Published March 23, 2004 by The Jeffersonian in Business
Wednesday, March 24
>The Sandusky Group and Sandler Training present an interactive and informative marketing, sales, and communications seminar, "Talk Less and Sell More," at the Timonium Holiday Inn, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Registration and networking be...
Published March 23, 2004 by The Jeffersonian in Business
ANNAPOLIS
The Maryland Senate passed a $23.7 billion spending plan March 19 despite Republican opposition to an accompanying, $227 million tax and fee package.
The budget is similar to the one submitted by Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich, altho...
Published March 23, 2004 by The Jeffersonian in Business
WASHINGTON
Coastal water conditions in the Northeast fell from fair to poor in the last three years and the Chesapeake Bay, which accounts for 59 percent of the region's coastal water, is the main reason why, a draft of a new report says.
The ...
Published March 23, 2004 by The Jeffersonian in Business
Tuesday, March 30
>The County Council will meet for a work session at 2 p.m. in the Old Courthouse at 400 Washington Ave. in Towson. Bills introduced at the March 1 meeting will be discussed:
*Bill 17-04, concerning a personal care provider...
Published March 23, 2004 by The Jeffersonian in Business
A bevy of zoning requests filed for the 6th County Council District reflect a boom in new housing along Bird River Road west of the Route 43 extension, as well as requests for business expansion along East Joppa and Philadelphia roads and Eastern Boule...
Published March 23, 2004 by The Jeffersonian in Business
HUNT VALLEY
In the years that Bill Lennertz, executive director of the Portland, Ore.-based National Charrette Institute, has been coordinating development projects, he has come up with a word for the bitter, vocal opponents who seem to pop up at the ...
Published March 23, 2004 by The Jeffersonian in Business
The Greenspring quarry project has piqued the curiosity of Flora Aisenberg of Pikesville.
"I want to hear about those houses," she said. "I might want to buy one."
Although it will be a few years before the project is complete, builders...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in News
One hundred years ago, The Argus of March 26, 1904, mentioned some desirable improvements for the village.
>Catonsville needs better sidewalks and more of them. If only Mr. Rockefeller was in some other line of business, we might appeal for a slice...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Sports
(UMBC home events Wednesday, March 24-Tuesday, March 30)
Wednesday, March 24
Softball: UMBC vs. UMES, 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 27
Men's Lacrosse: UMBC vs. Delaware, 1 p.m.
Sunday, March 28
Softball: UMBC vs. Centr...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Sports
Baseball
Gilman School at Mount St. Joseph High, Monday, March 29 at 3:45 p.m.
After playing the first two weeks on the road, including a trip to Florida, Dave Norton's Gaels get their home season underway.
Boys lacrosse
Wester...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Sports
The whistle blows for real this week as the regular season gets going with area lacrosse squads hoping to be on the fast track to success.
Hop aboard and find out who should be the engines that could this season on the lacrosse fields.
Catonsv...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Opinion
Can Christian fellowship co-exist with bureaucratic regulations?
That's the question being asked in churches around Baltimore County in the wake of new rules regarding church kitchens.
The county's Department of Environmental Protection and Re...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Opinion
Waiting for that State House train wreck over taxes and slot machines, a jumpy mind this week hops to a somewhat related question: Who's hiding what?
The question is prompted by the recent news that many major businesses in the state paid no Maryland ...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Opinion
Indeed it does matter if there are no WMDs in Iraq
Gary Carr (letter, March 17) says it doesn't matter that we have yet to find WMD's in Iraq. His logic is typical of the revisionist history we have heard consistently from the Bush "smoke and mirrors"...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Community
Catonsville High School creative writing teacher and award-winning poet Moira Eagan will offer a course at the Writer's Center in Bethesda. Titled "The Bones of the Poem," the workshop will focus on the organic relationship between form and the content of...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Community
Recognize these quotes?
"I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
"Well, you know what they say: If you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!"
"The only thing that separa...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Community
Spring in Catonsville means it's time to look inside other people's houses.
The Catonsville Historical Society invites members and friends to take a tour of nine local houses and gardens on Saturday, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This year's h...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Community
A professor and expert on Islamic civilization will deliver a talk from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 25, at the Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville.
Charles Butterworth, professor of Government and Politics from the University of Maryl...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Community
The issue is as simple as the air you breathe. The problem is much more complicated.
Parents, teachers, school officials and the county council are working to judge the quality of air in county schools.
Last December, the council passed a reso...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in Community
Lisa McDowell, professional dog handler, is really making a name for herself in the dog-lovers' arena. In fact, she is on her way to fame and fortune. As a young girl growing up in Catonsville in the 1960s, Lisa Christian McDowell was always sneaking stra...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in News
Crime log is compiled from police reports. It is the policy of the Catonsville Times to include a description of suspects only when it contributes to identification.
Catonsville
St. Agnes Lane and Langford Road, 5:25 p.m. March 20. The victim ...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in News
Catonsville man sought as suspect in shooting
Baltimore County police are asking the public's help in locating Carlos Lamont Colbert, who is wanted in connection with the shooting of a Catonsville man on Sunday in Lochearn.
Richard Ellsworth T...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in News
On March 5 at about 8:45 p.m. a Catonsville man was knocked unconscious on a local street corner, he told police.
The victim said he had just bought a pack of cigarettes in a gas station convenience store on Edmondson at Ingleside avenues and was walk...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in News
Athletes aren't the only ones who please their fans by coming out of retirement. Dr. Warren William West, well-beloved for his service as senior pastor at the Charlestown United Protestant Community when he retired five years ago, has now stepped back int...
Published March 24, 2004 by Catonsville Times in News
Church suppers, long a staple in local churches, could vanish from the landscape like country stores and horse-drawn carriages because of expanded county regulations on food preparation.
For generations, such suppers have offered the community friends...