Iranian Silkorm Missile Hits Kuwaiti Oil Terminal
Iran fired a Silk Worm missile at Kuwait's offshore oil loading terminal injuring several and causing a blaze. About 20 people were at the facility. three wounded were recovered and others unaccounted for. The attack, described as a new aggression, followed threats after a U S raid. The missile landed nine miles east of Al Ahmadi, with a column of smoke rising prominently.
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Kuwait
Iran
Defense Ministry
Al-Ahmadi Terminal
Tehran
Gulf
U.S. Navy
Sheik Salem al- Sabah
Faw Peninsula
Iraq
al Ahmadi
al- Ahmadi
Sheik Al-Sabah
Failaka Island
Faw Peninasla
Gillis Falls Reservoir study prompts mixed county response
Public meeting near Mount Airy examined five road options flooding Gillis Gillis Falls and Watersville roads as the proposed Gillis Falls Reservoir would flood 1200 acres northeast of Mount Airy. Black & Veatch outlined costs and a potential bridge solution while residents warned of pollution and tax impacts.
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Gillis Falls
Carroll County
Mount Airy
Black & Veatch International
Bethesda
Gillis
Watersville
Black & Veatch
Veron Roehrle
Davis Road
Friendship
Board of Commissioners
John D. Armacost
Margaret Mercer
Frederick
K. Marlene Conaway
Frederick County
Frederick County Young Farmer of the Year honored
Western Maryland’s Walkersville resident Gary Grossnickle named Frederick County Young Farmer of the Year amid a cautious market rebound. The edition notes partly cloudy, cold nights with 39 low and Friday’s 60 high, plus weather details. Daniel Webster quote about confession attributed with moral reflection appears in the page teaser.
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Maryland
Gary Grossnickle
Walkersville
Frederick County
Secessase
Sullivan Family Prepares for Last Skeleton Sale
Roll Sullivan recalls growing up in a house with a skeleton in a poison coffin and a mummy sold to a customer. The family owned an antique store at Jug Bridge Hill and later at New Market after 1952, with the coffin aboard a horse drawn hearse formerly used by Falconer Funeral Home.
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Sullivan
Sullivans
B.E. Sullivan
Sully
Roll Sullivan
Mary
Old Pearl Bargain House
Jug Bridge Hill
New Market
Jug Bridge
Falconer’ Funeral Home
Roll
Bok takes Clagett case to court over rehiring ruling
Frederick County Board of Education seeks court relief after an arbitrator ordered partial reinstatement for Frederick County teacher and former commissioner Galen R. Clagett. The dispute centers on leave terms, dates, back pay, and eligibility for a position equivalent to his last assignment. The arbitrator found reinstatement on a substantially equivalent post but left the exact date unsettled. No trial date has been scheduled.
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Frederick County
Board of Education
Galen R. Clagett
Clagett
Frederick
Ronald N. Young
George Littrell
Frederick County Teachers Association
FCTA
Mr. Clagett
Malcolm L. Pritzker
Daniel Gadra
Sue Ann Yingling
Gadra
Pritzker
Claget
Proposed AIDS education bylaw offers school board options
The Frederick County school board could introduce an AIDS curriculum between third and sixth grade if approved. Revisions allow optional placement by grade, with parental opt out, and emphasize age appropriate discussion, body fluids, abstinence of risky behavior, and responsible decisions. Teachers would field questions via a question box and refer students to adults as needed.
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Frederick County
Boards of Education
Maryland
Jean Flory
Ms. Flory
State Department of Education
Flory
Bank robber in Keymat eludes police with bag of hundreds
An unarmed man robbed First National Bank in Keymat at 9 40 yesterday and remains at large. A white male in his late 20s with long dark hair, about 5 feet 7, 140 pounds, wore a blue cap and purple pullover. He ordered the tellers to fill a white bag with hundreds and left after a silent alarm. No injuries. Police used a helicopter and dogs. a car possibly linked was a 1980 brown four door Cadillac. A video and a planned release of a suspect photo are expected.
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First National Bank
Keymat
Maryland
FBI
Westminster Barracks
Middlebury Road
Frank Moran
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