Glyndon

Mia Carolina has closed in Glyndon. The last day of service was Sunday. “We couldn't sell it and we couldn't sustain it,” owner Jay Cohen told The Baltimore Sun. "I'm grateful to everyone who was involved from the landlord to the last busboy. The customers made the restaurant what it was, and I thank every one of them. " Cohen opened Mia Carolina in 2005, taking over the old Mezzanotte Bistro space on Butler Road. He thoroughly renovated the space in 2007, changing the atmosphere from trattoria to semi-formal dining.

Mavis S. "Sherry" Sheedy, a retired Baltimore public schools art teacher and longtime museum docent, died April 4 of congestive heart failure at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. The Reisterstown resident was 74. The daughter of a civil engineer and a registered nurse, Mavis Sherron Grantham was born and raised in Whitney, Texas, where she graduated in 1956 from Whitney High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1960 in Spanish from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and later earned a master's degree in art education from Towson University.

Regional Homes has a model open and seven homes available at Glyndon Watch, a single-family home community in Baltimore County. The Reisterstown community offers homes on quarter-acre sites. The homes are on public water and sewer systems and have natural gas utilities. Regional offers four home plans, ranging from 1,800 square feet to 2,700 square feet, with base prices from $189,990 to $205,990. Standard features include first-floor laundry, two-story open foyer and ceramic tile baths.

Peter Young Martin, a former golf professional and Green Spring Valley Hunt Club champion, died of a respiratory illness March 31 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Owings Mills resident was 64. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of John William Young Martin and Nancy Byers Martin. He was raised at the family home, Snow Hill Farm, site of the Maryland Hunt Cup point-to-point race in the Worthington Valley in Baltimore County. Mr. Martin attended the Gilman Lower School and was a 1966 graduate of Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Conn.

On a late summer afternoon, Glyndon, the village tucked between Reisterstown and the Worthington Valley and its Sagamore Farm, looked as pretty as the black-eyed Susans tumbling over the old-fashioned fences. Had I wandered outside Baltimore County and fallen into a lost Cape May neighborhood? Was it all the porches, awnings, screen doors, rocking chairs and gardens? Glyndon indeed was once a summer retreat, miles distant from the city's heat, but connected by the rails, coaches and steam locomotives of the old Western Maryland Railway.

Like any prospective son-in-law, Sgt. Michael Frazier admitted to jitters about meeting his fiancee's father for the first time. Unlike most, the 29-year-old Marine flew to Miami Wednesday on a private jet with his own cheering section. "Not to worry about anything," Stephanie Greenberg assured Frazier, whom she met for the first time shortly before takeoff from the Signature Aviation terminal at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. "We are here for you, and we'll pull this dad aside and let him know how great you are. " Stephanie and Erwin Greenberg volunteered to fly Frazier and his fiance, Monica Montes, home for the holidays on their company plane to spare Frazier the hassles he would have encountered on a commercial flight.

Off historic Glyndon's main street, a dirt and gravel drive lined by old trees winds its way to the home of Todd and Karen Morrill. The rambling one-story house, constructed of redwood and Butler stone, sits above multiple graduated terraces with flagstone patios and decks. From the front, the home appears low to the ground and features three sets of 11-foot double doors. Warm lights from within reveal dark wood paneling, stone fireplaces, red bows wrapped around fir branches affixed to door frames and sprigs of holly on built-in shelving.

A Glyndon man turned himself in to Baltimore County police yesterday and was charged with beating a friend to death during a brawl outside a Reisterstown Road bar late Thursday night.James K. Malone, 29, arrived at the Garrison police station just after 4 p.m. He was being held on murder and assault charges.Police said they believed Mr. Malone, of the first block of Butler Road, was responsible for the beating of 41-year-old Ronald N. Cardwell outside the 15-Mile House Bar.

Howard County police obtained a warrant last week charging a Glyndon man with robbing a High's store in Glenelg and attempting to rob another in Glenwood.Paul Hamby, 32, of the first block of Bowers Lane was charged Wednesday with robbing a convenience store in the 15300 block of Hanover Pike in Upperco on Monday. He is being held at Baltimore County Detention Center.The High's at 13605 Triadelphia Road in Glenelg was robbed Oct. 18. Minutes later, a man tried to rob another High's at 2645 Route 97 in Glenwood a few miles away.

Hampstead police charged a Glyndon man yesterday with armed robbery, felony assault, use of a handgun in the commission of a felony and reckless endangerment in an Oct. 16 robbery of the High's store, 901 S. Main St.A detainer for Paul Hamby, 32, is on file with authorities in Baltimore County, where Hamby is being held on similar charges.Young dancers chosen for 'Nutcracker' partsTwo Hampstead dancers, Ashley Smith, 11, and Shelby Schestag, 12, recently were selected to dance with the Moscow Ballet Company in a production of "The Nutcracker."

Mia Carolina has closed in Glyndon. The last day of service was Sunday. “We couldn't sell it and we couldn't sustain it,” owner Jay Cohen told The Baltimore Sun. "I'm grateful to everyone who was involved from the landlord to the last busboy. The customers made the restaurant what it was, and I thank every one of them. " Cohen opened Mia Carolina in 2005, taking over the old Mezzanotte Bistro space on Butler Road. He thoroughly renovated the space in 2007, changing the atmosphere from trattoria to semi-formal dining.

William C. Ensor Jr., a retired estate manager and decorated World War II veteran, died Feb. 13 of heart failure at Lorien Mays Chapel. He was 91. The son of farmers, William Clark Ensor Jr. was born in Monkton and later moved with his family to Ruxton, where his father farmed in what is now the Four Winds neighborhood. Mr. Ensor attended Towson High School and enlisted in the Army in 1943, where he served with the 78th Infantry "Lightning" Division in the European theater. Mr. Ensor took part in the Battle of the Bulge and in the capture, intact, of the strategically important Schwammenauel Dam that spanned the Roer River.

On a late summer afternoon, Glyndon, the village tucked between Reisterstown and the Worthington Valley and its Sagamore Farm, looked as pretty as the black-eyed Susans tumbling over the old-fashioned fences. Had I wandered outside Baltimore County and fallen into a lost Cape May neighborhood? Was it all the porches, awnings, screen doors, rocking chairs and gardens? Glyndon indeed was once a summer retreat, miles distant from the city's heat, but connected by the rails, coaches and steam locomotives of the old Western Maryland Railway.

Nina Gill Stewart, an equestrienne and athlete, died of cancer Monday at her Unionville, Pa., home. The former Glyndon resident was 71. Born in Baltimore and raised at Meadow Run, her parents' home in Glyndon, she was the daughter of Redmond C. Stewart, a lawyer who owned Grand National steeplechase champion Ben Nevis II, and Ann Cochran Stewart, a fox hunter. She attended the Calvert School and was a 1959 Garrison Forest School graduate. She also earned a diploma at the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va., and made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillion the same year.

You end your editorial on the Buffett Rule ("The Buffett Rule backlash," April 13) with the question, "Where will the $50 billion come from to balance the budget, if not from this minimum tax plan?" Here's the answer: From less spending! George B. Wroe, Glyndon

Like any prospective son-in-law, Sgt. Michael Frazier admitted to jitters about meeting his fiancee's father for the first time. Unlike most, the 29-year-old Marine flew to Miami Wednesday on a private jet with his own cheering section. "Not to worry about anything," Stephanie Greenberg assured Frazier, whom she met for the first time shortly before takeoff from the Signature Aviation terminal at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. "We are here for you, and we'll pull this dad aside and let him know how great you are. " Stephanie and Erwin Greenberg volunteered to fly Frazier and his fiance, Monica Montes, home for the holidays on their company plane to spare Frazier the hassles he would have encountered on a commercial flight.

A bail review hearing in District Court was scheduled today for a man who has been charged in the death of another man who was found severely beaten on the parking lot of a Reisterstown bar Thursday, Baltimore County police said.James Kevin Malone, 29, of the 100 block of Butler Ave. in Glyndon, surrendered Saturday afternoon, police said. He was charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bail at the Garrison Precinct lockup.According to police, Ronald Nelson Cardwell, 41, of the 4700 block of Bonnie Brae Road near Randallstown, was found by an officer about 10:45 p.m. Thursday on the parking lot of the Fifteen Mile House in the 11500 block of Reisterstown Road.

In Glyndon, mail isn't delivered to houses. And residents of this northwestern Baltimore County town like it that way. Neighbors want to bump into each other and chat when they pick up mail at the historic, resident-owned post office. That's just the kind of place Glyndon is, they say. The historic neighborhood is also the kind of place where kids bike to the neighborhood swimming pool. It is the kind of place where friends sit on wrap-around front porches and where, on the Fourth of July, more people are marching in the town parade than are watching it. At the end, townspeople sing the national anthem and eat hot dogs.

Off historic Glyndon's main street, a dirt and gravel drive lined by old trees winds its way to the home of Todd and Karen Morrill. The rambling one-story house, constructed of redwood and Butler stone, sits above multiple graduated terraces with flagstone patios and decks. From the front, the home appears low to the ground and features three sets of 11-foot double doors. Warm lights from within reveal dark wood paneling, stone fireplaces, red bows wrapped around fir branches affixed to door frames and sprigs of holly on built-in shelving.

Constellation Energy Group CEO Mayo A. Shattuck III was paid $15.7 million last year. Wouldn't it be interesting to know just what decisions he made that were worth that kind of money? George B. Wroe, Glyndon