Fairmount

Recovering from one of the biggest blows it took during the real estate downturn, Heritage Properties Inc. of Towson said it has reached a deal to lease 49,250 square feet of space in its 515 Fairmount Ave. building on the east side of the Towson business district.The new tenant will be Clinical Associates P.A., a diversified medical practice that will be consolidating several Towson-area offices into the 117,500-square-foot building. Clinical Associates, whose largest Towson office had been another building it co-owned with Heritage, will occupy all or part of six of the building's 10 floors.

Timing is everything -- just ask Herbert Perkins and Melvin Williams.Perkins, 28, and Williams, 26, were arrested today by an alert city detective who was on his way to work and discovered two men allegedly attempting to kidnap a woman while they were armed with a sawed-off shotgun.Sgt. Daniel Gunther, a plainclothesman assigned to headquarters, was pulling his private car into the 1100 block of E. Fairmount Ave. in East Baltimore when he saw two men forcing Gloria Friend, a 33-year-old teacher at the Philadelphia Training Center, back into her car with a sawed-off shotgun.

A Hampstead man was held on $100,000 bond after he was charged with burglary and theft of jewelry and cash valued at more than $7,500 and a .38-caliber revolver, according to District Court documents.David Scott Utz, 24, of the 2400 block of Fairmount Road was arrested Friday morning and charged in the burglary at the home in the 100 block of Portland Drive on March 25.Officers said a bedroom door was broken and drawers were ransacked while the family was away. Mr. Utz also was charged with malicious destruction of property.

On February 6, 2005, JAMES "JIM" EDWARDS, formerly of Baltimore, MD, departed this life in Richmond, VA. He was predeceased by his wife De Loris Edwards. He is survived by three sons, Ronald L. and Spencer K. Edwards and Ronald M. Watkins; his sister, Moira L. Edwards; sister-in-law, Lyllye M. Smith; brother-in-law, Jeffrey S. Elam; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Remains rest at the Chiles Funeral Home, 2100 Fairmount Avenue, Richmond, VA, where services will be held Thursday at 7 P.M. Interment will be Friday, 11:30 A.M. at Garrison Forest Veteran Cemetery, Owings Mills, MD.

FIRE* Greenmount: Manchester, Hampstead and Lineboro responded to a fire reported at C & C Cleaners & Tailors in the North Carroll Shopping Center on Hanover Pike at 12:58 p.m. yesterday. Units were out for 34 minutes investigating an overloaded furnace.* Hampstead: Hampstead responded to a brush fire on Main Street at 4:48 p.m. yesterday.Hampstead and Lineboro responded to investigate smoke in a building on Fairmount Avenue at 1:12 p.m. yesterday. Units were out for 30 minutes.* Manchester: Manchester responded to a lock-in detail in a car on Miller Station Road at 8:36 a.m. yesterday.

Detectives were searching yesterday for an unidentified man involved in the Christmas Eve shooting of a Westminster man, who minutes before his demise had shot his estranged wife to death on a crowded street in downtown Baltimore.Reginald Simpson, 25, was attacked by a man, dressed in black, in the 400 block of West Fairmount Avenue as he was fleeing from the 200 block of West Baltimore Street, where he had just shot his wife to death, according to city police.Audry Simpson, 23, of Randallstown died from a gunshot wound to the head at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

FAIRMOUNT, Ind. -- They didn't get enough of James Dean when he was alive.Dean made just three movies in a span of 18 months. But he concentrated the intensity of a frustrated, misunderstood young man like no star before him. And then he died, 40 years ago today.The cult that sprouted from his death has grown shoots, and now people who have been alive only half as long as Dean has been dead join the 25,000 who descend on his hometown this time of year.Grunge-rock teens walk the streets of Fairmount along with slick-haired middle-age men reliving the 1950s in their custom 1949 Mercury sedans, just like the one Dean drove in "Rebel Without a Cause."

A 77-year-old Columbia man was in serious but stable condition yesterday after he was struck by a van while riding a mo-ped on Twin Rivers Road, Howard County police said. George Walgrove, of the 5100 block of Harpers Farm Road, was traveling north on Twin Rivers Road near Trumpeter Road about 10:45 a.m. when he was struck by a Plymouth van traveling south and attempting to turn left. Walgrove was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. The driver of the van, Terry L. Nickerson, 48, of the 3100 block of Fairmount Drive in Edgewater, was cited for failing to yield the right of way when making a left turn, police said.

Three males, including a 10-year-old boy, were shot last night near Patterson Park during what police said was an altercation between one of the victims and an unidentified gunman. Responding to a report of gunshots, police went to the first block of N. Decker Ave. near East Fairmount Avenue about 9 p.m. and found a boy, 15, and a man, 30, with gunshot wounds. Moments later, the 10-year-old boy entered his home near the shooting scene and told his parents he had been shot. The victims, whose names were unavailable, were being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.

On Tuesday, January 31, 2006, FLORENCE BERLIN (nee Calmen), beloved wife of the late Bernard Berlin; devoted mother of Judith Berlin, of Baltimore, MD., and Linda B. Jackson of Fairmount, WV., dear mother-in-law of William Jackson; devoted sister of the late Norman Calmen; loving grandmother of Ariela Berlin, Carri Jackson and Samual Jackson. Services at SOL LEVINSON AND BROS, INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mount Wilson Lane, on Wednesday, February 1 at 2 P.M. Interment at Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, Southern Ave. Please omit flowers.