NEWS
By June Arney | November 30, 2007
Village residents who live near a 264-unit housing development proposed for the edge of west Columbia are fighting the project, which they say will bring too much traffic to the area and force the cutting of many trees surrounding the site. But the Riverdale development, a project of Dale Thompson Builders Inc. that is slated for a 30-acre site at Cedar Lane and Route 32 near the Middle Patuxent River, is so far along in the process that substantial changes are unlikely. "It's too late in the game for them to be challenging the zoning," said Marsha McLaughlin, director of the Howard County Department of Planning and Zoning.
NEWS
By Tyrone Richardson | April 18, 2007
Five of the seven Columbia Council seats to be filled in elections this weekend are being contested, with issues ranging from village revitalization and downtown development to the handling of contract negotiations with the association's president. Incumbents are facing challengers in Dorsey's Search, Hickory Ridge, Oakland Mills and Wilde Lake and two newcomers are vying in Kings Contrivance. Running unopposed are incumbent Henry F. Dagenais in Long Reach and newcomer Michael Cornell in River Hill, where incumbent Patrick von Schlag is not seeking re-election.
NEWS
By Jeff Grossman | February 10, 1999
The recent closings of High's convenience stores in Hickory Ridge and Owen Brown have left village officials and residents wondering what will replace them.Representatives at High's Baltimore office could not be reached for comment, and village officials said they don't have any information about possible new tenants."We've had people asking why the High's left [Jan. 4] and what might go there. We have not heard anything," said Ottilie Grim, Owen Brown village covenant adviser.Donna Mueller, a leasing representative of Hickory Plaza Associates, believes that a Starbucks-type store may lease the space left Jan. 25 by the High's in Hickory Ridge Plaza.
NEWS
August 18, 1999
The blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County compiled from police reports.East ColumbiaWatchlight Court: 9000 block, Owen Brown. A thief entered a house between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Thursday through a sliding door and stole a 27-inch television.Old Columbia Road: 10200 block, Kings Contrivance. A thief broke a glass front door at 12: 30 a.m. Thursday, set off a business alarm and stole unknown items.Benson Drive: 8300 block, Owen Brown. An intruder entered a business at 5 a.m. Thursday, pried open the portable automated teller machine and stole an unknown amount of cash.
NEWS
By Zanto Peabody | August 31, 1999
Hawthorn Pond, where neighbors lounging on hammock-strung decks can fish and take pictures of heron and geese in a good year, is full of lore, if not water.There is the story of a woman who, fearing a 12-year-old carp would suffocate in the ankle-high waters, captured the fish and kept it in her bathtub. And what was a palm-sized snapping turtle nursed by Tamarind Association President Allan Blondell and his son is reputed to be the 2-foot-wide submariner that attacks ducks.Residents around the pond, who have spent their time and money keeping water in the public pond for most of the decade, are telling the Columbia Association it is "a feature we don't want to see dry out and be destroyed," Blondell said.
NEWS
By Jill Hudson Neal | December 16, 1999
With Christmas right around the corner and holiday celebrations in full swing, Columbia residents are probably looking for something a little different on the party scene.Tomorrow's holiday get-together at the Riverside Roastery & Espresso coffee cafe in Hickory Ridge Plaza will be just that: a Christmas party done beatnik-style. Ten or more local high school students will read aloud their original writings and poetry.Someone will tinkle out a tune on the piano, and the readings promise to be personal and heartfelt.
NEWS
October 6, 1999
The crime report is a sampling of crimes in Howard County compiled from police reports.East ColumbiaGuilford Road: 8800 block. Two men were changing a flat tire in front of Hammond High School at midnight yesterday when two men approached them, displayed a handgun and demanded one of the men's cell phone and wallet. The robbers then searched the car but did not take anything from it.Stevens Forest Road: 5600 block, Oakland Mills. Someone entered a residence through the front door between 8 p.m. Monday and 1 a.m. yesterday, scattered food throughout the kitchen, ransacked the bedroom and destroyed furniture.
NEWS
By John J. Snyder | August 24, 1999
ON SUNDAY, nearly 400 people came to Patrick's Hair Design on Red Branch Road for the third Cuts Against Cancer, a fund-raiser for the Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource and Image Center. Eleven salons -- six of them from east Columbia -- volunteered to provide haircuts, manicures and massages to benefit the cancer center.A one-stop shop for cancer patients, their families and caregivers, the center is housed in a neat one-story brick building on Cedar Lane, near Hickory Ridge Road. Its rooms are painted in soothing colors and filled with comfortable furnishings.
NEWS
By Heather Tepe | February 10, 1999
ROMANCE IS on the minds of west Columbians.If you're wondering how to spend Valentine's Day with the one you love, you may be inspired by some of our neighbors' romantic memories.Jessica Reisboard, Alvin and Doris Gregory and August Falck -- residents of Harmony Hall, a retirement Community in Hickory Ridge -- were reminiscing in the parlor last week."My husband was a very romantic guy. We were married at the height of the Depression, when $5 was like $50 today," Reisboard recalled.On Valentine's Day the year they were married, Reisboard's husband, Bernard, came home with a bouquet of flowers.
NEWS
March 10, 1999
Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Elkridge-Ellicott CityEllicott City: A gunman entered Wendy's restaurant in the 9100 block of Old Annapolis Road on Monday and demanded that the manager open the safe. After putting an undetermined amount of money in a a duffel bag, the robber left through a back door.Elkridge: A 32-year-old man in the 6400 block of Loudon Ave. threatened to kill himself Monday and refused to leave for three hours. Negotiators were called to the scene, and the man eventually was taken to Howard County General Hospital.