Hereford High

Services for Sharon Ann Andrews will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier Church, 13717 Cuba Road in Hunt Valley. Mrs. Andrews, who was 61 and lived in Monkton, died in an Oct. 11 boating accident on the Sassafras River near the Betterton area of Kent County. Born Sharon Ann Thompson in Baltimore and raised in Perry Hall, she was a graduate of Overlea High School and earned a diploma at the Maryland General Hospital Nursing School in 1967. She was an obstetrical nurse at Maryland General Hospital and then became a Baltimore Health Department public health nurse.

Just days after Hereford High School administrators canceled all performances of a student production they said was violent and vulgar, they decided to let the 40 students in "Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" present an edited version of the show to an invited audience tonight.But the students aren't happy with the compromise. They say the show will lose money because it will run only one night instead of three. They also say the editing changes are not fair and that the administration's response to the excerpt they saw was inappropriate.

Mike Hood slaps the snooze button, and the inner voices start their debate.Go back to sleep, one voice tells him. You're a teen-ager on summer break. Why rise early to sweat the day away on a football field -- on a sun-broiled steppe of dust and grit, really -- when you can sleep late and then hit the pool?Sounds good. But another voice has the final say: "You just can't do that.""I made the commitment," says Mike, a 14-year-old sophomore on the junior varsity football team at Baltimore County's Hereford High School.

Tobias James Harring, a Hereford High School junior and a scholar-athlete, died Friday at Sinai Hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile accident. He was 17 and lived in Sparks.Baltimore County police said the Harring youth was driving alone Thursday night when his car skidded out of control on a wet road and struck a utility pole on Mount Carmel Road in northern Baltimore County.Known as Toby, he was a Hereford honors student who had finished his first season on the varsity football team.

In Baltimore CountyMinnick elected to chair county's House delegationANNAPOLIS -- Joseph J. "Sonny" Minnick, a Dundalk Democrat, has been elected chairman of the 27-member Baltimore County House delegation in Annapolis.James E. Malone Jr., whose district includes parts of Baltimore and Howard counties, was elected vice chairman, and Katherine Klausmeier, who represents parts of Perry Hall, White Marsh and Baltimore City, was elected secretary. The votes were unanimous.Hereford High exams pushed back because of ice stormHEREFORD -- Last week's ice storm has caused semester exams at Hereford High School to be delayed until Thursday.

Greg Minor felt the pistol press into his side. But he wanted dope - ached for it, really - and it would take more than a Glock 9 mm to push him out of line."

Angered by the state's revocation of Maryland license plates honoring Confederate veterans, two seniors at Hereford High School raised the rebel flag in the schoolyard this week -- and ended up with a five-day suspension.Administrators who tried to lower the flag when they discovered it Monday morning found that the pulley on the pole had been jammed and summoned a county truck with a cherry picker from Towson to remove the flag, Hereford Principal Ray Gross said.The matter is pending before a Baltimore County Board of Education administrator, who could decide to expel the male students and make them pay restitution for the flagpole and the use of the cherry picker, which could amount to as much as $500.

MILFORD MILL -- A 20-year-old man apparently drowned yesterday while swimming at Milford Mill Swimming Club Inc. in the 3900 block of Milford Mill Road, said a county Fire Department spokeswoman.The spokeswoman, Renee Barrett, said Shamill McMillin of the 3500 block of Duvall Ave. in the city's Forest Park section, jumped or dived from a pier into 20 feet of water about 5: 16 p.m. and apparently experienced trouble before he went under. After being reported missing by friends with whom he was swimming, divers from Baltimore and Carroll counties responded and the body was recovered at 6: 17 p.m. about 8 feet from the pier.

The Hereford community is caught up in sports mania.The across-the-board success at Hereford High School this fall has brought out the fans and whipped up a frenzy of support for every team."

Joanne M. Miller, who had been a volunteer since childhood, died Thursday of cancer at her Monkton home. She was 41.Her commitment to helping others began when she was a child growing up in Guilford, one of nine children of Getty and Joseph Mullan, who owned Champion Brick Co."She started volunteering as a child at the Little Sisters of the Poor and later at the Muscular Dystrophy camp for children," said a sister, Jane M. Weisgerber of Sperryville, Va."I was 7 and Joanne was 9 and each Saturday we'd take the bus downtown to Biddle Street, and after the Sisters moved their home for the aged to Catonsville, we went out there by bus," said Mrs. Weisgerber.

As they have for 64 years, northern Baltimore County families are preparing for the annual Hereford Junior Farm Fair on Saturday, certain the event has a future but uncertain where that might be. Their longtime location at Hereford High School is about to become a parking lot for the expanding school. "Our barns will be torn down," said Kelly Wilson, the fair coordinator whose daughters are the third generation of the family to show at the event. "This is our last fair at the school, but none of us are saying this is our last fair."

Services for Sharon Ann Andrews will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier Church, 13717 Cuba Road in Hunt Valley. Mrs. Andrews, who was 61 and lived in Monkton, died in an Oct. 11 boating accident on the Sassafras River near the Betterton area of Kent County. Born Sharon Ann Thompson in Baltimore and raised in Perry Hall, she was a graduate of Overlea High School and earned a diploma at the Maryland General Hospital Nursing School in 1967. She was an obstetrical nurse at Maryland General Hospital and then became a Baltimore Health Department public health nurse.

During the two weeks of rehearsals for tonight's spring concert, clarinet player Erin McDevitt felt pride. She also has endured waves of sadness. But when she saw the tears streaking down a mother's face and watched as a father raced from the auditorium unable to contain his heartache, she felt the full weight of what her high school band was preparing to do: Unveil to the world a piece composed in honor of Joey Baseman, a 14-year-old schoolmate who...

On the same day she would have graduated from high school, apprentice sensation Rosie Napravnik rode two winners yesterday at Pimlico Race Course. "I didn't even realize they were graduating tonight," said Napravnik, who will take her GED test this summer. "I have learned so much this year." After attending her first two years of high school in New Jersey, Napravnik spent the summer of 2004 with her sister Jazz, an assistant trainer for Pimlico-based conditioner Holly Robinson. Immediately after her junior year at Hereford High, Napravnik began riding professionally and this year has won 71 races for $1.3 million.

Ozro Richard "Dick" Steigelman, a longtime math teacher at Hereford High School and former Air Force pilot, died Wednesday at his Monkton home after years of poor health. He was 75. Born in York, Pa., he moved to Georgetown, Del., at age 6 and graduated from Georgetown High School in 1949. He went on to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he graduated in 1954. After West Point, he entered the Air Force and flew large transport planes and also U-2 spy planes on covert missions.

Taylor Cunningham, a Hereford High School senior honors student who was co-captain and goalie of its varsity lacrosse team, died early Tuesday at York General Hospital after the car he was driving skidded on an icy road and struck a utility pole in southern Pennsylvania. He was 18 and lived in Upperco. Mr. Cunningham's death marked the latest in a series of tragedies to strike students and recent alumni of the school. In November, Joseph Baseman, a ninth-grader, was killed in an automobile accident, and earlier last fall, two Marines, both members of the Class of 2002, were killed in Iraq.

Boy arrested at school after robbery attempt A 13-year-old boy was arrested at a Baltimore County school yesterday after an attempt to rob a student with a BB gun, police said. A day earlier, county police pulled over a school bus and arrested a teenager who they said had shown another student a loaded handgun. Shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday outside Lansdowne Middle School, police said, an attempt was made to rob an 11-year-old boy by another boy who pointed a BB gun at him. Other pupils who saw the incident told the principal, police said.

Marine Cpl. Joshua D. Snyder could be playful. He was even sometimes ornery. But he was always conscientious and loyal, his friends said last night during his funeral service at Eline Funeral Home in Hampstead. Snyder died Nov. 30 - two weeks before his 21st birthday - of wounds suffered during combat in Fallujah, Iraq. The Hampstead resident, awarded the Purple Heart during the service, was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Last night, mourners alternated between tears and laughter as church leaders, co-workers and neighbors shared anecdotes about Snyder's pranks at his job at Wal-Mart and his concern for others.

The school flag at Hereford High flies at half-staff, again. Another wreath with stars and stripes bears a different name on its purple ribbon. And a care package once destined for Marine Cpl. Joshua D. Snyder in Iraq, will instead go to someone else. In the last six weeks, the school has lost two football players from the Class of 2002, both Marines stationed in Iraq. During that time, a Hereford freshman also died in a car accident, and the pain has been felt throughout the community.

A Marine who graduated from Hereford High School in Baltimore County in 2002 was killed this week in Fallujah - the school's second alumnus to die in Iraq in a little more than a month, the Department of Defense announced yesterday. Cpl. Joshua D. Snyder, 20, died Wednesday from wounds suffered under enemy fire while patrolling in Fallujah. Snyder, a rifleman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., had been in Iraq since September.