Garden City

St. Paul's girls lacrosse coach Brook Kuhl-McClelland has heard a lot of debate over the years about which has the better high school girls lacrosse, Maryland or New York. To settle those bragging rights on the field, she put together the Maryland-New York Challenge this weekend at St. Paul's. Saturday and Sunday, four of the top teams from Maryland will take on four from New York, including a No. 1 vs. No. 2 national showdown between McDonogh (8-0) and Garden City (6-0). McDonogh is ranked No. 1 this week in ESPN High School's Fab 50 while Garden City is ranked No. 2. Both teams boast winning streaks over 50 games - McDonogh, 59 and Garden City, 54. McDonogh's streak is the longest active girls lacrosse winning streak in the country.

A high school boys lacrosse game that was supposed to be a warm-up act for the two college games that followed played more like a main event at the seventh annual Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday. Justin Guterding scored or assisted on the first four goals by Garden City (N.Y.) and a second-half rally by No. 5 Loyola fell short as the Trojans won, 6-5. "We let some hasty decisions and some rushed play let them get a lot of possessions," Loyola coach Jack Crawford said.

Shortly after the final whistle in the Maryland-New York Challenge on Saturday, strong winds and heavy rain swept across the St. Paul's School for Girls' home field in Brooklandville. The storm that No. 1 McDonogh unleashed on Garden City in the final game of the eight-team event may have been even more impressive that what Mother Nature provided. In a battle of unbeatens, the Eagles scored the game's first four goals, weathered a 5-2 run by the Trojans and blew away the six-time defending New York Class B state champs, 20-9.

Peter Wyckoff Higgins, a landscape designer and owner of an outdoors construction firm, died Aug. 31 of complications from diabetes complications at his Reisterstown home. He was 64. Born in New York City and raised in Buck Hill Falls, Pa., and in Garden City on Long Island, he was a graduate of St. Paul's School in Garden City and earned a degree in botany from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C. Mr. Higgins moved to the Baltimore area in the late 1970s and initially worked in the advertising division of the Maryland News Co. More than 30 years ago, he founded Hemlock Landscaping, a business based in Reisterstown.

When: Saturday at St. Paul's, 5 p.m. Coaches: Chris Robinson, McDonogh; Diane Chapman, Garden City PLAYERS TO WATCH McDonogh: Taylor Cummings, Sr., M; Corinne Etchison, Sr., A; Mallory Schonk, Sr., A; Liz Bannantine, Sr., M; Sofia Robins, Sr., D. Garden City: Alexandra Bruno, Sr., A; Catherine Dickinson, Sr., M; Jenna Fuchs, Sr., A; Catherine McTiernan; Sr., M; Megan McDonald; Sr., G. ...

Mount Hebron's players know St. Mary's is next on the schedule. But Roland Park is on their minds.The ninth-ranked Vikings (4-0) play fifth-ranked St. Mary's on Saturday in the Roland Park Invitational. No. 1 Roland Park and Henderson of West Chester, Pa., meet in the other game, with the winners playing for the championship."We've lost to them [Roland Park] the past two years [by one goal in both finals]," said Mount Hebron center Julie Kickham. "We have a good rivalry against them. The whole team is looking forward to having another shot."

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- It is a Saturday afternoon in early November, and a man, a deliberate and rational man, sits at his kitchen table and writes a letter. The words come easily, the transcription of thoughts honed for weeks. "You don't know me, but I work for the Port Authority, and, like you, I live in Garden City. I didn't know your wife, but I saw her on the train ... "There is a strange sense of connection I feel ... and I can't escape that." There had been so much more to say, it seemed, several weeks earlier, on the day the deaths of strangers had overwhelmed him, and, unexpectedly, her death in particular.

Helene Maurina Frankwich, a Latvian immigrant and community activist, died of heart failure Friday at the Long Island Geriatric Center after a brief illness. She was 89.The former Baltimore resident lived in Garden City, Long Island, for the last 20 years. A graduate of Latvia Junior College with a degree in business, she was active in community and church organizations. Mrs. Frankwich worked with the scholarship fund for the Grandmothers' Club, and was a member of the Garden City Community Church and Garden City Community Club.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - A wreath of bright flowers decorates the front door of the tidy white-brick house on First Street, across from the fairways of the Cherry Valley Club. Occasionally, someone comes by to drop off a bouquet, a note of condolence attached. The inhabitants of the house, William and Betty Parente, and their 11-year-old daughter, Catherine, won't be coming home. The three, along with Stephanie Parente, 19, the elder daughter, were found dead Monday at a hotel in Towson. "I've been sick about it all day today," Jerrie Trapani said Tuesday after dropping off a bouquet at the family's door.

A high school boys lacrosse game that was supposed to be a warm-up act for the two college games that followed played more like a main event at the seventh annual Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday. Justin Guterding scored or assisted on the first four goals by Garden City (N.Y.) and a second-half rally by No. 5 Loyola fell short as the Trojans won, 6-5. "We let some hasty decisions and some rushed play let them get a lot of possessions," Loyola coach Jack Crawford said.

Shortly after the final whistle in the Maryland-New York Challenge on Saturday, strong winds and heavy rain swept across the St. Paul's School for Girls' home field in Brooklandville. The storm that No. 1 McDonogh unleashed on Garden City in the final game of the eight-team event may have been even more impressive that what Mother Nature provided. In a battle of unbeatens, the Eagles scored the game's first four goals, weathered a 5-2 run by the Trojans and blew away the six-time defending New York Class B state champs, 20-9.

When: Saturday at St. Paul's, 5 p.m. Coaches: Chris Robinson, McDonogh; Diane Chapman, Garden City PLAYERS TO WATCH McDonogh: Taylor Cummings, Sr., M; Corinne Etchison, Sr., A; Mallory Schonk, Sr., A; Liz Bannantine, Sr., M; Sofia Robins, Sr., D. Garden City: Alexandra Bruno, Sr., A; Catherine Dickinson, Sr., M; Jenna Fuchs, Sr., A; Catherine McTiernan; Sr., M; Megan McDonald; Sr., G. ...

St. Paul's girls lacrosse coach Brook Kuhl-McClelland has heard a lot of debate over the years about which has the better high school girls lacrosse, Maryland or New York. To settle those bragging rights on the field, she put together the Maryland-New York Challenge this weekend at St. Paul's. Saturday and Sunday, four of the top teams from Maryland will take on four from New York, including a No. 1 vs. No. 2 national showdown between McDonogh (8-0) and Garden City (6-0). McDonogh is ranked No. 1 this week in ESPN High School's Fab 50 while Garden City is ranked No. 2. Both teams boast winning streaks over 50 games - McDonogh, 59 and Garden City, 54. McDonogh's streak is the longest active girls lacrosse winning streak in the country.

Ocean City, can you handle all of this love? Today, citing the relatively low cost of living on the shore, Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate named Ocean City  "America's Most Affordable Fun City. " "There are two or three ultra-cool cities that everyone wants to live in,” says Sherry Chris, chief executive of BHG Real Estate. “The problem is it's very expensive to live in those cities, so that eliminates them as a possibility for many people.” The median price of a home in Ocean City is $243,600, just a tad above the median for the state.

Baltimore firefighters were investigating the cause of a carbon monoxide leak Friday that prompted the evacuation of 48 people — 36 children and 12 adults — at the Pleasant View Gardens Child Care Center. Fire union officials initially described it as a "mass casualty carbon monoxide incident" and said the victims were being hospitalized, but reports from the scene indicated that those affected were being evaluated outside the building in the 1100 block of E. Fayette St. and no one appeared to be showing symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.

More greens. Fewer cherry tomatoes. Those are the plans for the second season of Baltimore's City Hall garden, which produced more than 2,000 pounds of fresh produce last year for Our Daily Bread, the city's largest soup kitchen. "We're catering to what Our Daily Bread is requesting," said Bill Vondrasek, chief horticulturalist for the Department of Recreation and Parks, which helps care for the gardens. "They specifically told us what they will eat more of and what they didn't each much of," he said.

Coach: Dave Pietramala No. Player Pos. Ht. Yr. Town/school 1 Joe Vollen M 6-2 So. Montclair, N.J./Montclair (Bridgton Academy) 2 Rob Scherr G 5-8 Sr. Reisterstown/McDonogh 4 Corey Harned LSM 6-0 Jr. Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem 5 Kyle Barrie A 6-0 So. Narberth, Pa./The Haverford School 6 Scott Smith G 6-2 Fr. Wilton, Conn./Wilton 7 Josh Pico D 6-3 Fr. Dallas/Lawrenceville (N.J.) 8 Kyle Dowd M 5-9 Fr. Northport, N.Y./Northport 9 Ryan Sutton M 5-11 Sr. Winchester, Mass./Winchester 10 Joe Benson A 6-4 Fr. Baltimore/McDonogh 11 Todd Smith A 6-4 So. Wilton, Conn.

Coach: Dave Pietramala No. Player Pos. Ht. Yr. Town/school 1 Joe Vollen M 6-2 So. Montclair, N.J./Montclair (Bridgton Academy) 2 Rob Scherr G 5-8 Sr. Reisterstown/McDonogh 4 Corey Harned LSM 6-0 Jr. Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem 5 Kyle Barrie A 6-0 So. Narberth, Pa./The Haverford School 6 Scott Smith G 6-2 Fr. Wilton, Conn./Wilton 7 Josh Pico D 6-3 Fr. Dallas/Lawrenceville (N.J.) 8 Kyle Dowd M 5-9 Fr. Northport, N.Y./Northport 9 Ryan Sutton M 5-11 Sr. Winchester, Mass./Winchester 10 Joe Benson A 6-4 Fr. Baltimore/McDonogh 11 Todd Smith A 6-4 So. Wilton, Conn.

Stephanie Parente wasn't the kind of student who would blow off a college chemistry exam. The 19-year-old Loyola sophomore and speech pathology major was far too studious for that, her friends said. After she didn't show up for class Monday, college officials called the Sheraton hotel in Towson, where her family was staying on a visit from Long Island, N.Y. There, inside a locked room about 3 p.m. Monday, a hotel employee found the bodies of Stephanie Parente, her 11-year-old sister, Catherine, and their parents, William, 59, and Betty, 58. They were not shot or stabbed, and one of the parents was likely responsible for the murder-suicide, Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County police spokesman, said Tuesday.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - A wreath of bright flowers decorates the front door of the tidy white-brick house on First Street, across from the fairways of the Cherry Valley Club. Occasionally, someone comes by to drop off a bouquet, a note of condolence attached. The inhabitants of the house, William and Betty Parente, and their 11-year-old daughter, Catherine, won't be coming home. The three, along with Stephanie Parente, 19, the elder daughter, were found dead Monday at a hotel in Towson. "I've been sick about it all day today," Jerrie Trapani said Tuesday after dropping off a bouquet at the family's door.