Hampstead Town

The Maryland Department of the Environment will hold an informational meeting today on a water discharge permit application by Walsh Fuel and Supply Co. of Hampstead.The meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. in the Hampstead town hall, 1034 S. Carroll Street.Walsh is applying for a permit to discharge storm-water runoff from its truck-loading area and from a diked area surrounding some fuel tanks.Robert Beasley, a public health engineer for the Department of the Environment, will be present to answer questions.

TOMORROW Town councils -- Sykesville Town Council and Westminster Common Council will meet at 7 p.m.; Taneytown City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Carroll County Commissioners -- will meet at 9:30 a.m. at the County Office Building. 410-386-2043. Town councils -- Manchester Town Council and Hampstead Town Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Carroll County Commissioners -- will meet at 10 a.m. 410-386-2043. Freedom Area Citizens' Council -- will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Eldersburg library, 6400 W. Hemlock Drive.

A Hanover, Pa., man was being held in lieu of $2,500 bond after being charged Sunday in the theft of a 1979 Jeep in Hampstead.Town police said a state trooper stopped a Jeep in Baltimore County that fit the description of one reported stolen about 9 a.m. from the 1300 block of N. Main St.The driver, Christopher C. Calp, 24, was turned over to town officers and arrested on auto theft and drug charges.Pub Date: 9/30/97

These agencies will be closed tomorrow for Veterans Day:* Carroll County government offices.* Department of Social Services.* Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc.* All branches of the county public library.* County senior centers.* County circuit and district courts.* New Windsor town offices.* Sykesville town offices.These agencies will be open on Veterans Day:* Carroll County public schools and school system offices.* Northern Landfill and the Recycling Center.* Hampstead town offices.

The folowing offices will be closed tomorrow in observance of Columbus Day:* County Department of Social Services, 10 Distilley Drive,Westminster.* Human Service Programs Inc., 10 Distillery Drive, Westminster.* County Senior Centers.The following offices or services will be open tomorrow:* Northern and Hoods Mill landfills and the Recycling Center on Route 97 north near the Carroll County Airport.County Board of Education, 55, N. Court St., Westminster.* County public schools.* Hampstead town office.

The Hampstead Board of Zoning Appeals affirmed the town Planning and Zoning Commission's approval of the Oakmont Green Retail Center, Hampstead Town Attorney Richard C. Murray said Thursday.At a Tuesday meeting, the board "said Ordinance 230 was valid," Mr. Murray said.Ordinance 230 is the rewrite of the town's zoning code. The council adopted the ordinance in January.Before Ordinance 230 was adopted, the town's Board of Zoning Appeals had said construction of the Oakmont Green Retail Center could not proceed because its storm water management pond did not meet the existing code's requirements.

Hampstead water supply to be subject of meetingProtecting future water supplies for the town of Hampstead will be the subject of a meeting between Carroll County officials and Hampstead town representatives tonight at 7 p.m. at the Hampstead Town Hall.Carroll County has completed a study that mapped potential sites for wells that could be developed to provide municipal water supplies through 2020, said Thomas Devilbiss, a hydrogeologist with the county's Bureau of Water Resource Management.

In observance of the Martin Luther King holiday, the following offices will be closed Monday:* Carroll County government offices, which will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday.* Carroll County schools.* All Carroll County public library branches.* Westminster city offices.* Hampstead town offices. The Town Council meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.* Manchester town offices.* Union Bridge town offices.The county's landfills will be open normal hours, 7 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.Town offices of Sykesville, Mount Airy, Taneytown and New Windsor will be open Monday.