Jefferson School helps teen transform and plan future
The Jefferson School, run by Sheppard Pratt Health System, celebrates a year of progress with 110 staff hires and 56 treated students. A focus on emotional and behavioral disorders includes new therapy options, work-study roles, and plans for horseback riding, canoeing, and mountain biking to build life skills. Tim, a student now excelling in multiple subjects, hopes to pursue social work or psychiatry and credits staff for his hopeful outlook.
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Jefferson School
Jefferson
Eric Levine
Jack Pumphrey
Sheppard Pratt Health System
Pumphrey
Lewis
Ms. Lewis
Tim
Levine
Frederick Keys
Harry Grove Stadium
Tom
LeAnn Rimes Thrills Sold-Out Virginia Concert Crowd
Starrecorded it when she was 13. Becky Brashear notes the May sellout for LeAnn Rimes in Lignam Virginia. Fans from nearby towns praised her as a role model. She opened with Buy a One Way Ticket and sang Blue Moon of Kentucky with yodels. She covered You Light Up My Life Stand By Me I Will Always Love You and more. Her new gospel country album went platinum. she hails from Jackson Mississippi and won Star Search.
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Becky Brashear
Charlotte
John Stanley
Lignam
Miss Rimes
Kentucky
Debby Boone
Patsy Cline
Bill Mack
Hank Williams
Ben E. King
Whitney Houston
Jackson
Miss
Texas
Spy artist Mendez recalls secret career and Iran rescue
Former CIA officer and artist Henry Mendez recounts a covert life tied to Iran hostage rescue efforts in 1980. He shows a medal and photos, notes the need to preserve techniques, and discusses turning to tranquil landscapes after retirement.
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Jimmy Carter
Mendez
Intelligence Star
CIA
Iran
Candian
Robert Gates
U.S. Navy
Mr. Mendez
Mother Seton School opens new year with staff changes
The 1997-98 school season starts at Mother Seton School with new teachers Cheryl Carney music director and chorus leader, Sister Regina Hlavac returning in fourth grade, Tina Schornstein as middle school math science teacher, and Mary Rice new bus driver. New Title I aide Anne Marie Hallinan joins, enrollment up 10 percent, and 15 new computers in a renovated media center. Archdiocese to roll out new report cards across all 11 schools. Exploratory Activities Program introduces non graded mini courses in aerobics, newspaper, soccer, French, arts and crafts, tennis, theatre, yearbook, computers and technology.
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Mother Seton
Cheryl Carney
Elias Lutheran Church
Ms. Carney
Regina Hlavac
Regina
Georgia
West Virginia
Tina Schornstein
Frederick County
Walkersville
Schornstein
Frederick
Mary Rice
Anne Marie Hallinan
Hallinan
Mother Seton School
Archdiocese of Baltimore
Eastern Shore river closed over fish illness linked to nutrients
Maryland officials ordered a river closure after reports of fish lesions described as psiesteria-like. Governor Glendening cited nutrient runoff from chicken plants and farms as contributing factors and formed a commission led by Harry Hughes to craft farm regulations for the General Assembly.
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Chicamacombco
North Carolina
Glendening
Harry Hughes
General Assembly
Stealth Fighter Incident Involving F-117 At Langley AFB
Twenty one Holloman Air Force Base firefighters were hospitalized with mild symptoms after long term exposure to smoke from a stealth F-117 undergoing a temporary loan to Langley for an air show. The 7th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Wing, paused routine flights to review safety and ensure no broader risk to other stealth jets.
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49Th Fighter Wing
Holloman Air Force Base
Miss Maryland contestant Miss America pageant ends in Atlantic City
Jaime Fox of Frederick Miss Maryland spent two weeks in Atlantic City preparing for Miss America. She did not place in the top 10 as Katherine Shindle of Illinois won the crown with a $40,000 scholarship. Fox will take a year off to focus on Miss Maryland and her studies in entertainment business at the University of Maryland College Park.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Jaime Fox
Maryland
Ms. Fox
Frederick
Katherine Shindle
North Carolina
Michelle Warren
Myra Barginear
Stacey Momeyer
California
Rebekah Keller
Sleepy Hollow
Vanity Fair Magazine
The
Washington Post
Gateway Publications
the Press of
Entertainment Tonight
CNN
University of
American Legion Auxiliary
Sony
Miss Maryland
Prince George’s County
Orlando
Fla
Disney World
Lanna Suzanne Keck
Knoxville
Teens chase looks as teens face image pressures
The article explores how appearance dominates teen life from zit battles to braces, highlighting media influence and school voices. It notes girls feel pressure most, boys focus on sports success, and parents can model body image, urging focus on health and exercise over looks.
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Hollywood
Bruce A. Clark
University of Missouri At
Theresa Prosser
Webster University
Webster Groves
Prosser
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Silbiger & Coleman
Connie Phillips
Financial Service
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Frederick, Maryland
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Sela
Frederick Towne Mall
Illinois
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Wiineis
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Mandi Wright
Lisa Jones Townsel
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Scripps
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Ballwin
Puskas
Laura Gabler
Fox Junior High School
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Gayle Goedeke
Washington Elementary
Normandy
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