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By Rona Marech | May 23, 2008
WASHINGTON - Standing alongside a row of gas pumps at a Shell station, Rocky Twyman joined hands with several cohorts, prayed to God for economic and social relief then sang "We Shall Overcome" - inserting the lyrics "We'll have lower gas prices" the second time around. For nearly a month, Twyman, a Rockville resident who serves as music director for a Baltimore church, has been praying at gas pumps - and anywhere else he is welcome - asking God to lower prices. Of course, since he started his prayer campaign, or what he calls a movement, the price of gas just keep inching upwards.
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By DAN THANH DANG | May 13, 2008
THE Q: With gasoline prices soaring toward $4 a gallon, more eagle-eyed drivers are paying closer attention to the accuracy of gas pumps as they fill up. Last week, two unrelated but similar queries came in. http://www.mda.state.md.us/weights_measures to print out a complaint form and fax it to 410-841-2765. Once the Weights and Measures division is notified, program manager Kenneth Ramsburg says, "We try to get an inspector in the field to go out that same day the complaint came in, and if not the same day, then the very next day. We do take these complaints very seriously."
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April 13, 2008
The Harford County Development Advisory Committee serves as a forum for the review of subdivision and site plans submitted to the Department of Planning and Zoning by those seeking building permits. The committee will review the following proposals at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the second-floor conference room of the Harford County government building, 220 S. Main St., Bel Air: High's of Joppa Location: North side of Pulaski Highway, east of Mountain Road. Developer: Magnolia One LLC/High's of Baltimore/Messick & Associates.
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By Sara Neufeld | June 25, 2007
William L. Burch, a retired Baltimore police officer who raised his three children as a single father, died of heart failure Tuesday at his daughter's home in Hampstead. He was 62. A longtime resident of Randallstown, Mr. Burch delighted in fishing, motorcycle riding, and teaching baseball and poker to his children and grandchildren. He made up nicknames for everyone he knew. He maintained several collections, including guns, memorabilia from World War II and the Old West, and old gas pumps.
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By Ted Shelsby | June 14, 2001
For the most part, Maryland motorists are getting a gallon of gasoline when they pay for a gallon of gasoline, the state Department of Agriculture reported yesterday. "Sometimes motorists are getting a little more, sometimes a little less," said Louis E. Straub, chief of the department's Weights and Measures Section. In response to a 15 percent jump in consumer complaints this year, the division recently completed a two-week inspection. It tested the accuracy of 7,700 gas pump meters, slightly more than 20 percent of those in the state.
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By David L. Greene | October 6, 2000
GAITHERSBURG -- Bone disease may confine Cindy Buddington to a wheelchair, but as a driver, she's wholly independent. Her van has doors that pop open and a lift that slides out to carry her into the vehicle -- all controlled by a remote at her fingertips. Once she wheels her chair in place, everything is tailored to her needs. A smaller-than-usual steering wheel requiring little strength to maneuver. An accelerator and brake by her hands. Easy-to-reach buttons to flip on headlights and turn signals.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | November 20, 1997
A 16-year-old driver crashed her car into fuel pumps at a Brooklandville gas station last night, causing a fire that destroyed the vehicle, Baltimore County Police said.No one was injured.Police said the driver was pulling into Valley Exxon at West Joppa and Falls roads about 8 p.m. when her foot accidentally left the brake pedal and hit the accelerator, sending her Buick Skylark into the gas pumps.Police said the cashier shut off the pumps before fleeing the booth, which was burning. She was credited with preventing a much larger fire.
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By Tanya Jones | December 5, 1996
The county administrative hearing officer has turned down a Baltimore company's request to add gasoline pumps to a planned expansion of its Severn convenience store.Cloverland Farms Dairy Inc. wanted to build two pump islands at Route 174 and Telegraph Road, as part of a plan to tear down the existing 1,000-square-foot store and replace it with a 2,880-square-foot structure.The store expansion is allowed under general commercial zoning, but hearing officer Robert C. Wilcox denied the company's request for variances and a special exception to allow the self-service gas station.
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By Tanya Jones | November 19, 1996
Community leaders say they will oppose a plan today by a convenience store chain to expand its Severn outlet and add gas pumps, saying added traffic and the possibility of a fuel explosion endanger their neighborhood.Cloverland Farms Dairy Inc. wants to build a 2,880-square-foot Royal Farms store, an adjacent 1,620-square-foot retail space and install two pump islands on about one acre at Routes 174 and 170, according to applications filed with the Department of Planning and Code Enforcement (PACE)
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By Katherine Marks | October 21, 1996
A handful of neighbors told the Howard County Board of Appeals last week that they are worried about plans to demolish Bill's Ranch Exxon in Ellicott City and construct a new facility.The new Exxon on Montgomery Road near Long Gate Center would be a more modern building with a canopy, eight gas pumps and a convenience store. The gas station would no longer employ a full-time mechanic and would abandon its bay facility.Residents fear the gas station and convenience store would increase traffic and that the lighting from the station's canopy would reflect onto neighboring properties.