Cumberland

On Sunday, August 26, 2007, MARY D. TYSON peacefully slipped away. Devoted mother of Carla Tyson; dear grandmother of Milini Hamlett; loving daughter of Charles and Mary Tyson; beloved sister of Ernestine Boyd, Diane James, Charlene Danielsand Geraldine Ezigbo. A memorial service will be celebrated at Simmons Memorial Church, 601 Cumberland Street at 10 A.M. on Saturday September 1. In lieu of flowers contributions will be accepted by the family for a donation to the American Kidney Foundation.

On January 5, 2007 LOUISE B. JONES. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at Simmons Memorial Baptist Church, 601 Cumberland Street on Thursday at 5:30 P.M. Funeral Services will follow at 6:00 P.M.

CUMBERLAND -- Home prices in the Baltimore metro area? Up 5 percent. In the Washington area? Barely budging. In San Diego, Tampa, Las Vegas and several dozen other metros areas? Down, down, down. But in this corner of Appalachia - in this long-struggling, geographically isolated metro area - home prices have just shot up 17 percent. The National Association of Realtors, which calculated the change in median price for single-family homes sold in the first quarter of the year vs. the same period last year, says the Cumberland increase topped all other metro areas in the nation.

CUMBERLAND -- The unemployed store clerk charged in the death of a Carroll County teen-ager who agreed to baby-sit for him acknowledged being in possession of the victim's personal belongings after the girl was killed.John Albert Miller IV, 27, charged with sexually assaulting and strangling 17-year-old Shen Dullea Poehlman of Eldersburg, was a surprise witness in a pretrial motions hearing here as defense attorneys sought to suppress his statement to police after the young tennis star's death in July of last year.

In Allegany CountyCumberland mayor, council transfer airport ownershipCUMBERLAND -- The mayor and City Council voted 4-1 this week to transfer the deeds of Greater Cumberland Regional Airport to Potomac Highlands Airport Authority, the bistate commission that runs the airport in neighboring Wiley Ford, W.Va.The change in ownership relieves Cumberland of paying about $6,000 a year in property taxes to West Virginia and may enable the airport to receive additional funds from West Virginia.The lone opponent, Councilman Harry W. May Jr., has demanded a referendum on the issue.

CUMBERLAND -- Lawyers for John A. Miller IV, an unemployed store clerk charged with murder in the strangulation death last year of a 17-year-old Carroll County girl, asked a judge yesterday to limit the evidence that could be used to decide whether their client should be sentenced to death in a trial scheduled to begin next month.In a series of motions addressing the sentencing hearing that would take place if Miller is convicted, Assistant Public Defenders Jerri A. Peyton-Braden and Jerome M. Levine asked Allegany County Circuit Judge Gary G. Leasure to restrict the "victim impact statements" that could be presented by relatives of the slain girl, Shen D. Poehlman.

Gov. Parris N. Glendening will ask the General Assembly to authorize new thoroughbred racetracks, hoping to stimulate competition -- and to settle a political score with Joseph A. De Francis, who holds monopoly control of the sport in Maryland."

Charles Jackson and his daughter, Christyn, were lugging a huge plastic bin with an overstuffed duffel bag atop it up the steps of Cumberland Hall at the University of Maryland, College Park yesterday. His son, Aaron, a strapping 12-year-old, was managing just a small plant."What's with that?" Christyn, 18, asked. "You're the football player."Aaron shrugged. It was move-in day for more than 900 freshmen in UMCP's Scholars program, a sort of small college within the university that occupies a quadrangle of dormitories.

CUMBERLAND -- Along the Potomac River from here to Washington, the defense never rests.Saved 45 years ago by the hiking boots and eloquent words of a Supreme Court justice, the C&O Canal towpath is again the subject of a trek to bring attention to its plight.Next month, about 50 walkers will retrace the steps of Juice William O. Douglas, who stepped off March 20, 1954, from Cumberland in a part-crusade/ part-publicity-stunt to keep the 185-mile dirt path from being paved over for a parkway.

William W. Sondervan, 49, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Military Police, has been tapped as the new commissioner of the Maryland Division of Correction.Sondervan, whose 22 years of military criminal justice experience included a stint as chief of police and correction, has been acting commissioner since December.Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend called Sondervan an "aggressive administrator" whose goals include putting more inmates to work, ridding prisons of drugs and reducing recidivism.

On June 29, 2009 W. GWENDOLYN (MORROW) MEDCALF, of Cumberland, Md. and formerly of Ringgold, Md., died, wife of the late George A. Medcalf; mother of Todd (Deborah), Thomas (Evelyn) and Travis (Elizabeth) Medcalf and grandmother of Kelley, Cassandra, Sarah and Kate Medcalf. Born in Catonsville and a graduate of Western High School, she was a homemaker, a pianist and an artist. Scarpelli Funeral Home, P.A., Cumberland is handling arrangements. A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date.

Here are the team's top picks of the decade: 2008 LHP Brian Matusz, University of San Diego, fourth overall. Currently: High-A Frederick 2007 C Matt Wieters, Georgia Tech, fifth. Currently: Orioles starting catcher 2006 3B Billy Rowell, Bishop Eustace (N.J.) HS, ninth. Currently: High-A Frederick outfielder 2005 C Brandon Snyder, Westfield (Va.) HS, 13th overall. Currently: Double-A Bowie first baseman 2004 RHP Wade Townsend*, Rice University, eighth. Currently: Injured, member of Tampa Bay Rays organization.

MDE looking into Homeland fish kill 3 State environmental officials are investigating what might have killed more than 200 fish in a lake in Homeland, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Residents of the North Baltimore neighborhood reported seeing dead fish last week in one of three lakes on Springlake Way. The fish appeared to have died from lack of oxygen in the water, said Dawn Stoltzfus, spokeswoman with the state Department of the Environment. "We've never had this problem before," said Lynn L. Petersons, operations manager for the Homeland Association, which maintains common areas in the neighborhood.

Keith Young in Baltimore notes that Maryland had the nation's highest temperatures for two days last week - 96 degrees in Frederick (Sunday) and Cumberland (Monday). "How many times has Maryland been host to the country's high or low temperature?" he asks. Our data supplier doesn't track it but agrees it's extremely rare: "The heat wave was fairly historic for Virginia and Maryland."

Three men shot after street fight City police are investigating the shootings Thursday night of three men after a fight outside a gas station at Forest Park Avenue and Windsor Mill Road, said a police spokesman, Agent Donny Moses. He said that several men were fighting outside a BP station about 9 p.m. when the fracas spilled onto the 4800 block of Clifton Ave., near Leakin Park, where three men involved in the altercation were shot. Moses said two men were taken by city Fire Department ambulances to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and that the third man was driven by a friend to Sinai Hospital.

On April 1, 2009 HATTIE M. MOSELY, age 89. Public viewing on Sunday 2-6 p.m. at Phillips Funeral Home, 1721-27 N. Monroe Street, Balto MD 21217. Wake will be Monday 10:30 a.m. followed by a funeral service at 11 at Simmons Baptist Church, 601 Cumberland Street, Baltimore, MD 21217.

On March 27, 2009, William H. Newhouse The family will received visitors at the family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home, 421 Crain Highway S.E., Glen Burnie, on Sunday from 1 to 3 P.M. and 5 to 7 P.M. with a funeral service to follow. Interment is Monday at Hillcrest Cemetery in Cumberland. Please visit www.kirkleyruddickfuneralhome.com for more info or to post condolences.

Company bringing 25 jobs to Cumberland CUMBERLAND : A company that manages supplies for the aerospace industry says it is opening a warehouse in Cumberland that will create 25 jobs. Patton-air is a division of the British company Umeco PLC. Gov. Martin O'Malley says Pattonair has signed a supply agreement with ATK Tactical Propulsion and Controls, which operates out of the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in nearby Rocket Center, W.Va. The Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development is providing Pattonair with a $50,000 conditional grant to assist with startup costs.

Boatbuilder Brunswick Corp. plans to close its last Maryland plant that makes the Trophy offshore fishing boat and move the production to Tennessee, the company announced yesterday. About 115 workers will lose their jobs when the Cumberland plant closes by the end of the year. The Lake Forest, Ill.-based Brunswick said the plant closure is part of continuing plans to shrink its North American operations as it deals with the economic downturn and the impact on marine sales. "This decision is no reflection upon the Cumberland work force or product, but the result of our need to develop a more efficient manufacturing footprint," Brunswick Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dustan E. McCoy said in a statement.

Two killed over weekend in separate shootings Baltimore City police reported two fatal shootings over the weekend. Names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of family members. No arrests had been made. Shortly before midnight Saturday, Northern District police responded to a report of a man shot in the 2400 block of Loyola Southway in the Greenspring community and found the victim bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. About 1 a.m. Saturday, in the Broadway East section of East Baltimore, a man was shot in the head in the 1800 block of N. Regester St. and was pronounced dead at the scene by Fire Department medics.