Hanover

HANOVER, Pa. -- The young black man in the L.A. Raiders sweat shirt put his arm around his white girlfriend and said: "I can look in people's faces and see the hatred. It's just simply because we're black. They don't want us to be here because of the color of our skin."Simmering racism sparked into confrontation in this old southern Pennsylvania town this week, mostly because a lot of white Hanoverians don't like to see interracial couples like Eddie Dunlap and Sandy Reese hanging out in Center Square.

A man and woman from Hanover, Pa., are being in lieu of $25,000 bond each in the York County Prison on charges connected to the theft of a Westminster woman's purse in Melrose early yesterday.The suspects, Robin Christine Thomas, 33, and Anthony David Pozzuoli, 32, were captured in a car in the 2000 block of Baltimore Blvd. in Hanover by West Manheim Township police, who were on the lookout for the vehicle.The victim's purse and money were found in the car, police said.Both suspects were charged with receiving stolen goods, said a spokeswoman for the West Manheim police.

Reisterstown resident George Neubeck expects "a lot of spirited discussion" when officials from Carroll and Baltimore counties and the state meet June 9 to discuss traffic congestion on Route 30.The Hanover Road Association, a citizens group that works to promote good planning and protect the rural nature of the area, has invited Commissioner Donald I. Dell and six other officials to talk about the issue.The meeting is at 8 p.m. at Camp Fretterd at 13700 Hanover Pike in Woodensburg.Residents want to hear experts talk about increasing traffic on Route 30, known as Hanover Pike.

Despite an announcement that the Coca-Cola Co. and its affiliated bottlers plan to invest a record $3 billion next year to construct new plants and upgrade others, a Howard County site slated to contain a state-of-the-art bottling facility will likely remain barren.Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., the affiliated Atlanta-based bottler that owns the Howard County land, says the decision to continue postponing construction of a planned nine-story plant is the result of fundamental changes in the soft drink industry.

A Hanover woman died last week from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle collision on U.S. 1 near Mission Road in Jessup.Howard County police said Janet Fultz, 37, of the 7100 block of Ohio Ave. died early Friday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she had been in critical condition since the accident Thursday night.Fultz was a passenger in a 1985 Oldsmobile 98 that was trying to make a U-turn onto northbound U.S. 1 north of Mission Road about 7 p.m., police said.While making the U-turn, the driver of the car, Darwin Woodworth, 33, of the 8600 block of Pine Tree Drive in Jessup, failed to yield the right of way to a 1987 Dodge Caravan that was traveling north on U.S. 1, police said.

For the third time in as many visits to the Ray Oliver Invitational, Hanover -- Pennsylvania's No. 1 dual-meet team -- dominated McDonogh's 23rd annual affair, placing all 13 of its wrestlers in the top four with seven champs to outscore runner-up Gilman, 237.5 to 161.But the night's best bout featured two locals, as Gilman's No. 3 Greg Plitt (189 pounds, 9-0, five pins) edged Centennial's No. 2-ranked defending 3A-4A state champ Joon Kim, 2-0.After a scoreless first period, Plitt's tough riding produced a stalling point against Kim for a 1-0 second-period lead.

THE ANNUAL Spring Art Show by the 130 members of the Hanover Area Art Guild opens April 5 and will continue through April 27 at The Gallery, 32 Carlisle St. in Hanover, Pa.The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m."This is our important show for the first half of the year. I expect all of our Maryland artists and crafts people to have work in this show," said Ann Faust Baron, guild publicist. This show and sale includes many Carroll artists presenting paintings and fine crafts.

At a public hearing that drew more than 300 people to Harman Elementary School last night, developers of the proposed Arundel Mills mall presented their plans to preserve forests and wetlands on the project's 400-acre site in Hanover.The Army Corps of Engineers and the Maryland Department of the Environment have been reviewing the mall project for nearly a year. The agencies scheduled the hearing at the request of mall opponents who have expressed concerns about the project in the past few months.

The Hampstead and Manchester bypasses have "made the first cut" in a long-term plan for alleviating traffic problems in the Hanover Pike corridor, said Harvey S. Bloom, director of transportation planning for the Baltimore Metropolitan Council.But Mr. Bloom, who presented preliminary findings of the Hanover Pike Task Force at a meeting last night in Manchester, )) said the bypasses may not ever be funded."At this time, I'm not prepared to say 'no' or 'yes' " on the bypasses, he said.The task force has been studying traffic problems and development projections along Route 30 and Pennsylvania Route 94 for 1 1/2 years.

KEYW Corp., a Hanover-based cybersecurity company that works with the United States military and defense contractors, said Friday it bought a privately held cybersecurity company in Columbia for $13 million. KEYW acquired JKA Technologies Inc., a nine-year-old company that offers network engineering, information assurance and software engineering. JKA had revenues of $13 million last year. It is the 10th company acquired by KEYW, which went public last year, since it was formed in August 2008.