What happened on August 23, 1999

NEWS

• Police raid Charles Town park, arrest 16 By BRYN MICKLE

• Obituaries 

• Quarries offering water to farmers By BRYN MICKLE

• City Council minutes fall behind the times By DAN KULIN /Staff Writer

• Hagerstown Speedway hosts AMA event By MIKE SIRBAUGH / Staff Correspondent

• Kids get a boost with free packs 

• Woman convicted in $18,000 scheme By MARLO BARNHART

• State denies golf course's request for water-use exemption By DAN KULIN /Staff Writer

• Scouts back from trek into Ariz. canyon By MARLO BARNHART

• Woman tends garden at Potomac Towers By ANDREA ROWLAND

• City seeks comment on park improvements 

• Pa. Dems set drought hearing By DON AINES

• Senior menu 

• Masked men break into city home By KIMBERLY YAKOWSKI

• Show thrills crowd with aerial feats By RICHARD F. BELISLE

• Letters to the Editor 

• Man gets suspended term in road rage case By MARLO BARNHART

• Opequon offers neighbors water By BRYN MICKLE

• Police log 8/23 

• In quiet classrooms, teachers prepare for students By BRUCE HAMILTON

• Conservationists say drought puts river's fish at great risk 

• Pa. bridge turns 150 

• Public hearing set on sewer plan 

• Inmate's ex-wife gets suspended sentence in escape attempt By MARLO BARNHART

• In ugly truck contest, looks are everything By BRENDAN KIRBY

• Local minister, wife inspired by trip, work in Germany By MARLO BARNHART

• In 18th century, troops communicated through music By BRENDAN KIRBY

• Students, parents, teachers gather to pray in Pa. By DON AINES

• Drought resources 

• 33-count indictment brings 9 W.Va. arrests By BRYN MICKLE

• Ringgold man maps out his life's mission By BRENDAN KIRBY

• Man gets 10 years in deputy-biting case By MARLO BARNHART

• Tenn. trip ends in slaying of city man By BRENDAN KIRBY

• Hagerstown trash collection schedule for Labor Day week 

• www.obits for 8/24 

• Police alarmed by 6 motorcycle deaths By KIMBERLY YAKOWSKI