Ballman

The Anne Arundel County Board of Appeals has given the go-ahead for the demolition of a dilapidated but historic house in Brooklyn Park.The board voted 4-3 to overturn the county Office of Planning and Code Enforcement's decision not to issue a permit to raze the house, according to minutes of a closed session the appeals board held last week.County officials said they would not comment on the vote until they had read the decision, which may not come out for a month.Neither the owner of the property, Georgia O. Clift of Connecticut, nor her lawyer could be reached yesterday.

The Brooklyn Park High School Alumni Association is planning an open house/homecoming for alumni in November 2000, to co- incide with the opening of the new Brooklyn Park Middle School and Chesapeake Center for the Creative Arts.The association's next meeting will be held at 6: 30 p.m. Tuesday at the Brooklyn Park library. Alumni and friends are welcome to attend and assist in the planning.Information: 410-636-3269 or 410-789-7214.Hearing to discuss appeal by developer is delayedThe Board of Appeals' hearing to discuss the appeal of a subdivision denial for a proposed Brooklyn Park project known as Camden Hills has been postponed.

County officials are challenging a Board of Appeals ruling giving the go-ahead for the demolition of a historic house in Brooklyn Park because they feel the board never should have heard the case.Robert M. Pollock, senior assistant county attorney, said he has asked the Circuit Court to review the board's April 7 ruling.Thomas A. Pavlinic, attorney for the owner of the historic Ballman-Gischel House, said he will ask the court to strike down a county law that permits the razing of historic buildings only if they are about to collapse.

Harbin Farms employees recently began stacking large pumpkins on display, in addition to their second most popular seasonal items — mums and a wide variety of apples. Kimberly Taylor, who runs the produce stand with her husband, Michael, and her uncle, had worried that a year and a half dispute over zoning might have prevented the fall display from going up. The stand has been at Route 99 and Old Mill Road in Ellicott City since 1958, when it was part of a larger family farm.

The owner of a 125-year-old house in Brooklyn Park can demolish the building, thanks to an Anne Arundel County Circuit judge, but first the house will be the backdrop for the announcement of the start of a community historical society.Judge H. Chester Goudy Jr. allowed demolition of the Ballman-Gischel House, on 10 acres between Ballman Avenue and Patrick Henry Drive, by upholding an April decision by the county Board of Appeals, which voted 4-3 to issue a permit to raze the dilapidated, historic building.

The Mistress's Daughter By A.M. Homes Viking / 240 pages / $24.95 Some writers focus on the dark, rather than light, side of the human condition. Such writers achieve their narrative clarity from revealing the secrets and lies people tell themselves and each other, in exploring the hidden, rather than the obvious. Some of our greatest American fiction writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, Joyce Carol Oates - have attended to that milieu in which redemption is rarely, if ever, accessed and despair is often the end as well as the beginning.

Driver crashes into car in Pasadena, diesPASADENA -- A 27-year-old Pasadena man died early yesterday morning when the car he was driving crashed head-on into a parked car, county police said.Officer Norval Cooper, of the traffic safety section, said Joseph William Ballman, of the 8300 block of Dock Road, was driving a 1987 Chevrolet Camaro southbound in the 200 block of Hickory Point Road near Theis Drive shortly before 2 a.m. when he crossed the center line and crashed into a 1986 Chrysler New Yorker parked in front of a house on the opposite side of the road.

A 35-year-old man walking down a Brooklyn Park street Thursday was robbed by a man in a car who stole beer, liquor and $40 at gunpoint.George Henry Evans Jr. of Baltimore told police he was walking in the 5200 block of Ballman Ave., near Kramme Avenue, a few minutes before midnight when a late model Honda Accord pulled up next to him.Police said the driver, who was between 25 and 30 years old, threatened Mr. Evans with a chrome revolver and demanded the...

On November 3, 2005 MARIE B. WINGFIELD; dearest wife of the late Benjamin J. Wingfield; devoted mother of Benjamin Jr. and wife Carol of Eden, NC, Janice Ballman and husband Gilbert of St. Charles, MO; Claire Crist and husband Paul and Jeffrey J. Wingfield Sr. Also survived by seven grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and other loving relatives and friends. Family invites friends to call at the Charles L. Stevens Funeral Home, Inc., 1501 E. Fort Avenue, Locust Point, MD, on Sunday, 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. Funeral Services will be held at the conclusion of the visitation on Sunday, at 8 P.M. A Graveside Service will be held on Wednesday, at 11 A.M. at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Seven occupants, including two young children, were taken to area hospitals last night as a fire heavily damaged a two-story apartment house in Brooklyn Park, authorities said. Crews from five county fire companies and one station in Baltimore responded to the blaze, which was reported at 8:59 p.m. in the 5200 block of Ballman Ave. Those taken to hospitals included two boys, 4 years and 10 weeks, and their mother. Capt. Lee Cornwell, a county fire spokesman, said they had minor burns or smoke inhalation.