Arbutus

On January 25, 2004 ARBUTUS HAZELVisitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue, on Friday 5 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at 1st Abyssinia Baptist Church, 2500 Arunah Ave., on Saturday at 10 A.M. Funeral at 10:30 A.M.

On Friday, March 11, 2005, ARBUTUS PAT; beloved mother of Pat Stolte, Sherrie Brown and Bobbie Knight/Ewer; sister of Ron and Charles Breeding, Beatrice Sanchez and Kay Glommen; niece of Birchie Fisher. Also survived by six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends may call on Monday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., at the Stallings Funeral Home, 3111 Mountain Road, where funeral services will be held on Tuesday, 1 P.M. Interment Glen Haven Cemetery.

2 From the time volunteers founded the Arbutus Library 61 years ago, it has grown and served its neighborhood. From the basement of a hardware store, the floor above a supermarket and the entrance to a business park, the library has participated in the life of its southwestern Baltimore County community. Today, the county breaks ground on a $4.3 million, 25,000-square-foot branch that will still have local ties at its core. "Wherever it was, the library was always the heart of Arbutus," said Gail Ross, branch manager.

A New York investment firm has given a $12.5 million short-term loan to the owner of an Arbutus industrial building to "stabilize the property for the longer term," according to one of the firm's managing directors. "Like many owners of Class-B and Class-C assets in the nation's middle markets, this sponsor needed a competitively priced, non-recourse bridge loan," said Geoffrey Smith, of Hudson Realty Capital Inc., in a statement Thursday. Hudson loaned the money for upkeep of a 689,000 square foot building in Arbutus on a 34-acre industrial site that currently houses a "prominent manufacturing company, mechanical contractor, logistics company and wholesaler of natural stone products," the statement said.

Halethorpe resident Francesca Nielsen earned a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. This professional school is operated by Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, and the University of Maryland.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Highview Avenue, 4400 block, between Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 11, 1:51 a.m. Rear sliding door broken. Nothing reported stolen.

Ask Joseph W. Smith how long he's been waiting for Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to announce his run for governor, and he answers in a heartbeat. "About four years," he said, laughing. He was leaning against his black Chevy Silverado that was towing a trailer with a big sign -"BRING EHRLICH BACK" - and next to that another big sign: "WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET," with a close-up of Gov. Martin O'Malley picking a few notes out of a billfold. Smith was parked outside Leon's Triple L Restaurant and Bar on East Drive in the heart of Ehrlich Country - Arbutus - waiting for the Republican former governor's rally to begin at the American Legion post about a mile away.

Luncheon to honor former commander of Wilkens Station The Wilkens Police and Community Relations Organization invites area residents and members of the business community to the group's Nov. 16 luncheon honoring Capt. John Spiroff. Spiroff, the former commander of the Wilkens Police Station, has been reassigned to Baltimore County Police headquarters in Towson. The luncheon will provide an opportunity to recognize Spiroff for his efforts to open lines of communication and promote positive understanding of the role that law enforcement plays in the community, according to Lorna Rudnikas, the group's president.

An article in the Sept. 18, 1935 edition of The Catonsville Herald and Baltimore Countian reported on the courtroom proceedings as a black Arbutus resident sued Baltimore County to allow his daughter to attend all-white Catonsville High School. Testimony in the mandamus ( Editor's note: a command by a high court to a government agency, for example, that a specific action must be taken) suit instituted by a Negro to force admission of his daughter to the Catonsville High School was heard in the Circuit Court at Towson this week before Judge Frank I. Duncan . Joshua B. Williams, Jr., is the complaintant and he is represented by Thurgood Marshall and Charles H. Huston , both Negroes, as attorneys.

The University of Delaware named Arbutus students Zachary Adcock and Elizabeth Robey to the dean's list for the spring term.