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Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Anne Arundel County. Northern District Armed robbery: Two men robbed a Baltimore man at knifepoint Thursday in the 100 block of Warwickshire Lane in Glen Burnie. The men held knives to the victim's back and throat and demanded money and other items. They stole cash and the man's cell phone. Theft: A woman's purse and her car were stolen Monday outside Marley Station mall. The victim was outside the mall when three women came up to her and one of them snatched her purse.

The Anne Arundel school board will hold the following hearings on proposals to redraw school attendance areas in four sections of the county.All hearings will begin at 6: 30 p.m. They are:For the Chesapeake and Northeast feeder systems, the hearing will be Feb. 24 at Northeast High School. The school board is considering removing from George Fox Middle School the students who live in the Riviera Beach Elementary attendance area and part of the Sunset Elementary area. Instead, those 270 children would attend Chesapeake Bay Middle School, but would return to Northeast High for grades nine through 12.Also, the board wants to clarify the boundary for a small area of Sunset Elementary, where six children wrongly have been attending Sunset and going on to Chesapeake Bay Middle.

The calendar says October, but at Piney Orchard Elementary School, the 23rd will read "First Day of School" - for the building, anyway. "We're just delighted," said Janet Fiorina, inaugural president of the new school's PTA. A series of construction delays have troubled the $12 million project in Odenton. The contract called for the school to be completed by July 15. It was supposed to be ready for the opening of county schools in late August. "Normally, we try to have schools that open on time," said Jane W. Beckett, spokeswoman for county public schools.

The redistricting wars are about to begin.Anne Arundel County School Superintendent C. Berry Carter II is to make his recommendation tomorrow on the redrawing of school boundaries in Pasadena and Annapolis and the shifting of students at Fort Meade-area elementary schools.Traditionally any talk of redistricting has led to numerous battles between parents who don't want to see their children moved and school officials who are trying to accommodate growth in crowded schools.This school year has proven to be no different.

* ANNAPOLIS MIDDLE, Forest Drive, Annapolis 21403. Phone: 267-8658. Principal: Kevin Dennehy. CAC: Art Butler. PTA: Rose Kreiger. Approximate enrollment: 819* ARUNDEL MIDDLE. Higgins Drive at Hammonds Lane, Odenton 21113. Phone: 674-6900. Principal: Clifton Prince. CAC: Roylene Roberts. PTA: Priscilla Diacont. Projected enrollment: 516.* BATES MIDDLE, 701 Chase Ave. at Smith, Annapolis 21401. Phone: 263-0270. Principal: Sarah McGowan. CAC: Sandra Crosier. PTA: Julie Greene. Proj. enrollment: 590.* BROOKLYN PARK/LINDALE MIDDLE/JUNIOR, 200 Hammonds Lane, Baltimore 21225.

The Anne Arundel County school board changed the top administrators at about one-quarter of its schools yesterday, naming new principals at 18 elementary schools and nine secondary schools.The board traditionally moves administrators the first Wednesday in June, but a second round may be needed next month because of recent retirements, said David D. Lombardo, human resources director.In perhaps the most notable change, Charles Owens, the former principal at Van Bokkelen Elementary School, was named principal at Waugh Chapel Elementary.

Twenty-six teachers -- 25 from public schools and one from an independent school -- will be recognized along with several school-business partnerships at Anne Arundel County's Teacher of the Year -- Awards for Excellence in Education Dinner on Thursday at BWI Marriott. Highlights of the dinner will be the naming of the county public schools' Teacher of the Year, and awards for business partnership and career-connections school programs. Jacqueline Baugh, who teaches English at Severn School, will be honored as the private schools' winner.

Every year, Linda Redwine Bell hears the same questions from Fort Meade parents: Where do we register? What academic programs do you offer? What shots do my kids need? With the approaching summer - a busy time for military relocations - Bell, Fort Meade's school liaison, decided that parents needed a clearinghouse of information that would introduce them to everything from mental health services to uniforms to parent-teacher-student associations. Parents will be able to get information on Anne Arundel County schools, particularly those on post, at Fort Meade's first Back-to-School Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow at McGill Training Center on the Army post in western Anne Arundel County.

Twenty-six years after beginning his career as a math teacher at Marley Middle School, John R. Kozora finds himself back, this time as the school's new principal."