This is in response to the letter of Terry Maxwell’s “Existence of gay, lesbian club at Towson High also controversial”, Towson Times, April 8. You bet it is. And thank God it is. Maybe more people will then talk about it and possibly become more op...
Now that North Korea has launched its missile, it is most disturbing to note the ease with which it was accomplished following the worthless six-party talks which were filled with lies and empty promises by the North Korean representatives.In ...
Published April 15, 2009 by Towson Times in Business
The Knights of Columbus Fr. O’Neill Council 4011 named 1st Lt. Rodney Hyde its Firefighter of the Year. Lt. Hyde is a full-time engine man at Anne Arundel Co. Fire Department Station 40 and first lieutenant at the Lutherville Volunteer Fire Department. ...
Published April 15, 2009 by Arbutus Times, Catonsville Times, North County News, Northeast Booster, Northeast Reporter, Owings Mills Times, Towson Times in News
The 2009 General Assembly session wasn’t County Executive Jim Smith’s first.But it was his toughest.At least, that was his assessment as he stood in the State House late April 13, hours before the session ended....
The Recruit Military Career Fair will be held April 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at M&T Bank Stadium.Veterans, service members and their spouses will be able to interview with national, regional and local employers. The event ...
HopeWell Cancer Support is staging its 12th annual Reach Out And Run fundraiser at Goucher College on Sunday, April 19, to raise money to support the 75 programs the Brooklandville center offers to cancer patients and their loved ones.The even...
Towson University student volunteers will be the victims of a a fictitious tornado strike on the campus during a disaster drill Friday, April 17, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.During Operation STAT, a Humvee ambulance will be stationed outside Burdick ...
Published April 15, 2009 by Towson Times in Opinion
With Easter over, how many Baltimore County families now have a little chick or bunny, perhaps in a cardboard box, that was bought on impulse? Didn’t it delight the children and the neighbors who came over to see?But the children become unin...
Published April 15, 2009 by Towson Times in Education
Baltimore County students from the Towson area will be honored as finalists at the 2009 Letters About Literature Ceremony on April 18.Ninety eight winners and finalists will be honored at the ceremony, which will take place during the CityLit ...
The Rodgers Forge Community Association is suing the owners of a house who have built a $20,000 California-style back porch in their Colonial-style townhouse neighborhood.A suit filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court on March 30 by associatio...
Published April 15, 2009 by North County News in News, Business
Monkton couple hopes to relaunch eatery in summer
Dan and Nell Heneghan, of Monkton, say they bought much more than a restaurant when they were the top bidders at last week's auction of the Wagon Wheel Restaurant on York Road in Hereford.
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The following is compiled from police reports from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible.CockeysvilleYork Road, 11300 block, 6:...
Published April 15, 2009 by Catonsville Times in Obituaries
Jeannette M. Sauter
On March 27, 2009, lifelong Catonsville resident Jeannette Marie Sauter died from acute emphysema.
She was 82.
The daughter of the late C. Bernard and Annie Sauter was born on Oct. 2...
Published April 15, 2009 by Catonsville Times in Obituaries
John C. Wynn
The Rev. Dr. John Charles Wynn, of Catonsville, and a former
resident of Columbia, died March 31, 2009, at the Charlestown
retirement community.
He was 88.
Born April 11, 1920, he grew up...
News of the lawsuit, filed by the Rodgers Forge Community Association against residents John Novak and his wife Deborah Hamilton, for building a $20,000 California-style back porch on their townhouse drew conflicting responses in The Forge Flyer — an In...
Published April 15, 2009 by Arbutus Times, Catonsville Times in News
Career fair for military, vets and spouses April 23
The Recruit Military Career Fair will be held April 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at M&T Bank Stadium.
Veterans, service members and their spouses will be a...
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Family photographs decorate Bluma Shapiro's refrigerator in Mt. Washington. More rotate continuously in a digital photo album on the kitchen counter.
But the photo the 85-year-old great-grandmother was looking for April 9 was small, dog-eared and ...
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
A new student group at Park School is putting a different spin on the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day.
Created last year by then-seventh-grader Sophie Neiman, the Park Darfur group has been working to combat the mass violence ...
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Money for the innovative program ran out, but Lisa Libowitz is determined to keep the work of Becoming the Voices going.
The program, coordinated by the Center for Jewish Education, brought together Jewish and non-Jewish students to be taught by p...
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Guilford
Spring's fickle weather continues, alternating days of gusty winds and chilly showers with glorious days of azure skies and sun as golden as the daffodils blooming so profusely in Guilford. On one of those wonderful days, we slipped over ...
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Hampden
Just as I was about to sit down and write this installment of my column, an instant message window popped up on my computer screen from Hampden resident Lisa Harbin with the following url -- http://archives.ubalt.edu/bnhp/table.htm -- and ...
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in News
The General Assembly has given final approval to a Preakness rescue bill backed by Gov. Martin O'Malley authorizing the state to purchase or use eminent domain to take over Pimlico Race Course, Laurel Park and the rights to the storied Triple Crown race....
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in Education
Parents and a councilwoman are shocked and angry about a plan to eliminate a before- and after-school care center in Waverly.
The city's plan to eliminate the Waverly School-Aged Children Center, which is housed in the Waverly Elementary and Middl...
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in News
Hugh Holman usually walks his three Dalmatians, Zoe, Axel and Lu Lu, at a park near Stony Run Creek in Roland Park several times a day.
He takes the dogs there so they can run, play and get their exercise, said Franciene Graillot, Holman's wife....
Published April 15, 2009 by Baltimore Messenger in News
The following is compiled from police reports. It is our policy to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Baltimore City Police Department's Nort...