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American Voices: The African-American Composers' Project, Works of Billy Childs, David Baker and William Banfield, performed by the Akron Symphony, Alan Balter conducting (Telarc CD-80409).This CD is the result of a National Endowment for the Arts challenge grant, matched by the Knight Foundation, that made possible a three-year project to commission and record three works by African-American composers. Childs and Banfield are composers still in their 30s; the 64-year-old Baker is a long-distinguished senior figure in American music, whose music has had champions as important (and diverse)

What better honor than to be voted the best of the best by your customers and colleagues? In August, we asked Howard Magazine readers to tell us the most notable businesses, people and places from Marriottsville to Savage and from Elkridge to Clarksville. Here are the results of how our readers voted. Annual Festival Event Winner: Wine in the Woods Honorable mention: Columbia Festival of the Arts Howard County Fair Highland Days Symphony of Lights   Place to Buy Antiques Winner: Historic Savage Mill Honorable mention: Westwood Antiques Historic Ellicott City Abode   Art Gallery Winner: Gallery 44 Honorable mention: Artists' Gallery Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House Howard County Center for the Arts   Place for Auto Repair Winner: Hillmuth Certified Automotive Honorable mention: British American Auto Care O'Donnell Honda Ken's Service Center   Bakery Winner: Touche Touchet Bakery & Pastry Shoppe Honorable mention: Great Harvest Bread Co. Panera Bread Oh, What A Cake!

On May 15, 2003 HERMAN E. BEHLING JR., at Gilchrist Hospice Care, loving father of Beth A. Gallihue, Barbara A. Mayer both of Columbia, MD and Heidi Balter of Elkridge, MD and their mother Maxine E. Behling also of Columbia, MD. Also survived by six grandchildren. Memorial services will be held on Thursday May 22, at 10 a.m. at Baker Chapel at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, MD. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Maryland Leukemia Society.

Antonio Martinez renounced terrorism and expressed regret Friday for trying to blow up a Catonsville military center, shortly before he was sentenced to 25 years in prison - closing a case that brought a radical holy war to Maryland. Prosecutors suggested Martinez's turnaround was insincere. Materials indicating his continuing connection to terrorist beliefs were seized recently from the 22-year-old's cell, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Manuelian. He appears to still have a "mindset" of wanting to kill in the name of religion, more than a year after the failed attack, Manuelian said at the sentencing hearing.

On March 10, 2005, CHARLES W. "Chuck" JACOBS; beloved husband of Theresa A. Jacobs (nee Welkie); devoted father of Mary Karen Hartzell, her husband Glenn, Kathleen Ann O'Bryan, her husband Rob, Marie Elena Kershner, Lynne Healy, Theresa Claire Balter and her husband Eddy; brother of Grace Ann Zake, her husband Don, John Albert Jacobs and his wife Barbara; grandfather of Jessica, Samantha, Jessica Marie, Bailey, Kyle, Brandon and Dara; great-grandfather of...

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, JOSEPH SNYDER; loving husband of the late Eva Snyder (nee Friedman); beloved father of Lee M. Snyder and Linda S. Napora both of Baltimore, MD; devoted father-in-law of Gloryann Snyder and Dr. Joseph Napora; devoted brother of the late Charlotte, Celia B. and Paul S. Snyder; loving grandfather of Sharon Moss, Rachel S. and Benjamin Harris, Dr. Neil J. and Shelley Napora, Robin L. and Arthur Balter. Also survived by ten loving great-grandchildren. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC, 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Friday, June 27, 11 A.M. Interment Mikro Kodesh-Beth Israel Congregation Cemetery, 6700 Bowleys Lane.

The Howard County school system has announced new principals for seven schools for the coming year. Marcy Leonard, assistant principal at Wilde Lake High School, will become principal at Atholton High School in Columbia. Leonard will replace Connie Lewis, who is retiring after 30 years in Howard County. Steven Gibson is returning from leave to replace Principal Barbara Hoffmann at Burleigh Manor Middle School. Hofmann is retiring after 27 years. Other moves include: Murray Hill Middle Assistant Principal Scott Conroy, will become principal of Wilde Lake Middle.

Next week, Baltimore's new mayor, Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, will help dedicate two adjacent apatment complexes in northwest Baltimore following a $30 million rehabilitation for use as affordable housing. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Manor East and West, at Park Heights Avenue and Fords Lane, contain 294 apartments for "lower income" seniors and people with disabilities. Homes for America of Annapolis and Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc. (CHAI) of Baltimore were the nonprofit developers of the apartments, previously known as Har Sinai House and the Robert B. Balter House.

Antonio Martinez was "grinning from ear to ear" on the day he expected to kill U.S. soldiers with a car bomb, and he fantasized about martyrdom well before he converted to Islam and began plotting the attack last year, a prosecutor said Monday. His lawyer, meanwhile, contended that the alleged jihadist plot to bomb a military recruitment center in Catonsville was concocted purely by federal agents, who "induced" the Woodlawn man to participate in what amounted to a clear case of entrapment.

Attorneys for Eric D. Stennett gave the first hint of his possible defense on federal drug and weapons charges yesterday, saying they wanted to question Baltimore police at a routine detention hearing next week about the events surrounding the teen's arrest. The actions of city police are expected to be closely scrutinized in the case against 18-year-old Stennett, who was acquitted last year in the death of a Baltimore officer - a verdict denounced by city police officials. After Stennett's arrest March 9, Police Commissioner Edward T. Norris urged federal authorities to prosecute the relatively routine drug case in U.S. District Court, where Stennett could face stiffer penalties if convicted.