Camp Meade

Song Kim, owner of Buddy's Pizza, said he didn't know the sign along Camp Meade Road or the banner on his van or another sign above his store weren't allowed by the county.Kim said business has been slow at the fast-food shop in the Shipley-Linthicum Shopping Center since he took over in April, too slow for a man with a family to support.Now the county has told him the signs and banners must be gone by Aug. 16. Other merchants along Camp Meade Road are waiting to see if they get a visit from the county, too.Since April, a neighborhood association has filed at least a half-dozen complaints, including one against the pizza shop.

It was 1944 when Alfred Shehab first arrived at Fort Meade. He came from Georgia to get outfitted with gear and shipped off to Europe, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The Army post was also the last station of his military career; he retired as a lieutenant colonel. Convinced that Fort Meade should have a memorial park to honor fallen soldiers, the Odenton man later led a decade of discussions and planning that culminated yesterday with the groundbreaking of Centennial Park.

A two-vehicle accident on the inner loop of Interstate 695 in Linthicum early yesterday left a 27-year-old man dead and three others in serious condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to Maryland State Police,The deceased, whose name was not released by police pending notification of relatives, was traveling north in a Mazda RX-7 when he lost control of his car and struck a Ford truck, a guard rail and a tree near the Camp Meade Road exit, police...

On July 3, 1918, the Department of War was mulling plans to abandon what was then known as Camp Meade. Under pressure to comply with President Calvin Coolidge's economic program, War Department officials were planning to dismantle the camp after the summer training had ended for soldiers stationed there. It was thought that closing the World War I-era installation, which cost $7 million to build, would lead to considerable savings. Instead, the Tank Corps Headquarters and the Tank School were established at the Army camp a year later, in 1919.

Camp Meade Road near Baltimore-Washington International Airport was closed for more than an hour yesterday morning as firefighters worked to extinguish a fire that ignited when construction workers severed a gas line.A construction crew doing road repairs triggered the fire in the 800 block of Camp Meade Road at 9:50 a.m., fire and police officials said.The fire burned a small grassy area until Baltimore Gas and Electric turned off the gas, said fire department Battalion Chief Gary Sheckells.

Two men, one armed with a handgun, robbed a Linthicum Royal Farm Store Wednesday night and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money, county police said.A clerk at the store in the 300 block of Camp Meade Road told police the robbers entered the store about 9:20 p.m. One of the men put a pack of cigarettes on the counter and ordered the clerk to give him money. The second man pulled out a silver revolver and pointed it at the clerk, who complied, police said.The men fled the store on foot and headed north on Camp Meade Road.

75 years ago Two hundred and sixty midshipmen received their graduation diplomas from President Warren Harding at commercial exercises in Annapolis today. The graduates comprise the second section of the 1921 class. The first section graduated a year in advance of the regular time. -- The Sun, June 2, 1921.Arrangements for a 36-piece band from Camp Meade to play in public parks as a recruiting device for a civilian training camp to be held at Camp Meade in August have been made by the Military Training Camps Association.

75 years ago Service on the Annapolis Short Line division of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad, which was curtailed Monday by cutting off 10 trains, will be restored Saturday as a result of quick action by the Public Service Commission. -- The Sun, May 5, 1921.The U.S. Senate adopted an amendment to a Naval bill allowing 110 midshipmen who recently failed examinations to have another trial rather than being expelled. Senators were informed that teaching methods at the academy were "absolutely archaic."

County police arrested a Linthicum man and youth Monday on charges of robbing a neighborhood gas station of an undisclosed amount of money.Aaron Michael Hatt, 17, of the 200 block of Greenwood Road and Allen Wade Sparrow, 33, of the 500 block of S. Camp Meade Road were charged in the robbery of a Citgo station in the 500 block of S. Camp Meade Road. Hatt was charged as an adult.An unidentified clerk told police a youth armed with a handgun robbed him about 10 p.m. as he was preparing to leave.

Light-rail construction work forces road closingsDrivers in Linthicum, Woodlawn Heights and Ferndale will face several more weeks of aggravation due to light-rail construction.A number of roads have already been closed and reopened. Traffic along the following roads will be disrupted in the coming weeks:* The Route 648 bridge crossing at Annapolis Road will periodically be limited to single-lane traffic throughout October.* Twin Oaks Road, which has been closed at Camp Meade Road for a few weeks, will remain closed for another week or 10 days.

Before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Rev. Phebe L. McPherson didn't understand how the World War I ministers managed to build Epiphany Episcopal Church near what is now Fort Meade. Over the years, she had heard about the two Washington women who gave the seed money, the workers who constructed the chapel in just 60 days, the chaplain-turned-jitney driver who ferried soldiers from the Army base to the Odenton Road church. But until she saw terror in her own country, and the way people came together to help victims afterward, the history didn't sink in. "It was just sort of facts on a page," McPherson says now. "After Sept.

A two-vehicle accident on the inner loop of Interstate 695 in Linthicum early yesterday left a 27-year-old man dead and three others in serious condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to Maryland State Police,The deceased, whose name was not released by police pending notification of relatives, was traveling north in a Mazda RX-7 when he lost control of his car and struck a Ford truck, a guard rail and a tree near the Camp Meade Road exit, police...

A proposal to build two assisted-living residences at Camp Meade and Andover roads, each to house 15 elderly people, will be discussed at 7: 30 p.m. April 9 during the Linthicum-Shipley Improvement Association's meeting.Constellation Health Services, a subsidiary of Constellation Real Estate Inc., would be the developer. At the meeting, Constellation officials will present their plans to residents and answer questions.The one-story buildings would each have 11 parking spaces. They would be built on a 2-acre vacant lot near Lindale-Brooklyn Park Middle School that is zoned for five homes per acre.

County police arrested a Linthicum man and youth Monday on charges of robbing a neighborhood gas station of an undisclosed amount of money.Aaron Michael Hatt, 17, of the 200 block of Greenwood Road and Allen Wade Sparrow, 33, of the 500 block of S. Camp Meade Road were charged in the robbery of a Citgo station in the 500 block of S. Camp Meade Road. Hatt was charged as an adult.An unidentified clerk told police a youth armed with a handgun robbed him about 10 p.m. as he was preparing to leave.

Nestled among trees on Camp Meade Road, the cream-colored rancher with long porches and white columns looks more like someone's home than Arundel's only residential hospice for terminally ill patients. And that was the idea for Chesapeake Hospice House."Everything is designed to be really, really homey," said Allison vTC Alexander, spokeswoman for the Hospice of the Chesapeake, which is to operate the residence in Linthicum. "We wanted this place to feel like home, not an institution."More than 200 people attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday to dedicate the six-bedroom home, which will begin accepting patients in two to three weeks.

Song Kim, owner of Buddy's Pizza, said he didn't know the sign along Camp Meade Road or the banner on his van or another sign above his store weren't allowed by the county.Kim said business has been slow at the fast-food shop in the Shipley-Linthicum Shopping Center since he took over in April, too slow for a man with a family to support.Now the county has told him the signs and banners must be gone by Aug. 16. Other merchants along Camp Meade Road are waiting to see if they, too, get a visit from the county.

The county Historical Society is looking for baseballs -- autographed by Baltimore's own Babe Ruth -- that could rekindle memories of when America's past time came to Camp Meade 68 years ago.The Bambino himself hit 24 balls into a crowd of 1,800 citizen soldiers the day after Independence Day, 1924.Now the Ann Arrundell County Historical Society would like to find some of those treasures so it can set up a joint exhibit with the Fort Meade Museum.But officials are not very optimistic. "It seems unlikely at this point," said society member Jack Mellin, who wrote an article on the Babe's appearance in last month's society newsletter.

75 years ago Two hundred and sixty midshipmen received their graduation diplomas from President Warren Harding at commercial exercises in Annapolis today. The graduates comprise the second section of the 1921 class. The first section graduated a year in advance of the regular time. -- The Sun, June 2, 1921.Arrangements for a 36-piece band from Camp Meade to play in public parks as a recruiting device for a civilian training camp to be held at Camp Meade in August have been made by the Military Training Camps Association.