Canterbury

Howard High School wrestler Steve Canterbury is a senior tri-captain on a rebuilding team for the second time in his four-year career with the Lions. His coach, Sean Alkire, said having Canterbury on the team "is like having another coach." And at Howard, the extra help from the seniors is necessary. This season the squad has 15 freshmen, only one of whom had ever wrestled before the day he walked into the Howard gym for tryouts. Canterbury, 17, wrestles in the 145-pound weight class, carries a 3.9 weighted grade point average and hopes to attend Loyola or the University of Maryland next season.

The style of fence is called "Barcelona," but some residents of Tuscany-Canterbury say it reminds them more of Berlin. It's the "Gorbachev fence" to the mother of neighbor Fred Chalfant, who often walks his dog past the barrier, which is six-feet tall, topped with spikes and divides West 39th Street down the middle. Last week, Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke called it “a Berlin Wall of a fence,” as she demanded justification for the fence's appearance, in a letter to the city's Department of Transportation, which erected the fence in mid-April.

Tuscany-Canterbury, a North Baltimore neighborhood known for its architectural diversity, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. Much of the credit for the designation goes to Eileen Higham, a psychologist who began to write a book-length history of the community -- the world outside her Tudor-style window -- five years ago. Her research led to the application for historical status. Higham, who has lived with her husband in the neighborhood since 1970, fits the informal profile of the 3,000 residents of this triangular enclave north of the Johns Hopkins University campus, bounded by University Parkway, Charles Street and Linkwood Road: bookish, academic or professional and settled.

The Baltimore Department of Transportation has a message for the residents of Tuscany-Canterbury: Do not walk on our grass. But instead of little signs, the transportation department conveys that message with a six-foot, spike-topped fence. The barrier runs down the middle of the newly seeded median it is protecting. "They say it's to protect the grass, but a light layer of hay would have remedied that," said Sandra Snow, who lives and works in the neighborhood. "A nice path, a walkway, a low hedge - there are so many things that could have been done.

At the corner of Tuscany and Canterbury roads -- among the high-rise apartments and redbrick townhouses -- stands an Elizabethan half-timber and a modern Tudor-influenced structure. What they represent is an anomaly in this changing city community.Go to the former on a weekend night, and you'll see Johns Hopkins University students dimming the party lights of the three-story fraternity house at 3906 Canterbury, with the sounds of alternative bands permeating the streets.Go to the latter on a weekday afternoon, and you'll experience a two-block line of double-parked station wagons and minivans lined up in front of the Calvert School on Tuscany, with anxious mothers honking and children playing on the curb.

POLICE LOG* North Laurel: 9000 block of Canterbury Riding: Someone entered a home through an unlocked door Tuesday and vandalized the home, but nothing was taken, police said.

* North Laurel: 9300 block of Canterbury Riding: Someone on Wednesday tampered with a lock box. Nothing was taken.

The Archbishop of Canterbury came to Baltimore spouting H. L. Mencken. The man knows his Scripture.No new taxes. Ever. Ever. Well, hardly ever.Family values don't include family leave.A jury in Minneapolis let wide receivers go deep.

On July 17, 2003, PHYLLIS CRITZER (nee Canterbury) of Red Lion, PA; beloved wife of the late Joseph Edward Critzer; devoted mother of Peter Alan Critzer and Phyllis Ellen Watkowski; loving sister of Pearl Canterbury Furr. Also survived by four grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at the Jarrettsville Cemetery, Jarretsville, MD on Saturday August 16, 2003 at 1 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to White Rose Hospice, 2870 Eastern Blvd. York, PA 17402.

The Queen Anne's County state's attorney's office has filed criminal charges against the owner of a Centreville horse farm from which 140 animals were seized in April. Marsha H. Parkinson, 66, owner of Canterbury Farms, faces 35 animal cruelty charges of failure to provide adequate care for an animal, after the horses were taken from her Melfield Lane farm, according to electronic court records. Neither Parkinson nor Queen Anne's State's Attorney Lance G. Richardson returned calls seeking comment Tuesday afternoon.

On Monday, January 4, 2010, VIRGINIA H. CANTERBURY, age 86, of Crofton, MD, formerly of Oxon Hill, MD, and Sarasota, FL; wife of the late Forrest J. Canterbury; mother of Janet G. Elm (Barry) and Michael J. Canterbury (Ellen). Also survived by five grandsons and three great-grandchildren. Family will receive friends at the Robert E. Evans Funeral Home, 16000 Annapolis Road, Bowie, MD, on Thursday, January 7, 2010 from 2:30 to 4 P.M. and 6 to 8 P.M. A funeral service will be held 11 A.M Friday, January 8, 2010 at the Community United Methodist Church, Crofton, MD. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

A 21-year old North Laurel man is in the Howard County Detention Center, held on $350,000 bail and facing charges that he robbed two different people at knifepoint in the same shopping center on the same day, including one incident that involved a kidnapping and carjacking. Nortel Maurice Clayton, who lives with his family in the 9500 block of Canterbury Riding in North Laurel, was arrested Wednesday night while seeking treatment for a minor injury at Prince George's Hospital Center, according to Howard County police.

This week we update you on an issue previously covered in Watchdog. Update:: Yes, Linkwood Road in Baltimore is still closed at its southern end. And it will remain closed until at least the end of the year. The street, which connects University Parkway in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood with Cold Spring Lane, has been closed since early 2008, when work began on the Lower Stony Run Interceptor, a two-year, $40 million sewer project. Nearly a year ago, Watchdog told readers that the contractors had encountered rock, an unforeseen circumstance despite surveys completed before the project began.

Howard High School wrestler Steve Canterbury is a senior tri-captain on a rebuilding team for the second time in his four-year career with the Lions. His coach, Sean Alkire, said having Canterbury on the team "is like having another coach." And at Howard, the extra help from the seniors is necessary. This season the squad has 15 freshmen, only one of whom had ever wrestled before the day he walked into the Howard gym for tryouts. Canterbury, 17, wrestles in the 145-pound weight class, carries a 3.9 weighted grade point average and hopes to attend Loyola or the University of Maryland next season.

The problem: A Tuscany-Canterbury sewer project has stretched more than two months past its originally posted completion date. The backstory: Carol Gamble lives in The Colonnade on University Parkway at Canterbury Road, one street east of Linkwood Road. Linkwood has been closed since April, when a construction project began. Originally a "Road Closed" sign there indicated that the project would be completed by July 14. However, as that date approached, the specific date disappeared from the sign, and work has continued until the present, more than two months since that original completion date.

Dudley Clendinen is a veteran journalist, and he knows a story when he sees one. So, when it dawned on him that all he and his middle-aged friends were talking about was the latest crisis in the health and lives of their aging parents, he thought he might be seeing a theme. When his own mother, whom he had gently persuaded to move into a retirement facility but who was so active at 80 that most pages on her calendar had multiple entries, suffered a stroke in 1998 -- from which she would only partially recover -- he felt like God himself had hired him to document what he describes as the "funny, sad, compelling soap opera" of the last decades of life.

Television needs another legal drama like it needs a hole in the head, but we'll make an exception for Canterbury's Law, a gripping new Fox drama starring Julianna Margulies. For Margulies, who first seized our attention in ER, it marks a welcome return to series TV and this time she doesn't have to share the spotlight with George Clooney or anyone else. It's her show, and Margulies takes command of it with uncontainable gusto. On TV Canterbury's Law airs at 8 tonight on Fox (Channel 45)