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OAKLAND -- As a photography major at a Washington college, Coty Jones is used to taking tough shots. But yesterday, on the first day of Maryland's black bear season, Jones shouldered her rifle, steadied her nerves and brought down a 615-pound bear, breaking the three-year-old state record by 129 pounds. On its hind legs, the bear would have barely squeezed through a doorway, its ears grazing the ceiling. It took eight men two hours to drag it the length of five football fields. "He didn't look that big until he got close," said Jones, a Hoopers Island resident and junior at Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Tax advice column Readers can submit questions about preparing their 2006 tax returns at baltimoresun.com/taxtalk. Members of the Hunt Valley accounting firm SC&H Group will answer questions.

Readers can submit questions about preparing their 2006 tax returns at www.baltimoresun.com/taxtalk. Members of the Hunt Valley accounting firm SC&H Group will answer questions.

George Everett Hunt Jr., a retired mechanical engineer who was active in Masonic affairs, died Sunday of cancer at his Rosedale home. He was 78. Born in New Orleans, Mr. Hunt was adopted at age 3 and moved with his new family to the New York area. He attended public schools there, and he also studied clarinet - later playing that instrument and saxophone briefly with the New York Symphony Orchestra and New Orleans Opera Orchestra, said his wife of 56 years, the former Kathleen L. Budd.

Robert E. Hunt, a former Roman Catholic priest who became known nationally in the 1960s for his public disagreement with Pope Paul VI's teaching on birth control, died Thursday at his Homeland residence of acute myeloid leukemia. He was 65.A North Baltimore resident since 1984, Mr. Hunt was born and raised in Newark, N.J. After graduating from Seton Hall University in 1954, he studied for the priesthood at the Vatican. He was ordained in 1957 and spent three years in Rome earning a doctoral degree in sacred theology.

The hunt will go on in Sherwood Forest today as scheduled, club manager Bart Key said yesterday.A managed deer hunt in the private community just north of Annapolis was threatened this week by word that a resident planned to seek a court injunction against the four-day event, which is scheduled to begin this morning.After a day of talking with the resident's attorney, Key said the lawyer would "mediate" concerns with her client and would not take any further action. Annapolis attorney Eileen Powers confirmed that she had not filed for the injunction but refused to comment further.

Waterfowl managers in Midwestern and Southern states and north-central Canada have a perplexing problem -- too many lesser snow and Ross' geese. So many of them, in fact, they are eating themselves and other migratory species out of summer tundra habitat.Over the past three decades, the number of "light" geese in the mid-continent population has grown from 800,000 birds to more than 3 million.Increased agricultural and refuge development along the flyways through the Midwest and South have provided light geese with ample forage during their annual migrations, and the population has risen dramatically as a result.

Chad Perman, from Hunt Valley, and West Streib, who lives in Atlanta, but has relatives living in Baltimore, qualified for the U.S. Juniors championship with solid 36-hole efforts at Green Spring Valley Hunt Club yesterday.The championship will be played July 27-31 at the Country Club of York, Pa.With 53 starters after the two available spots, endurance was a key factor in view of the humid, 100-degree weather, although there was an occasional breeze.Perman won the medal with 73-74147, followed by Streib, 75-73148.

Howard County's campaign to reduce the deer population in Columbia's Middle Patuxent Environmental Area removed 50 animals during the first three days of the hunt this week, natural resources specialist Philip C. Norman said yesterday.The 28-day hunt will resume Monday and continue next month and in December until the county's goal of removing 125 animals from the herd is reached.Norman said 24 deer were killed Monday, the first day of the hunt, and 13 each Tuesday and yesterday. If the goal is reached before the full 28 days scheduled, the hunt will end early, Norman said.

Most Maryland state parks and forests came through Hurricane Floyd without significant damage, although downed trees and power outages inconvenienced some campers, hunters and hikers late last week."

On October 11, 2009, ELIZABETH COGER; beloved wife of Alexander D. Coger; devoted mother of Betty Ross, Pastor Charles Coger (Sandra), Joseph Coger (Dorothy), Elva Radcliff (Alfred), and Rev. Valerie Pearson (Isiah). She is also survived by eight grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren, her siblings: Anna Jones, Marie Hunt and William Armstead; and a host of other relatives and friends. On Thursday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN)

On September 12, 2009 MYRTLE CARTER HUNT loving mother of Michael L. Brown and devoted mother-in-law of Myrtle C. Brown. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 a.m. where family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. The family will also receive friends on Thursday at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, 2812 Reisterstown Road at 11:30 a.m. followed by funeral services at 12 noon.

Lacrosse Bayhawks' Hunt, Poillon earn MLL weekly honors The Washington Bayhawks' Ben Hunt was named Major League Lacrosse's Offensive Player of the Week for Week 12, and teammate Peet Poillon (UMBC) was named Rookie of the Week. Hunt led the Bayhawks attack Saturday in a 17-16 overtime victory over the Chicago Machine, scoring five goals. In five games, Hunt has recorded eleven points including nine goals. He has scored at least one goal in every game of his MLL career, he is the first Bayhawk this season to earn Offensive Player of the Week recognition.

M ike Alarcon is a lifelong hunter who hasn't had much time for his favorite hobby in recent years. That's what happens when an Army career leads to multiple tours of duty in Iraq. And after his Humvee struck an IED on Jan. 28, breaking his neck and injuring his back, the sergeant from Minnesota wasn't sure whether he would ever go turkey hunting again. On May 7, members of the Central Maryland Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Meade Natural Heritage Association teamed up with the Wounded Warrior Project to get Alarcon out in the field.

Harvison Hunt, a retired mechanical engineer, transit consultant and highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, died Friday of complications from Parkinson's disease at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 79. Mr. Hunt, the son of a newspaperman and a homemaker, was born in Puyallup, Wash., and moved to Indianapolis with his family when his father became a political columnist for The Indianapolis Star. He was a 1948 graduate of Culver Military Academy in Indiana and earned a mechanical engineering degree from the Naval Academy in 1952.

Four people were injured, including one who suffered serious burns, in an electrical fire Saturday afternoon at Pharmaceutics International Inc. in Hunt Valley, Baltimore County fire authorities said. Fire officials responded to a call just before 1 p.m. for a building fire in the 10800 block of Gilroy Road near Beaver Dam Road, authorities said. Baltimore County Fire Department Lt. James Artis said four electricians were working inside a power room when an electrical short occurred. One suffered third-degree burns to the upper body.

On March 21, 2009, Paul Services will be held on Wednesday, April 1st at 11:00A.M. at the Hunt Valley Baptist Church, 71 West Timonium Road. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the St. Joseph Medical Centers, Orthopedic Institute.

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009 By Richard Nelson Bolles Ten Speed Press / 407 pages / $18.95 The popular What Color Is Your Parachute? series started as a self-published, self-help book in 1970 when its author used the word "parachute" to mean career transitions. The book transitioned into annual commercial editions in 1972 and soon became the bible for job hunters. According to business lore, the phrase "golden parachute" appeared a decade or more later as a play on the book's title.

An international chemical company with operations in the Baltimore area plans to indefinitely halt production and lay off as many as 100 employees from its Hawkins Point plant because of decreased demand, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, a division of Cristal Global, will stop producing titanium dioxide at the plant near Key Bridge at the end of March, spokeswoman Amy Drusano said. "Some of our biggest customers are paint makers, and they rely heavily on the automotive and home sales markets," she said.

Retailer Filene's Basement is trying to renegotiate leases and maintenance fees with the landlords of its Towson and Hunt Valley stores as it tries to cut costs amid a weak retail environment. The retailer has been discounting everything in stock at the two stores and not taking returns on new purchases, sometimes a sign that a shop is preparing to close. But President Mark Shulman said that Woburn, Mass.-based Filene's, which moved to the Baltimore area in 2004 and has four stores in the region, is not at the point of closing.