South Mountain Historic Designation Sparks Local Debate
The National Park Service considers South Mountain near Burkittsville Middletown and Crampton Gap for National Historic Landmark status. Residents weigh preservation benefits against potential traffic, development limits, and loss of rural life as the battle over designation resumes.
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South Mountain
Frederick County
Washington County
Frederick
Sharpsburg
National Park Service
Crampton’s Gap
Burkittsville
Fox’s
Turner’s Gaps
Middletown
Landfill delays strain Frederick city trash plan
Roy Meachum reviews the long, tangled saga of Frederick County’s landfill schedule. Officials clash as efforts to extend landfill hours falter amid bureaucratic delay and state involvement. He notes repeated shifts, hearings, and political theatrics before a July 1 transfer to a new state department.
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Frederick City
Moving Picture Show
Frederick
Annapolis
Winchester Hall
City Hall
Schaefer
Health
Department of Environment
Lloyd C. Culler
North Market Street
Conservatives attack Reagan on arms control over SDI document
A conservative US senator and ex-aide publish in a forthcoming book excerpts from a classified NSCD 192 on SDI, claiming CIA clearance and White House access raise questions about declassification and sources. The book argues arms control expediency harms US security and cites Reagan’s August 1985 guidance to reinterpret the ABM Treaty.
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Washington
U.S
Reagan
CIA
Malcolm Walp
R-Wyo
Angelo Codevilla
Sen
Wallop
SDI
Codevilla
Stanford University
Hoover Institution
National Security Council
White House
NSC
Robert Linhard
Sen. Wallop
Congress
CLA
Married life on 60 acre Mount Airy farm in 1937 story
Newlyweds William and Mrs Duvall began married life on a rented 60 acre farm near Mount Airy with Mrs Duvall, 75, becoming breadwinner by husking corn for six hours on her wedding day. A note mentions 26 of 53 bass shipped to Union of South Africa arriving after a 25 day voyage.
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William W. Duvall
Mount Airy
Lewistown
Union of South Africa
Letter From William F Jones On Recovery After Drug Abuse
A man named William F. Jones of Frederick writes about his 14 year struggle with drugs and alcohol, the impact on his family, and reaching bottom before starting over. He recalls family worry, arrests for forgery in 1975, and realizing his actions harmed his wife and child as he sought accountability and change.
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Winchester Hall
City Hall
Young
William Donald Schaefer
Schaefer
Lems
Inferiority rewarded and quality punished in market critique
The letter argues capitalism rewards quality and punishes mediocrity, condemning a trend toward elevating inferiority. It cites Judge Bork and politicians as symbols of competing ideologies, warning of a looming crash and urging truth, while juxtaposing pacifist Quaker views on war with current global conflict and Peace and Justice Week. It reflects a split between war-minded and peace-seeking perspectives, urging nonviolence and contemplation of peace.
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Robert Bork
Kennedy
Biden
Metzenbaum
Central America
George Fox
Meachum, Young clash over ethics in Frederick News Post
Angela Taylor criticizes Mayor Ronald Young for discrediting Roy Meachum and the Frederick News-Post. She argues the mayor must disclose personal affairs when in office and defends the media as a taxpayer watchdog. The letter cites Michael Enright's Sept. 29 article and questions the mayor’s defense.
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Fam
Michael Enright
Roy Meachum
Ronald Young
Frederick News-Post
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State Secretary of Health
Square One
Jack Anderson
Soviet Union
Edgar Piret
D Feature Syndicate
Ine
News-Post
Shookstown-High Knob Road
Clarence Fox
Fox
Clarence Bennett
Des Moines
Iowa
Big Savage Mountain
Maryland
California
Francis Scott Key Hotel
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors
William F. Jones, Frederick
Paul R. Weierbach
Gilbert Bliss Union Bridge
Angela T. Taylor Frederick
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