodie Pryor
Dennis Fuller
Brian
Carol
Kyle
Lauren Baller
Donnie
Chris
Nicholas
Stephen Boller
Andy Bane
Pat
John Somogyi
Mary
Elizabeth
Rebecca
Daniel Shook
Sookie
Dollee Burch
Burkittsville Church Restoration Fund Drive Launches
Members of the South Mountain Heritage Society and locals sell 3 inch buttons depicting the War Correspondent Arch at Gathland State Park to fund the German Reformed Church in Burkittsville. The church built in 1829 served as a Civil War hospital in 1862 and its rebuilding costs, the Union Cemetery history, and prior joint Lutheran Reformed church efforts are noted. Buttons cost $3 at Brushmark Studio Gallery, Van Gilder Pottery, and Middletown Valley Bank.
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Hal Green
South Mountain Heritage Society
Burkittsville
Gathland State Park
Paul Gilligan
Phil Stanley
Margeret Morgan
Michael Smerkanich
Margaret Kennedy
Bruoshmark Studio
Dan Myer
General Council
Lauren Gilligan
Col
Carl Humphrey
Brushmark Studio Gallery
van Gilder Pottery
Middletown Valley Bank
Middletown
Cemetery Hill
Henry Burkitt
Reformed Church
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Union Cemetery
South Mountain
Rebekah Lodge installs new officers in Oct
Phyllis Holtman district deputy president of Samaritan Rebekah Lodge 51 and her staff from Baltimore installed officers on October 8. Names include noble grand Grace Schmidt and secretary Evelyn Smith with a full slate of officers. absent were conductor and several assistants. The 73rd annual homecoming at the Maryland Odd Fellows Home is set for Sunday October 24 with lunch at 1 am, bake and bazaar tables, and a 2 pm program. The Maryland Odd Fellows Home Christmas bazaar is November 13 from 9 am to 1 pm with bake bazaar white elephant tables a raffle soup and pie and cake available.
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Phyllis Holtman
Samaritan Rebekah Lodge 51
Baltimore
Noble Grand
Grace Schmidt
Evelyn Smith
Pearl Skeggs
Evelyn Pierce
Margaret Stanley
Catherine Young
Albert Powell
Ruth Akers
Guardian
Sallie Kate Landauer
Kathryn Leese
Mary McFarland
Ella Belle Green
Marylou Horman
Betty Rudasill
Thelma Grubb
Mary Powell
Ella Mae Wynne
Eula Schwab
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Maryland
Odd Fellows Home
Fleming Avenue Placed Under One Way To Improve Safety
Frederick's Streets and Sanitation Committee agreed to turn Fleming Avenue westbound only to provide parking and safer travel. Residents urged action, citing narrow road, parking in no parking zones, and hit and run incidents. The panel will forward a recommended traffic pattern to officials and notify neighbors before a public notice.
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Fleming Avenue
Frederick
Michael
Karen Smith
Smiths
Fleming
Upper College Terrace
David Anderson
Fred Eisenhart Jr
Harvld Domer
GS Communications
Hert
Patrick
West Patrick St
Galen Clagett
Joseph Bald
Andrew McGilvray
Dormer
Clagett
Hertz Company
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