20 years ago - Frederick Keys’ owners left Winchester Hall Monday one vote shy of funds for Grove Stadium extras, such as skyboxes, additional offices and restrooms, concession stands and a roof.

East Frederick Elementary School should be built, the Frederick County school board decided Monday night. The 36-year-old school, at 1350 East Patrick St., is located next to a shopping center and an interstate highway, near a quarry beneath the main flight pattern of the Frederick Municipal Airport. Parents have lobbied the school board for the past year asking that the school be closed and a new one built.

For Gary and Cindy Grossnickle of Walkersville, farming has become a family affair. The Grossnickles Monday night were named the Frederick County Farm Family of the Year.

50 years ago - he current mass x-ray project for detection of tuberculosis will end here next week with a possible record number of city and county residents participating. Mrs. Freda S. Doll, executive secretary of the Frederick County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association, said that at the conclusion of Friday evening, 5,788 persons were x-rayed.

Charges of shoplifting and bad check passing were filed by city police yesterday.

The joint annual meeting of the local Farm Credit Association Production Credit and National Farm Loan was held Saturday morning at the Frederick High School with 350 persons attending. These associations are composed of farmers in Carroll, Frederick, Montgomery and Washington Counties.

100 years ago - (This date was a Sunday. At that time, The News-Post did not publish a Sunday edition.)