Published September 19, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Sports
High School Field Hockey
Given its recent accomplishments, the nature of the competition and the importance of the event, the Roland Park Country School field hockey team should feel pretty good about hosting the Sally Nyborg Tournament this weekend....
Published September 19, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Sports
High School Football
Although it took a 40-yard touchdown pass to get it started, Gilman's smash-mouth ground game keyed last week's impressive 22-19 victory over DeMatha in Roland Park to the delight of a modest - but raucous - crowd.
If the ...
Published September 19, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Sports
Football
Gilman at St. Joseph's Prep, Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.
Coming off a great victory over DeMatha, things don't get any easier for Coach Biff Poggi's squad in Pennsylvania.
Boys Latin at Severn, Saturday, Sept. 17 at 2 p.m....
Published September 19, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Opinion
The difference between a disaster and a problem is the difference between Hurricane Katrina and Maryland horse racing.
The tragedy of Katrina began unfolding when weather experts warned that the storm was heading for the Gulf Coast, and their warning ...
Published September 19, 2005 by Baltimore Messenger in Opinion
Two girls selling lemonade help us connect with tragedy on Gulf Coast
Between a gorgeous, sunny weekend and the incomprehensible devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the disconnect was great. Unlike the weekend after Sept. 11, the days after this natural...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in News
A group of activists says it is prepared to try to force County Executive Jim Smith and the County Council out of office in 2006 unless elected officials work with it to make changes in the development process.
The activists, including leaders of vari...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in News
For as long as anyone can remember, certainly long before suburban communities like Longford North sprang up all around it, the 38-acre Jessop Farm has been largely untouched open space.
But a proposed development to put more than 100 homes on the pro...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in News
Jan Seiden says the Native-American flute spoke to her "on a soul level" when she first heard it in 1990.
More specifically, she says, the music of the flute spoke to the pain she had been enduring while recovering from a neuromuscular disorder called...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in News
Smith seeks more school construction money
County Executive Jim Smith, along with leaders from five other jurisdictions, sent a letter to state leaders requesting $400 million for school renovation and construction in next year's budget.
The l...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in News
Changes to the county's environmental regulations could emerge from "Builders for the Bay," a consensus-building program involving developers, regulators and community leaders, participants say.
The project promises to be a challenge, as each group ha...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in News
Members of community groups around the county have successfully lobbied the County Council to introduce a bill that would require the county Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management to alert the council and the public when developers...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in News
Crime log is compiled from police reports from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts. Our policy is to include suspects' descriptions only when there is enough information to assist police in making an arrest.
Cockeysville
Clubhouse Road, 300 ...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Opinion
The cover story "Bowing Out" in the Sept. 14 Towson Times may have implied misinformation about a bill, cross-filed by Sen. James Brochin and Del. John Trueschler, on college scholarships.
The bill, which did not pass, would have replaced legislative ...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Opinion
Editorial
Various answers emerge when a simple question is asked: Why are gasoline prices so high in Maryland?
After all, Mid-Atlantic AAA reported last week that the national average of a gallon of gas had fallen below $3, while Marylanders w...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Opinion
At the Schaefer fundraiser the other night, the highlight of the program was the guest of honor's hilarious impersonation of a corpse.
It was Democrat William Donald Schaefer's characteristically graphic manner of signaling that, after an unmatched ca...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Sports
High School Field Hockey
It was hard to tell which team had won the field hockey game at Catonsville High last week.
Immediately after the contest, the winning Comets jogged to a hill behind the tennis courts and proceeded to do a series of up...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Sports
The fate of sporting events between private and public schools stays in limbo following a meeting last week of members of the private school athletic associations.
At the Sept. 14 emergency meeting at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, private school re...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Sports
Baseball
> The U-15 WHC Renegades Metro baseball team will hold tryouts on Saturday Oct. 1 for their 2006 Spring season. Players must be born on or after April 30, 1990. Contact Jack Street at 301-908-7784 or e-mail jackstreet22@comcast.net
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Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Community
> The fifth annual Friends of Villa Maris Walk/Run for Kids' Sake is 8 a.m. Sept. 24 at Oregon Ridge Park. Cost varies. Call 410-252-4700, ext. 134.
> Boy Scout Troop 444 is sponsoring a community yard sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 24 at Chestnut Gro...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Community
Members of the Rotary Club of Hunt Valley have made sure thirsty people and panting pets on the Northern Central Railroad Bike & Hike Trail can get some relief.
The club recently completed a "Rotary Rest Stop" at the trail's Paper Mill Road parkin...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Community
Submissions for the Bulletin Board can be sent to the Towson Times, 409 Washington Ave., Towson, MD 21204. Fax your notices to 410-337-2490 or e-mail them to jgibson@patuxent.com.
Priority will be given to events or groups in the Towson Times readersh...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Community
Towson resident Lu Ann Blackman, 48, didn't have to pose in a swimsuit, belt out the theme from "Oklahoma" or go through her cheerleading paces to win the title of Mrs. Maryland 2006.
Then again, the National Mrs. motto is: "Promoting strong married w...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Community
William Robert Stevenson
William Robert (Bob) Stevenson of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of Towson, died Sept. 3 at the age of 70 after a brief illness. He was the son of William C. Stevenson and Evelyn Zahn Stevenson of Towson.
Mr. Stevenson gra...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Education
To say that veteran educator Sister Patricia McCarron is excited about her new job as headmistress of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson is a vast understatement.
McCarron, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, practically bubbles with en...
Published September 21, 2005 by Towson Times in Business
Occasionally Dan Collins, senior director of media relations at Mercy Medical Center, gets calls from people who saw the intriguing "Mercy, Mercy Me" commercial the hospital aired on WBAL-TV for six months, starting in September 2003.
Collins said mos...