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Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 102, which represents the deputies of the Frederick County Sheriff's Office, plans to fight Sheriff Chuck Jenkins' moonlighting policy in court. Set to take effect Sunday, the policy prohibits the county's roughly 175 deputies from wearing their sheriff's office uniforms or having their patrol vehicles with them while doing secondary security jobs, practices that have been permitted for more than a dozen years. The decision to take legal action occurred Thursday night during a special meeting in Middletown called by FOP President William Folden to discuss the new policy. "After full deliberations, a motion was...

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National Grange Legislative Action Alert 2003A special update of timely issues for e-mail subscribers to"View from the Hill" 2/26/2003 Oliver H. Kelley Farm in Minnesota Should Stay Open! Under the 15% Funding Cut of the budget of the Minnesota Historical Society in the MN Governor Tim Pawlenty’s Proposed FY 2004-2005 Budget, Oliver H. Kelley Farm Will be Closed on June 30, 2003. Since 1962 The National Grange Has Worked with the Minnesota Historical Society to Develop and Maintain the Kelley Farm as an Educational Living History Farm that Celebrates Grange Heritage. Please Contact the Members of the MN House of...