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On January 15, 2005 MAGGIE S. WILLIAMS, of Garnet Avenue. On Wednesday, Mrs. William will lie in state in Inner Court Ministry, 1804-40 Kavanaugh St. Family hour 6:30 P.M. Celebration 7 P.M. Service is entrusted to HARI. P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A. 410-327-3100.

The owner of a new, privately held landfill in rural Virginia is seeking approval to build a transfer station near Laurel that would compete directly with Maryland's publicly owned trash facilities.Garnet Inc. has proposed using a 32-acre plot in the shadow of the Maryland Reformatory for Women to channel trash collected in the mid-Atlantic region to its landfill 70 miles south of Washington.Some of the 3,000 to 5,000 tons of trash that would pass through the station each day also could be sent to an incinerator in Lorton, Va., Garnet Vice President Blake R. Van Leer II said last week.

A Howard County waste management company is suing Anne Arundel County and a state agency, claiming the two improperly awarded a contract for the disposal of residential trash from Howard and Anne Arundel counties.The suit by Elkridge-based Waste Management of Maryland Inc. says Anne Arundel, a member of the Northeast Maryland Waste Management Authority, had a conflict of interest when it helped choose Virginia-based Garnet Inc. because Anne Arundel County would collect $1.10 per ton of waste brought to Garnet's transfer station in Jessup.

On June 11, 2004 WILLIAM JOHN GRABOWSKI, beloved husband of Elizabeth Grabowski (nee Bellamy); devoted father of Eleanor and Stephen Grabowski; dear son of Lawrence F. Grabowski and stepson of Betty Grabowski; beloved son of the late Garnet Eleanor Grabowski; loving brother of Karen Wolfe, Jean Gisler, Ida Holloran, David, James and Alan Grabowski; several nieces and nephews also survived. A memorial service will be held Thursday 11 A.M. at the Church of the Redeemer. Interment was private.

Joel Wertman had 18 points and 11 rebounds, his third double-double of the season, as Johns Hopkins defeated Swarthmore, 60-51, last night in a Centennial Conference game in Pennsylvania.Hopkins coach Bill Nelson earned his 300th career victory. Nelson has 195 wins at Hopkins and also spent three years each at RIT and Nazareth.Hopkins (4-1) held the Garnet Tide (1-3) scoreless over the final 1: 15.WomenSt. Peter's 61, Navy 58: Patty Marchese led all scorers with 19 points as the Peahens (3-0)

Swarthmore (1-0) at Johns Hopkins (1-0)Site: Homewood FieldTime: 7Series: Swarthmore leads 47-33-3Outlook: Look to see more of Hopkins tailback Adam Gentile, who ran for 180 yards in last week's win over Washington & Lee. Look to see the Blue Jays continue using three quarterbacks, with Rob Heleniak joining Wayne Roccia and Jamie Monica. Look for anything but a JHU loss. Swarthmore is much improved, as a 42-6 win over Oberlin suggests. The Garnet Tide ran for 246 yards, led by Ken Clark's 102 yards and one touchdown.

Reality reacquainted itself with the Swarthmore football team last night.But the awakening that Johns Hopkins meted out to the Garnet Tide in a 37-3 win wasn't the sort that either team had been accustomed to. The ugly anticlimax of the past two meetings, with the final scores headed for 73-0 and 42-0 finishes, didn't unfold.This time at Homewood Field, Johns Hopkins, a team with legitimate aspirations of a Division III playoff berth, was simply good enough to beat Swarthmore, a team that aspires to keep games like this close, and maybe win more than once in 29 games.

Art Olson, ELY, Nev. - Brian Campbell picked through the underwear display while his wife, Kristina, unloaded an armful of clothes on the checkout counter. Over in the footwear department, fifth-graders Shawnee Day and Maria Dominguez were ogling the socks stitched with monkeys and puppies. To the residents of Ely - a two-stoplight mining town of about 4,000 in the mountains of eastern Nevada - a trip to Garnet Mercantile is not as unremarkable as it sounds. "I think it's awesome," Shellie Watts, a local power company finance assistant, said of the community-owned department store that opened this month.

Living room, naturallyGarnet Hill, the catalog company specializing in natural-fiber bedding, is branching out in its fall catalog with a new line of living room furnishings.The pieces, which would work in almost any interior, include clean-lined couches and armchairs that can be ordered with or without slipcovers in natural-look Garnet Hill fabrics. Other furnishings -- straight-backed chairs, occasional tables and storage pieces -- are reminiscent of the best of the modern furniture of the '50s.

It's rare to find a real gem among books, even in a cluster of seven. So when there's a diamond and a couple of sapphires in the group, the pain of gazing into the cubic zirconias is somewhat dulled. Let's start with the diamond: A brilliant first novel by Douglas Galbraith, "The Rising Sun" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 529 pages, $25). This is historical fiction and universal fiction, a tale of Scottish identity, English injustice, adventure and disaster. Set at the end of the 17th century, the story is told by Roderick Mackenzie, an up-and-coming young man who joins a momentous expedition to the New World, a bold effort by the Scottish people to claim trade and wealth for themselves and escape the economic depression perpetuated by the neighboring English.