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Middletown AMVETS post elects first female commander
The Frederick News-Post, Md.Lisa Gerwig thought the AMVETS Post 9 in Middletown needed a little infusion from the next generation. When no one else was stepping up to lead the post. Gerwig took matters into her own hands and volunteered to command it. The post's board of directors...Tags: Bucks County, Spaghetti, U.S. Army, Nursing, Middletown
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New Fort Detrick garrison commander 'had a need to serve'
The Frederick News-Post, Md.Col. Allan Darden gripped the flagpole so tightly it nearly had to be pried from his hands Wednesday so the leadership of Fort Detrick's garrison could pass to Col. Steven Middlecamp. More than 100 people turned out under cloudy skies that threatened...Tags: U.S. Army, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Korean War (1950-1953)
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Fort Detrick, developer reach agreement on drilling near Area B
The Frederick News-Post, Md.The Army has 18 months to drill wells on a 92-acre tract adjacent to a Superfund site as it continues its investigation into the spread of contaminated groundwater coming from Fort Detrick's Area B. That's according to an agreement reached Friday...Tags: Arcadis NV, Water, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army
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Brown makes campaign stop in Frederick
The Frederick News-Post, Md.Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown started off his morning and his Saturday campaign kickoff tour with some coffee and flapjacks in Frederick. The pancake breakfast that drew more than 140 people to Cafe 611 was the first of three stops Brown planned to make across...Tags: Regional Authority, Personal Weapon Control, Government, Executive Branch, Interior Policy
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Scientists display work at Fort Detrick research festival
The Frederick News-Post, Md.Maj. Scotty Long is no historian, but his work sometimes leads him to extract DNA from century-old mosquitoes kept by the Smithsonian Institution. Long is an epidemiologist with the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps and chief of the Walter Reed...Tags: Harvard University, Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Biology, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Agreement to drill on land next to Superfund site could come by week's end, Army officials say
The Frederick News-Post, Md.The Army could reach an agreement as early as Friday with a developer that wants to build 700 houses next to a Superfund site to allow access to the property to drill for deep groundwater contamination, officials said Wednesday. That access could be...Tags: Arcadis NV, Water, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army
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Investigators open probe into airplane crash that killed father and son
Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental...
Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Air and Space Accidents, Accidental Death, Timonium, Federal Aviation Administration
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FACTBOX-FBI revisiting bioterror case lessons
ReutersWASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Since deadly anthrax-laced letters were sent through the U.S. mail in 2001, killing five people and spreading nationwide panic, the FBI has beefed up its bioterror capabilities and created a Weapons of Mass Destruction...Tags: Barack Obama, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Claire McCaskill, White House, U.S. Department of Justice
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The Shanks celebrate 60 years
Earl E. Shank Jr. and Norma Jean (Goodwin) Shank recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with family and friends at Beaver Creek Christian Church in Hagerstown. The Shanks were married April 1, 1953, at Trinity Lutheran Church in...
Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Middletown, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hershey (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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Irvin F. Stride, 97
Mr. Irvin F. Stride, 97, of Frederick, Md., died Thursday, April 4, 2013, at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Born Dec. 2, 1915, in Frederick, he was the son of the late Irvin G. and Grace E. Stottlemyer Stride. He was the loving husband of Eva M. Young...
Tags: Mount Airy, Christianity, Methodist, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Religion and Belief
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Fort Detrick will change hours of operation at gates
Beginning Monday, Fort Detrick will redirect all traffic to the Rosemont and Old Farm gates in an effort to save operating costs, according to a news release from the city of Frederick. With this change, Opossumtown Gate will be closed, according to... -
A tale of two houses
arnoldp@herald-mail.comNew homeowner Steven Mazur and his new neighbors, Jesse McAllister and fiancé Heather Kurtz, are full of hope about their lives in the housing development on Hagerstown’s western edge. So, too, presumably, was the woman who in summer 2006 bought...Tags: Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Mortgages, Services and Shopping, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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