Aerial Show of Blackbirds Dims Clarke County Nights
Clarke County awakes to vast flocks of blackbirds starlings and grackles migrating south. Dave Haskell of Shenandoah National Park notes the birds will linger a few more weeks as food diminishes and nights grow colder. The roosts foul nearby forests with noise and mess though the birds promise a dramatic sky display once or twice daily. The mass heads toward Virginia North Carolina and southern states as frost nears and daylight shortens.
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Clarke County
Dave Haskell
Shenandoah National Park
Haskell
United States
Virginia
North Carolina
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Civil Air Patrol aids state wide simulated search mission
Members of the Winchester Civil Air Patrol squadron joined a state wide drill simulating missing aircraft searches last Saturday. In the top left image patrolmen Chris Baldwine and Bob Shine listen to search plans from Capt. Don Ratcliffe. Paul Anderson and Dick Love observe as an insignia gleams on a CAP tail. Lt Col. Jimmy Kilbourne flies a CAP craft toward the search area as the drill stresses ground air team coordination.
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Winchester Squadron
Civil Air Patrol
Chris Baldwine
Winchester
Bob Shine
Herndon
Don Ratcliff
Paul Anderson
Dick Love
Jimmy Kilbourne
Ratcliff
No Decision on Middletown Site
Frederick County School Board held an executive session with no public comment on a new Middletown elementary school site and pending litigation with C L Robinson Corp. The meeting also covered minimum competency tests for ninth and tenth graders, a John H Lewis Jr Memorial Fund at Ayler Junior High, and a possible baseball diamond project on the James Wood Kline campus.
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Middletown
Frederick County
C.L. Robinson Corp
William Johnson Jr
Robinson Corporation
James Hutton Jr
Hutton
State Board of Education
John H. Lewis Jr
Steele
Lewis
James Wood-Kline
Ayler
John Solenberger
Eugene Larrick
Ray Boyce
Robert Ayler III
Charles Hott
Warren Supervisors Hire Napier as County Attorney
The Warren County Board of Supervisors unanimously named Douglas W. Napier as county attorney after an executive session on personnel and legal matters. Napier starts Nov 1 at $750 monthly as the board also approves $162 as its share of LEAA matching funds for a $6,728 grant to the regional jail project in Winchester Warren Clarke and Frederick Counties aimed at reducing jail crowding and improving management.
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Front Royal
Warren County Board of Supervisors
Douglas W. Napier
Napier
Hubert Marlow
Marlow
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Winchester
Warren
Clarke
Frederick
James Allamong
Gasoline Truck Wreck Closes Route 277 Near Stephens City
A tractor trailer carrying 8,000 gallons of gasoline overturned on Route 277 two miles east of Stephens City around 10:30 a.m. The driver Sherman Paig of Front Royal was trapped but freed by Winchester Rescue Squad and taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital. The crash prompted road closure and a gas leak containment effort with foam fire suppression.
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Stephens City
Rt. 277
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Sherman Paig
Front Royal
Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester Rescue
Frederick County
Dayton Transport Corp
Winchester Fire Dept
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Kathlene Devereux
City Civil Air Patrol
J. Miles Cary
Winchester Evening Star
By Susan Hodges
Colin Steele
Robert E. Ayler Junior High School
Warren County Sheriff's Department
Richard Oden
Charles L. Woodward
Rt. 3
Oden
John King
Jim Wingate
Richard Rollason
Jeff Brown
Warren County General District Court
Warren Supervisors
By Susan Burke
Allamong
LEAA
Warren County
Ron George
Fritz Baukhagel
Circuit Court Clerk
George M. Stoddart
Roy E. Potts III
George
Arnold Williams
John Marlow
Sheriff's Department
George Baggarly
Staige Miller
Rt. 340 North
J.S. Cooley
Miller
Acces Road
Riverton Corp
Game Commission
Wilson Burke
James Wetzel
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