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Grant to help neighborhoods hit by foreclosure, subprime lending
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comWashington County has been awarded a $715,000 state grant for housing counseling, foreclosure prevention and other housing programs, a county official told the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. Jim Hovis, director of the county’s Office of...Tags: Politics, Mortgages, Housing and Urban Planning, Financial and Business Services, Douglas F. Gansler
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Mail Call - May 21
“I enjoy the comics section of The Herald-Mail each morning; well, most of it, but I cannot understand why ‘Brevity’ is there. If I’m lucky, I understand about one out of 10 of the ‘Brevity’ comics. Many times I don&...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Gun Control, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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Mail Call - May 20
“I don’t understand how the judicial system works, when someone is arrested for drunken driving and kills a female passenger that was in the car, and gets six months probation — and then someone gets 14 months in jail for robbery....Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Politics, Gun Control
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Mail Call - May 16
“I’d like to say I think the old hospital grounds where the old hospital used to be would be a perfect place to have the carnival set up. You’ve got the parking deck, for plenty of parking. It’s not being used. That way the city...Tags: Rentals, Benghazi, Politics, Gun Control, Highway Transportation
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Washington Co. Commissioners agree to amend employee pensions, hire deputies
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comPrior to passing its proposed 2013-14 fiscal year budgets Tuesday, the Washington County Board of Commissioners approved two measures to amend its employee pension program and institute a funding mechanism to allow the Washington County Sheriff’s...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Job Layoffs, Pension and Welfare
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Letters to the Editor - May 15
Please vote to keep Montgomery Township dry To the editor: Attention all Montgomery Township voters. Please vote “no” to keep Montgomery Township dry. If the Montgomery Township referendum passes, it will open the door for Whitetail Resort...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Politics, Gun Control, Maryland General Assembly, Abusive Behavior
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Travel the town for food, art and music: Taste of the Arts on Thursday, May 16
chrisc@herald-mail.comFill up on good food and fine art and music when downtown Hagerstown restaurants and art galleries host Taste of the Arts on Thursday, May 16. The annual moveable feast features samples of food from 12 restaurants, music performed by students with...Tags: Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Services and Shopping, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Arts
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If at first you don't succeed, work on your execution
Like me, Del. Neil Parrott seems to believe that any publicity is good publicity. So OK, I’ll bite. Building on his tremendous success in the November election, Petitioner Parrott is having a go at the state’s newly enacted law banning the...Tags: Punishment, Personal Weapon Control, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics, Gun Control
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Children's Village to host Kids Alive Fest
Children’s Village to host Kids Alive Fest Children’s Village of Washington County will host its 22nd annual Kids Alive Fest Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. The event will be held rain or shine. Scheduled activities:...Tags: Religion and Belief, Politics, Walnuts, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Christianity
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Art Callaham: O'Reilly's book on Kennedy a good read
I was never a “Kennedyphile” — lifelong southern conservative Republicans usually are not. Sure, I was a starry-eyed 15-year-old who understood “Camelot,” liked the pictures of bikini clad Jackie-O (as she was later to be...Tags: John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Central Intelligence Agency, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Letters to the Editor - May 12
Police chief supports Zook in Pa. judicial race To the editor: As the chief of the Shippensburg (Pa.) Police Department and a retired state police sergeant with more than 40 years of combined experience, I write this endorsement. I have had the...Tags: Assault, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gun Control, National Rifle Association of America
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Parrott speaks to Tea Party about Annapolis session, death penalty petition drive
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comHagerstown Tea Party supporters gathered at the Beaver Creek Country Club on Thursday night to hear Del. Neil C. Parrott, R-Washington, talk about the recently concluded session of the Maryland General Assembly and a drive to collect petitions to...Tags: Punishment, Montgomery County (Maryland), Annapolis, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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