Kitchen Window

It's springtime, and I remember when the view from my kitchen window was a lovely little backyard tableau of green lawn and swing set, happy tomato garden and sunny marigolds in patio pots. It was a scene that gave me a sense of order and peace. Inside, there might be laundry-basket-shaped wads of permanently creased wash dumped on my bed, an office cluttered with charge cords for every electronic device in our home and a freezer stocked with unidentifiable lumps -- but at least our backyard was lovely, pleasant and inviting.

Call us brave or foolish. Craving a break from a lemming-like pilgrimage to the shore this summer, our family of five booked a place in the mountains, sight unseen. Having thumbed through a Realtor's flier in March, we found lakefront rentals cheaper than comparable oceanfront units. So, promptly, we booked an A-frame cottage on Deep Creek Lake and gladly paid the extra security deposit so that our Labrador retrievers could accompany us.Great outdoors, here we come. We posted the paragraph describing the "Islamorada" on our refrigerator door and counted down the weeks.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Eastern DistricShooting: A 15-year-old male was adjusting his pants while standing in the 1300 block of N. Bond St. about 4: 40 p.m. Tuesday when a .357-caliber Magnum handgun he had tucked into his waistband discharged. Police said a bullet grazed his left thigh and he was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital and released. Police seized the weapon. Charges against the youth were pending an investigation by police and the city prosecutor's office.

A two-day manhunt culminated yesterday with the arrest of a 19-year-old man who police believe stabbed a 61-year-old woman to death in her Severn home Sunday.Reginald Cooper of the 11500 block of Ridgely Road in Caroline County was arrested without incident about 12: 30 p.m. and charged with first-degree murder. Police received a tip that Cooper was at a residence in the 1800 block of Eagle Court, less than a half-mile from the house where Joan T. Maiolo was killed.According to police, Cooper and Maiolo were not acquainted, although Cooper has given addresses in the same Orchard at Severn community as his over the past two years.

Police logSevern: Someone cut the convertible top of a 1988 Ford Mustang parked in the 1800 block of Alderney Court between 10 a.m and 11 a.m. Tuesday and stole a black leather coat and a radar detector together valued at $615.Severn: Someone broke a kitchen window and entered a home in the 8200 block of Severn Orchard Circle between midnight Friday and 3: 30 a.m. Saturday, ransacked the kitchen and stole a purse, a wallet and a diary, together valued at $100.Pub Date: 1/17/97

Police logNorth Laurel: 7500 block of Montevideo Road: Someone entered the back of Aircoil Co. by removing bolts from a rear gate and took copper pipes and scraps. The theft was reported Monday morning.Savage: 8500 Storch Woods Drive: Someone tried to enter a home Saturday morning, but no entry was made. The screen to a rear kitchen window was found lying on the ground.North Laurel: 9500 Sylvan Still Road: Someone entered a vacant apartment Sunday evening and vandalized it.Jessup: 8100 block of U.S. 1: Someone entered the Log Cabin Restaurant through an unlocked kitchen window yesterday morning and took cash and a cash register.

I SPENT LAST weekend examining how I look at the universe. This is a highfalutin way of saying I replaced a two panes of glass in the kitchen windows and took my family out to see Hyakutake, an incredibly shy comet.The window repair work came first. If frequent fliers get miles for airplane travel, I think "active families" like ours should get some kind of payback, "glazier's points," for frequent purchases of window glass.The latest broken windows had differing stories behind their demise.

PoliceMount Airy: A resident told police that someone broke into his home through a kitchen window and stole personal property between 7: 30 p.m. Thursday and 6 p.m. Friday. The loss was estimated at $400.Pub Date: 12/04/96

The Big Glen Burnie Carnival grossed about $500,000, thanks to good weather over its eight-day run this summer, said Chuck Kiessling, carnival chairman.A final financial report on the carnival, which ran from July 28 through Aug. 5 except for a traditional Sunday closing, will be presented Oct. 6 at the dinner-dance the Glen Burnie Improvement Association will hold for carnival volunteers, said Katherine DeGrange, treasurer of the improvement association.Proceeds from the carnival are used to maintain the improvement association's hall on Crain Highway and to provide support for civic activities in the community.

Police logElkridge: 6400 block of Greenfield Road: On Tuesday or Wednesday, a red 1994 Mitsubishi 3000GT with Maryland license tags BZG-697 was stolen.Ellicott City: 3600 block of Court House Drive: A burglar broke a kitchen window in a house and ransacked a bedroom Tuesday, but police said nothing was taken.Ellicott City: 3600 block of Court House Drive: Someone pried a lock off a storage locker between Saturday and Tuesday and took a bicycle.

A clue something was strange came during a Tuesday snowfall last month. A man was wandering the streets of Belair-Edison carrying a shovel, looking for walkways to clear. At first, he seemed innocuous, a down-on-his-luck man trying to fill his pockets with a little bit of money, despite the fact that neighborhood houses were being burglarized at the rate of more than one a week. But now, as the neighbors think back, the man was probably trying to learn which houses were empty without arousing suspicion.

police reports in baltimore city and county: Western Baltimore Shooting A man, 30, was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after he was shot shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday while standing inside a West Baltimore convenience store in the 900 block of Bennett Place near North Fremont Avenue. No arrest had been made. Southeastern Baltimore Assault Police were seeking a man armed with two knives who forcibly entered a house in the 100 block of N. Glover St. through a kitchen window about 10:30 a.m. Monday and sexually assaulted a 22-year-old woman.

Although born in Baltimore, Charlotte Govan is a dyed-in-the-wool California girl. When she moved back to her hometown to take a teaching job in Columbia in 1991, she brought the golden sun of California with her. She basks to this day in its warmth in her Catonsville dream home. "I was looking for houses in the Columbia area, but when I walked in the foyer here, I said, `This is it,'" she said of the two-story, brick townhouse in the neighborhood of Drexel Woods, just south of Woodbridge Valley.

It's springtime, and I remember when the view from my kitchen window was a lovely little backyard tableau of green lawn and swing set, happy tomato garden and sunny marigolds in patio pots. It was a scene that gave me a sense of order and peace. Inside, there might be laundry-basket-shaped wads of permanently creased wash dumped on my bed, an office cluttered with charge cords for every electronic device in our home and a freezer stocked with unidentifiable lumps -- but at least our backyard was lovely, pleasant and inviting.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. BALTIMORE CITY Southeastern District Armed robbery: A woman was robbed at knifepoint about 2:45 a.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of E. Fayette St. A suspect was arrested that morning in the 400 block of N. Lakewood Ave. Burglary: A thief who apparently entered through an unlocked kitchen window stole $1,050 in cash Friday from a residence in the 200...

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Baltimore City Southwestern District Carjacking: A woman driving an unlicensed cab who agreed to take a man from Mondawmin Mall to St. Agnes HealthCare was punched twice, ordered at gunpoint to give back the man's money, and pushed out of her 1996 Hyundai Elantra with tags HYL 868 about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 3300 block of Windsor Ave. Southeastern District...

Call us brave or foolish. Craving a break from a lemming-like pilgrimage to the shore this summer, our family of five booked a place in the mountains, sight unseen. Having thumbed through a Realtor's flier in March, we found lakefront rentals cheaper than comparable oceanfront units. So, promptly, we booked an A-frame cottage on Deep Creek Lake and gladly paid the extra security deposit so that our Labrador retrievers could accompany us.Great outdoors, here we come. We posted the paragraph describing the "Islamorada" on our refrigerator door and counted down the weeks.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Eastern DistricShooting: A 15-year-old male was adjusting his pants while standing in the 1300 block of N. Bond St. about 4: 40 p.m. Tuesday when a .357-caliber Magnum handgun he had tucked into his waistband discharged. Police said a bullet grazed his left thigh and he was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital and released. Police seized the weapon. Charges against the youth were pending an investigation by police and the city prosecutor's office.

A two-day manhunt culminated yesterday with the arrest of a 19-year-old man who police believe stabbed a 61-year-old woman to death in her Severn home Sunday.Reginald Cooper of the 11500 block of Ridgely Road in Caroline County was arrested without incident about 12: 30 p.m. and charged with first-degree murder. Police received a tip that Cooper was at a residence in the 1800 block of Eagle Court, less than a half-mile from the house where Joan T. Maiolo was killed.According to police, Cooper and Maiolo were not acquainted, although Cooper has given addresses in the same Orchard at Severn community as his over the past two years.

Police logSevern: Someone cut the convertible top of a 1988 Ford Mustang parked in the 1800 block of Alderney Court between 10 a.m and 11 a.m. Tuesday and stole a black leather coat and a radar detector together valued at $615.Severn: Someone broke a kitchen window and entered a home in the 8200 block of Severn Orchard Circle between midnight Friday and 3: 30 a.m. Saturday, ransacked the kitchen and stole a purse, a wallet and a diary, together valued at $100.Pub Date: 1/17/97