Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in News
Below are scheduled meetings and hearings on projects within the 1st council district.
Development Review Committee
June 30, 1:30 p.m. -- Harvey/Fitzsimmons Property
Request to adjust lot line at 2820 Westchester Ave.
Meetin...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in Education
Bridget Gambino received the Perdue School of Business Outstanding Senior Award during the 82nd annual Spring Honors Convocation at Salisbury University.
The Seton Keough High School alumna majored in information systems and belonged to Beta Alpha...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in News, Business
Executive officer leaves business group
Jim Lister announced June 13 that he was stepping down as executive director of the Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce, effective immediately.
A Catonsville resident who had served as executive d...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in Business
Paradise Animal Hospital in Catonsville welcomed a new member to its staff.
Dr. Paula Prestia, a native of Severna Park, completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia before earning a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin Scho...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times, The Jeffersonian in News
A proposal for a 54,000-square-foot building that includes a 1,600-seat sanctuary to serve Morning Star Baptist Church's 3,000 members prompted about a half-dozen people to testify at a hearing June 18 at Lansdowne High School.
Of the dozens of ...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times, The Jeffersonian in Business
Consumers concerned that goods they buy may have been made in sweat shop conditions or were the product of other unfair labor practices in foreign countries won't have such worries shopping in a small store set back from Frederick Road.
The One ...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in Community
Old Catonsville
My concerns for the marching bands negotiating the area around the new pedestrian island in front of the library on Frederick Road during next month's Fourth of July parade prompted a call to the president of the Ravens Marching Ba...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in Education
Villa Julie College?
Stevenson University?
Since the former became the latter June 11, students and alumni have been choosing their allegiance to one name or the other.
The original "Villa Julie" moniker dates back to the...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times, Catonsville Times in Community, Entertainment
Music with a rocky edge followed by swinging sounds with a 1930s style are the featured attractions this weekend at the Lurman Woodland Theatre.
On Saturday, June 28, at 6 p.m., Carey Ziegler's Expensive Hobby returns to the stage off Bloomsbury...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in Community, Engagements
Erinn Sawyer and Cary Grossi
Erinn Paige Sawyer, daughter of Steve and Marlene Sawyer, of Pasadena, will wed Cary Grossi, son of Connie Vassas, of Steger, Ill., and the late Jack Vassas.
The prospective groom works as a mortician-general ma...
Published June 25, 2008 by Catonsville Times in News, Crime
No motive, suspects in a.m. shooting June 19
Baltimore County police are investigating a June 19 shooting near Catonsville Manor that left a Clinton man in critical condition.
The incident occurred sometime after 9 a.m. in the rental office...
The Towson Fourth of July Parade may end up on national television this year.
The two-hour-long procession featuring 20 bands and more than 100 units will take the cake this year -- well, will take the cake makers.
Grand marshals will be ce...
Published June 25, 2008 by Towson Times in Community
Boy Scout Troop 828 held a Court of Awards on June 12 at Havenwood Presbyterian Church, which sponsors the troop. Several boys who have already earned their Eagle rank received advanced awards. Josh Thompson received a silver palm, which is 15 merit badge...
Theater review
There are so many tales told in "The Arabian Nights" that anybody doing a stage adaptation must decide to either severely condense the book for a single evening's show or expect audiences to come back for 1,001 nights. Mar...
Once again, snowball and ice cream lovers stole the show at a hearing on the Comprehensive Zoning Map Process.
The County Council's June 18 hearing at Lansdowne High School proved almost a repeat of the Planning Board's hearing there in March, b...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times in Events
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Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times in News, Crime
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If you have information about these crimes, you may call the Wilkens Precinct at 410-8...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times in Obituaries
Dolores Fritz
Arbutus resident Dolores Gertrude (Cole) Fritz died after a lengthy illness June 14, 2008. She was 92.
Born in Baltimore in 1916 to Mr. and Mrs. James Cole, she retired from the Domino Sugar Co. in 1978.
Harry Fritz p...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times, Catonsville Times in Community
Dr. Kenneth Williams has been named president of the Seton Medical Group, a primary care and OB/GYN physician group.
Williams, who was chosen by the board of directors of St. Agnes Hospital, will maintain his private practices in Catonsville and...
Rescuers, medics and physicians converged on Catonsville Monday night after two hikers fell about 50 feet from a rock outcropping in Patapsco Valley State Park.
The incident occurred about 8 p.m. June 23 in a remote part of the park near the Hil...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times in Community
PAGES FROM THE PAST
A prominent headline in The Herald Argus, June 26, 1958, informed subscribers of two brutal crimes that left one man dead and two women hospitalized.
Violence broke out in this area during the past week as one man was be...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times in Community
In the June 11 edition, a photograph should have identified Jeanette Vaughn, of Colonial Landing, Gemma Stracke, of Lansdowne, and Lee Griffith, of Elkridge, as the area residents who were enjoying the June 8 concert by The Notables at Lansdowne Christi...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times, Catonsville Times in Opinion
Editorial
More than 200,000 Baltimore County households and businesses will have to pay 7.5 percent more for their water and sewer services starting July 1.
Part of the reason rates are going up is that the county must comply with a federal...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times in Opinion
Column's reports on Scouts an absence that should end
I say hooray for Sherry McManus for her letter ("Time has passed to reprint old stories from long ago," Arbutus Times, June 11) about Theresa Spliedt, whose column was removed from th...
Published June 25, 2008 by Arbutus Times in Business
Dyane Hill Boone, the director of internships at the Community College of Baltimore County's School of Applied and Information Technology, was recently presented with an "Educational Institution Supporting Minority Business Enterprise Award" by ...