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Governor's Office STATE TO LAUNCH ONE-STOP VAXX PORTAL: Maryland officials will launch a one-stop, preregistration web portal soon for people looking to book COVID-19 immunization appointments at the state’s mass vaccination clinics. The website would come online in March, the state’s acting Health Secretary Dennis R. Schrader told Maryland state senators at a virtual vaccine oversight meeting Monday, Hallie Miller reports for the Sun. PUSH TO GET BLACKS, OTHER MINORITIES VACCINATED: Maryland lawmakers continue to express concerns about the low numbers of Blacks and other minorities who a...

The Franklin County Fire Marshal’s office is investigating a commercial fire on Feb. 7 and a residential structure fire on Feb. 5 in which one person died.

Following the county Board of Education's lengthy discussion about school resource officers earlier this month, Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is defending the program and seeking to clarify its mission. The Frederick County Sheriff's Office provides one lieutenant, one sergeant, two corporals and 11 deputies to the SRO program, including SRO assignments at schools in Frederick city at Frederick High, Gov. Thomas Johnson High and Heather Ridge School. SROs and other deputies conduct safety checks at other schools, as well. Frederick and Brunswick police departments also provide SROs t...

Dec. 18, 1920 One of the most interesting exhibitions ever witnessed by local high school students was given at the Boys’ High School on Tuesday morning by George L. Hossfield, the World’s Typewriting Champion for 1920. His record for one-hour’s writing is 131 net words per minute. He made, during this time, a total of 40,657 strokes, an average of nearly 12 storks a second. Briefs from the County’s Towns — A butchering was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Reeder, Woodsboro, where five large hogs were slaughtered. An old-time butchering was held at the home of...

Dec. 16, 1920 George W. Ruthvin, of near Adamstown, was found dead lying along the Baltimore and Ohio tracks, Washington Junction, Tuesday night. His skull was crushed, one leg cut off, and he was otherwise injured. Justice John W. Lloyd, of Petersville, who was summoned on the case after making an investigation, came to the conclusion that the man had fallen from a freight train on the railroad and met instant death. He held that an inquest was unnecessary. The historic Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, representing the burial place of millions of dollars of invested funds of the states of Maryland...