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Cakes, hand-painted saws and a children’s pedal tractor competition brought families together at Rose Hill Manor Park and Museums.
Colton Nusbaum’s reserve champion brought one of the fair’s highest individual prices as buyers backed young livestock exhibitors.
The City of Frederick renewed its Bird City Maryland designation after completing 30 action points, adding habitat improvements and planting nearly 200 trees through the Cooler Neighborhoods program.
Council Member Mason Carter says the zoning change would clarify a gap in county code that affected a local storage-container business on Fish Hatchery Road.
Assisting Hands Home Care placed 300 purple flags outside its West Patrick Street office to honor people affected by Alzheimer’s and support Frederick’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
A coconut cake baked by 12-year-old Pearl O’Hara sold for $9,000 and Joellen Honeycutt’s grand champion apple pie brought $6,000 at the fair’s youth auction.
