Bainbridge

Katharine G. Bainbridge, who drove an ambulance on the front lines during the early days of World War II and was an eyewitness to the fall of France, died Wednesday of cancer at Genesis Eldercare Center in Lutherville. She was 84.A Baltimore socialite who was born and raised in Homeland, she was the daughter of Robert Garrett, prominent philanthropist and financier, who was associated with the Baltimore banking house of Robert Garrett & Co., which had been founded by his great-grandfather.

"My Last Days as Roy Rogers," by Pat Cunningham Devoto. Warner. 368 pages. $20.Tab Rutland is a feisty little girl growing up in Bainbridge, Ala., where the Ladies Help League is the pinnacle of social acceptance, where the threat of polio lurks in every twilight, and where Gene Autry and Roy Rogers ride the plains at the local theater.The celluloid cowboys will keep riding, as long as the town doesn't close every last public place. In this particular, mid-1950s summer, polio makes the residents of Bainbridge hide in their homes to avoid the disease.

LONDON -- When 18-year-old Jason Bainbridge and his rugby-playing teammates at the University of Westminster enter their favorite pub, they're in for a night of serious drinking.They'll each start with a half-dozen pint-sized beers, Bainbridge says, move on to a few shots of vodka, and then, if there's really something to celebrate, quaff a concoction of beer, vodka and alcoholic cider mixed into a construction worker's hard hat."In this country, drinking is a big part of the culture," Bainbridge says.

Brian Bainbridge, a 27-year-old Columbia man, died Saturday of meningitis in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he was pursuing a degree in physical therapy.Mr. Bainbridge arrived in Scotland to begin a three-year bachelor of science program at Robert Gordon University only 10 days ago."He was pursuing his life's dream, to work in that field," said Tony Moromarco of Columbia, a friend for 17 years.Mr. Bainbridge's mother, Julia Bainbridge of Chestertown, a physical therapist, described her son as "a very gentle, quietly confident young man. He was a very loving son and brother, and friend to many."

Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, 91, a scientist who accurately measured atomic weights and directed the first atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, N.M., died Sunday in Lexington, Mass.While a postgraduate fellow at Bartol Laboratory in Swarthmore, Pa., he built a mass spectrometer to search for the then-undiscovered Element 87, called eka-cesium. The instrument was so accurate it could measure the weights of atoms and their nuclei, as well as distinguish the weight difference of various isotopes of an element.

Gentlemen, turn off your engines.A study to be released by the Maryland Economic Development Corp. says the cost of a proposed major motor sports facility at the old Bainbridge Naval Station site in Cecil County and the current economic downswing make such a project unrealistic.The report, due this week, recommends the development of a "mixed use" area -- with a golf course, residential area and industrial complex."There are at least four major reasons we've decided to go in another direction," said Hans F. Mayer, MEDCO's executive director.

There are 57 trees in our yard, but not one oak. There are maples and spruces and birches, but nary a branch of oak, unless you count the woodpile.That's the only way I'll buy the mighty oak, cut up in bite-sized pieces for the wood stove. I've managed to reduce this majestic beauty to a bucketful of Btu and a puff of chimney smoke. And all because of acorns.I don't like to clean up acorns. Do you?They kill the grass, clog the mower and attract whole armies of squirrels who hide the acorns and then hang around all winter eating expensive birdseed instead of their buried loot.

State and local officials are beginning what they say is a critical phase in determining the course of redevelopment of the old Bainbridge Navy boot camp near Port Deposit.The 1,300-acre former Naval Training Center site has great potential for expanding Cecil County's commercial and industrial base and creating much-needed jobs in northeastern Maryland, the officials say. But no decisions on a redevelopment plan will be made without extensive public input, they said.The most publicized possible use is as a major auto raceway and test track for auto manufacturers.

When Anne Bainbridge and Sarah Klinefelter needed a name for their shop, they chose well. Everything in the Garden Room, their new place in Wyndhurst Village in Roland Park, is something you could imagine in a real garden room -- a beautiful flower-filled English-country glassed-in porch.There are vases, baskets, birdhouses, framed botanicals, potted houseplants, hanging baskets, herbs, topiaries, garden sculptures, fountains, sprigs of lavender, majolica-style dinnerware, picture frames, needlepoint pillows, wreaths, painted furniture, garden books, garden tools, flower arranging supplies, flowery dhurrie rugs and chintz tablecloths.

WASHINGTON -Before ending a pirate standoff with three fatally precise shots, Navy SEAL snipers had passed on multiple opportunities to fire. They had moved into position after the White House expanded the authority it had given the world's most powerful navy against a rag-tag foe holding an American sea captain hostage on a lifeboat. They kept their scopes trained on their Somali targets as prospects for a peaceful resolution seemed to shrivel. Most of all, they waited as a series of seemingly insignificant moves - from extending the pirates a rope for a tow to bringing an injured brigand onboard - improved the sharpshooters' odds of success.

WASHINGTON -Before ending a pirate standoff with three fatally precise shots, Navy SEAL snipers had passed on multiple opportunities to fire. They had moved into position after the White House expanded the authority it had given the world's most powerful navy against a rag-tag foe holding an American sea captain hostage on a lifeboat. They kept their scopes trained on their Somali targets as prospects for a peaceful resolution seemed to shrivel. Most of all, they waited as a series of seemingly insignificant moves - from extending the pirates a rope for a tow to bringing an injured brigand onboard - improved the sharpshooters' odds of success.

It's easy to stereotype the South Florida sports fan, especially when all you seem to hear about this time of year is the Daytona 500 and spring training, but there is something for everyone down here - even the bluebloods who would not be caught dead at an event as base as an automobile race or an Orioles exhibition game. For them, there is the Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club, where 2004 Olympian McLain Ward won the $75,000 Bainbridge Idle Dice Classic on Sunday. The crowd of about 10,000 included the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, so it obviously was a classy affair.

PORT DEPOSIT -- On the hill high above this riverfront town, construction workers are taking the first steps toward transforming a run-down and abandoned Navy base into what is being promoted as one of the premier residential and business parks in the Mid-Atlantic region. "It's been a long time coming," Mayor Robert Flayhart said of a billion-dollar-plus project that is considered the largest development in Cecil County history and one of the largest in Maryland. "We've waited so long," he said of a plan seven years in the making to redevelop the 1,200 acres of the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center, which closed in 1976.

PORT DEPOSIT -- On the hill high above this riverfront town, construction workers are taking the first steps toward transforming a run-down and abandoned Navy base into what is being promoted as one of the premier residential and business parks in the Mid-Atlantic region. "It's has been a long time coming," Mayor Robert Flayhart said of a billion-dollar-plus project that is considered the largest development in Cecil County history and one of the largest in Maryland. "We've waited so long," he said of a plan, seven years in the making, to redevelop the 1,200 acres of the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center, which closed in 1976.

PORT DEPOSIT -- The headmaster's home, once a stately mansion and proud centerpiece of the turn-of-the century Tome School at the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center, shows years of neglect. Sections of a 15-foot-high wooden column that once framed the grand entrance lay in a pile. Inside, plaster that dropped from the ceiling has been swept into piles on floors that show signs of collapsing. The roof sags, and looters have ripped out anything of value, including chandeliers, the fireplace mantel and the oak banister along the staircase to the second floor.

PORT DEPOSIT -- The headmaster's home, once a stately mansion and proud centerpiece of the turn-of-the century Tome School at the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center, shows years of neglect. Sections of a 15-foot-high wooden column that once framed the grand entrance lay in a pile. Inside, plaster that dropped from the ceiling has been swept into piles on floors that show signs of collapsing. The roof sags, and looters have ripped out anything of value, including chandeliers, the fireplace mantel and the oak banister along the staircase to the second floor.

During World War II more than 50,000 military and civilian personnel worked at the Bainbridge Naval Training Center on a plateau overlooking Port Deposit and the Susquehanna River. Survivors still have memories of the days they were stationed there. They remember Hall of Fame baseball player Stan "The Man" Musial washing windows of the barracks. They remember Jack Benny, Count Basie and the Andrews Sisters performing at the amphitheater. On Sunday, the Naval Training Center Historical Association Inc. will hold Bainbridge Sunday to welcome past associates back to the Navy boot camp that closed in 1976.

PORT DEPOSIT - One of the final parts of the redevelopment of the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center on a hill overlooking this Susquehanna riverfront town is expected to fall into place Tuesday evening. That's when Paul Risk Associates Inc., a Quarryville, Pa., development company, is scheduled to be awarded a contract to restore the run-down and condemned ruins of the granite buildings that once housed the turn-of-the-century Tome School, transforming them into a retirement community.

PORT DEPOSIT - Despite the collapse of negotiations to supply water to the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center, the developers of the vacated boot camp say they will be moving ahead on the largest development project in the county's history and one of the largest in the state. "We are committed to the project," said Richard M. Alter, president of Manekin LLC in Columbia, one of the lead companies involved in a $750 million plan to revitalize the 1,200-acre property on a hill overlooking this Susquehanna riverfront town.

The groundbreaking for the first building in the redevelopment of Bainbridge Naval Training Center could be held early next year. Paul Gilbert, Cecil County economic development director, will present a proposal to county commissioners Tuesday to allow the county to borrow from a state low-interest loan program to construct a 30,000- to 40,000-square-foot structure at the former Navy boot camp. "My goal is for the grading of the property to begin the first of next year," said Harland R. Graef, chairman of the Bainbridge Development Corp.