Brooklandville

The State Highway Administration plans to vacate a site that it has occupied for more than 40 years and sell the 10-acre property, located near Green Spring Station in Brooklandville, to developers. Selling the land and moving operations to new offices will ultimately save the state money, spokeswoman Valerie Burnette Edgar said. "Our study determined it made more sense economically to build something new," she said. "Because of the area there, when we go to sell [the land], it should be very worthwhile."

A New Orleans educator has been named the new head of the St. Paul's School for Girls in Brooklandville. Penny Bach Evins, who currently heads the lower division of Isidore Newman School, will take on her new post in July, SPSG's board of trustees announced. Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Judith C. Ensor, the board's president and an SPSG alumna, said in a prepared statement that Evins was "an exceptional role model for our girls. " The Isidore Newman School, the alma mater of NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning and writer Michael Lewis, is a non-denominational school founded in 1903.

John "Bud" Hatfield Jr., the genial publican who can be found most days and nights in the venerable Valley Inn, remembers growing up in Brooklandville during the 1920s and 1930s, when the little Green Spring Valley village was nothing more than a tranquil spot on Falls Road."

St. Paul's School for Girls held its 2012 commencement on Saturday, June 9, at the Brooklandville campus. The following are members of the Class of 2012: Madison Martin Aldave, Antonia Fotios Araviakis Melanie Elizabeth Blank, Emma Virginia Morse Bolton, Sarah Elizabeth Bowman, Brooke Hamilton Boyd, Kelly Weeks Boyd, Alison Lotti Braig, Jada Denise Brewer, Charlotte Harvey Brooks, Kendra Ashley Brown, Alexis Kendall Brunson, Katherine Quinn...

An 11-year-old Baltimore County boy who was on safari in Botswana was killed Tuesday by a hyena that attacked him inside his tent, a U.S. State Department official said yesterday. Mark Garrity Shea of Brooklandville was traveling with his mother on their second visit to Botswana in two years when the attack occurred, said the official, who had few specifics about the incident. The boy, who was known as Garrit to his classmates, was a pupil at Fort Garrison Elementary School in Baltimore County.

A small handwritten sign taped to the directory of stores and offices at Green Spring Station reads: "Save the Post Office. Complain Now." Notices were mailed out this week that the U.S. Postal Service would close its Brooklandville branch in the Green Spring Station shopping and office complex this summer when its lease expires. A spokeswoman said the postal service is looking for another location. But the post office's current location will become part of a bakery. It's unclear whether the central Baltimore County community will get a new branch, and that has upset some longtime Brooklandville postal customers.

Francesca Danieli, an artist who won praise for her photo collages and politically themed video works, died of breast cancer June 27 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Brooklandville resident was 52. Born Francesca Costagliola in Bethesda, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and a master's degree in business administration from Columbia University. At age 25, she legally changed her name to Danieli. In 1986 she married Gary Gensler, a former partner at Goldman Sachs who became an assistant secretary of the treasury in the Clinton administration.

on Tuesday, June 27, 2006, FRANCESCA DANIELI (nee Costagliola). Beloved Wife of Gary Gensler of Brooklandville, Maryland. Beloved and Cherished Mother of Anna, Lee & Isabel of Brooklandville, MD. Loving Sister of Marisa Costagliola of Columbia, MD., Antonia Burns-Cambridge, MD and Rose Rubin of Falls Church, Virginia. Beloved Daughter of Francesco Costagliola-(Capt. Retired) and the late Agnes Costagliola Services from Home: 1116 Greenspring Valley Road Brooklandville, MD (21022) on Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 1:30 P.M. Interment Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery-Berrymans Lane.

St. Paul's School for Girls held its 2012 commencement on Saturday, June 9, at the Brooklandville campus. The following are members of the Class of 2012: Madison Martin Aldave, Antonia Fotios Araviakis Melanie Elizabeth Blank, Emma Virginia Morse Bolton, Sarah Elizabeth Bowman, Brooke Hamilton Boyd, Kelly Weeks Boyd, Alison Lotti Braig, Jada Denise Brewer, Charlotte Harvey Brooks, Kendra Ashley Brown, Alexis Kendall Brunson, Katherine Quinn...

A Tribute to the memory of MANFRED and HILDE SCHWEITZERMemorial will be held on Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 2 P.M. at the Park School, 2425 Old Court Rd., Brooklandville, MD. Reception to follow.

In the fall of 2006, the Students for Disabilities Awareness club at St. Paul's School for Girls was searching for a way to use sports to bring its members together with students who are physically or mentally disabled. LuAnn Blackman, the club's faculty sponsor, reached out to League of Dreams founder Frank Kolarek to explore the possibility of a partnership. "To this day she laughs," Kolarek said, "because I don't think I answered her first email. " Blackman eventually did contact Kolarek, and, with the help of League of Dreams, St. Paul's has just completed its fifth annual spring baseball program with special-needs students from Ridge Ruxton School.

All week, George Bolton told anyone who would listen that Astrology was better than a 14-1 long shot in the 136th Preakness, even if he had run only two races as a 3-year-old, and even if he smashed his head on the starting gate last time out. Bolton, co-owner of the Kentucky-bred colt with Barbara Banke, did not tell them why, though. "We knew one thing the bettors didn't know," the Brooklandville native said. "We knew he had the best work he ever had as a horse 12 days ago. We knew … that he was really coming into this race thriving.

On November 12, 2008, Christina "Tina" Appel A Celebration of Life brunch will be held for friends at noon on Sunday, November 23 at the Mt. Washington Tavern. Donations may be made in her memory to Animal Rescue, PO Box 35, Maryland Line, Md. 21105, or Hopewell Cancer Support, PO Box 755, Brooklandville, Md. 21022.

Caroline C. Buck, a homemaker and volunteer, died of complications from a stroke Wednesday at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 93. Caroline Cromwell was born in Baltimore and raised on Biddle Street and later in Roland Park. She was a 1932 graduate of Roland Park Country School and married Dr. Walter Bayly Buck, a Baltimore internist, in 1936. The couple lived for many years on Merryman Court in Roland Park before moving to Buckton, her father-in-law's Brooklandville estate, in the early 1970s.

On March 2, 2008, ELAINE B. VOGEL (nee Budacz), devoted wife of Charles C. Vogel, III; beloved mother of Stuart L. Vogel and his wife Helen K., Scott F. Vogel and his wife Heather M., and Spencer C. Vogel; loving grandmother of Grace L. and Emily S. Vogel, Connor S. and Blake T. Vogel. Friends may call at St. Paul's School Chapel, 11152 Falls Road, Brooklandville, MD 21022 on Thursday from 5 to 8 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd and the interment at Druid Ridge Mausoleum will both be private.

Green shoestrings normally aren't allowed at the St. Paul's School for Girls, but the dress code was relaxed yesterday. Students also wore green hair ribbons, green-and-white knee-high socks and T-shirts in almost every shade of the color. They dressed to mark the Brooklandville school's new designation as an environmentally aware school, or Green School. To become a Green School, St. Paul's School for Girls took such steps as creating a butterfly garden and banning commercial water bottles from campus.

Edgar Merryman Lucas, one of Maryland's most prominent thoroughbred breeders and enthusiastic horsemen, died Saturday of cancer at Blakehurst Life Care Community in Towson. He was 89.Mr. Lucas presided over Helmore Farm, his 87-acre horse breeding farm in Brooklandville, where during his career, more than 50 stakes winners were bred or raised."He was a charming kind of guy who always had a nice stable of horses," said Snowden Carter, Maryland racing historian and retired editor of the Maryland Horse.

Events Senior exercises -- Harbor Hospital LifeResource Center, 2990 S. Hanover St. / 11 a.m. Wednesday. Harbor fitness manager Mike Wozniak will demonstrate some simple workout moves for seniors. Free; registration required. 410-350-2563. Legal documents seminars -- The Baltimore County Department of Aging and the law firm of Frank, Frank and Scherr LLC are offering free discussions on health care decision-making, estate planning and asset management in area senior centers this month.