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O'Neil
cleared of ethics charge
EMMITSBURG,
Md. – An ethics complaint against Emmitsburg Commissioner
William B. O’Neil, Jr. by former town planner has been
dismissed.
On Feb.
1, former Emmitsburg Town Planner Michael Lucas sent an ethics
complaint to Emmitsburg Ethics Commission Chairman Ted Brennan
“outlining how Emmitsburg Town Commissioner William
B. O’Neil Jr. while serving as a Town Commissioner did
violate Section 2.32.030 of the Emmitsburg Municipal
Code (conflicts of interest) in an attempt to influence public
policy that would directly impact him as a private citizen.
Moreover, the complaint demonstrates how Commissioner O’Neil
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Residents support school at county hearing
Parents,
students, and staff from Emmitsburg Elementary School put
on their blue school T-shirts for the public hearing on school
construction projects on March 27. Approximately 25 EES supporters
were among hundreds who came to Frederick’s Weinberg
Center for the Arts to show their colors and air their concerns
before four members of the Frederick County Commissioners.
Commissioners Jan Gardner, John L. Thompson, Kai Hagen, and
Charles Jenkins attended the meeting, which was moved to the
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Thurmont Middle School teacher guilty
FREDERICK,
Md. – Thurmont Middle School teacher Michelle Dohm was
found guilty on Monday April 2 on five counts of making false
bomb threats to five different students at the school.
“The
defendant is in fact responsible for the creation and delivery
of these five documents,” Frederick County Circuit Court
Judge Julie Stevenson Solt said after hearing a statement
of facts read into the record. The documents were essentially
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