Germantown

The Germantown clinic featured in today's story, “ Maryland abortion protest target takes fight to protesters ,” has been a focal point of the abortion debate over the past few years. Dr. LeRoy Carhartarrived there in late 2010. That year, Nebraska had banned abortions after 20 weeks. Carhart, who performs both early- and late-term abortions, still lives in Nebraska and travels to Maryland to work at the Germantown clinic. Michael Martelli, director of the Maryland Coalition for Life, said Carhart's arrival in Maryland was a “catalyst for the … rising up and unity” of many groups that oppose abortion.

At Germantown Elementary School in Annapolis, students receive physical education once a week. Officially, that is. Unofficially, students are engaging in the same level of activity as their "go-outside-and-play" parents of previous generations. At recess, before classes and after school — and in some cases even during classroom instruction — youngsters are getting workouts by playing traditional games, learning new ones and creating their own spinoff versions. Germantown Elementary is among the first schools in the area to implement a San Diego-based physical education program called SPARK, which stresses to children the importance of physical fitness, then provides grade-level equipment and instruction to back it up. SPARK officials said the program began in 1989 as a result of a study supported by the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health and San Diego State University.

GERMANTOWN - A Montgomery County woman and three children were killed yesterday when the Honda Civic they were traveling in hit a guardrail and was then struck by a Dodge Ram pickup truck, police said. Laura Delgado, 29, of the 10600 block of Huntley Place in Silver Spring, and the children were traveling north on Clopper Road, near Waring Station Road, in Germantown, when Delgado lost control of her car on the wet pavement, crossed the median and crashed into a guardrail, police said.

The Germantown clinic featured in today's story, “ Maryland abortion protest target takes fight to protesters ,” has been a focal point of the abortion debate over the past few years. Dr. LeRoy Carhartarrived there in late 2010. That year, Nebraska had banned abortions after 20 weeks. Carhart, who performs both early- and late-term abortions, still lives in Nebraska and travels to Maryland to work at the Germantown clinic. Michael Martelli, director of the Maryland Coalition for Life, said Carhart's arrival in Maryland was a “catalyst for the … rising up and unity” of many groups that oppose abortion.

A federal grand jury in Baltimore has handed up a 15-count indictment charging the former head of a Frederick clothing manufacturing company with filing false income tax returns, mail fraud and making false statements when he applied for a $1.6 million loan. Benjamin J. Gilbert, 54, of Germantown is accused of defrauding Hartz and Co. by creating false invoices for $200,000 worth of goods and services that he billed to the company and gave to himself, according to the indictment announced yesterday by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

U.S. Attorney Richard D. Bennett announced charges yesterday that he described as the first federal carjacking indictment in Maryland since the recent surge in reports of the violent car thefts.Brandon R. Barnes, 21, of Germantown was charged by a federal grand jury with kidnapping and a gun offense for allegedly forcing a Gaithersburg man at gunpoint to drive him to locations in Maryland and Washington to buy crack cocaine.Mr. Barnes was ordered held without bail at a hearing yesterday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore before Chief Magistrate Judge Clarence E. Goetz.

Acterna Corp., a holding company, will join its Maryland subsidiary - which makes communications testing equipment - in a new Germantown complex that will consolidate office and manufacturing operations. The parent corporation moved its headquarters from Burlington, Mass., to Germantown this week in preparation for the move to the new complex this spring. It had 20 employees at its Massachusetts location, less than half of whom will be coming to Germantown. Acterna Corp. and its 850-employee subsidiary, Acterna, will move into a new six-story building with an adjoining manufacturing facility in the Milestone Business Park around March or April, according to company spokeswoman Alice Ducq.

A Germantown man who was returning home from the Orioles' Opening Day game at Camden Yards was killed on U.S. 29 in Columbia.Howard County police said Donald Morris Crowley Jr., 34, of the 18000 block of Chalet Drive was driving a 1987 Honda Prelude southbound on U.S. 29 north of Route 175 about 8: 23 p.m. Wednesday when he hit another car in the middle lane.Crowley's car swerved across the fast lane onto the grass median before becoming airborne, police said. Crowley, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the car after it rolled and landed in the fast lane.

The lime-green shoots of tulips are beginning to push their way through a patch of rich dirt in front of Germantown Elementary School. Principal Walter Reap parks beside this garden every morning, and sometimes he considers the tulips' slow and perseverant reach for the sun and sky as a symbol of the gradual rebirth he is seeing at his school. Reap is in his first year as head of an Annapolis school that has grappled with drastic demographic shifts during the past decade. A school that once had nearly 600 students evenly split between white and African-American, saw its enrollment drop in 2001 to barely 400, with Hispanic students making up a third of enrollment, as white students dropped to 15 percent.

GERMANTOWN -- A 7-year-old girl was shot in the arm at her before-school day care center yesterday morning by an 8-year-old boy who had brought his father's handgun from home, police said. The girl, whom police would not identify, was in stable condition yesterday with what they described as a serious but not life-threatening wound. The boy, whom police also would not identify, remained in custody on unspecified charges pending a review by the Department of Juvenile Services. The boy's father, 56-year-old John Linwood Hall of Germantown, was charged with leaving a firearm in a location accessible by an unsupervised minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Tuesday he will seek more than $370 million in school construction funding in next year's budget, making the pledge at the same Anne Arundel County elementary school where six years ago he promised a massive infusion of state money if elected governor. The figure includes $350 million for the state's main Public School Construction Program and more than $20 million for two other programs to build and repair schools. "We are making the investments we need to make," O'Malley told students.

A 3.6-magnitude earthquake that startled Marylanders from their slumbers early Friday morning might have been the strongest measured tremor on record for the state. With its epicenter near Germantown in Montgomery County, the quake was felt by as many as 3 million people in the Mid-Atlantic region, according to the United States Geological Survey. The 5 a.m. earthquake was felt as far away as south-central New Jersey, as well as in Washington, Northern Virginia, southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Blast, fire hit underground construction site Baltimore firefighters responded last night to an underground explosion and fire at a construction site near Maryland General Hospital. No one was injured. The underground fire broke out before 9 p.m. in the 400 block of W. Madison St. at Eutaw Street, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman for the Fire Department. Crews from Baltimore Gas and Electric had completed repairs to a 110,000-volt feeder line on the site of a future switching station when they were attempting to restore electricity.

On July 7, 2008, BONNIE BASENER of Germantown, MD. Devoted daughter of Ronald and Anne Schulcz Basener. Loving sister of Brian R. Basener and Stephen J. Basener. Also survived by a dear friend Tom A. Minto. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Forest Hill, MD, on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 10:30 A.M. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD. Friends may call at the family owned McComas Funeral Home. P.A.. Abingdon, MD, on Friday from 3 to 5 and 6 to 9 P.M.,and on Saturday from 9 to 10:30 A.M., at the church.

In New Orleans over the weekend, people were flexing their gullets for the Acme World Oyster Eating championship where the winner was a young man from Chicago, Patrick Bertoletti. But competitive eating is one of those sort-of sports in which women have demonstrated that they can compete with the guys, and at the Big Easy oyster slurp, Germantown's Juliet Lee - all of 105 pounds - finished second. Lee, who used to be a chemistry teacher in China and operates a hair salon in Germantown, downed 31 1/2 dozen raw oysters (378)

The lime-green shoots of tulips are beginning to push their way through a patch of rich dirt in front of Germantown Elementary School. Principal Walter Reap parks beside this garden every morning, and sometimes he considers the tulips' slow and perseverant reach for the sun and sky as a symbol of the gradual rebirth he is seeing at his school. Reap is in his first year as head of an Annapolis school that has grappled with drastic demographic shifts during the past decade. A school that once had nearly 600 students evenly split between white and African-American, saw its enrollment drop in 2001 to barely 400, with Hispanic students making up a third of enrollment, as white students dropped to 15 percent.

GERMANTOWN -- Parishioners of Mother Seton Roman Catholic Church held an all-night prayer vigil last night to mourn the death of their pastor, who was found fatally beaten in the rectory yesterday after a possible burglary. Expressions of grief poured in from beyond the parish for Monsignor Thomas Wells, 56, who had been pastor there for 18 months. James Cardinal Hickey, Archbishop of Washington, said in a statement that Wells had been "beloved in every parish he served" for nearly 30 years.

A subsidiary of a Netherlands-based biotechnology company has purchased 18 acres in Montgomery County for a manufacturing and research headquarters which is expected to employ several hundred people. Qiagen NV, a supplier to the gene research industry, said yesterday that it will start building the North American headquarters for its newly formed subsidiary, Qiagen Sciences Inc., this month in Germantown. Qiagen expects to employ more than 200 manufacturing workers and 100 scientists in research and development by early 2002.

Hampered by the lack of a passing game last season, Morgan State brought in three quarterbacks on national signing day in a recruiting haul that landed 23 high school or Division I transfers. The Bears recruited the prolific passing combination of quarterback Delonte Williams and wide receiver Winfield Diggs from Friendship Collegiate High in Washington. The two other quarterbacks signed were Donavan Dickerson, who led Detroit's Martin Luther King High to a 14-0 state championship, and Carlton Jackson, a transfer from Akron and one of seven Florida natives added to the roster.

On Thursday, June 28, 2007, HELEN M. WALSH (age 79), of Germantown, MD, formerly of Potomac, MD. Beloved wife of the late Edward F. Walsh; loving mother of Maureen Burns (Bob), Joan Walsh, Timothy Walsh (Heidi), John Walsh, Kathleen Kelly (Jack) and Michael Walsh; sister of Edward Lott (Pat). Also survived by seven grandchildren, three step-grandchildren and four step-great-grandchildren. Friends may call at DeVol Funeral Home, 10 East Deer Park Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 on Sunday, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at Mother Seton Catholic Church, 19951 Father Hurley Blvd, Germantown, MD 20874 on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 10:30 A.M. Interment St. Gabriel's Cemetery, Potomac, MD. The family respectfully request, in lieu of flowers, that memorial contributions be made in Helen's name to the Mercy Health Cinic, Attn: Peter Antico, Treasurer, 12900 Middlebrook Rd., Germantown, MD 20874 or the Read Center, 1605 Monument Ave., Richmond, VA 23220, Attn: Carol Holmquist.