Cub Hill

After a year of negotiations, Baltimore County and state officials have worked out an agreement to buy a controversial city-owned park in Cub Hill for $1.9 million, according to a legislator involved in the talks.Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell, who is helping to orchestrate the deal, said he anticipates state approval to buy Graham Memorial Park off Harford Road in a few months -- a proposal that has sent ripples of relief through the community."That's great to hear," said Jana Leonard of Parkville, a park visitor for 20 years.

Even before any people arrived, Cub Hill was a family-oriented community.In 1685, the surveyor of William Burgess' land noted the large numbers of bear cubs roaming the wooded hills, and the area was so named.Today, Cub Hill remains a family neighborhood. "It's a 'Father Knows Best' kind of neighborhood," said Ron Walker, a veteran real estate agent who has sold many houses in the area for Century 21-Horizon Realty. "Solid middle class with kids," he added.Cub Hill, considered part of the Parkville-Carney corridor in northeast Baltimore County, is a residential neighborhood of single-family homes ranging in price from $115,000 to $200,000.

Call it Salvator and Hortensia's great adventure -- and, for one anxious night, their son's worst nightmare.Late Thursday afternoon, Octavio Norman reported to Baltimore County police that his elderly parents, Salvator and Hortensia Norman, had failed to return to their Cub Hill home from a customary late-morning, one-mile walk to North Plaza Mall.The family notified police about 6 p.m., and officers searched along Joppa Road, including malls and businesses, without success. Mr. Norman, 85, speaks English but suffers from dementia, and his 75-year-old wife does not speak English.

Baltimore County police were looking for a Cub Hill couple who failed to return home yesterday after taking a walk to a mall.Salvator Norman, 85, and his wife, Hortensia, 70, of the 9300 block of Waltham Woods Road left home about 11 a.m. for North Plaza Mall, about five blocks from their home, police said.Police said Mr. Norman, who suffers from dementia, is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and was wearing a black coat and hat. His wife is 5 feet tall, weighs 150 pounds and also was wearing a black coat.

Recent filings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Maryland, Baltimore City:Aug. 28Eastern Amusements Inc.,4132 E. Joppa Road, Cub Hill, t/a Silver Screen Cinemas, filed for protection under Chapter 11. Principal: Robert G. Weinholt, president. Assets: $13,925. Liabilities: $2,000,000Aberdeen Amusements Inc.,4132 E. Joppa Road, Cub Hill, t/a Silver Screen Cinemas, filed for protection under Chapter 11. Principal: Robert G. Weinholt, president. Assets: $15,400. Liabilities: $2,000,000South York Amusements Inc.,4132 E. Joppa Road, Cub Hill, t/a Silver Screen Cinemas, filed for protection under Chapter 11. Principal: Robert G. Weinholt, president.

Amid opposition from neighbors, Baltimore has scrapped plans to build a multisport complex and golf course on 116 acres of parkland that it owns in northeastern Baltimore County.Democratic state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell met with Baltimore's mayor yesterday morning to outline a plan that could lead to the county and state purchasing or managing Graham Memorial Park in Cub Hill in a joint venture."The mayor wins, the city wins, the county wins to keep it as an open space," said Bromwell, who represents the district where the park is located.

At the urging of Baltimore County Executive C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Baltimore's mayor has backed off a proposal to turn Graham Memorial Park in Cub Hill into a $6.5 million multi- sports center -- for now.Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke put the project on hold to allow time to meet with county residents and officials, and to defuse the growing opposition."

GLEN ARM -- After months of controversy, the Baltimore County Council approved a contract Monday night to buy a 180,000-square-foot former Grumman aircraft manufacturing building on Long Green Pike.The county will pay $1.9 million, or $70,000 below the appraised price, for the building, one of two empty structures Grumman is trying to sell. The county also gets the plant's water and sewer system.The building will house repair shops for heavy equipment such as fire engines, and will be home to other internal county repair shops that will move from an outdated complex on York Road in Texas.

Benson F. Raver Jr.Towson merchantBenson F. Raver Jr., owner of Raver's Prime Meats and Delicatessen in Towson, died July 12 of cancer at his Towson home. He was 58.He had started the business in 1975 in the Dulaney Valley Shopping Center and moved to York Road below the Beltway in 1986.Earlier, he had worked for 17 years as a butcher for the Joseph S. Parker Co., a food store on Allegheny Avenue in Towson, and for a time for the Perry Hall Market. He had also worked as a lineman for the Marble Electric Co. and in the Towson plant of the Black & Decker Corp.

In an outbreak of violence, at least four counselors and six inmates were injured last night at the trouble-plagued Charles H. Hickey Jr. School for juvenile offenders, and four youths escaped.One of the counselors -- who also act as guards -- was flown by helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center from the institution in the Cub Hill section of northern Baltimore County.Staff member Robert Powell, 23, was in stable condition and receiving stitches for head injuries suffered when he was hit repeatedly with a two-way radio, authorities said.