Published April 8, 2009 by Catonsville Times in Obituaries
Frances Taylor
Frances Taylor of Catonsville Manor died Feb. 24, 2009.
She was 82.
Born in Vohburg, Germany on Oct. 13, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Johann and Franziska (Hartl) Stumpf....
Published April 8, 2009 by Northeast Booster in Events
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Published April 8, 2009 by North County News in Community
It’s the third consecutive Wednesday night that Hereford High School junior John Riemer is having friends over. His father and step-mother are not just OK with it ... they’re thrilled.They’ve supplied chips, soft drinks and ...
Published April 8, 2009 by North County News in News
A Monkton couple bought the former Wagon Wheel Restaurant and an adjacent house on York Road in Hereford on Wednesday morning at an auction held at the site.Daniel and Nell Heneghan paid $475,000 for the restaurant, equipment and house at 1711...
Published April 8, 2009 by Northeast Reporter in Community, Education
She was 9 years old in 1952 when the doctor at (then) City Hospital said she had polio. She would never walk again.
Diane Scharper's own story is the missing memoir in a collection of 29 memoirs she compiled to produce the book, "Reading Lips...
Published April 8, 2009 by Northeast Reporter in News, Crime
The following is compiled from police reports from the Parkville Precinct. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible.
Belair Road, 7000 block, between 4 p.m. March 5 and 6:11 p.m. March...
Published April 8, 2009 by Northeast Reporter in News, Crime
Crime in Baltimore County in 2008 dropped in seven of eight serious crime categories compared to the previous year, with a total county crime decrease of 1.2 percent, according to county police.
The numbers were released at a news conference at th...
Published April 8, 2009 by Northeast Reporter in Opinion
Education reaches new low point with discussion of porn movie
Pornography is about the degradation of women, but it also degrades the viewer in a social, physical, and emotional way. It perverts the dignity of the individual and the consequences ...
Published April 8, 2009 by Northeast Reporter in News
Billiard parlors in the movies are typically dark, smoky affairs where fights, intimidating looks and the pursuit of a quick dollar are the norm -- think Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman in "The Hustler."
But in Parkville,...
West Towson resident Stephanie Keene was on Allegheny Avenue driving to church March 29 when she saw it, she said.
She was shocked.
Vandals had painted graffiti splotches on the high stucco walls of Towson's Secret Garden, at the corner ...
Published April 8, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger, Towson Times in News, Crime
Two law enforcement officers charged with assaulting a man with a long arrest record took the witness stand Wednesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court and told a jury they feared the suspect was armed when they approached him outside the Senator Theatre in...
Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in News
Baltimore County's Department of Public Works will host a meeting next week to give North County residents a preview of construction projects on local roads and bridges before the equipment, trucks and detour signs show up.
Residents can hear abou...
Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in Education
The following North County area students are named finalists in the Letters about Literature 2009 Awards competition, and will be honored at a ceremony during the CityLit Festival, to be held April 18 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, in Baltimore.
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Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in News
ExxonMobil attorneys from Maryland, New Jersey and Tennessee have filed six motions that ask for either new trials or for a judge to overturn the jury's verdicts in the Jacksonville gasoline leak case.
The Baltimore County Circuit Court trial la...
Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in Obituaries
William Carroll Price Sr., of Monkton, died April 2, 2009, at the Barbara J. Egan Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Shrewsbury, Pa. He was 92.
Known to his friends as Carroll, Mr. Price was born Dec. 16, 1916, in Hereford, to Truman G....
Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in Community
The Hereford Zone Business Association has announced its slate of officers for 2009.
Serving as president is Glenn O. McCalley of BusinessNet and The Gunpowder Group; while vice president is Jason Speicher, of Matrix Design-Build.
Secretar...
Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in Events
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Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in News
State officials last week announced a program to offer a $25 coupon toward the purchase of any native tree costing $50 or more.
Plus, Baltimore County is offering a $10 coupon on any tree with a retail value of at least $25. If you combine the t...
Published April 9, 2009 by North County News in Community
The Reagan Republican Club wants to send four local students to conferences that will help them develop lifelong political leadership skills.
The club, which meets monthly in Long Green, is accepting scholarship applications from high school stude...
Published April 9, 2009 by Northeast Reporter in Community
Greater Loch Raven
The 32 children who attend The Village Co-op For Tots Program of the Greater Loch Raven Recreation Program will be "scaling new heights" on their new indoor climbing center. The equipment was recently purchased for the...
Published April 9, 2009 by Northeast Booster in News, Crime
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Published April 9, 2009 by Northeast Booster, North County News, Northeast Reporter, Towson Times, Arbutus Times, Catonsville Times in Opinion
Editorial
Birthday parties and flower deliveries notwithstanding, not all surprises bring delight.
Sometimes, it's a surprise when something you enjoy is taken away. That can trigger resentment.
So it was when the Baltimore County ...
Published April 9, 2009 by Northeast Booster in News
The first three days of April brought 1.59 inches of rain to the Baltimore area -- more than half the long-term average for the entire month.
But farmers say that sudden accumulation can't make up for the first three months of the year, which br...
Published April 9, 2009 by Catonsville Times in News, Crime
Speaking through an interpreter, Claudia Sales looked at the teen who killed her husband during a botched robbery at a Catonsville gas station just before she gave birth to the couple’s son. “You had the chance to take the money,” Sales...
Published April 9, 2009 by Owings Mills Times in News
Workers and retreat participants at Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center, in Reisterstown, gathered the morning of April 8 on the reservation’s highest point to watch the sun rise and to celebrate Birkat Hachama, or Blessing of the Sun.E...