Hanover Street

Baltimore's Department of Transportation is warning motorists of several street closures in the city because of construction: Hanover Street between Ostend and Montgomery streets will be closed until Dec. 21 so public works crews can replace a 10-inch water main. People who live and work in the area will have access. Southbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured onto Charles Street, west onto Ostend Street and back to Hanover. Northbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured east onto Ostend Street, north onto Charles Street and onto Montgomery.

Water main that burst Saturday is repaired and service restored A 10-inch water main that ruptured Saturday, flooding and damaging South Hanover Street on the border of Federal Hill and Sharp-Leadenhall, was repaired yesterday and water restored to about 30 rowhouses, a Department of Public Works spokeswoman said. Shortly before noon, work crews also repaired Hanover Street, just south of Hamburg Street, well before the 7 p.m. preseason football game between the Ravens and the Philadelphia Eagles.

A tanker rig overturned and burst into flames yesterday evening on a curving interstate ramp over Baltimore's South Hanover Street, killing the driver and sending a burning stream of its load of ethanol into the street below, igniting a row of parked vehicles, authorities said. The wreckage burned for more than three hours as firefighters sprayed water and foam into the flames - with the driver's body still in the truck cab. His name and the company he worked for were not divulged last night, but the tanker - which was carrying 8,000 gallons of ethanol - was from a local trucking company, said Cpl. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police.

Hanover Street between McComas Street and Brooklyn was closed overnight while crews worked to remove about 8,900 gallons of gasoline that spilled into the Patapsco River when a tanker truck overturned about 5 p.m. yesterday on an on-ramp to southbound Interstate 95.Battalion Chief Hector L. Torres of the Baltimore Fire Department said firefighters and crews from the Maryland Department of the Environment were cleaning up the spill.Witnesses told police the tanker, owned by Dana Transportation, whose address was not available, was rocking back and forth on the ramp from northbound Hanover Street before it overturned near the top of the ramp and landed on its right side against a wall.

Two roads will be closed in downtown Baltimore on Sunday so that heavy equipment can be lifted onto the NationsBank building at Charles and Lombard streets, the Department of Public Works said yesterday.Lombard Street between Hopkins Place and Charles Street, and Hanover Street between Lombard and Pratt Street, will be closed to traffic from 6: 30 a.m. to noon, said a department spokesman.A suggested alternate route is for motorists to travel north on Charles, west on Fayette Street and south on Liberty Street.

ON HANOVER STREET in the financially fertile hours before the Super Bowl, we see Eddie from South Baltimore, the semi-well-known bookmaker, but no sign at all of Parris Glendening, the semi-well-known governor.This means Eddie can conduct commerce as he chooses, and no matter that the governor of Maryland attempts to stand in the way. The governor says no gambling, not now, not later, not over his living body. Eddie says, "What do you want?" to a guy holding out a $20 bill."Gimme the points," the guy says, meaning New England.

At week's glorious end, we have Eddie from South Baltimore, the semiwell-known bookmaker, standing on Hanover Street and grunting merest splinters of the English language to avoid suspicions that he has an actual brain in his head."

William E. Blayton, 64, steamship agentWilliam E. Blayton, a retired steamship agent, died of a brain tumor Sunday at his Millersville home. He was 64.Mr. Blayton began working for Lavino Shipping Co. in his native Newport News, Va., in 1951 and came to Baltimore in 1979 as vice president of the firm's local office. He left Lavino in 1992 and joined Fillette, Green & Co., retiring as a vice president last year.His professional memberships included the Traffic Club of Baltimore and the Propeller Club.

Brooklyn may be across the river like the New York borough for which it was named, but it is convenient to most every place around Baltimore.The Rev. Richard Andrews, pastor of Brooklyn United Methodist Church, says you can get to downtown Baltimore by car or light rail "in five or 10 minutes," and George J. Gonce, who has operated a funeral home that straddles the Baltimore City-Anne Arundel County line for 46 years, says the highway network makes Brooklyn...

Because he regards all straight employment as human catastrophe, Eddie from South Baltimore, the semi-well-known bookmaker, is making his way along Hanover Street this frosty morning with four imitation wool sweaters in a plastic bag."Worth $89," he explains by way of sales pitch."Too much," says a guy regarding them with the eye of a connoisseur."I'll take $20," says Eddie, never one to split hairs.Historically, Eddie makes his living booking horse races and ballgames and numbers. But, owing to the football season having ceased and the state having become the biggest lottery operator around, it's fallen to Eddie to supplement his income in a variety of other ways.

Rosemary Muir likes to dress up her goose. A school outfit in September. A tuxedo for formal occasions. A wedding gown when her daughter got married. And, of course, appropriate attire for the appropriate holiday. Muir bought her first and, she thought, her last 26-inch tall, 90-pound concrete goose two decades ago in Ohio and brought it with her to Howard County. Ten years ago, she and her husband took the prized lawn ornament to their new home on South Hanover Street, in South Baltimore's Otterbein.

Jack Lipsitz, a retired co-owner of a Baltimore wholesale dry goods firm who was a World War II combat veteran, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Atrium Village Retirement Community in Owings Mills. The former longtime Pikesville resident was 93. Mr. Lipsitz was born in Baltimore and raised on Hanover Street, above his family's dry good business, D. Lipsitz and Sons, that had been founded by his father in 1900. After graduating from Southern High School in 1933, he joined his father in the business that sold clothing, underwear and towels to stores, family members said.

Appeals court squelches pit bull-shooting lawsuit 2 An Edgewater woman whose pit bull was fatally shot by an Anne Arundel County police officer in 2006 will not be able to go forward with a $3 million lawsuit against the county, the state Court of Special Appeals ruled yesterday. Deborah Ransom filed the lawsuit in July 2007, alleging that the officer, Adam Hinson, had been reckless and used excessive force. The Court of Special Appeals sided with Anne Arundel Circuit Court in approving a motion by the county to dismiss the suit.

Pasadena woman dies in car crash A 50-year-old Anne Arundel County woman was killed Thursday night after she lost control of her car in Severna Park, struck a guardrail, spun around and overturned, police said yesterday. Police said Kristine Ann Moore of the 8300 block of Sail Circle in Pasadena was driving a 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser north on Ritchie Highway near Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard about 10:40 p.m. when her vehicle drifted off the right side of the road. Police said Moore tried to steer her vehicle back onto the road, but it struck a guardrail, turned 180 degrees and flipped onto its left side.

The ramp from southbound Hanover Street to southbound Interstate 95 remained closed yesterday evening and likely will be closed this morning while engineers repair damage from yesterday's early-morning tanker fire, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority police. The South Baltimore bridge was shut down about 3 a.m. after a tanker-truck overturned on the ramp, leading to traffic delays forcing the Maryland Transit Administration to temporarily shut down the Camden MARC train line between Baltimore and Washington.

Baltimore's Department of Transportation is warning motorists of several street closures in the city because of construction: Hanover Street between Ostend and Montgomery streets will be closed until Dec. 21 so public works crews can replace a 10-inch water main. People who live and work in the area will have access. Southbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured onto Charles Street, west onto Ostend Street and back to Hanover. Northbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured east onto Ostend Street, north onto Charles Street and onto Montgomery.

Water main that burst Saturday is repaired and service restored A 10-inch water main that ruptured Saturday, flooding and damaging South Hanover Street on the border of Federal Hill and Sharp-Leadenhall, was repaired yesterday and water restored to about 30 rowhouses, a Department of Public Works spokeswoman said. Shortly before noon, work crews also repaired Hanover Street, just south of Hamburg Street, well before the 7 p.m. preseason football game between the Ravens and the Philadelphia Eagles.

The driver of a tanker-truck that crashed on a South Baltimore interstate ramp on Sunday, spilling thousands of gallons of ethanol and sparking a fire that burned for hours, has been identified as a 45-year-old resident of Richmond, Va., authorities said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Maryland Transportation Authority said dental records were used to identify Michael John Robinson Sr., who was trapped in the wreckage until firefighters could extinguish the blaze on the elevated ramp over South Hanover Street.

The fatal tanker-truck accident Sunday evening that turned a South Baltimore interstate ramp into a waterfall of blazing ethanol caused no structural damage, authorities said yesterday. The sharply curving, elevated entrance ramp to southbound Interstate 95 is expected to reopen by Wednesday morning, after crews mill and replace the road surface and replace a portion of the safety wall, said Cpl. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Under the ramp, South Hanover Street - where six parked cars and a truck were ignited by the stream of burning fuel spilled from the tanker - was opened to traffic late yesterday afternoon.

A tanker rig overturned and burst into flames yesterday evening on a curving interstate ramp over Baltimore's South Hanover Street, killing the driver and sending a burning stream of its load of ethanol into the street below, igniting a row of parked vehicles, authorities said. The wreckage burned for more than three hours as firefighters sprayed water and foam into the flames - with the driver's body still in the truck cab. His name and the company he worked for were not divulged last night, but the tanker - which was carrying 8,000 gallons of ethanol - was from a local trucking company, said Cpl. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police.