Caplan

On Friday, December 19, 2003, STEVEN CAPLAN; loving husband of Judy Caplan (nee Cimino); beloved father of Steven J. Caplan, Jr. and Robyn Caplan; devoted son of Donald and Joan Caplan; beloved brother of the late Robin Caplan Norris; devoted uncle of Jason Norris. Funeral Services and interment at the Beth Tfiloh Congregation Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Road, on Sunday, December 21, at 10 A.M. Please omit flowers. In mourning at 7507 Labyrinth Road (21208). Arrangements by SOL LEVINSON & BROS.

Lois G. Caplan, a retired library supervisor and film buff, died Dec. 25 of cancer at her Arnold home. She was 71. A daughter of dungaree manufacturers, the former Lois Gloria Simons was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1960 from North Philadelphia's Olney High School. After training as a laboratory technician, she worked at Philadelphia General Hospital. She married Ivan Lee Caplan in 1964, and they moved to Pikesville. Since 1979, they lived in Arnold.

On Monday, December 20, 2004 YETTA CAPLAN (nee Edelson), beloved wife of the late Louis Caplan, loving mother of Yale Caplan and Ann Spicer, dear mother-in-law of Sue Caplan and Robert Spicer, loving grandmother of Ilene and Larry Berman, Lee and Christina Caplan, Erica Caplan, Michael, Brandon and Brian Spicer. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS, INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd at Mt. Wilson Lane on Wednesday, December 22 at 11 A.M. Interment Adath Yeshuran Cemetery, 6700 Bowleys Lane. Please omit flowers.

Caplan's was a fixture of Historic Ellicott City for 26 years. But as owner John Caplan shared, “We decided to close our retail business there because the auction and appraisal business had grown to the point where we needed to focus solely on that.” Caplan's Auction & Appraisal Co. recently relocated to the Cotton Shed Building in historic Savage Mill. Auctions are held twice a week at that location -- making Caplan's one of the busiest auctioneers in the state. The free admission public auctions are held Sundays at 4:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Court-certified in the state of Maryland, Caplan's offers free verbal appraisals at any time and also offers walk-in and walk-through services.

On Wednesday, June 28, 2006, CHARLOTTE CAPLAN (nee Forman), beloved wife of Charles Caplan, loving mother of Hilliary Noppinger of Reisterstown, MD and Cheryl Caplan-Zalis of Baltimore, MD., devoted mother-in-law of David Noppinger and Ken Zalis, beloved sister of Eli Forman of New Jersey, Lila Hirsch-Brody of Pittsburgh, PA. Loving grandmother of Jonah Avi Zalis Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane on Thursday, June...

The swine flu vaccine will be distributed when it becomes available to every student in Howard County with parental consent, the county's health officer said last week. Dr. Peter L. Beilenson said the process probably would occur in early November and would take two weeks. Parents must give written permission for their children to receive the vaccine. "It's always going to be the parents' choice," said Patti Caplan, a spokeswoman for the county school system. "We have to have a signed form from the parent in order to get the vaccine."

Sandra J. Caplan, a former businesswoman who owned and operated a Mount Washington florist and clothing store and later became a founding member of New Directions for Women Inc., died Friday of pneumonia at Sinai Hospital. The Cross Keys resident was 75. Sandra Joan Axe was born in Philadelphia and raised in Lower Merion Township, Pa. After graduating in 1951 from Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pa., she attended Pennsylvania State University for a year. In 1953, she married Martin Caplan, a Baltimore businessman, who later owned A-1 Cleaning Service, a home cleaning business.

As Harford County Library nears a circulation record, deep budget cuts have forced administrators to lay off staff, reduce purchases of new materials and limit hours. Audra L. Caplan, library director, spent Friday delivering layoff notices to several of her staff and trying to find a way to keep all 11 branches open. Caplan would not say how many employees she had to let go, but they were in addition to the 34 dismissals that County Executive David R. Craig announced Thursday. The library already had frozen 20 vacant positions.

A new partnership between seven Rotary Clubs in Howard County and the school system will give every third-grader in the county a new dictionary, school officials said. The dictionaries have been distributed since the beginning of the school year to the 3,500 third-graders in the county, said school system spokeswoman Patti Caplan. Dictionaries also have been given to the Bridges Program, an after-school program for underachieving students. Under the partnership, which is scheduled to be formalized Wednesday, the seven clubs have agreed to purchase and distribute copies of A Student's Dictionary & Gazetteer.

A scuffle at a Howard County high school between adults and teens from two feuding families led to six arrests, police and school officials said. Four students and two adults were charged with disorderly conduct in the incident Tuesday at Reservoir High in Fulton, police said. The members of the two families - students ages 15 to 17 and two female adults - encountered one another in the front office during the school day and began to bicker, said school system spokeswoman Patti Caplan.

Comment puts teacher on leave A Howard County high school teacher has been put on paid administrative leave after making a racially insensitive comment to an African-American student, school officials said Thursday. The teacher, a world language instructor at Reservoir High School in Fulton, has been on leave since March 5, the day the incident occurred, according to school system spokeswoman Patti Caplan. The school system also filed a hate-bias incident report with the Howard County Police Department, police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said.

Howard County school officials are hoping that the way to parents' ears is through the tummies of their kids. Looking for a new way to communicate messages, the school system has arranged to have cards urging parents to register their kindergarten-eligible children for school next fall included in Happy Meals at several county McDonald's restaurants. About 22,000 of the cards will be distributed, beginning in the next couple of weeks, school officials say. Registration for new students or students entering kindergarten in county schools is under way. School officials were looking for other ways to reach parents when the idea was hatched, schools spokeswoman Patti Caplan said.

Few students would complain about a snow day. But it might be a good idea to check back in with them June 18. That's the new last day of the school year in Howard County public schools as dictated by last week's winter storm, which scuttled two days of classes. The originally scheduled last day was Tuesday, June 16. The weather created an extended, unexpected break for county students, who had a half-day for testing Friday, Jan. 23, and last Monday for a scheduled professional work day. Tuesday and Wednesday's snow days, plus a two-hour delay Thursday, amounted to a gift from the gods of winter.