Published May 26, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
Retiring from television may allow 87-year-old Julius Westheimer to sleep in a bit, but that doesn't mean he'll be sleeping late.
"It'll be a new life. Maybe I'll get up at 4 instead of 3," said Westheimer, a Park School graduate who went on to become...
Published May 26, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
A group of parents spent much of Saturday at the underfunded Roland Park Elementary and Middle School painting halls and replacing bathoom fixtures at their own expense.
On Monday, many of them attended a PTA general membership meeting, asking Bonnie ...
Published May 26, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
City offices will be closed and there will be no collection of trash Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial Day.
However, parking meter charges will be in effect, city officials said.
The Quarantine Road landfill, the Northwest Transfer Sta...
Published May 26, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
The Baltimore-based law firm of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston has followed the lead of large firms in Washington and around the country by freeing up one of its Towson-based partners to spend half of his time working for poor people at no charge.
Ja...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Community
Dick Shine of Oakleigh Road was surprised at a May 5 Boy Scouts of America meeting when he was presented with one of the highest adult awards from the organization _ the District Award of Merit.
Shine has volunteered with the Boy Scouts of America for...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Community
Her husband's parents weren't too keen on him marrying her.
After all, she had tuberculosis when she was 15 and had to spend six months in Eudowood Sanitarium before she told the doctors she didn't care what they said, she was going home.
His ...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Education
During their freshman year at St. Paul's School for Girls, two friends worked side by side on a Habitat for Humanity House that the school helped sponsor.
It was during that initial experience that Kara Colnitis and Leslie Koch set a goal: to sponsor ...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Community
The Church of the Nativity, Cedarcroft, will hold its 78th annual June Fair Saturday, June 5, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Everyone is invited to enjoy a family fun day activity with breakfast and lunch pickups, crafts, plants and bargains at the flea market and book...
Thanks to county workers pulling duty as reservists
In the 228 years since the original 13 colonies declared independence from Great Britain, nearly 800,000 brave men and women have given what Abraham Lincoln called "the last full measure of devotion,...
Basketball
>Calvert Hall basketball camp for boys and girls ages 8-15 runs June 28-July 2 and July 19-23, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Call 410-661-7177 or 410-668-4395.
>Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, will hold boys basketball camp for age...
Minutes after St. Paul's closed out the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference season with its first title in a dozen years, Coach Mitch Whiteley was already laying the groundwork for a repeat in 2005.
Just in case the Crusaders (2...
Scott Krieger was bound and determined to make the Calvert Hall varsity as a sophomore.
And he was willing to pay the price to get there.
This season the junior second baseman from Towson has loftier goals.
To that end, a bigger, stron...
Fans of the University of Maryland athletics tend to be a pessimistic lot, mostly because their beloved Terrapins usually find a way to lose.
That has changed greatly in the past decade or so under men's basketball coach Gary Williams and football coa...
Computer, two cameras taken from one building
A computer and two cameras were taken during burglaries at three real estate-related businesses last week.
According to police reports, the burglars broke into IRC Real Estate Services, Fountainhea...
County Recreation and Parks officials are finding themselves under pressure to reduce a parks and open space "deficit" in the county of more than 5,900 acres.
A summary of the county's park inventory, compiled in 2000, divides the county into six area...
Councilman Kevin Kamenetz is hoping to create better developments in the future by reaching back to the past.
The end result, he hopes, will be better quality, larger homes that not only increase the tax base but will make county residents proud.
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The 17-year cicadas are back, and with their "emergence" this month we're sure to be bugged by strange events and bizarre behavior. If you hear of any, let us know at towsontimes@patuxent.com, and we'll spread the news like an attack of ... well, you get ...
Mattar Klein, 10, knows what he wants. And in a soft voice, barely audible even with a microphone, he told county recreation and parks officials.
"I want a park, a little park, so I can play," Mattar said at a public meeting held May 19 by the Departm...
The kitchen extension that Dave and Brigid Wilder plan for their home is giving the Rodgers Forge Community Association indigestion.
The proposed addition, a 13-square-foot, one-story extension with a covered 10-foot deck, has been left hanging - inst...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Community
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Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Education
Lu Ann Blackman's daily schedule has her hustling from her full-time job as a math and science teacher at St. Paul's School for Girls to her work directing a volunteer organization serving teenagers to her job as cheerleading coach at Loch Raven High Scho...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Education
>Jennifer L. Phillips of Cockeysville was awarded a scholarship from Towson University to study in Italy for the summer semester.
Phillips, a 1997 graduate of Patapsco High School, is the daughter of John Phillips and Lucy Neff.
>Lauren ...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Business
When lawyers in a recent court case wanted to discredit the testimony of an expert witness, they turned to Litigation Graphics & Technologies in Towson.
In court, company workers displayed on the same screen two excerpts from past testimony to pla...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Business
>Dr. Debra Moriarty of Catonsville was named vice president for student affairs at Towson University. She is currently associate vice president for student affairs at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.
>Dr. Sharon Cheston of Cockeysvil...
Published May 26, 2004 by Towson Times in Community
The majority of school volunteers are parents, grandparents or relatives of children attending school. But Cromwell Elementary School has always greatly appreciated volunteers who come from beyond their immediate families.
One in particular was Dennis...