Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
To submit Up & coming calendar items: The deadline is 14 days before date of publication. Include a brief description of the event, date, time, location with address, cost and phone number for publication. Priority will be given to events that take pl...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
>Catonsville High School classes of 1941 and 1942. Nov. 4, Charlestown Retirement Community, 719 Maiden Choice Lane, Catonsville. Joan Letherman, 410-825-3689.
>Glenelg High School classes of 1976 and 1977. Planning combined reunion; looking for...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
Juanita Robinson insists she starts each day between 3 and 5 a.m. with a cup of coffee and paperwork in her office and winds down each night at around 2 a.m. with a relaxing conversation on the porch of St. Matthew House, a residential facility in Kings C...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
Angela and Scott Brooke of New Market, Md., announce the birth of their son, Jacob Paul, on July 22 at 6:36 p.m. He weighed 8 lbs., 10 oz. His grandparents are Kay and Clay Brooke of Columbia.
Nancy Nagle-Warman and Jerome Warman of Ellicott City anno...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
The following organizations meet regularly.
>A Novel Idea book group. Discussion of recently published novels. Fourth Thursday, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Long Gate Shopping Center, Montgomery Road, Ellicott City. Free. 410-203-9001....
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
Each morning Michele Compton boards a small bus near her Clarksville home and, like millions of others, goes to work. She arrives home around 4:30 with a feeling of accomplishment, especially when she has a paycheck in hand.
"[Work] is the main thing ...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Community
Gaspare F. "Gary" Bavetta and his family moved to the Gamber section of Sykesville about 12 years ago after living in Columbia since 1972. Columbia got "too busy, [with] too many lights," said Heidi Bavetta, his wife of nearly 40 years.
Mr. Bavetta di...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Education
Marching band contest set for this weekend
Marching bands from 11 high schools and one college will join together this weekend for an afternoon of competition at Centennial High School.
The Oct. 20 event begins at 12:45 p.m. with a special pat...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Education
>ACT test. Two chances to register before Dec. 8 test date. Registration postmark deadline is Nov. 2; late registration deadline, Nov. 15. $24. Call school counselor or register online at www.act.org.
>Dasher Green Nursery School. Openings for 2...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
The following was compiled from police reports.
East Columbia
Minstrel Way, 7100 block. On Oct. 8 at 9:10 a.m., someone forced their way into a business.
Gerwig Lane, 9400 block. On Oct. 9 at 7:20 a.m., someone entered a storage lot an...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
County hit by spate of robberies in past week
Columbia, North Laurel and Ellicott City have been hit by several robberies in the last week
On Oct. 14, a woman told police that she was getting out of her car at 12:15 a.m. in the 5000 block of O...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
A North Laurel teen has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of a gas station on Johns Hopkins Road Oct. 14.
Jason Heath, 17, of the 10600 block of Harding Road, turned himself in to Howard County police ...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
Legislators from Howard County say their top priorities for state funding next year are the construction of a public safety training center and renovations to the county Circuit Court building.
Funding requests for two other projects _ the renovation ...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
Former Wilde Lake High School principal Bonnie Daniel remembers a noise woke her in the middle of the night Oct. 13.
In her grogginess, she wasn't sure what she had heard, so she drifted back to sleep. In the morning, when she looked out her window to...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
On a quiet Saturday evening, Trent Covington is standing in front of a group of young children inside the nursery school at the Thunder Hill neighborhood center.
Like most children, they fidget and their shoes collide with the floor, producing a cacop...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
The state's attorney will not seek the death penalty against either of the two Columbia men accused of murder in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old girl last year.
The trial of Scott Jory Brill, 19, is scheduled to begin in Circuit Court Oct. 22. Bri...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in News
The law won't let Byron C. Hall Jr. wrest control of the Smith farm in Columbia from Howard County.
But even though the state's highest court denied his final appeal, Hall, who co-founded the Blandair Foundation to preserve the 300-acre estate, says t...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
Football
In six years of existence, Long Reach had never beaten Wilde Lake in football.
That changed Oct. 13, when the Lightning not only won, but routed the Wildecats, 28-7.
Trent Covington found senior fullback Calvin Maragh for a 51...
Published October 17, 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 results by phone. When two Howard Coun...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
To say that River Hill's defenders shut down Kwaku Boateng would be an understatement.
They made him a nonfactor.
The stifling play of Jeff Marquart and Ben Brasso shut down the county's leading scorer, helping their team to a 3-0 win over Ham...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
With both teams undefeated entering the contest, there was a week of hype building up to the Glenelg-Centennial football game Oct 13.
In the end, Glenelg got all the praise after a 20-0 win.
The Gladiators themselves, however, put the win in p...
Published October 17, 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 in the body of the e-mail, not as a file attachment) or fax (410-997-4564). We do not accept notices by p...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
The legend of Izudin Mehmedovic had grown a little bigger at Oakland Mills.
Mehmedovic broke a 7-year-old course record on Oct. 15, covering the 3-mile race in 16 minutes, 21 seconds at the first Scorpion Crawl.
Mehmedovic not only claimed fir...
Published October 17, 2001 by The Columbia Flier in Sports
If it had its druthers, Hammond's volleyball team would change the calendar to eliminate one day of the week.
"We don't practice well on Mondays. We don't play well on Mondays," Hammond coach Ken McLaughlin said.
Glenelg reinforced Hammond's d...