Bids draw cash for winners at Great Frederick Fair sale
Fast bidding at the 134th Great Frederick Fair beef sheep and swine sale saw 4H youths cash in on champions. Winners included Andrew Cowell with a 1 225 pound steer sold for six dollars per pound to Safeway, with other top animals bought by Giant Food CNB Bank and Horizon Concrete Construction among others. Businesses paid twenty five dollars per pound for the club, totaling about thirty thousand dollars.
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Frederick
Andrew Cowell
Keymar
Safeway
Giant Food
Jessica Stevens
Johnsville
Fonb Bank
Mark Butler Jr
Emmitsburg
Frederick County
Yarnell Wastler & Son
Horizon Concrete
Sisters win Milking Shorthorn show with one showing
Sherry Albaugh 11 of Walkersville owned the senior and grand champion Milking Shorthorn Elsie while her younger sister Katie 9 exhibited the junior champion at Montgomery County Fair. Sherry watched from a wheelchair after hip surgery yet Katie handled five show animals and Sherry’s four, earning Katie the first year sportsmanship prize as both sisters earned praise for dedication and teamwork.
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Sherry Albaugh
Walkersville
Katie
Sherry
Elsie
Montgomery County Fair
Ted
Kathy Albaugh
Robert Valentine
Robert Valentine, 4-H
Fern Hines
Timothy Jacobes
Court system changes opposed in Maryland commission meeting
A state appointed commission debated major Maryland court reforms including abolishing five elected officials. Frederick residents criticized plans to remove public control of clerks and judges, arguing reforms favor Baltimore and counties with underfunded circuits. The panel, lacking local Frederick Carroll county representation, faces funding and streamlined system questions as it prepares a report.
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Frederick
Winchester Hall
Orphans’ Court
Register of Wills
Circuit Court
Baltimore City
State Assembly
Maryland
House
Senate
Carroll
Pentagon warns 5000 Gulf War veterans of possible nerve gas exposure
Pentagon says up to 5000 Persian Gulf War veterans may have been exposed to nerve gas after U S troops destroyed Iraq's Khamisiyah depot on March 4 1991. Officials noted the figure could rise from the earlier contact estimates of 300 to 400 soldiers near Bunker 73 Fort Bragg North Carolina. Investigators for a presidential advisory panel later suggested as many as 1100 troops might be exposed.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Khamisiyah
Iraq
Bunker 73
Army
37Th Engineer Battalion
Fort Bragg
N.C
Cleanup Continues After Hurricane Damage in Point of Rocks
Residents slowly clean up for a second time in eight months after a hurricane. Politicians, satellite trucks, and many curious onlookers have left. Windows stand open and curtains are sparse as homes bear the impact of the storm. Continued on Page 494.
Sauerbrey Campaign Gathers Momentum in Frederick
Ellen Sauerbrey spent Thursday in Frederick backing her 1998 bid with fund raisers and voter registration. Locals praised her organization and grass roots drive while criticizing Gov. Glendening on public safety and economic development.
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Maryland
Parris Glendening
Ellen Sauerbrey
Frederick
Ellen
Jehovah's Witnesses Win OK to Build Church Near Lewistown
Frederick County Circuit Court Judge John H Tisdale ruled the North Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses may construct a church on a three acre site near Lewistown Road, dismissing neighbor bid to block non residential use as nuisance. The group, about 146 members, purchased the land in 1997 and have preliminary county approval multiple times. Building committee chair Gerald P Callahan said a Kingdom Hall would be built quickly, within four days, with an invitation extended to the Banes.
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Phil Gramm
Roscoe Bartlett
R-th
Frederick County
Sauerbrey
GOP
John Tregoning
John Snyder
Frederick
Utica Mills
Lewistown
John H Tisdale
Jehovah's Witnesses
Lewistown Road
Jeffrey and
Shirley Bane
Old Frederick Road
Gerald P Callahan
Banes
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Susan G. Summers
News-Post Agriculture
Hagerstown
Sarah Wiles
Middletown
Frank Kennedy Ford
Angus
Scott Murphy
R.F. Kline
CNB Bank
Hereford
Bradley Seiss
Thurmont
Tyler Fitzwater
Frederick Motor Company
John Taylor
Timothy Jacobeen
Giant Food Inc
Frederick Fair
George Dorsey
News-Post
Susan C. Nicol
Vernon Shores
Matthew Barakat
Hansas
Sauekere
Kelly Hahn
Republican Central
Betty Reid
Hagan
Frederick News Post
Glen
Cyeiabie
Krdhive
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