Gwynns Falls

Baltimore City fire crews recovered a car that had gone over a guardrail into the Gwynns Falls on Tuesday, but did not recover a driver, a spokesman said. The vehicle went over a guardrail in the 3900 block of Hilton Parkway near Franklintown Road at about 6 p.m. and into the Gwynns Falls, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, spokesman with the Fire Department. But after a long search, Cartwright said no driver turned up. Crews searched the area along the Gwynns Falls using ground and air resources for several hours.

A Gywnns Falls Elementary School staff member was assaulted as she entered the building early Tuesday, according to a Baltimore City public schools spokeswoman. The staff member was assaulted by an unknown assailant at 6 a.m. at the school's main entrance. The attacker left the scene, and the staff member was taken to the hospital. Spokeswoman Molly Rath said she could not release any information regarding the staff member's occupation, her injuries or what hospital she was transported to. No students or other staff members were present for the assault, Rath said, and parents were notified about the incident via a phone call and letter.

A sewer overflow in Southwest Baltimore spilled an estimated 446,000 gallons of untreated waste into the Gwynns Falls on Sunday, city officials reported Monday. A Department of Public Works spokesman says officials suspect the 27-inch main overflowed because of an as-yet unidentified blockage. The overflow at Wilkens Avenue and South Dukeland Street was reported around 3 p.m. Sunday, and continued until public works crews were able to divert the sewage flow to another line around 11:15 p.m. An investigation continues to find and fix the blockage, said public works spokesman Kurt Kocher.

Baltimore police have identified a man shot and killed in the Franklintown neighborhood Thursday as 23-year-old Antoine Ellis. Officers responded to the 2000 block of Forest Park Ave. for reports of gunfire shortly after 2 p.m. and found Ellis suffering from gunshot wounds to the head, police said. He was taken to an area hospital, where he died of his wounds at 2:40 p.m. Police believe Ellis was shot while he was standing near a bench on a baseball field and are continuing to investigate.

A person was fatally shot Wednesday night in the 4700 block of Windsor Mill Road, in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park, police said. Police were notified of the shooting at 9:05 p.m. No other information, including the sex or age of the victim, was immediately available from police. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

Two years ago, the Schmoke administration teamed up with a number of private organizations and set about to create a recreational trail along the Gwynns Falls from Leakin Park to the Inner Harbor and Cherry Hill in South Baltimore.Considering how trash-strewn and polluted that greenway is currently, many residents greeted the idea with skepticism and predicted nothing would come of it. Yet the New York-based Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund late last year gave $883,728 for the implementation of the plan.

A 12-year-old Southwest Baltimore boy drowned yesterday in the Gwynns Falls near the Carroll Park Golf Course, a city fire official said.The boy, whose name was not released because his parents had not been notified, went wading with a friend in the stream late yesterday afternoon, said Battalion Chief Frank Uhlhorn.The boy's body was found by divers shortly after 8 p.m.Pub Date: 6/15/96

The body of an unidentified male in his late teens was found yesterday in several feet of water in the Gwynns Falls in Southwest Baltimore. Police have ruled the death questionable pending an autopsy. Detective Lynette Nevins of the homicide unit said two boys walking on the CSX Railroad bridge off the 1200 block of Bernard Drive near Carroll Park spotted the body about 6: 50 p.m. and told railroad police, who notified city police. Nevins said the victim was a white male wearing gray sweat pants cut off at the knees.

Artists and landscape architects from around the country will compete this spring to design ways to enliven a six-mile greenway stretching along the Gwynns Falls from Baltimore's Inner Harbor to Leakin Park.Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke announced that three artist-led design teams have been selected from among 19 bidders to participate in a two-month competition to develop plans for public amenities for the Gwynns Falls Greenway.The Greenway competition is the third in as many months involvingprime public land in Baltimore.

Baltimore schoolchildren and educators will stand by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke tomorrow morning as he breaks ground for the Gwynns Falls Trail.The ceremony for the first phase of construction on the proposed 14-mile trail is slated to begin at 10: 30 a.m. on Franklintown Road between Winans Way and Wetheredsville Road at the original entrance to the old Crimea Estate. The celebration will cap years of planning by the city, community groups, the nonprofit Parks and People Foundation and the Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit conservation group.

In the heart of a little Southwest Baltimore neighborhood are signs saying "Welcome to Wellesley Park" and "Sustain us love. " It goes by the name of Gwynns Falls, and its rowhouses sit tucked behind a bunch of businesses, including a paint brush factory, Carroll Awning and A-1 Three Brothers auto repair, which front on busy Frederick Avenue. When I approached them, I saw how tidy Stafford, Sunset and Longwood streets were. I soon learned that the Gwynns Falls enclave had recently won a $5,000 city-sponsored award for the cleanest community in its quadrant of the city.

In a city struggling to rebuild its population, construction cranes would seem to be a welcome sign. But office, shopping and housing projects in the works in Northwest Baltimore have some residents worried about the impact of development on a degraded stream that flows through their neighborhoods on its way to the harbor. Cranes tower over an 11-acre tract on Wabash Avenue, where the Social Security Administration plans to move 1,600 workers from the federal agency's aging downtown headquarters.

City police charged a 37-year-old man Friday in a Pigtown killing that occurred in March. Detectives arrested Antwan Conley of the 3000 block of Gwynns Falls in the death of Darshewn Freeman, 44. Freeman was found by police in the rear of the 1200 block of W. Ostend St. bleeding from the head March 19. He later died from blunt force trauma to the head at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police said the two men had been arguing before Conley killed Freeman. Conley is charged with first-degree murder and is being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center.

Since we have big park-related events coming up, I read Timothy Wheeler's recent article on Baltimore's parks with particular interest ("Baltimore's parks ranked 15 t h in U.S.," May 24). For the second year, Nature Art in the Park is sponsoring the installation of several site-specific artworks that celebrate nature in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park. The artworks will be on view throughout the summer on the trails between the Carrie Murray Nature Center and Orianda House, off Windsor Mill Road.

A person was fatally shot Wednesday night in the 4700 block of Windsor Mill Road, in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park, police said. Police were notified of the shooting at 9:05 p.m. No other information, including the sex or age of the victim, was immediately available from police. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

More trees have been cut down in the Inner Harbor - for bikers and hikers this time, not race car fans. A contractor removed 13 trees last week on Light Street by the  Harborplace pavilion, according to Adrienne Barnes, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Transportation.  They had to go, Barnes said, to make way for the final leg of the Jones Falls trail, which tracks the stream of the same name from Robert E. Lee Park through the...

To hear its most fervent supporters describe it, the Gwynns Falls Trail being planned through West Baltimore isn't merely about a walk in the woods. They speak of the project in a holistic sense, with all the fervor of a tent preacher. The trail will be like "healing tissue" for a sick city, they say. It will create "a blueprint for the life we wish for ourselves," exalts the project designer.Clearly, the people behind this project see and feel something that might not be evident to the average person who knows the area they're talking about.

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A sewer overflow in Southwest Baltimore spilled an estimated 446,000 gallons of untreated waste into the Gwynns Falls on Sunday, city officials reported Monday. A Department of Public Works spokesman says officials suspect the 27-inch main overflowed because of an as-yet unidentified blockage. The overflow at Wilkens Avenue and South Dukeland Street was reported around 3 p.m. Sunday, and continued until public works crews were able to divert the sewage flow to another line around 11:15 p.m. An investigation continues to find and fix the blockage, said public works spokesman Kurt Kocher.

A gunman opened fire on a Baltimore police officer as he stepped out of his patrol car while responding to a domestic violence call Tuesday night, grazing his hip, according to a statement from a city Police Department spokesman. Police spokesman Detective Kevin Brown said the shooting occurred about 11:40 p.m. in the 1100 block of Cooks Lane, near the southern edge of Gwynns Falls Park and about a quarter-mile from Security Boulevard and Forest Park Avenue. The Southwestern District officer, who has been on the force five years, was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and released.