NEWS
August 30, 2007
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.
NEWS
January 10, 2007
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.
NEWS
By Jamie Smith Hopkins | June 29, 2007
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.
NEWS
By Dail Willis | September 23, 1999
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.
NEWS
February 18, 1999
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.
NEWS
By Jay Apperson | December 15, 1999
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.
NEWS
By C. Fraser Smith and Jon Morgan | March 10, 1999
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."
NEWS
By Michael Hill | August 28, 1999
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.
TOPIC
By Candus Thomson | March 21, 1999
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.
NEWS
By Sarah Pekkanen | April 12, 1999
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.