20-40-100 Years In the past — Jan. 28

Jan. 28—100 Years In the past

Jan. 28, 1923

This date was a Sunday. The Frederick Information-Submit didn’t publish a Sunday version presently.

40 Years In the past

Jan. 28, 1983

The Frederick delegation to the Basic Meeting met formally for the primary time this session and opened the county and metropolis’s bag of legislative requests Thursday morning. They have been fast to endorse a 3rd circuit courtroom choose for Frederick County, the primary new one in 20 years; doubled the worth of marriage licenses to cowl prices of funding home violence packages; exempted the county from legal responsibility within the deaths of livestock; rejected the concept for a county board of liquor commissioners; and OK’d a number of administrative and bookkeeping issues.

The continuing saga of a proposed ski resort close to Emmitsburg took a brand new flip throughout a public assembly Thursday. Ski Roundtop Inc., which owns Ski Liberty in close by Fairfield, Pa., introduced it has determined to research the opportunity of constructing a sister resort on School Mountain.

(Editor’s Word: The Information-Submit doesn’t have entry to archives from 50 years in the past for August 1972 by means of March 1973. The “50 Years In the past” abstract will return April 1, 2023.)

20 Years In the past

Jan. 28, 2003

The lengthy drought ended at Metropolis Corridor on Sunday when a frozen water pipe burst, spilling water from the third ground all the way in which right down to the basement. Many of the main harm occurred in and across the elevator shaft, which had 1 1/2 ft of standing water on the backside. The flood triggered an alarm that alerted metropolis officers to the accident.

Scuba divers working with the FBI resumed their search of a sequence of small ponds within the Catoctin Mountains on Monday. The brokers introduced an inflatable boat, video screens and particular tents south to a different pond within the Metropolis of Frederick Municipal Forest. Investigators lower 5 to 6 holes within the pond’s frozen floor and divers have been seen getting into and exiting the freezing water. Flight restrictions and roadblocks surrounding the distant a part of the Frederick metropolis watershed additionally returned Monday morning. The FBI acknowledges that the investigation is said to the lethal anthrax letters mailed in October 2001.