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RUSSELL A. LOHR, 92, of Freeland, MD, died November 21, 2007. He was the husband of the late Rose (Thompson) Lohr and the late Margaret E. (Oden) Lohr. He was preceded in death by ten brothers and sisters. At Russell's request, there will be no services. Interment will be private. The J. J. Hartenstein Mortuary, Inc., 24 Second Street, New Freedom, PA. is in charge of arrangements.

Former headmistress Lila B. Lohr, will return to the St. Paul's School for Girls in Baltimore County next year as an interim head of the school, the school announced Thursday. Lohr will succeed Monica Gillespie, who will leave in June. Lohr, the current interim head at Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco, was the headmistress at St. Paul's from 1986 to 1995. Lohr has also held positions at the Friends School and the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Lohr's Orchard is not out of business, and its owner wants t set the record straight."We've simply relocated," Andrew Lohr Jr. said as he inspected cider mill machinery in a renovated dairy barn on his 100-acre TTC orchard in Churchville. "When my brother George and I dissolved our partnership last spring, obviously many people thought we were closing the orchard for good. Our sales fell off approximately 35 percent."George decided to leave the operation, but this is what I like to do best.

RUSSELL A. LOHR, 92, of Freeland, MD, died November 21, 2007. He was the husband of the late Rose (Thompson) Lohr and the late Margaret E. (Oden) Lohr. He was preceded in death by ten brothers and sisters. At Russell's request, there will be no services. Interment will be private. The J. J. Hartenstein Mortuary, Inc., 24 Second Street, New Freedom, PA. is in charge of arrangements.

Patricia Herbert Lohr, a former director of religious education and Baltimore schoolteacher, died of respiratory failure Nov. 27 at Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Pa. She was 71. Born and raised in Northeast Baltimore's Hamilton neighborhood, Patricia Herbert graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame in 1952 and earned a degree in elementary education in 1956 from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She became an elementary schoolteacher in the Baltimore school system, where she worked for about two years.

One national publication says Greg Lohr is the finest offensive lineman ever to play for Towson State, and another lists him as one of the top two guards among the independent teams in Division I-AA.If the Tigers have done one thing consistently since 1969, it is move the football. Quarterbacks, wide receivers and the occasional David Meggett have gotten the publicity, but the coaching staff always appreciates good offensive line play, which will be an important factor in tonight's (7 o'clock)

Baltimore native Lila B. Lohr, who has been serving as interim head of Friends School in North Baltimore since July 1, has been named the new head of school, effective immediately. Lohr, 57, a veteran educator with more than three decades of private school experience, has spent most of that time in Baltimore area schools, including the Bryn Mawr School in North Baltimore and St. Paul's School for Girls in Brooklandville. "I feel that this is a good fit," Lohr said yesterday after her appointment was announced.

George Lohr walks the rows of apple trees, checking the fruit that will make the last harvest at his family's Joppatowne orchard. Come next fall, you will not find him conducting this ritual here.After 60 years of growing apples, peaches, plums, pears and pumpkins, Lohr's Orchard -- considered by some longtime residents to be a veritable county institution -- will close at year's end.Instead of trees blossoming in the spring, work will begin on roads and sewer and water lines to serve a new community of 378 houses and town houses to be built on the 85-acre orchard farm.

1997 J. Lohr Monterey ``Riverstone'' Chardonnay ($10)Few California chardonnays in this price bracket show as much personality and intensity as this sterling example from Lohr. It's one of the best sources of value from the Golden State. Although there's plenty of body, it also offers a crisp, clean finish and delicious vanilla, lemon, apple and white pepper flavors. A natural to serve with salmon or ham.

A former headmistress of St. Paul's School for Girls and a Baltimore native will become the interim head of Friends School in North Baltimore starting July 1. Lila B. Lohr, 56, who left St. Paul's in 1995 to take a job as head of the Princeton Day School in Princeton, N.J., will replace Jon M. Harris, who will leave at the end of the school year. "We are delighted to have Lila Lohr join the school community as interim head," said Kevin Carnell, chairman of Friends' board of trustees. "Her proven leadership, administrative expertise and outstanding communications skills have earned her the respect of colleagues and opinion leaders in the local and independent school communities."

Could this be the year of the green jack-o'-lantern? Typically during early October, visitors to the pumpkin patch at Andrew Lohr's farm in Harford County look out over fields filled with vibrant orange gourds ready to be picked, carved and placed amid Halloween decorations. But while a group of schoolchildren visiting the Churchville farm had the run of plenty of bright orange pumpkins, they also stumbled upon many others that were dark green, pale blue or flesh colored. Not only is the color off schedule this year, but the yield of the Maryland pumpkin harvest is down, too, a result of heavy rains in spring that delayed planting and a heat wave in August that thwarted pollination.

With Memorial Day visible in the rearview mirror, two agriculture staples of summer are reappearing on the landscape across Maryland: pick-your-own farm operations and farmers' markets. Both styles of produce marketing are growing, state agricultural officials say, as an increasing number of consumers seek freshness and value, while farmers search for additional sources of revenue for their goods. "The farmer wins, and the consumer wins," said Maryland Agriculture Secretary Lewis R. Riley.

Patricia Herbert Lohr, a former director of religious education and Baltimore schoolteacher, died of respiratory failure Nov. 27 at Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Pa. She was 71. Born and raised in Northeast Baltimore's Hamilton neighborhood, Patricia Herbert graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame in 1952 and earned a degree in elementary education in 1956 from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She became an elementary schoolteacher in the Baltimore school system, where she worked for about two years.

The grown-ups at Friends School were given their own reading assignment this summer, and this week is the big test. Head of school Lila Lohr asked faculty, staff and parents to read Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age, by Harvard psychologist Dan Kindlon, and the author will be at the school auditorium Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Lohr hopes the grown-ups learned something. "I think what he is talking about is the most serious issue schools like ours are facing," she says.

Three Harford farms have an excuse to get scrubbed up this weekend, as they invite the public to join them for Farm Visitation Day from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Lohr's Orchard, Mount Felix dairy farm and Holloway Brothers beef farm will open their doors to visitors. The day's wagon rides, tours, refreshments and machinery displays will teach people agricultural basics, said Ned Sayre of Waffle Hill Farm, president of the Harford County Farm Bureau. "It's at a point now where not a lot of people come from a real close farm background, so they really don't know what all's involved in farming," he said.

Baltimore native Lila B. Lohr, who has been serving as interim head of Friends School in North Baltimore since July 1, has been named the new head of school, effective immediately. Lohr, 57, a veteran educator with more than three decades of private school experience, has spent most of that time in Baltimore area schools, including the Bryn Mawr School in North Baltimore and St. Paul's School for Girls in Brooklandville. "I feel that this is a good fit," Lohr said yesterday after her appointment was announced.