Hindsight 2020: Immigration issues at forefront of local politics in 2019 – Frederick News Post

9-year-old Christopher Ausherman is found dead at McCurdy Field

President Clinton visits Camp David for Middle East Peace Summit

A series of tax increases levied by Frederick County Commissioners to expand services

The Frederick News-Post is sold to Randall Family LLC

The first election is held for Frederick County Board of Education

Amerithrax attacks

Local residents perish in Sept. 11 attacks

Former TJ hoops star Terence Morris helps lead Maryland to its first Final Four appearance in 2001

A game where you collect trading cards of men in Maryland sweeps Frederick

Fall out from the Black Book scandal

Drought causes widespread water restrictions

FBI agents twice searched the home of a former Fort Detrick researcher reportedly to find evidence of his ties to anthrax-tainted letters.

Maryland elects Republican governor for the first time since 1966

DC snipers caught at a rest stop in Myersville

Newly-appointed city hall employee Rodney Pulliam and his three sons die in a crash

Former Urbana star and Pitt football receiver Billy Gaines falls from a catwalk at a church where he is staying and dies

FBI continued investigating the Anthrax attacks, specifically focusing its efforts on looking for evidence in the Frederick Municipal Forest’s ponds and “Fire Pond Alpha”

Frederick Mayor Jennifer Dougherty and her administration’s conflict with the board of aldermen and others in city government continued into her second year in office

William Robert Fagan Sr., who was released after 7 and a half years in prison and three and a half years of his five year probation for a conviction of conspiracy to commit manslaughter, was sentenced to serve the remainder of his life prison sentence after he was convicted of a minor drunken driving offense in Montgomery County in September of 2003

After a petition by neighbors to have the Xhale nightclub closed began in 2001, the Frederick County Liquor Board decided not to renew the club’s license to sell alcohol in 2003

Frederick OB/GYN Professional Group decides to end its midwife positions

Constant sinkholes pop up around the county

Courts rule data from “black book” scandal be made public; book and diary then goes missing

Fire at 133-year-old ravages St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Libertytown

Genesis plan to use the Frederick fairgrounds as a site for refugees during terrorist attacks

Carroll Creek Linear Park broke ground, dramatically changing downtown Frederick

The mayor’s race between Jennifer Dougherty and Ron Young was an ongoing battle

A debate over residency requirements between Frederick Mayor Jennifer Dougherty and the city aldermen went to federal court

The state debate over slots spilled into Frederick County, with disagreements between officials on whether the county should have slot locations.

Burkittsville elected an all-female council and burgess, a tradition the town has largely continued

Late June flooding in town resulted in several people drowning, including two teenage boys

Marines hailed as heroes after coming home in November from fighting the war on terror

Carroll Creek Park opens in June becoming a central point of downtown Frederick’s economic development and mitigating floods in downtown

Frederick County soldiers die overseas

An undercover cop was stabbed during a “drug deal gone wrong,” and then another cop shot and killed the man who stabbed him.

Mortgage crises makes its way to Frederick and foreclosures rise

A robbery gone wrong causes fire that levels Antietam Village Center; kills would-be robber

A Mount Airy fire claimed seven businesses and five homes causing $4 million in damage

Debate surrounding a proposed Muslim community center hits a fever pitch

City deals with increase in overcrowded dwellings due to immigrants and serves cease and desist orders

The anthrax mailings saga comes to an end as suspect Bruce Ivins kills himself

President Bush visited Wright Manufacturing in Frederick to discuss tax breaks and economic solutions in January

The new Frederick News-Post building opened in April

Fire destroyed the 100-year old H.C. Summers, Inc. feed store in July

Former Linganore High hoops star Joe Alexander becomes an NBA lottery pick

Michael Voltaggio takes home “Top Chef: Las Vegas” crown

State football champions Linganore and Catoctin mark first dual state football champions in Frederick County history

Brad Young fired as WHS softball coach then reinstated

Economy busts, governments slash budgets, longtime businesses close

City annexes more than 500 acres of farmland that eventually will yield millions of feet of office and commercial space

February snowstorms drop about four feet of snow on areas of Frederick County

Two Frederick High School grads died serving in the Marine Corps in Afghanistan in 2010

Republicans win big in local elections, Ron Young elected to Senate

Randy White and the Kristen Renee Foundation continued to advocate that Fort Detrick is to blame for a local cancer cluster

Robert Lee Murphy was charged with first-degree murder and a bunch of other charges in the shooting death of Frederick taxi driver Stephen Mark.

Urbana High School teacher Michelle Shearer was chosen as the national teacher of the year

A 5.8 earthquake hits Frederick in August

It snowed in October for the first time in about 30 years; left thousands without power and caused car crashes.

A gang bust resulted in 16 Frederick residents being indicted on federal charges after an investigation of the South Side Brims Bloods gang

A July rainfall that dropped two inches of rain on Frederick caused flooding.

Tough Mudder competition brings thousands, severe traffic delays to Frederick

Middletown football repeats as state champions

Gov. Thomas Johnson alum Branden Kline drafted in the second round by the Baltimore Orioles

Superstorm Sandy hits Frederick

The G-8 Summit is held at Camp David

Neighbors raise protests over Monrovia Town Center project

Despite protests, county decides to sell Citizens at Montevue

A house fire claims the lives of Sophie and Madigan Lillard

Francis Scott Key is reunited with his famous anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, after an original manuscript is brought to Frederick

Three Frederick County deputies were placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of an investigation into the in-custody death of Robert Ethan Saylor in January

Jan Gardner elected county’s first County Exec: Completing the county’s transition to charter government

Three are killed in a mid-air collision near Frederick airport

Two Ebola patients from an outbreak in West Africa landed at Frederick Municipal Airport enroute to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

Thurmont’s Cozy Inn close abruptly in June. It was later found that the restaurant’s owner owed $180,000 in back taxes.

Gov. Martin O’Malley forms committee to improve law enforcement interactions with disabled residents after the in-custody death of Ethan Saylor

County government reaches an agreement to full return Citizens and Montevue to county control

Hepatitis treatment dry up with no new funding source in sight

Towns, businesses and homeowners embrace solar power

Debate spurs over whether to remove the Roger Brooke Taney bust from city hall

Gunfire breaks out at a JV basketball at Frederick High School; two students injured

The county’s opioid epidemic hit a record high in overdoses and deaths as law enforcement officers and public safety officials began to see heroin being mixed with fentanyl for the first time in the area

Former Frederick County Board of Commissioners President Blaine Young is apprehended by Anne Arundel County police in a prostitution sting

Mount St. Mary’s President Simon Newman resigns amid controversy

As much as 33 to 35 inches of snow falls on parts of Frederick County as winter storm Jonas hits the region

A Missouri man — who used to live in Frederick County — was charged in January with the 1996 murder of 15-year-old Stacy Lynn Hoffmaster, one of the county’s most notable cold cases

A shooting plot at Catoctin High School is thwarted after sheriff’s deputies arrest a teenager after a tip from her father

Marylanders are now allowed to buy medical marijuana

Gov. Larry Hogan announces roads plan that will widen I-270 through Frederick and Montgomery Counties

The bust and statue of Roger Brooke Taney is removed from city hall

The new $114 million Frederick High School opens

An assault at the Great Frederick Fair leads to the death of Mount Airy resident John Weed

Immigration in Frederick County takes center stage as residents raise questions, protests and counter protests of sheriff’s office involvement in 287(g) program

Frederick Keys find themselves on the chopping block as MLB releases list of minor league teams it may dissolve

Residents raise concerns of crime, homelessness in downtown and in particular along Carroll Creek

City of Frederick rolls out new logo to chagrin of residents in rebranding campaign gone awry