Catonsville High School

First Financial Federal Credit Union honored students from the area's three public schools with scholarships of $3,000 each during its annual meeting in Timonium last month. Among the recipients were: • Sarah Anderson, Catonsville High School • Lindsay Yerrid, RICA Catonsville Educational Center • Melissa Miller, Lansdowne High School • Jacob Badin, Western School of Technology and Environmental Science. To qualify, students were required to be First Financial members, have a minimum unweighted grade point average of 2.5, be involved in school and community activities, and submit an essay, an academic reference letter, and a character reference letter.

I wonder if anyone knows why the power companies seem to have such a hard time keeping the power on in south Catonsville during foul weather. I live near Catonsville High School. During July, power has been interrupted twice, for roughly a total of about five hours. That doesn't seem like much but I have family living near Edmondson Avenue and their power has yet to go out this month. I've lived at my current location for close to 18 years. In all that time, power outages seem to have occurred remarkably more frequently than in any other section of Catonsville.

The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women named Jennifer Wheeler Teacher of the Year for 2010-11. She completed a second year on the faculty of the Baltimore public charter school onFranklin Street. She is the social studies/language arts team leader and a sixth-grade teacher. A 2001 alumna of Catonsville High School, Wheeler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Virginia. After participating in the Baltimore City Teaching Residency program, she received a master's degree in teaching fromJohns Hopkins University.

Craig and Rosemary Law, of Catonsville, announce the engagement of their son, Christopher C. Law, to Caitlin J. Weber, daughter of William and Robin Weber, who reside in Hilton, N.Y. In 2005, the future groom graduated from Catonsville High School before earning a degree in business administration and sports management from Nazareth College of Rochester, N.Y. He is employed by Paychex in Baltimore as a payroll sales representative. His fiancee, an alumna of Hilton High School, graduated from Nazareth College of Rochester, with a degree in music education.

Outlining what they said were deplorable conditions in some Baltimore County schools -- including too little space, leaky roofs and inadequate libraries -- parents last night urged the county school board to adopt the proposed operating budget.About 80 people attended a public hearing at Catonsville High School to address the board on the subject of the $518 million budget that Superintendent Robert Y. Dubel proposed Jan. 23.Phyllis Cherry, representing the Catonsville High School PTA, said she hoped the board would not cut money for building maintenance and operations.

Susquehanna University, in Selinsgrove, Pa., announced that Morgan Jackson was inducted into the National Biological Honor Society. Jackson, a rising junior biology major, graduated from Catonsville High School in 2009. Her parents are Matthew and Denise Jackson. Salisbury University announced that these Catonsville students received diplomas during a ceremony at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center: • John Cary, Bachelor of Science in physical education. • Michael Keenan, Bachelor of Science in biology.

An Relay resident attending Catonsville High School and a Catonsville resident attending the Carver Center for Arts and Technology area have been chosen as 2013 candidates for the Presidential Scholars Program. Adam Antoszewski, a senior at Catonsville, and Sarah Miller, a senior at the county magnet high school in Towson, are among approximately 3,000 students from across the country recognized. They are the only students from Baltimore County public schools to be selected.

Clara Mae Boender, a retired reading specialist and elementary school teacher who taught for 54 years, died of multisystem organ failure Jan. 12 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 86. Born Clara Mae Crouch in Baltimore and raised in the Paradise section of Catonsville, she was the daughter of Harry Crouch, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad worker, and Ruth Crouch, who founded the Kinder Kraft Kindergarten, a school located in Catonsville and later Ten Hills.