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Facing angry complaints from residents about unruly and violent students from Hampstead Hill Middle School, Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke announced yesterday that the troubled school's principal would be transferred.The mayor also told nearly 200 people gathered at St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church that his administration would investigate the possibility of rezoning the school so that more of its students come from the immediate neighborhood."One of the big problems is that the children attending the school are not from the neighborhood and thus they have to cross over this neighborhood to get home," Mr. Schmoke said.

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IT'S NO secret that our area is growing rapidly. All our schools are at capacity.Opening this fall is a new middle school, Murray Hill.This week, the staff held open houses for students and their families.The building is filled, at the moment, with boxes and crates as staff members rush to get ready for opening day next week.Principal Vince Catania is certain that everything will be in place by then.He has recruited a diverse staff that has experience in the Howard school system and elsewhere as well.

The schedule for next weekend's girls basketball Beast of the East Showcase has been revised after a few teams dropped out. The event features some of the best local teams -- Archbishop Spalding, Aberdeen, Digital Harbor, Fallston, McDonogh, Roland Park, St. Vincent Pallotti, South River, Meade and host St. Frances -- as well as teams from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, New York, New Jersey and Colorado. Following is the revised schedule: Beast of the East Showcase Friday, Dec. 9 At St. Frances Meade vs. Woodlawn, 5 Aberdeen vs. Peddie, NJ, 6:45 MATHS vs. Oak Hill, Va., 8:15 Riverdale Baptist vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 9:45 At Carmelo Anthony Center Hill School, Pa. vs. Princeton Day, 6:30 Coolidge, DC vs. West Branch, Va., 8 Germantown Academy, Pa.  vs. Grassfield, Va., 9:30 Saturday, Dec. 10 At St. Frances Elizabeth Seton vs. Grassfield, Va., 8:30 a.m. Archbishop Carroll, D.C. vs. Damascus, Va., 10 a.m. Holy Cross vs. Robert E. Lee, Va., 11:30 a.m. Forest Park, Va. vs. St. John's-CP, 1 Frederick vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 2:30 Oak Hill, Va. vs. H.D. Woodson, D.C., 4 Digital Harbor vs. Riverdale Baptist, 5:30 At Carmelo Anthony Center MATHS vs. Hill School, Pa., 9 a.m. South River vs. John Carroll, 11 a.m. City vs. West Branch, Va., 1 Fallston vs. Princeton Day, 3 National Christian vs. Peddie,...

The schedule for next weekend's girls basketball Beast of the East Showcase has been revised after a few teams dropped out. The event features some of the best local teams -- Archbishop Spalding, Aberdeen, Digital Harbor, Fallston, McDonogh, Roland Park, St. Vincent Pallotti, South River, Meade and host St. Frances -- as well as teams from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, New York, New Jersey and Colorado. Following is the revised schedule: Beast of the East Showcase Friday, Dec. 9 At St. Frances Meade vs. Woodlawn, 5 Aberdeen vs. Peddie, NJ, 6:45 MATHS vs. Oak Hill, Va., 8:15 Riverdale Baptist vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 9:45 At Carmelo Anthony Center Hill School, Pa. vs. Princeton Day, 6:30 Coolidge, DC vs. West Branch, Va., 8 Germantown Academy, Pa.  vs. Grassfield, Va., 9:30 Saturday, Dec. 10 At St. Frances Elizabeth Seton vs. Grassfield, Va., 8:30 a.m. Archbishop Carroll, D.C. vs. Damascus, Va., 10 a.m. Holy Cross vs. Robert E. Lee, Va., 11:30 a.m. Forest Park, Va. vs. St. John's-CP, 1 Frederick vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 2:30 Oak Hill, Va. vs. H.D. Woodson, D.C., 4 Digital Harbor vs. Riverdale Baptist, 5:30 At Carmelo Anthony Center MATHS vs. Hill School, Pa., 9 a.m. South River vs. John Carroll, 11 a.m. City vs. West Branch, Va., 1 Fallston vs. Princeton Day, 3 National Christian vs. Peddie,...

Eric King opened the door to his car after a practice at Old Mill High School for tomorrow's Super 44 high school all-star football game and grinned, making it hard to tell whether the words that followed were a serious challenge or a playful joke. "I'll race you home," the All-Metro cornerback said, with his grin still spread wide. On the off-chance his driving is anything like his on-field play, there is good reason you should automatically decline. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound McDonogh graduate runs a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash, bench-presses 270 pounds and compensates for his size disadvantage with a craving for solid, brutal contact.

Calvert Hall's Chris Knox (112 pounds), Gilman's Mike Faust (215) and DeMatha wrestlers Drew Robertson (145) and Wes Cummings (171) all won titles over the weekend at the National Preps tournament at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.Gilman's Damien Davis (189), battling the flu, was runner-up for the second straight year. Davis lost in overtime to a Germantown wrestler he'd beaten twice before. Knox was third at National Preps last year, and Faust was fourth.Robertson and Cummings, coached by Elkridge resident Dick Messier, each won their second straight National Preps titles.

The Breezy Bishop Schowcase has a new name and a new location, but the girls basketball competition should be just as fierce in the Beast of the East Showcase scheduled for the second weekend in December at St. Frances and at the Carmelo Anthony Youth Development Center. This year's event features 44 teams, mostly from Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, competing in 33 games over three days. Among the top local teams participating: Archbishop Spalding, Aberdeen, Digital Harbor, McDonogh, Roland Park, St. Vincent Pallotti, South River, Meade and host St. Frances.

The No. 7 Archbishop Spalding boys basketball team advanced to the championship game of the Bullis Holiday Tournament yesterday in Potomac with a 62-59 win over Virginia's Notre Dame Academy. Marquis Sullivan led all scorers with 21 points, and Justin Castleberry and Daniel Palumbo made clutch free throws in the final minute to lift the Cavaliers (8-1). Pat Behan led Notre Dame Academy with 18 points. Down 16-3 in the first quarter, the Cavaliers came back behind Sullivan's 13 second-quarter points to take a 36-33 halftime lead.

EVERY MORNING I walk my dog and every morning I get angry.My dog, a Jack Russell mongrel terrier named Gin, is not the cause, although she is one unruly beast. What gets me angry is Steuart Hill Elementary School on Union Square. For more than a year now, its American flag has been flying at half-staff. Day and night. Every day.To me, the Steuart Hill school's flag epitomizes everything that is wrong with the Baltimore public school system: people who do not care, people who are so uninterested in what they are doing that they do not see things that are obviously wrong.

The Breezy Bishop Schowcase has a new name and a new location, but the girls basketball competition should be just as fierce in the Beast of the East Showcase scheduled for the second weekend in December at St. Frances and at the Carmelo Anthony Youth Development Center. This year's event features 44 teams, mostly from Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, competing in 33 games over three days. Among the top local teams participating: Archbishop Spalding, Aberdeen, Digital Harbor, McDonogh, Roland Park, St. Vincent Pallotti, South River, Meade and host St. Frances.

A leak of potentially deadly carbon monoxide gas led officials to shut down a Southwest Baltimore school Tuesday for the second time in a week, prompting a call from elected officials for a major infusion of state funding to upgrade dilapidated school buildings. Six students complained of illness and 40 other people were possibly exposed to carbon monoxide Tuesday morning at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore fire officials said. A child who complained of abdominal pain was taken to Sinai Hospital, but his condition was not life-threatening, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a Fire Department spokesman.

Five adults and one child were hospitalized for evaluation after a carbon monoxide leak Tuesday morning at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle school, a Baltimore fire spokesman said. The evaluations were a precautionary measure, according to fire Capt. Roman Clark. "It doesn't appear to be anything life-threatening," he said. The source of the leak at the school, in West Baltimore's Wakefield neighborhood, was reported just after 8 a.m., identified by Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. crews and contained, Clark said.

Six schools were named Maryland Blue Ribbon schools Tuesday, including Eastern Technology High in Baltimore County and Ellicott Mills Middle in Howard County. Each of the schools will be nominated to become national Blue Ribbon schools. In the past, most schools that have earned the state designation also have received the federal honor. "We're very pleased with the acknowledgment," said Tom Evans, principal of Eastern Tech. "We're very excited." This is the school's second Blue Ribbon recognition, Evans said.

The St. Frances girls team used its defensive pressure to force plenty of turnovers and converted them into baskets as it defeated Blair Academy (N.J.), 69-30, in the Festival of the Phoenix in Newark, N.J., yesterday. The Panthers (8-0) started strong behind Shatyra Hawkes, who scored 11 of her 18 points in the first half as St. Frances built a 22-point lead. Deanna Harmon had 16 points and 10 rebounds to go with seven steals, and the Panthers made 12 three-pointers. Tasia Bristow added 13 points in the win. The Panthers were also scheduled yesterday to play St. Michael's (N.Y.

When third-grade teacher Jhonna Adams, 26, got engaged on the Fourth of July, she thought she would be the only teacher returning to Jeffers Hill Elementary School at summer's end with a big ol' sparkler on her finger. "I thought I would have this unique information to share," she said. Boy, was she wrong. During teacher meetings in August, it soon became clear that three other teachers were also engaged to be married. And that was just the beginning. By the time students returned from spring break in mid-March, 10 teachers were engaged, including three out of four on the kindergarten team.

The St. Frances girls team used its defensive pressure to force plenty of turnovers and converted them into baskets as it defeated Blair Academy (N.J.), 69-30, in the Festival of the Phoenix in Newark, N.J., yesterday. The Panthers (8-0) started strong behind Shatyra Hawkes, who scored 11 of her 18 points in the first half as St. Frances built a 22-point lead. Deanna Harmon had 16 points and 10 rebounds to go with seven steals, and the Panthers made 12 three-pointers. Tasia Bristow added 13 points in the win. The Panthers were also scheduled yesterday to play St. Michael's (N.Y.

No. Player Pos. Ht. Yr. Town/school Starting attack 2 John Christmas A 5-9 So. Ardmore, Pa./Lower Merion 14 Matt Ward A 5-10 Fr. Oakton, Va./Landon 42 Joe Yevoli A 6-0 So. Massapequa, N.Y./St. Anthony's First midfield 25 Chris Rotelli M 5-10 Sr. Rumford, R.I./Moses Brown 8 A.J. Shannon M 6-0 Sr. Whitby, Ontario/Henry Street 11 Kyle Dixon M 6-4 Fr. Millersville/Spalding Defensive midfield 15 Trey Whitty LSM 6-3 Sr. Timonium/St. Paul's 25 Chris Rotelli M 5-10 Sr. Rumford, R.I./Moses Brown 44 Nathan Kenney M 6-1 So. Royal Oak, Mich.

Imagine that you're trying to do the right thing - you see a driver behaving badly, so you speed up to try to read the car's license plate. But inadvertently, you squeeze another car off the road, injuring the passengers. Are you guilty of reckless driving and leaving the scene of the crime? That, in a nutshell, is the question that teams of Howard County high school students have been arguing during a series of mock trials held during the past several months. Students played the part of defense lawyers, prosecutors, witnesses and defendants, taking their cases to real courtrooms, where they played out the trial in front of real lawyers and judges.