20 years ago - A drug test policy including random testing for county employees in sensitive positions was approved Monday by the Frederick County Commissioners.

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski bent over the chair of the third-grader as he repeatedly jabbed the computer keyboard, with pictures of money flashing on the screen. “This is great,” she laughed as Chris Garrett went through the steps of the computerized lesson. “I like this ’cause it’s free time from work,” he explained.

Members of the Frederick County delegation to the General Assembly were pulled into a city-county dispute Monday over plans to move school board offices from East Church Street to a Hayward Road building the schools would buy for $3.6 million. Mayor Paul Gordon, at a meeting he requested, told the County Commissioners, lawmakers and school officials that a plan to move the board out of downtown would damage efforts to bolster downtown business. It was a windows-open, coats off, sunglasses-on warmth that toppled record temperatures all over Maryland Monday. Actually it wasn’t just warm; it was hot. Temperatures reached almost 90 in most parts of the state. The high temperature in Frederick Monday was 85, according to state police. Three New Market area youths were arrested Monday morning for setting a vacant house on fire in New London. The blaze destroyed a single-story house on Old New London Road, according to Bob Thomas, deputy chief fire marshal.

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

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