Kent County

Autopsies showed that deaths of a father and his two teenage sons found in a Kent County manure pit Thursday were accidental. Maryland State Police said Glen W. Nolt, 48, Kelvin R. Nolt, 18, and Cleason S. Nolt, 14, all of Peach Bottom, Pa., died of suffocation during a farming accident. Their bodies were recovered from a pond of liquid manure at Centerdel Farm, a 200-acre dairy farm in the 12000 block of Vansant Corner Road in Kennedyville. Multiple injuries contributed to Cleason Nolt's death, police said.

Autopsies showed that deaths of a father and his two teenage sons found in a Kent County manure pit Thursday were accidental. Maryland State Police said Glen W. Nolt, 48, Kelvin R. Nolt, 18, and Cleason S. Nolt, 14, all of Peach Bottom, Pa., died of suffocation during a farming accident. Their bodies were recovered from a pond of liquid manure at Centerdel Farm, a 200-acre dairy farm in the 12000 block of Vansant Corner Road in Kennedyville. Multiple injuries contributed to Cleason Nolt's death, police said.

Sending four wrestlers to the final round and coming away with four champions, Kent County had just enough to get past Owings Mills and Calvert to claim South River's 17-team Sonny Wells Seahawk Invitational yesterday in Edgewater.Kent finished the night with 167 points, while Owings Mills, ranked No. 8 in the metro area, had to settle for a share of second place with Calvert at 164."We had a real bad day," said Owings Mills coach Guy Pritzker. "We haven't wrestled in nine days and didn't practice the last two. You have to give Kent credit, they wrestled well.

— Many farmers in this rural Kent County community were left shaken after a father and his two teenage sons were found dead early Thursday in a pond full of liquid manure on a local dairy farm. The deaths appear to be accidental, but investigators will wait for autopsy results before ruling out foul play, said Greg Shipley, Maryland State Police spokesman. The bodies, tentatively identified as those of Glen W. Nolt, 48, and his two sons, Kelvin R. Nolt, 18, and Cleason S. Nolt, 14, all of Peach Bottom, Pa., had taken hours to find, submerged in a 20-foot-deep, 2-million-gallon manure pit on Centerdel Farm, state police said.

Ermyn J. Heck, a retired Kent County educator who taught English and Latin for nearly three decades, died in her sleep Sunday at Chestertown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 102. She was born Ermyn Jewell on her parents' farm in Smithville, Kent County, and was named for a popular novel of the day, family members said. "The family later moved to Worton where her father was postmaster, then to Chestertown where she graduated from Chestertown High School," said a son, Peter J. Heck of Chestertown.

Pieces of column too short to use . . .Got a letter from a griping inmate at the Kent County Detention Center. In it, he provided a phone number. "Feel free to call the above telephone number if [you] would like to discuss this matter further," the letter said.bTC Call? On the phone? The guy has a phone? So I called the number. The phone in the inmate's "pod" rang and a guard summoned the griping inmate to the line. Great. I wonder if the guards take messages for these guys, scribbling names and numbers on those pink "While You Were Out" slips.

An 80-year-old man was found dead on the kitchen floor of his burning Rock Hall home early yesterday by firefighters, authorities reported.Investigators were awaiting autopsy results on the cause of death of Joseph F. Rose Sr., and had not determined what started the blaze that gutted his two-story wood-frame home on Haven Lane in the Kent County community, said Deputy Chief State Fire Marshal Allen Ward.It took a team of 75 firefighters from five towns an hour to extinguish the blaze, which neighbors reported at 12: 37 a.m. after hearing the sounds of small explosions -- possibly aerosol cans inside the home bursting from the heat, Ward said.

A Pennsylvania man was killed and his brother was seriously injured in a single-car crash in Kent County early yesterday, Maryland State Police said. Police said James J. Jeffcoat, 24, was traveling south about 3 a.m. in a 1989 Taurus on Route 445, just north of Eastern Neck Island Bridge in Rock Hall, when the vehicle left the highway and overturned in a field. Jeffcoat, a resident of Boothwyn, Pa., and his brother, Ron J. Jeffcoat, 20, who lives in Upper Darby, Pa., and was a passenger, were both thrown from the car, police said.

Scott David Livie, a Kent County commissioner and founder and president of an employee benefits firm, died of colorectal cancer April 27 at his Chestertown home. He was 53. Mr. Livie was born in Baltimore and raised in Lutherville. He was a 1971 graduate of McDonogh School, where he had been an outstanding lacrosse player. In 1975, he earned a bachelor's degree in American civilization from Brown University. In 1976, he came to Chestertown when he was named assistant lacrosse coach at Washington College.

Robert Lee Davis Sr., a retired Chestertown real estate broker and former Kent County commissioner, died Monday at the Chester River Manor nursing home of progressive supernuclear palsy, a rare disorder. The Chestertown resident was 82. Born in Kent County's Broad Neck, he was a 1940 graduate of Chestertown High School and later that year enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He served through World War II. Returning to Chestertown in 1945, he purchased the Tydol gas station on Maple Avenue, which he operated until 1970.

A bomb threat closed all eight Kent County public schools Tuesday morning and forced Maryland State Police and local officers to search the buildings with bomb-sniffing dogs. The schools were closed soon after classes began and approximately 2,500 students were sent home for the rest of the day. The search continued throughout the day, but no explosive devices had been detected by late afternoon, school officials said. School officials confirmed they had found a note early Tuesday at Kent County Middle School in Chestertown.

When Dunbar guard Shylia Buie talks about the No. 4 Poets' drive toward the state Class 1A girls basketball final, she refers to a favorite saying of assistant coach Tyesha Clark: "Teamwork makes the dream work. " Buie led that team-oriented charge in Friday night's Class 1A semifinal against Kent County, dishing out nine of the Poets' 20 assists and helping Michelle Wright and Damisha Hazelton dominate the paint en route to an 84-43 victory at UMBC's RAC Arena. The Poets (19-6)

George Bacon Rasin Jr., former Kent County Circuit Court judge who led a movement to modernize juvenile justice in Maryland, died of congestive heart failure Friday at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson. He was 94. "Judge Rasin was widely known and respected for his integrity, knowledge of the law and absolute fairness," said retired Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge John Fader, who was a friend. "He was a man who ran a very tight ship. " Born in Worton in Kent County, he was a 1937 graduate of Washington College and earned his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. After enlisting in the Army in September 1941, he was assigned as a special agent to the Counter-Intelligence Corps in the Division of Military Intelligence.

A tanker truck containing more than 3,000 gallons of gasoline was recovered in Philadelphia this afternoon, after it was stolen from Kent County earlier this week. Kent County Sheriff John Price said the tanker was found just before 4:30 p.m. by Philadelphia police. It went missing sometime Monday evening or Tuesday morning, officers said. Price said he did not immediately know whether the truck had been drained of the fuel. No suspect has been arrested. The 10-wheel truck was stolen from Alger Oil Inc., a company that services the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Harford County.

The Perryville Panthers came through with a dazzling offensive showing in their season opener last Friday night, posting 510 total yards in a 53-8 drubbing of the Kent County team. The Panthers' offensive yards were gained largely on running plays: 472 yards on the ground as opposed to 38 passing yards. Leading the way for Perryville, who played at home, was Joe Peaker, who took the ball just 10 times, but still managed to ring up 205 rushing yards and score four touchdowns.

By all accounts, Frank and Wendy Bunch's farm in Kent County would be an appropriate — and historically correct — setting for any film or documentary on America's Colonial past. One would only need to replace the couple's late-model cars with carriages along the private road that enters onto a breathtakingly long driveway lined with 134 cedar trees. The banks of a large pond in the front yard are occupied by metal herons that appear to be alive and waddling ducks that, on closer inspection, are. A brick Colonial, built in 1781, the home sits on 78 acres of flat and verdant pasture and is a National Trust historic property.

Because of production problems this article did not appear in some of yesterday's editions. An entire field hockey season seemed to be slipping away from Francis Scott Key yesterday when Jessica Sutherland and Laurie Ryer barely hit the ball on the team's first two strokes of a best-of-five game-deciding situation against Kent County in the state Class 1A semifinals at Goucher College.Sutherland just threw her stick away in frustration as she returned to her teammates, and Ryer was disconsolate over her mis-hit.

Chestertown. -- By strict geographical standards Kent County, Maryland's smallest, is a peninsula and not an island. But it retains certain insular qualities, which in the end will probably contribute to its undoing.Time was, and not so long ago either, that islands enjoyed an extra measure of protection against whatever plagues -- warlike Native Americans, smallpox, aerobic dancing, shopping malls -- were ravaging the mainland. But that's not so now. The worst modern plagues don't stop at the water's edge, and islands are as vulnerable as anywhere else.

Nila Kay Coleman, an Eastern Shore real estate agent who enjoyed collecting historic Kent County memorabilia and exploring the county's back roads, died Wednesdayof gastric cancer at her Chestertown home. She was 75. Nila Kay Stevens, the daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker, was born and raised in Rock Hall, where her family, whose ancestors were watermen and shipbuilders, had deep roots. "Her ancestors had received a land grant of 1,000 acres in 1665, settling Stevensville and later moving across the water to Rock Hall," said her daughter, Marcia Coleman Landskroener of Millington.