Fort Smallwood

A 24-year-old Pasadena man remained in critical condition yesterday at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center after a weekend accident on Solley Road.Joseph Robert Walters of the 700 block of 218th St. was northbound about 2:20 a.m. Saturday when he lost control of his 1978 Chevrolet pickup and drove off the right side of the road, county police said.When Mr. Walters tried to steer back onto the road, the vehicle spun counterclockwise and struck a small embankment on the left side of the road, which caused the truck to overturn, a police report said.

Anne Arundel County Executive John G. Gary is considering three sites for a possible public boat ramp. If he makes the right decision, it might be one of his most popular moves.By the same token, if he fumbles, residents will be angry.Anne Arundel boaters have complained for years about insufficient launch facilities. The county currently has only two public boat ramps, at Sandy Point State Park and at Annapolis' Truxtun Park, even though it has 432 miles of shoreline. Many boaters must travel a distance to launch their craft.

County Executive John G. Gary wants to build a new road to link Fort Smallwood Road with Route 100 and ease congestion in the Fort Smallwood Road corridor.The road would be included as part of his plan for golf courses on both sides of Fort Smallwood Road, Mr. Gary has told community groups.Public works engineers have begun looking into the feasibility of building the road, Steven Cover, director of planning and code enforcement, said yesterday. The cost would be split among the county and the developers of two planned subdivisions, he said.

In the shadows of the Sparrows Point steel mills is a rich, urban wilderness -- a place where you can see spring emerging as you stand on a strip of sand strewn with old tires, plastic bottles, broken glass and other debris that has washed ashore.It's Fort Smallwood Park, lying at the gateway to the Baltimore harbor, where long-winged caspian terns and tiny tree swallows zigzag up the beach. Black-crowned night-herons row the air northward along the tree line. Sharp-shinned hawks glide through the early morning mist and cross the mouth of the Patapsco River on their way to breeding grounds in New England and Canada.

Everyone knows about Fort McHenry -- and how Francis Scott Key was so moved after seeing the American flag flying over it after a night of bombardment by the British in 1814 that he wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."But Fort McHenry, built between 1775 and 1794, was just one of a network of forts constructed over the years to defend $l Baltimore.In addition to that restored fortress, remnants of four others stillremain: Fort Howard at North Point in Baltimore County; Fort Armistead at Hawkins Point in the city; Fort Smallwood in Anne Arundel County and Fort Carroll, a small artificial island in the Patapsco River next to the Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge.

Traffic on a portion of Fort Smallwood Road will be squeezed to a single lane in off-peak hours early next month as construction crews install a drainage system.The $130,000 project will provide a closed system on Fort Smallwood Road near Elizabeth Road to help drain water rapidly and enhance safety.Traffic on Elizabeth Road will not be affected.The work, by S.S.C. Corp. of Pasadena, is expected to be completed by the end of May.

June 19, 1992.School is out and summer vacation '92 is roughly 72 hours old. Are the kids are already bored because you forgot to sign them up for activities to help fill these long summer days, at least until school opens Aug. 31?Well, if you find yourself in that parent trap again this year, there are still openings -- and time to sign up -- in programs in the Pasadena area.Do you have a Michael Jordan type in your household? Chesapeake High School will be the site of a Summer Basketball Clinic, from 9 a.m to noon, June 22 to 26.Directed by school's varsity staff, the clinic is open to girls and boys, age 10 to 16. Daily activities will include various stations to improve fundamentals, personal evaluations, comprehensive agility and conditioning with special skills competitions.

So, you're driving down Fort Smallwood Road near Duvall Highway and all of a sudden there's this big pig looming in front of you. Up on the roof, a huge, pink porker with a chef hat and apron, carrying a tray with a drink and, uh, a doughnut.The doughnut certainly makes sense. This is, after all, a a bakery. Complete with shelves full of pies and pastries, turnovers and tarts, cookies and cakes and danish.But the pig?Well, the two-story, cinder block building was a restaurant in the early 1950s when George Bolander and his father, bakers from Northeast Baltimore, took it over.

Fort Smallwood Park looked like Hog Heaven.Thousands of motorcycles turned the city-owned park at the mouth of the Patapsco River in Anne Arundel County into a sea of chrome yesterday during the 11th annual Operation Santa Claus -- better known as the Toy Run.Along major Maryland highways, it was easy to see something strange was happening as Harleys and Hondas, Suzukis and Kawasakis headed toward the site in northern Anne Arundel County, many with large...