Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
The following was compiled from police reports.
East Columbia
Calm Sunset, 7200 block. Overnight between March 12 and 13, two incidents occurred. Someone attempted to pry open a window latch to an unoccupied house. At another residence, someon...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Opinion
Editor's note _ The following letters on the issue of school violence are from a Harper's Choice Middle School teacher and some of the students in her after-school program:
My name is Edna Turner and I am a teacher at Harper's Choice Middle Sch...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Lacrosse is such a growing sport in Maryland that three state titles will be awarded this year - Class 3A/4A, Class 2A/3A and Class 1A/2A.
The first thing most coaches did when they saw the new classifications was look to see what region Mt. Hebron wa...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
Man robs 7-Eleven on Columbia Road
Police are searching for a man who robbed a Columbia convenience store last week.
A man walked into the 7-Eleven in the 5700 block of Columbia Road at 7:50 p.m. March 16, implied he had a gun and demanded mon...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
County officials are warning people to avoid the Little Patuxent River between routes 175 and 32 as a result of a sewage spill that started March 12 and ended the following day.
About 150,000 gallons of untreated sewage were discharged from a manhole ...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Josh Gross didn't play organized basketball until his freshman year, when he made Long Reach's JV basketball team as a backup.
How far he's come.
Gross, now a senior, is this year's Columbia Flier Player of the Year. A center, Gross led Long R...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Nickels. Dimes. Quarters. Tennis.
It's all about change.
This year, changes in the high school version of the sport aren't as great as in the past, but there are still a few.
As was the case last year, boys and girls teams at each scho...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
After nearly three decades as Wilde Lake's athletic director, Carol Satterwhite has made it official.
She's giving up the title and the stress that comes with the job.
"It's time. I'm going to teach one more year," she said, and then decide wh...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Atholton's John Zitko, who lost only two starters from his two-time county championship team, admits it's "tough road" to a third title.
Yet rival coaches say the Raiders have to be favored again because they have senior leadership, the best pitcher-c...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Mt. Hebron lost six All-County players to graduation, but that's not enough to slow down the Vikings, county coaches say.
Mt. Hebron, the preseason pick to repeat as county champions, will be led by returning first-team All-County attackman Mike Selaw...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
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Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Submitting sports results
The deadline for submitting sports copy is noon Monday. We prefer e-mail (HowardCountySports@patuxent.com; send as text, not as a file attachment) or fax (410-997-4564). We do not accept notices by phone.
Questions? C...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Hammond is the unanimous choice of county coaches to snag the county crown, but Golden Bears coach Bob Maxey says that puts his team in a lose-lose situation.
"If we win then we're supposed to, and if we don't everyone asks what happened," Maxey said....
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
The committee put together to focus on fan behavior is walking the fine line between controlling the actions of students at county high school basketball games and not violating the students' rights to cheer for their teams. At a meeting March 14, the com...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Opinion
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Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Opinion
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Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Opinion
The 2000 census numbers show that the county's population growth has slowed over the past decade _ but that doesn't mean the problems associated with growth soon will fade into the sunset.
Indeed, the numbers might foretell "the growth issue" becoming...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Opinion
"Not that I expect more. ... I expect what Clarksville gets."
That's Joe Sanchez, a resident of a Jessup community called Cedar Villa Heights, which the county has virtually ignored for 40 years.
Ignored _ as in two of the community's roads we...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
Trudy Lee Bush, an epidemiologist from Ellicott City who lectured internationally on women's diseases, died March 14 at age 52.
She was a large woman whom you didn't want to mess with, said her partner, Susan Miller of Ellicott City. "She made an impr...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
It's January and a student has just completed a semesterlong class in algebra, when his family moves across town and enrolls him in a new school.
At the new school, classes run over both semesters. The student is discouraged from enrolling in the next...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
The expansion of a high-tech start-up firm headquartered in Columbia could mean as many as 350 new jobs.
Trellis Photonics expects to begin construction of an $18 million, 60,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Columbia Gateway Business Park...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
Remember when children's birthday parties were simple affairs? Friends and family gathered around the kitchen table to slice homemade cake, rip open the presents and indulge in a round of Pin the Tail on the Donkey?
Those days are gone, folks. Along w...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
You won't find Stanley Wenocur's landscapes on any map. His abstract paintings rely on zones of color that evoke landscapes without realistically depicting them. You're encouraged to fill out these scenes with your own ideas of the missing imagery.
Ho...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
The Columbia Orchestra sure knows how to put the community in community orchestra. While many orchestras might blanch at the idea of teen-agers playing the classics, the Columbia Orchestra embraces the concept.
For the past decade, the 80-member ensem...
Published March 21, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
The new show at Rep Stage is a real drag. To be more specific, it's a drag show in which all six beauty pageant contestants are played by men vying for the title of Miss Glamouresse.
Although "Pageant" is populated by rather broad-shouldered contestan...