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SYKESVILLE -- Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke sent a letter to Sykesville Mayor Lloyd R. Helt, apologizing for the arrest of a Carroll County school bus driver in Baltimore.Mayor Helt said he has sent a return letter to the mayor, inviting him to visit Sykesville Middle School and speak with the children who were involved in the incident.Schmoke hasn't received the letter, said his spokesman, Clint Coleman, but he said the Baltimore mayor would be interested in visiting the school.Baltimore police arrested Wenda Bollinger of Mount Airy on May 20 as she was dropping off school children for a field trip at the Maryland Science Center.

Mount Airy residents reaffirmed one sitting Town Council member to new term, added one previous member to return to the group, and also added a new face to the council in the town's May 7 election. Mount Airy residents reaffirmed one sitting Town Council member to new term, added one previous member to return to the group, and also added a new face to the council in the town's May 7 election. In the process, voters filled a seat vacated by a member who declined to run, and ousted a 24-year veteran of the council.

When most people think of Lloyd R. Helt Jr., they think of the man with the cats in the window of his attorneys' office, and of course, the South Carroll town's mayor.But after this weekend, Hizzoner issure to have an all-new claim to fame -- that of Lloyd Helt, jitterbug dancer.Yes, the mayor will spend his weekend performing in the Carroll County Dance Center's Dance Recital at 7 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the North Carroll High School auditorium, 3801 Hampstead-Mexico Road.For his part, Helt -- attired in straw hat, red Costa Rican shirt and shorts -- and his instructor, Gail Malchester of Baltimore, will dance the jitterbug to the Beach Boys' "Help Me Rhonda."

A former assistant manager for the Shoppers Food Warehouse store in Westminster pleaded guilty to a theft scheme yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court and was ordered to repay the company for 2,549 hours of leave for which he was paid but to which he was not entitled, said Senior Assistant State's Attorney Melissa O. Hockensmith. John Lawrence Helt, 45, of Frederick received a suspended three-year sentence from Judge J. Barry Hughes, who ordered that Helt repay $51,371.01. If he repays the money within a year, the judge said he would give Helt probation before judgment, which would eliminate the conviction from his otherwise clean record.

Priscilla Clark chatted amiably with the security guards who were checking her into the County Courthouse yesterday."I am here for the swearing in of the new Sykesville mayor," she said."

Mayor Lloyd R. Helt Jr. has gone fishing.Not in Piney Run lake for real fish, but in Poland, for a small town seeking help in gettingits new democratic form of government rolling."

Mayor Lloyd R. Helt Jr. is threatening to send another tea bag to the Carroll County commissioners in protest against the county's proposed landfill tipping fees.The county's offer of a $2 reduction in tipping fees to the town, which currently recycles about 23 percent of its solid waste, is unacceptable, Helt said at Monday night's Town Council meeting."This is a travesty," he said. "It will destroy our program. We need a $10 differential to make the system work; we cannot accept the $2 figure."

Twelve years ago, a long-haired, bearded Democrat picked up the reins of government in Sykesville -- "shy but thrilled" that constituents trusted him to lead the town.More than 300 council meetings later, a self-assured Lloyd R. Helt Jr. credits "a remarkable string of good health" and a sense of dedication for his near-perfect attendance record through three mayoral terms.During those meetings, Mr. Helt worked on myriad problems and crises to help Sykesville prosper while keeping its small town flavor.

Mayor Lloyd R. Helt Jr. says town residents already recycle more than 15 percent of their solid waste -- the state-mandated goal -- and shouldn't have to pay for the county's waste disposal problem."

LOYALTON, PA -- Most children don't give their mothers away on Mother's Day, but Sykesville Mayor Lloyd R. Helt Jr. is doing just that.Helt's mother, 79-year-old Mae C. Helt, is marrying retired Methodist minister Sterling Fake, 75, and Hizzoner is escorting the bride to the altar."

Suddenly on January 27, 2005, WILLIAM H.; devoted husband of the late Rev. Laura Stevenson. He is also survived by two daughters; five sons; four daughters-in-law; one son-in-law; seven sisters-in-law; nine brothers-in-law; 28 grandchildren; numerous great and great-great-grandchildren; nieces; nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Carlton C. Douglass Funeral Service, P.A., 1701 Mc Culloh Street on Thursday 1 to 9 P.M. Family will receive friends Friday 12 Noon to 12:30 P.M. at the Gillis Memorial C.C. Church, 4016 Park Heights Avenue with service immediately following.

Mount Airy might be the only municipality in Carroll County with no election this year, but its Town Council has a different look. Council members selected a new president last week, and a new councilman took office. The council selected attorney Peter Helt to fill the council seat vacated by Frank Johnson, who resigned this year to focus on his duties as special assistant to county Commissioner Julia Walsh Gouge. The council picked John Medve, who was elected to the panel last year, to replace Johnson as president.

Joseph Madut Kuot rubbed his brow, engraved with the marks of his native Dinka tribe in southern Sudan, and recalled the struggles of his wife, Nyanut. Before she married Joseph Kuot, her village in southern Sudan was raided by rebels, Nyanut was abducted and taken to the western part of the country and ordered to wash clothes and watch over grazing cattle. One day she escaped, hopping trains and hiding in houses far from her own. Eventually, she made her way to Alexandria, Egypt, where she married Joseph Kuot.

Joseph Madut Kuot rubbed his brow, engraved with the marks of his native Dinka tribe in southern Sudan, and recalled the struggles of his wife, Nyanut. Before she married Joseph Kuot, her village in southern Sudan was raided by rebels, Nyanut was abducted and taken to the western part of the country and ordered to wash clothes and watch over grazing cattle. One day she escaped, hopping trains and hiding in houses far from her own. Eventually, she made her way to Alexandria, Egypt, where she married Joseph Kuot.

For three years, Sykesville has worked to bring the Warfield Complex, a 131-acre property along Route 32, into town limits and create a business and employment campus.Whether the town moves forward with its sweeping vision hinges on the will of its 3,500 residents. A referendum on the annexation is set for Feb. 17.Annexation of the former state hospital land and 15 aging buildings would give town taxpayers control over development at their borders and cost them nothing, said Mayor Jonathan S. Herman.

Call her a traitor, a killjoy, a Thanksgiving Day scrooge.Go ahead. Call her un-American. It won't change her mind.Pumpkin pie, says Joanna Kraft, is simply "the worst thing invented."Kraft, a Western Maryland College sophomore from Finland, is ++ one of hundreds of foreign students who spent yesterday trying to understand how football, turkey and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade have anything -- anything at all -- to do with this elusive tale of Pilgrims and Indians.Gathered yesterday around Lloyd Helt's and Ruth Gray's dining room table in Westminster were Western Maryland College students from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India.

If you think you're exhausted after watching a 45-minute aerobics video, then imagine the fatigue that fitness instructor Nikki Helt felt after spending 12 hours working to make the moves look effortless on your television screen."

Carroll County Citizens for Charter Government made it official Friday, registering with the Board of Elections as a political action committee to promote a change in government."

Elmer Lippy, Manchester mayor and former Carroll County commissioner, said yesterday he plans to seek the House of Delegates seat held by Del. Richard N. Dixon, who was elected Maryland treasurer last week.Mr. Lippy, 75, defeated in his re-election bid for commissioner in 1994, is the second candidate to formally announce that he wants to fill the remainder of the term.Mr. Dixon, a four-term incumbent, has endorsed David Brauning, 58, a Finksburg insurance agent he describes as a conservative Democrat.