Brighton

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Vyacheslav Dobrer, the 38-year-old manager of the hot new Russian restaurant Passage in Brighton Beach, scans his list of caviar suppliers, takes a bottle of vodka off his office shelf and launches into a discussion of the newest food staple on Brooklyn's southern coast."

FiresGamber: Firefighters from Gamber and Sykesville responded at 10: 33 a.m. Sunday to a truck fire on Sykesville Road. Units were out 51 minutes.Sykesville: Firefighters responded at 9: 22 p.m. Friday to a carbon monoxide alert in the 5900 block of Brighton Drive. Units were out 25 minutes.Pub Date: 10/27/98

With its booming population of prosperous elderly people, Howard County is becoming a magnet for large, chain-owned assisted-living homes.The number of beds in large facilities is nearly doubling -- to 519 -- with the opening last week of Marriott Corp.'s 102-bed Brighton Gardens in Columbia's Owen Brown village, and the scheduled opening in February of Care Matrix Corp.'s 125-bed Chancellor Gardens in the village of Dorsey Hall.Howard is graying faster than any jurisdiction in Maryland, with a 260 percent increase in seniors predicted by 2020.

Host Marriott Corp. said yesterday that it will buy four retirement communities for $96.2 million, as the company expands its roster of senior-living facilities.The Bethesda-based company said it agreed to buy the 124-unit Gables at Winchester in suburban Boston and the 418-unit Leisure Park in Lakewood, N.J., in separate transactions for a combined $61 million. The facilities are expected to have earnings before interest expense, taxes, depreciation, amortization and other noncash items, or EBITDA, of about $7.1 million this year.

Marriott International Inc. agreed to sell eight senior housing communities to Aureus Group LLC for $140 million in cash and will continue to manage them, Marriott said yesterday.Two of the eight communities, operating under the "Brighton Gardens" name, opened recently in Danvers, Mass., and Woodbridge, Conn. The other six are under construction in Carlsbad, San Dimas, and Carmel Valley, Calif.; Arlington and Richmond, Va.; and Pikesville.Marriott, a leading hotel operator based in Bethesda, also runs 102 senior-citizen communities with more than 19,000 units.

With its booming population of prosperous elderly people, Howard County is becoming a magnet for large, chain-owned assisted-living homes.The number of beds in large facilities is nearly doubling -- to 519 -- with the opening last week of Marriott Corp.'s 102-bed Brighton Gardens in Columbia's Owen Brown village, and the scheduled opening in February of Care Matrix Corp.'s 125-bed Chancellor Gardens in the Village of Dorsey Hall.Howard is graying faster than any jurisdiction in Maryland, with a 260 percent increase in seniors predicted by 2020.

A man who was robbing a Crownsville WaWa store was scared away yesterday by headlights from a car pulling up to the store, county police said.A clerk at the store in the 1000 block of General's Highway told police the man walked into the store about 3: 30 a.m. and asked for two cartons of cigarettes.When the clerk turned around to get them, the man put his hand into his coat pocket, pointed it at the clerk and demanded money, police said. The clerk told him the register wouldn't open, so he walked around the counter to open it himself.

Police logClarksville: 13600 block of Brighton Dam Road: Burglars took a TV, tools, cash and coins from a home and an adjacent shed Monday. Police said a neighbor saw a man in a midsize, two-door gray or faded blue vehicle in the area.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore city and county.Central DistrictShooting: A 21-year-old resident of the 900 block of Hendler Lane was in his back yard Tuesday when an occupant of a car that had stopped in the 2400 block of Eutaw Place shot him in both arms and the chest. He was in serious condition yesterday at University of Maryland Medical Center.Northeastern DistrictRobbery: A youth was in the 5600 block of Loch Raven Blvd. on Tuesday when a man robbed him of cash and property, all valued at $80.Robbery: A motorist was in the 1600 block of Pentwood Road on Tuesday when two men, one with a handgun, robbed him of his 1989 Plymouth.

Police logClarksville: 13600 block of Brighton Dam Road: An intruder kicked in a home's door Wednesday and ransacked the house, but police said nothing was taken.

The discovery of a discolored and worn-thin penny rarely generates enthusiasm, unless the discoverer is digging into history and the coin provides insight into the life of another era. Brianne Reynolds, an anthropology student at the University of Maryland, College Park, found the 1891 penny while sifting through what remains of an Irish-American enclave in Baltimore County just north of Timonium. "It's greenish so it stuck out in the red clay," Reynolds said. "It's definitely in the right period.

Witches hanging from tall trees. Jack-o'-lanterns leering from porches. A sign amid a swirl of leaves that reads "Ghoulish Greetings." It's getting spooky along Lakeside Drive, a leafy lane that climbs a gentle slope in a rural part of Howard County. But one house near the top of the hill is noticeably decoration-free. For the family that lives there, the past four years have been, they claim, nightmarish enough. Seventeen years ago, James and Linda Rhee bought the two-story home with the stately white columns in the Brighton Pines subdivision.

Glenelg Country School will present "The James Munsey Comedy Hypnosis Show," a comedic entertainment with audience participation, at 7 p.m. April 3. Tickets are $10 and can be reserved at show@glenelg.org. Proceeds will help pay for the school's drama students to travel to Edinburgh, Scotland, to present their production, Aesop's Foibles. The Glenelg Country School is at 12793 Folly Quarter Road, near Glenelg. Information: 410-531-8600. Or visit www.munseyentertainment.com. Roundabout work to close road for day Construction of the roundabout at Brighton Dam and Ten Oaks roads in Clarksville will result in a one-day road closure of Brighton Dam Road just west of Ten Oaks Road on or about April 5. If weather conditions prohibit construction, the work will be rescheduled for April 12. The closure will allow the Brighton Dam Road connection to the roundabout to be completed.

The Howard County Conservancy at Mount Pleasant Farm in Woodstock will offer a workshop on Bluebird Boxes at 10 a.m. Saturday. Jo Solem, a member of the Howard County Bird Club, will speak about bluebirds, the reasons for their diminishing numbers and preparations that can be made in the spring to help support the song birds. Parents and children are invited to attend. The workshop is part of the conservancy's Wonder Walk/Wonder Talk series, providing opportunities for families to explore the natural world together.

ALAN C. WRAY age 57 died at his home Friday, July 21, 2006 following a long illness. Mr. Wray was born January 8, 1949 in New Castle, PA to John and Eleanor (Rietz) Wray. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was retired from the W.R. Grace and Co. (Davidson). Mr. Wray is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Cynthia L. Koonce and Duane E. Miller of Lisbon, Ohio and a niece Rebecca A. Miller of Grove City, PA. Services will be 11 A.M. Friday, July 28, 2006 at the Dean's Funeral Home, 256 West Ohio Ave., Sebring, Ohio with Pastor Tom Stout officiating.

Karen Wright Occupation Karen Wright's official title is "systems control group leader" for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. She controls three dams in Maryland: the T. Howard Duckett and Brighton dams on the Patuxent River and the Little Seneca Creek Dam on the Potomac River. She also oversees 16 water pumping stations and 59 water storage facilities, which provide drinking water to hundreds of thousands of customers. In the news Wright ordered the T. Howard Duckett and Brighton dams' gates open early last week, sending water from their reservoirs rushing downstream, flooding the parking lot of the Laurel Park race course, a roadway and a few low-lying businesses near Laurel's MARC train station.

Nathan A. Chapman Jr. agreed yesterday to pay $215,000 in exchange for federal prosecutors dropping bank fraud charges left over after his public corruption trial last year. Chapman, 47, was convicted by a jury in U.S. District Court last summer on 23 counts that included defrauding the state's pension system, stealing from his own companies and lying on tax returns. He was sentenced in November to 7 1/2 years in prison and is free pending appeal. The former star investor, who had hobnobbed with Maryland's financial and political elite, also was ordered to pay more than $5 million in restitution.

On May 11, 2005, JEAN P., beloved daughter of Mary Blackwell. She is also survived by a devoted husband Charles Brighton, one aunt, two uncles and other relatives. Friends may visit JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOMES INC., 1701 Laurens St., Monday 2 to 7 P.M. On Tuesday the family will receive friends 10:30 to 11 A.M., followed by services.

On Saturday, November 20, 2004, HELEN C. HARRISON, (nee Coplan); loving wife of the late Harold E. Harrison; beloved mother of Richard G. Harrrison of Ithaca, NY and Stephen C. Harrison of Brighton, MA; devoted mother in-law of Ellen Zucker Harrison; loving grandmother of Rebekah Caravelli and Melissa Harrison. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS. INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Monday, November 22, at 10 A.M. Interment Arlington Cemetery-Chizuk Amuno Congregation. Please omit flowers.

On April 24, 2004, JUNE EVERS OSSMAN of Brighton Gardens, Towson, Maryland, beloved wife of the late Alfred George Ossman, Jr., M.D. and beloved mother of Carol Denise Ossman, Gay Lynne Rudow and A. George Ossman, III; mother-in-law of Scott Rudow and Barbara Ossman; dear grandmother of Benjamin, Heather, George Michael and Andy. A Memorial Service will be held in the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road, (at Overbrook) on Friday, April 30, at 1:00 PM. Interment private.