20 years ago - An adult bookstore raided Wednesday by Frederick City Police will reopen, and the owners say they will fight the charges filed against them.

The twin satellite dishes rising 80 feet over Opossumtown Pike in Frederick have kept U.S. presidents talking to their Soviet counterparts for 17 years. And after nearly two decades of flawless service, Fort Detrick officials say it’s time to replace them.

50 years ago - SHARPSBURG (AP) — In a reenactment of the part Clara Barton, heroine at the battle of Antietam, played in the Civil War, Miss Barton, portrayed by Joan Boyle, a high school teacher in Hagerstown, and many residents of Sharpsburg went to the Poffenberger Farm just north of the historic battlefield. It was in a smokehouse on this farm, history has it, that Miss Barton set up her nursing quarters during the Civil War thus leading to the start of the American Red Cross.

“Education and service are the keynotes of Council,” said Mrs. Samuel Strouse, member of the National Board of National Council of Jewish Women at the luncheon meeting of the Frederick Section of N. C. J. W. held recently at the Hotel Frederick.

100 years ago - In their declaration that conditions at the present public school for boys in Frederick are such as should not be tolerated, the resolutions adopted at the Woman’s College Hall last night are not too strong. Conditions at these schools endanger the health and even the lives of children attending them. The antiquated buildings in which the schools are housed are, as the resolutions declare, unsanitary and unsafe.

Four carloads of 85-pound steel rails are being unloaded today along the tracks of the Northern Central Railway between this city and Taneytown.