Lutherville

Ellen Zipper's summer Saturdays start early. Throughout the season, the Owings Mills resident rises around 5 a.m. She checks her computer, visiting Craigslist for the umpteenth time that week, making last-minute adjustments to her plans for the day. Around 7, with a strategy in place, she boards her white minivan, heading out for a warm morning tour of Baltimore County and Baltimore City yard sales, consignment shops and flea markets, hoping...

Given what's been going on in Washington, it's good to see the sheriffs of three Maryland counties standing up for the rights of their citizens ("Sheriff won't enforce gun law," June 6). The framers of the Constitution would be proud of these men for using the powers they were given by that document and by their constituents to protect them from tyrants in Annapolis. Gregory M. Shipley, the state police spokesmen, says that Maryland state troopers will enforce the law throughout the state regardless of the sheriffs' opposition.

The Maryland and District of Columbia Lacrosse Club Lazers finished with a clean sweep of all of the brackets in the National Premier Youth Girls Lacrosse League spring season. In the 2017 bracket, it was a hard-fought game between Hero's and M&D. Hero's was up 7-6 before the Lazers went on a 6-0 run to secure the victory. M&D goalie Jen Schaaf came up with some huge saves in the second half. Lutherville residents Riley Thacker and Margaret Root excelled for the Lazers. Goalie Julia Cooper led the Lazers in a tight game to finish the season undefeated in the 2018 bracket.

Ever wonder what comic book icon Stan Lee smells like? It's a mix of bergamot, ginger, white pepper, basil, violet, and finished off with cedar, vetiver and musk. The creator of popular Marvel Comics characters such as the X-Men and the Hulk teamed with the Lutherville-based JADS International to create his namesake scent, Stan Lee Signature Cologne. The company describes the cologne as a "fresh and sophisticated fragrance for the adventurous. " Andrew Levine, 48, chief executive officer of JADS International, said the collaboration is the result of meeting Lee at a Comic-Con event in Philadelphia last year.

Ever wonder what comic book icon Stan Lee smells like? It's a mix of bergamot, ginger, white pepper, basil, violet, and finished off with cedar, vetiver and musk. The creator of popular Marvel Comics characters such as the X-Men and the Hulk teamed with the Lutherville-based JADS International to create his namesake scent, Stan Lee Signature Cologne. The company describes the cologne as a "fresh and sophisticated fragrance for the adventurous. " Andrew Levine, 48, chief executive officer of JADS International, said the collaboration is the result of meeting Lee at a Comic-Con event in Philadelphia last year.

Goodier Baker, a homebuilder based in Lutherville, has acquired six lots in Ellicott City for the construction of single-family homes that will start in the mid- to upper-$500,000s, the company announced Tuesday. The homesites, near Rogers Avenue along High Ridge Road, are each about one-half acre. Buyers there will be able to choose from three new floor plans that the company is developing. The plans range from 2,700 to 3,300 square feet, according to the company's statement. Goodier Baker plans to begin developing the sites in the next few months and expects homes can be complete by the spring of 2013.

Lutherville resident David Kressin, a professional house painter for nearly 20 years, recently released a new DVD "Take a Professional Painter Home with You," designed to teach the average person how to paint an interior room in several concise steps. "The paint industry assumes everyone knows the basic painting fundamentals or recommends taping everything in the room," Kressin said. "If I painted the way most online videos teach, I would be out of business. " He said the video, "illustrates the fundamentals and tricks of the trade, which aren't hard.

Saturday afternoon, the Capitals return to Verizon Center. Up, 3-1, in their best-of-seven playoff series with the Rangers after Wednesday night’s thrilling double-overtime victory, the Capitals can close out the Rangers with another win. One area Capitals fan, Bruce Anderson, will be there leading the charge. Literally. Anderson, a former member of the Baltimore Colts marching band who grew up in Towson and now lives in Lutherville, has been the Verizon Center organist for Capitals home games for 12 straight seasons -- “minus the lockout,” he said.

Bay National Corp. announced Wednesday that it notified the Nasdaq Stock Market that it plans to voluntarily delist its common stock from the exchange. The holding company for Lutherville-based Bay National Bank has been operating under federal oversight since last year as it tries to recover from losses on bad mortgage loans. This month the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the bank has been classified by federal regulators as "critically undercapitalized."

Dr. Theodore Houk's condition after being struck by a car on North Charles Street on Thursday was upgraded from critical to serious over the weekend, according to a Maryland Shock Trauma Center spokeswoman. Houk, 50, is well-known for jogging 5.5 miles a day from his home in Lutherville to his job as an internal medicine specialist at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. About 8:12 a.m. Thursday near North Charles Street and Chestnut Avenue, police said Houk was jogging and "strayed into" a northbound travel lane of the roadway, where he was struck by a 2005 Toyota RAV4 being driven by a 65-year-old woman.

Ellen Zipper's summer Saturdays start early. Throughout the season, the Owings Mills resident rises around 5 a.m. She checks her computer, visiting Craigslist for the umpteenth time that week, making last-minute adjustments to her plans for the day. Around 7, with a strategy in place, she boards her white minivan, heading out for a warm morning tour of Baltimore County and Baltimore City yard sales, consignment shops and flea markets, hoping...

Lutherville native Charlie Singer is juggling school and a lifelong dream. He'll have a chance to realize that dream starting Friday. Singer, 19, is a rising sophomore at Tulane studying business and architecture. He also is enrolled in the Oakcliff Sailing Center's Sapling program, an exclusive summer-long camp that helps give 12 to 15 aspiring professional sailors ages to 18 to 30 the skills they need to succeed in yacht racing. Beginning Friday, Singer, along with seven other Sapling members, will be part of a team competing in the Annapolis to Newport Race aboard the Temptation-Oakcliff, a 50-foot yacht sailing from the mouth of the Severn River to Castle Hill Light in Newport Neck, R.I. Singer said focusing exclusively on yacht racing this summer has been a welcome change, especially because he will get to compete in his longest race to date this weekend.

Update (6/3): "Drunk History," the humorous, alcohol-influenced history lesson from Lutherville native Derek Waters, will make its series debut on July 9 at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central. The first season will consist of eight episodes. Although he's lived in Los Angeles for years now, Waters is still a diehard Baltimore sports fan. He closed his email with, "How bout dem O'S?!?!" ---- Last October, Comedy Central ordered a pilot episode of "Drunk History," a viral video series that presented boozed-up re-enactments of American events that was created by Lutherville-native Derek Waters . The company must have liked what it had seen, as "Drunk History" was recently picked up for an eight-episode season, according to Waters and various media reports.

Donald C. Hubbard Sr., a retired director of human resources who was also a labor lawyer, died Sunday of Alzheimer's disease at Rutherford House, an Annapolis hospice. He was 84. The son of a pharmacist and a homemaker, Donald Creel Hubbard Sr. was born and raised in Jackson, Miss., and graduated from Woodward Academy in College Park, Ga. From 1942 to 1943, he served in the merchant marine and then enlisted in the Marine Corps. He served in the South Pacific until being discharged in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant.

McCormick & Co. and The Wine Source are hosting a wine-tasting fundraiser for HopeWell Cancer Support on May 30 at the non-profit's Lutherville headquarters. Fine Wine's Fresh Frontier: The Southern Hemisphere will include wine tastings, cheese pairings, hors d'oeuvres and a silent auction. Funds raised at the event will support the HopeWell mission, which is to create a support community for people coping with cancer. The wine tasting is 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. May 30 at HopeWell Cancer Support, 10628 Falls Road, Lutherville.

The Maryland and District of Columbia Lacrosse Club Lazers finished with a clean sweep of all of the brackets in the National Premier Youth Girls Lacrosse League spring season. In the 2017 bracket, it was a hard-fought game between Hero's and M&D. Hero's was up 7-6 before the Lazers went on a 6-0 run to secure the victory. M&D goalie Jen Schaaf came up with some huge saves in the second half. Lutherville residents Riley Thacker and Margaret Root excelled for the Lazers. Goalie Julia Cooper led the Lazers in a tight game to finish the season undefeated in the 2018 bracket.

A 5-year-old from Lutherville, a tot who campaigns for animal rights and says animals are friends not food, is vying for the title of PETA's Cutest Vegan Kid. Maya Parker-Rollins, who's been vegan her whole short life, is competing to be the girl winner against four other cuties. There will be a boy and a girl winner who will appear in a PETA ad. She's up against some stiff competition. There's the 14-month-old Ramona from Ohio who loves potatoes and tofu. Another 5-year-old, Ciera, who's got carrot-red hair and poses in her contest shot with a pet mouse (that looks more like a pet rat)

A swastika was spray-painted in red on a road near an elementary school in Lutherville this weekend, and neighbors are hoping it will be removed before schools reopen Wednesday. "As I was approaching, I was like, 'That isn't what I think I just saw in the road.' I had to back up and look again," said Ellen Birkenthal, a resident of Tenbury Road who spotted the symbol - used by the Nazis in World War II and considered anti-Semitic - on Sunday. "I just find it very offensive. " The mark was painted on Tenbury Road near Charmuth Road, near Hampton Elementary School, Birkenthal said.

Gardeners will have a hard time finding impatiens for their flower gardens this year. The dreaded downy mildew fungal disease that began in Florida last year has spread to Maryland and has infected the ever-popular Impatiens walleriana. The downy mildew disease is not harmful to humans. Only the impatiens plant is affected by this disease that is airborne and in the soil of the impatiens. This means the flower most gardeners go to for instant color and continuous blooms all season is in short supply.

The activities room on the far side of Lutherville Laboratory Elementary School on York Road is full of jazz dancers dressed in black leggings and tank tops on a recent Wednesday afternoon. The room smells of team spirit, the beat of the music races through the floor up to my chest. The dancers are under the instruction of Brittany Brothers, graduate of Towson University, and her assistant, Morgan Colburn , a senior at Maryvale High School. Brothers and Coleburn are just two of about 15 dance staff with the Lutherville Timonium Recreation Council Tap/Jazz program.