Annapolis Middle

Superintendent Carol S. Parham announced yesterday her decision to relocate Mayo Elementary School pupils and staff to Annapolis Middle School for the next two years during the construction of their new school. The move, which will affect about 340 pupils, has angered some Mayo parents, who are worried about bus travel time to Annapolis and the mixing of elementary and middle school pupils in one building. "That was completely against our recommendations," said Robin Greulich, the head of an advisory committee that has studied the issue since October.

In Baltimore City Redd is elected president of society for black officers Officer Jeffrey D. Redd, a 14-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was elected president of an advocacy organization for black police officers late Thursday. Redd will take office next month and will head the Vanguard Justice Society for a two-year term. The election drew criticism from Vanguard members because the group's leadership excluded candidates for several positions, including the presidency, from the ballot.

THE QUESTION: What Anne Arundel County public schools have the highest enrollment? According to the school system's Web site, Old Mill Senior High School had the biggest enrollment for the 2004-05 school year, with 2,603 students. The smallest high school was Southern High, with 1,232 students. Among middle schools, Chesapeake Bay Middle School had the highest population, with 1,804 students. Annapolis Middle was the smallest with 538. Among elementary schools, Crofton Elementary was the biggest with 737 students.

The ninth annual Annapolis Jewish Festival was held Sunday at Annapolis Middle School. Emma Stein (above), 3, of Crofton tries her hand at painting in the children's activity area. Vladimir Garmanic (left) plays the violin with his klezmer band, Kol Haruach. At right, Aileen Rivera, 5, of Baltimore gets a design painted on her cheek by Charlotte Krohn, 14, of Annapolis. The festival also had singing, dancing and food.

The Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works will answer questions about planned improvements to the Annapolis Water Reclamation Facility at 7 o'clock tonight in the cafeteria of Annapolis Middle School, 1399 Forest Drive. The project is designed to increase capacity, address odor concerns and improve water treatment, resulting in the discharge of cleaner water into the Chesapeake Bay. Earthen berms and additional landscaping are to provide better screening to enhance the facility's appearance.

2 teen-agers charged in shooting death of Annapolis youth, 16 ANNAPOLIS - Two teen-agers were being held without bail yesterday after being charged as adults with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 16-year-old Dan Allen Johnson Jr., of Annapolis, police said. Johnson was shot once in the head about 3:50 p.m. Monday in the first block of College Creek Terrace in Annapolis, police said. He was pronounced dead that night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Shortly after the shooting, police arrested Charles N. Allen, 17, of the first block of Rosemary St. in Annapolis and Larry E. Adams, 17, of the 100 block of Browns Woods Road in Arnold.

When a real estate agent showed Jeffrey Macris a house in west Annapolis, he advised him to look outside the city, where the public schools would be better. Most people would have taken the advice and moved somewhere else, but the U.S. Naval Academy history professor was incensed. Macris and his wife, Jenn, wanted all the amenities of living in Annapolis and bought a house there, then set out to turn around the schools for their young, growing family. This month, Macris was awarded the annual Comcast Parent Involvement Award, presented by the Maryland State Department of Education, for his success in leading a lobbying effort to improve two middle schools there.

Fourteen students from Annapolis Middle School were taken to Anne Arundel General Hospital yesterday afternoon after a pickup truck struck their school bus from the rear at Bay Ridge Ave. and Edgemere Drive, school officials said.None of the students showed signs of serious injuries, said Ralph Luther, acting assistant superintendent for support services for county schools.The students did complain of stiff necks and sore backs, and were taken to the hospital primarily as a cautionary measure, Mr. Luther said.