Glen Arm

Navy Midshipman Jeffrey W. Sauers, Jr , son of Suzette W. Sauers and Jeffrey W. Sauers, Sr. of Glen Arm recently completed Plebe Summer while attending the United States Naval Academy. Sauers will go on to complete the academic year as a midshipmen. He is a 2011 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School of Towson.

Roseanna V. Perkins, a retired Ruxton Country School teacher, died of cancer March 27 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Glen Arm resident was 62. Roseanna Villa was born in Baltimore and raised in Overlea on Springwood Avenue. She attended St. Michael's School and was a 1968 Mercy High School graduate. She earned an education degree at what is now Towson University. She taught at St. Leo's School in Little Italy and the Grey Manor Elementary School in Dundalk before she joined the education staff of the Walters Art Museum , where she worked with lecturer Theodore S. Lowe and led school tours.

Two men were seriously burned at a northeast Baltimore County party when someone sprayed a form of fuel on a bonfire, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department. Fire investigators said a group of people were standing around a fire pit in a driveway of a home in the 11500 block of Wallace Drive at about 3:15 a.m. Sunday when the flames started to die down. Witnesses later told police that Nicholas Hamel, 20, tried to reignite the fire with nitro fuel, which is used to power remote control cars.

The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) have a name for it - discernment. Discernment is basically a process of individual decision-making that attempts to get a glimpse of God's will apart from one's own ego. The raging debate on same-sex marriage brings this to mind ("A vote of conscience," Jan. 31). I am neither a theologian, philosopher nor a present or former Jesuit. Nor do I have an inside line on the will of God. I do have some abilities to reason and to process my own life's experiences, from which I make the following observations: If one looks to the Bible, I suspect a fairly sound case can be made against same-sex marriage.

Roy Wagner's musical treasure requires considerable space, with its 500-some pipes, its floor-to-ceiling relay panel filled with thousands of tiny pneumatic devices and a cumbersome blower with huge, noisy fans and belts. The instrument's elegant console, white and trimmed in gold leaf, dominates any room. And the sound that emanates when a musician tackles its double keyboard, numerous controls and floor pedals is equally grand. Believed to be the last remaining theater organ from a Baltimore movie house, the 1927 Wurlitzer has captured Wagner's fancy since the 1960s, when he used to borrow a key to the old State Theatre on Monument Street to play the shuttered playhouse's 2.5-ton wonder.

The declining defense budget has claimed another victim.Grumman Corp. announced yesterday that it will close its aircraft machining plant in Glen Arm by the end of the year and lay off 54 workers -- the last of a work force that numbered nearly 300 a few years back.The closing of the Grumman plant did not come as a surprise. Grumman said last year that it would either sell the Glen Arm facility or close it as part of a continuing company consolidation. Grumman has since been acquired by Northrop Corp.

An engineering company's plan to move two subsidiaries into the picturesque Long Green Valley in Baltimore County northeast of the city has many area residents vowing to stop what they see as a threat to the valley's rural nature."

Two people were killed and four others injured in a two-car accident in the Glen Arm section of Baltimore County last night, police reported.Police said emergency crews responding to the accident in the 11000 block of Glen Arm Road shortly before 9 p.m. found one person dead at the scene.A second person was later pronounced dead at St. Joseph Medical Center.Four people, including an infant, were transported to other area hospitals, police said.The cause of the accident was being investigated last night, but police said it involved two cars and forced them to close the road between Notchcliff Road and Long Green Pike for several hours.

A 44-year-old Glen Arm reptile dealer was sentenced yesterday in Baltimore federal court to four months of home detention and three years' supervised release for illegally buying and selling about $70,000 worth of exotic African snakes.Paul John Miles, who bred and sold reptiles through a business called Boa Barn in north Baltimore County, was also ordered by Chief U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to perform 500 hours of community service.Miles was arrested as part of a five-year undercover international investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service into smuggling of rare and endangered species of frogs, snakes and tortoises, authorities said.

NEW YORK -- Grumman Corp. said yesterday that it will sell its parts factory in Glen Arm and go ahead with plans to close its Salisbury aircraft cable plant, which employs nearly 250 workers, by the end of the year.The announcement came as the defense contractor announced a separate $85 million plan to lay off 500 workers and close several of its aircraft test and design facilities on Long Island.Grumman had announced that it would close the Salisbury plant last May but held out a slim prospect in November that it might reconsider the decision after it had reviewed the productivity of all its factories.

Robert James Mitchell, a retired Baltimore County building contractor and a one-time trainer for the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, died Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home, "Dogwoods," in Glen Arm. He was 81. Aside from a stint at Fort Benning, Ga., Mr. Mitchell spent his whole life in Maryland. Born in the Forest Park section of West Baltimore. Mr. Mitchell was the son of Robert John Mitchell and Leona Edna Brooks. His mother was a descendant of John West, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the first government of English colonists in North America.

Despite the fact that Mitt Romney ranks among the top 1 percent of richest Americans, the bottom line is that he is one of the 8.5 percent of unemployed Americans (as he had no earned income in 2010, according to his tax return). To his credit, he is actively seeking employment (President, U.S.), and taking extraordinary actions to become a wage earner. Throughout this time of hardship, he has not made a single plea for a government handout, only handouts (campaign contributions)

Navy Midshipman Jeffrey W. Sauers, Jr , son of Suzette W. Sauers and Jeffrey W. Sauers, Sr. of Glen Arm recently completed Plebe Summer while attending the United States Naval Academy. Sauers will go on to complete the academic year as a midshipmen. He is a 2011 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School of Towson.

The expressions on the faces of Sen. Ulysses Currie and his lawyers as they left the federal courthouse following the not guilty verdict are of pure joy and amazement ("Currie not guilty," Nov. 9). Much like that of a six-year-old who has watched a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat! Fred Derrick, Glen Arm

Army Pvt. Michael P. Carney graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. Carney is the son of Joe Volpini of Glen Arm, and Kathryn Volpini-Holland of Strasburg, Va. Carney graduated in 2004 from Loch Raven High School. Navy Seaman Apprentice Joshua J. Powers , grandson of Karen and Bob Almony of White Hall recently graduated from Operations Specialist School with honors. Powers is a 2009 graduate of Hereford High School of Parkton and joined the Navy in March 2011.

Calvert Ross Bregel Sr., a renowned trial lawyer and lifelong outdoorsman, died June 19 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the Presbyterian Home of Maryland in Towson. The Glen Arm resident was 84. The son of an attorney and a homemaker, Mr. Bregel grew up in the Hamilton section of the city and on his family's farm on the Choptank River in Cambridge, where he developed a deep appreciation for the Chesapeake Bay and its environs as well as for boating, fishing and hunting.

Plans to supply hundreds of young Baltimore County soccer players with an indoor arena at a former Grumman warehouse capable of housing seven fields have been abandoned by the Ruppersberger administration.The county now plans to buy only one of the two gigantic buildings once used as an aircraft-parts factory in Glen Arm. The warehouse on the west side of Long Green Pike, for which the county has offered $1.7 million, would be used for repairing county fire and public works department equipment and for training.

Declared dead two days ago, a bid by Baltimore County to buy one of the huge former Grumman aircraft factory buildings in Glen Arm is suddenly alive again.Aides to County Executive C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger said yesterday that they have submitted a new $1.9 million bid for the 180,000-square-foot building.If Grumman approves, they hope to schedule a County Council vote Oct. 21, four days before the conclusion of a sealed-bid auction the company is conducting for two buildings in the 12200 block of Long Green Pike.

If the gardening bug has bitten and you want to scratch that itch, here is a list of garden centers in or near North County: Bressler's Nursery & Landscape 11910 Long Green Pike, Glen Arm 410-592-7752 Brown's Orchards & Farm Market 8892 Susquehanna Trail South, Loganville, Pa. 717-428-2036 http://www.brownsorchards.com Kingsdene Nurseries & Garden Center 16435 York Road, Monkton ...