Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Opinion
Heading into new sessions of the Maryland legislature and Congress, we are being offered contrasting examples of how government may treat the press: demonize it or subsidize it.
The demonization continues to unfold in Annapolis, where the first Republ...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Opinion
Have you been paying attention to your homeowners insurance premiums?
In today's paper there is a story about how, over the last four years, homeowners insurance premiums have risen up to 60 percent - even for homeowners who have never filed a claim d...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Opinion
Malpractice legislation will not avert medical crisis
To read the press reports and hear the interviews of various leaders of the Maryland Democrat Party, one might think that the new legislation passed in special session (HB2) has saved the malpracti...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Sports
Girls Basketball
Owings Mills at Overlea, Friday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m.
Eagles trying to play more consistent basketball after slow start.
Archbishop Spalding at McDonogh, Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 5:30 p.m.
Coach Tom Gizzi's first-pla...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Sports
There's an empty space on the banner hanging in the McDonogh gymnasium that lists all the years the Eagles have captured championships.
And, if McDonogh Coach Tom Gizzi has his way, there will be an addition to that banner following the 2005 campaign....
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Sports
When Park Coach Josh Wolf compares his 2005 team to the Bruins' 2003 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association C Conference championship squad, he feels reassured.
Wolf said this year's team isn't as good as the 2003 club.
It's even better...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Sports
Recreation
> Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks invites boaters to use its six Chesapeake Bay access ramps at Cox's Point Park, Inverness Park, Merritt Point Park, Rocky Point Park, Southwest Area Park and Turner Station Park. Ramp...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Community
Rotary International is an organization that celebrates 100 years in 2005.
Founded in Chicago as a networking club among business owners, Rotary addresses four basic principles that affect what members think, say and do: Is it the truth? Is it fair to...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Community
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Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Community
Mary Jean Baublitz
Resiterstown resident Mary Jean Baublitz died Jan. 5 at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. She was 73.
Mrs. Baublitz was born in Baltimore County Jan. 21, 1931, to the late Ellen Cecelia Trott and Percy Dulaney Trott. S...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Education
Students raise $4,000 for tsunami victims
Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School raised $4,000 for the Indian Ocean tsunami victims in its first day of collecting funds.
The school is accepting contributions from students, parents, staff and Beth ...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Education
> Tyrone D. Willoughby Jr. of Owings Mills graduated Dec. 11 with a bachelor of arts degree from Coastal Carolina University.
> Tenaea Ariel Thomas, a senior at Milford Mill Academy, has been nominated to compete in the National Honor Society sc...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Business
There's an old rhyme that runs, "Pale January in its cradle lay; dead or alive, hard to say." But this month need not roll over and play dead. January can be made into a constructive time for the family's financial picture. Example:
Now that the holid...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in Business
> Reisterstown resident H. Stanley Evans, CFP, partner with the Maryland Agency Financial Group, has been appointed to the board of directors of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors of Baltimore for a second term.
Evans has ...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in News
Two killed, two injured in head-on collision
An elderly Smith-Greenspring couple is dead and two women were hospitalized with serious injuries following a two-vehicle, head-on collision Jan. 9 on Green Summit Road.
Baltimore County Police say ...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in News
Crime log is compiled from police reports. It is the policy of the Owings Mills Times to include a suspect's description only when it contributes to identification.
Owings Mills
Hiawatha Court, unit block, 6:10 p.m., Jan. 8. A man wearing a bl...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in News
Organizations now collecting donations to help victims of the tsunami include:
American Red Cross
Central Maryland Chapter
Disaster Relief Fund
4800 Hope Drive
Baltimore, MD 21215-3231
The Associated: Jewish Com...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in News
Sue Kessler, like countless other Baltimore County homeowners, was dumbfounded when her insurance premiums suddenly skyrocketed.
The Reisterstown resident had been insured by the same company for 16 years and never filed a claim. She had even consolid...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in News
It pays to be a shrewd consumer, especially when you're wrestling with heightened insurance rates, decreased benefits and a need to insure your biggest investment.
Insurance industry experts suggest you follow a few procedures when buying and using ho...
Published January 12, 2005 by Owings Mills Times in News
The following is a synopsis of local planning cases as they make their way through the Baltimore County planning process. These cases involve projects in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th councilmanic districts:
Department of Permits and Development Management...
Published January 13, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Education
Briefs
> The faculty and students of Mercy High School, 1300 E. Northern Parkway, held a holiday food drive to benefit the Franciscan Center in Baltimore. Mercy faculty contributed more than 60 fresh-baked hams and turkeys, while students contribut...
Published January 13, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Happy New Year and some happy news: We have some new residents to announce. Please welcome Rachel Ginsberg and Barry Weiner, who recently moved to Southway. Also welcome our youngest new residents, twins Nora and Walter Chung Clemons, who were born to Eri...
Published January 13, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Jan. 6 was a big day for University of Southern California film students Jason Berman and Aaron Biller of Pikesville and Roland Park native Jennifer Tufaro as they hosted a showing of their film, "Racer Number 9," at the Charles Theater. Attended by hundr...
Published January 13, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Famous in medical circles is a 50-year-old photograph, taken at the dawn of open heart surgery.
It shows Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, the father of open heart surgery, as he repaired a 1-year-old boy's ventricular heart defect in a crowded operating room a...
Published January 13, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
While Santa checked his list twice, holiday door decoration judges Jan Cullen and Lisa Cousino checked every door in Homeland twice. To make the difficult decision, the duo cruised the neighborhood multiple times, in daylight and dark. Along with hubby Sc...