Fairmount Road

FiresManchester: Firefighters from Manchester, Hampstead, Lineboro, and Arcadia, Baltimore County, responded at 7: 29 p.m. Tuesday to a barn fire in the 3000 block of Warehime Road. Units were out two and a half hours. The barn was destroyed, but no injuries were reported.Hampstead: Firefighters from Hampstead, Manchester, Reese, and Boring and Arcadia, Baltimore County, responded at 8: 42 p.m. Tuesday to a stove fire in the 1700 block of Fairmount Road. Units were out 40 minutes.Pub Date: 10/29/98

Some Hampstead residents think the intersection of Fairmount Road, Popes Creek Drive and McAllister Lane is dangerous and a nuisance, and they have requested time at the Oct. 18 Town Council meeting to ask the town to do something about it.Residents said several vehicles traveling east on Fairmount Road have failed to negotiate the curve at the intersection, and have ended up on lawns on the east side of the road.One car ran over a small tree northeast of the intersection, they said."If people can hop the curb here and run over that tree, I'm not sure how safe the kids are," said David Miller, who lives on the northeast corner of the intersection.

8 North Carroll students cited for scholarshipNorth Carroll High School principal Gregory Eckles presented eight seniors with a letter of commendation from the 1993 National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).The outstanding students were Nichole Barner, Kristen Bolster, Erin Bonning, Eric Lyga, Jennifer Miller, Meghan Moore, Jamie Swam, Shannon Walter.These students have shown exceptional academic promise by placing among the top 5 percent of over 1 million program entrants.FIRE LOG* Hampstead: Hampstead responded to a woods fire on Fairmount Road at 8:22 p.m. Saturday.

FireHampstead: Hampstead responded to a wash detail on South Main Street at 6:29 p.m. Monday. Units were out for 15 minutes.Hampstead: Hampstead, Manchester and Arcadia of Baltimore County responded to a building fire at the intersection of Gill Avenue and Main Street at 9:17 a.m. Friday. Units were out for 20 minutes.Hampstead: Hampstead responded to utility wires on fire near Fairmount Road and Meadow Lane at 10:14 a.m. Saturday. Units were out for 15 minutes.Lineboro: Lineboro responded to a 911 call where no one was on the line in the 3300 block of Lineboro Road at 12:54 p.m. Saturday.

A 28-year-old woman was killed and her boyfriend seriously injured when her pickup truck skidded out of control, broke through a guardrail and rolled down an 80-foot embankment early yesterday.Baltimore County police cited excessive speed and alcohol in the accident that claimed the life of Michelle Chambers of the 2400 block of Fairmount Road in Hampstead. Her boyfriend, George Bosley III, 37, of the same address, was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was listed in serious condition.

North Carroll Farms residents are worried about more traffic, less water and crowded schools if town homes and single-family homes are built behind their property.A proposal to build 220 homes on 62 acres adjacent to North Carroll Farms, a community of 97 single-family homes off Fairmount Road, is pending before the town's Planning and Zoning Commission.The plan has raised concerns about traffic safety and adequate services."Our major concern is the increase in traffic, which wouldbe a result of continuing Farm Woods Lane," said Kris Koch, a North Carroll Farms resident.

A case of quick recognition brought a Hampstead man into custody earlier this week when a state trooper -- working on another case -- realized the man he was interviewing was wanted in connection with a Westminster robbery.Police said that after David Scott Utz, 24, was confronted about the December robbery of the Westminster High's store on East Main Street, he confessed to crimes ranging from assault and burglary to reckless endangerment and animal cruelty.Mr. Utz, of the 2400 block of Fairmount Road in Hampstead, is being held at the Carroll County Detention Center in two cases, one filed by the Maryland State Police and the other by Westminster police.

A 27-year-old Hampstead woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver late Friday, and two people were killed in Charles County early yesterday in a fiery, head-on collision after one driver had been chased at high speed by police.In Carroll County, a neighbor was a suspect in the death of Deborah Jean Hartman of the 2400 block of Fairmount Road, Hampstead, said state police.Ms. Hartman was struck and killed Friday night as she walked along a two-lane country road northeast of Hampstead, police said.

FiresLineboro: Firefighters from Lineboro and Manchester assisted a York County, Pa., unit at a building fire on Bonaire Road at 10: 35 p.m. Thursday. Units were out 4 1/2 hours.Lineboro: Firefighters from Hampstead, Manchester, Westminster and Pleasant Hill in Adams County, Pa., responded to a barn fire in the 4100 block of Alesia Lineboro Road at 1: 44 a.m. Saturday. Units were out three hours and 30 minutes.Lineboro: Firefighters helped York County, Pa., transfer an engine to the New Freedom station at 9: 55 a.m. Saturday.

One of four people injured in a two-car, head-on collision in Hampstead during a rainstorm Sunday evening remained in a Baltimore hospital yesterday.Linda Marie Martin, 39, of Hanover, Pa., suffered chest, neck and back injuries and remained in Sinai Hospital in fair condition, according to a spokeswoman.Ms. Martin was the driver of a 1991 Honda Accord in which Clara C. Martin, 72, of Hampstead was a passenger.The elder Ms. Martin was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore by ambulance and was released yesterday after treatment, a spokeswoman said.