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Language bank provides live telephonic interpretation for practitioner, patient
marieg@heald-mail.comAn elderly woman heads into the emergency room with severe stomach pain. She hardly understand what’s happening, let alone how the doctors will fix it. All she knows is that it hurts, she’s alone and she doesn’t speak English. As...Tags: Abdominal Pain, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics
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Deaf Awareness Day is Friday, May 10, at the Valley Mall
Deafnet Association Inc. is sponsoring Deaf Awareness Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, May 10, at the Valley Mall, 17301 Valley Mall Road, Hagerstown, featuring vendors serving the deaf community. Also from 1 to 2 p.m., state officials will lead a... -
Grandparents day planned at Hickory Elementary
Grandparents of students who attend Hickory Elementary School are invited to Grandparents Day. Grandparents are invited to visit the school Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2:30 p.m. Spring band concert Fifth-graders at Hickory Elementary...Tags: Schools, Elementary Schools, JC Penney Company Inc.
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9-1-1 Text Alert Pilot Program Launches in Frederick County.
rharveyjones@hmtv6.comVerizon Wireless customers can now send a text message to 911 for emergency help. A 9-1-1 text alert pilot program will be launched today throughout Frederick County and six other counties across the Northeast. The service is designed to enable those...Tags: Maryland School for the Deaf, Politics, Frederick County (Maryland), Telecommunication Service, Safety of Citizens
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Device for the hearing impaired uses bone, not air, to conduct sound
marieg@herald-mail.comNothing can prepare a person for living in silence. After all, the world is filled with sound — car horns beeping, babies crying, conversations and music bouncing off the walls of a noisy restaurant. But sometimes, those sounds disappear, either...Tags: Metal, Medical Procedures and Tests, Internal Medicine, General Practitioners, Government Health Care
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Scholarship available for deaf student
The Maryland State Grange has announced the availability of a deaf scholarship for the 2013-14 school year. Individuals who are hearing impaired or preparing to work with the hearing impaired are urged to apply. Applicants must meet one of the...Tags: Awards and Prizes
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Del. Neil C. Parrott seeking anonymity for petition signers
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comDel. Neil C. Parrott stirred up the state last year by creating a website to collect signed petitions, forcing laws such as the ones on same-sex marriage and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants onto the ballot in the November election. And...Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Nancy Jacobs, Gays and Lesbians, Annapolis
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Area deaf and hard-of-hearing students attend career exploration camp at RIT
Area high school students are back home after participating in a national career exploration camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Technology. More than 200 students from as far away as Hawaii participated. Area...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Students, Education, Teaching and Learning, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Signing away the blues
marieg@herald-mail.comIn a few days, Cindy Mease will stand on stage and sign the blues. She’ll capture the emotions, the wrenching soulfulness, the rollicking rhythm and liquid notes that seem to melt into each other. There will be songs echoing joy and pain,...Tags: Concerts, Entertainment Events, Blues (genre), Richmond Hill, Entertainment
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Saturday yard sale at WHS canceled
Due to the deaths of two Williamsport High School students, the Williamsport Blue Band Boosters have canceled their annual Yard Sale Extravaganza, which was to be held Saturday. The boosters appreciate the community’s continued support of...Tags: Prescription Drugs
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Annapolis Notes - Feb. 27
Washington County pursuing tax-credit program
Washington County has joined Frederick County, Md., in trying to start a new system of property-tax credits for new or expanding businesses.
To qualify, an existing business would have to add at least 1,500...Tags: Allan H. Kittleman, Politics, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Christopher B. Shank, Annapolis
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Federal trial of Frederick deputy in stun-gun death begins
Associated PressAn attorney told a federal jury Tuesday that a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy was “sadistic” for using an electric stun gun on a prone and unresponsive young man who was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. But a defense...Tags: Weaponry, Prosecution, Shootings, Justice System, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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