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In Baltimore City 7 youths obstruct main entrance at juvenile center Seven youths in the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center obstructed the main entrance to their residential unit and set a small fire yesterday morning, Department of Juvenile Services officials said. The incident began after a random search of the center about 9 a.m. As the youths returned to their unit, they threw chairs and tables into the entrance, then set the fire, said LaWanda Edwards, an agency spokeswoman.

An outdoor labyrinth surrounded by gardens and an interfaith pavilion will greet visitors and residents at Stadium Place, the senior housing and recreation project just getting under way on the 30 acres where Memorial Stadium once stood on East 33rd Street. "It will be a peaceful kind of entrance," said the Rev. John R. Sharp, president of Govans Ecumenical Development Corp., a church-based nonprofit redeveloping the site. "It makes a statement about Stadium Place growing out of the faith community.

For those who think new homes pop up as freely as spring daisies in Howard County, consider Triadelphia Meadows, a proposed 29-home luxury development sidetracked for 18 months by a simple, well-meant bureaucratic error made nearly two years ago. The $500,000-plus homes are the subject of an emergency County Council bill introduced March 3 to straighten things out. If it passes, it will retroactively qualify the development to proceed. Douglas C. Shipe, vice president for Maryland operations of Toll Brothers builders, said work could begin in two more years, when the company's 95-home Triadelphia Ridge project on Howard Road should be finished.

For almost two years, Tim and Tami Satterfield have dreamed of transforming their turn-of-the-century Amish barn in Monkton into a modern home for them and their two children. The family will make their deadline of having all the work complete by next month, said Jay McCardle of McCardle custom homes, the builder. By last month, nearly all major renovation and construction was complete, and McCardle and his crew were doing some finishing touches, such as painting and removing Tyvek paper used to protect exposed wood beams during renovation.

A committee created by the Carroll County commissioners has recommended an immediate moratorium on billboards, a ban on flashing signs and the addition of landscaping at "gateways," the places where motorists enter the county. As drivers on Route 140 cross into Carroll from Reisterstown, for example, they glimpse the pristine beauty of Liberty Reservoir. Then, as they drive through Finksburg, they're greeted by strip malls and a collection of billboards plugging everything from fast food to the power of Christ.

LIKE SO MANY people, Severna Park High School senior Sheryl McGlory wanted to do something to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But Sheryl, a member of senior Girl Scout Troop 1472, didn't know what she and her friends could do. Then, she said, she realized it: "If we can't think of anything else, we should at least plant a tree." From that seed of an idea, Sheryl's suggestion has blossomed, with the help of nearly 800 fellow Girl Scouts from Greater Severna Park, into a project covering nearly 50 square feet near the main entrance to Kinder Farm Park.

WASHINGTON -- It wasn't exactly normal. Fans saw canine units as they came up from the subway. A greater number of policemen were present along F Street. And there was extra security at every entrance. It wasn't what used to be normal, but Matt Williams, vice president of communications for Washington Sports and Entertainment, which owns MCI Center, said it is the norm now. "For the unforeseeable future," Williams said. It was the preseason opener for the NHL's Washington Capitals against the Philadelphia Flyers, a game Washington would lose, 6-1, with its only goal coming from All-Star Jaromir Jagr, who was playing as a Capital for the first time since being acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins.

When it comes to movie theaters, everything old really is new again. Arundel Mills' Muvico 24, a 125,000-square-feet Egyptian-style megaplex slated to open Dec. 8, harks back to the glory days of moviegoing, the art deco years of the 1920s and 1930s, when going to the theater was as much a part of the experience as watching the movie. Festooned with sphinxes, pharaohs and hieroglyphics, the 24-screen complex transports moviegoers to a time and place as distant and exotic as anything Steven Spielberg or George Lucas have dreamed up. "We're bringing back the glamour and excitement of going to the movies," Muvico president and CEO Hamid Hashemi said during a tour this week, where visitors navigated around workers busily carving the River Nile into the lobby floor.

THIS YEAR, several construction projects will alter the western Howard County landscape. The new Glenwood library, scheduled to open in the spring, will be part of Western Regional Park on Route 97, at Carrs Mill Road. The 29,500-square-foot building is designed to fit into the existing landscape, which includes nearby farms. Its main entrance is designed in the shape of a barn frame, a theme carried through the interior of the building. The interior will be an open space with furniture and shelving defining the sections.

Long Bar Harbor, a community of about 900 homes hidden in a nook along the Bush River in Harford County, has just two entrances between Edgewood and Belcamp along U.S. 40. That seclusion, its proximity to the Bush River and its wide range of home styles makes it a favorite among those who can find it.Each of the two entrances to Long Bar Harbor offers a different picture of the community of about 2,500 people.A flashing yellow traffic light marks the main entrance to the peninsula, bound by the Bush River, a tributary to the larger and more widely recognized Gunpowder River.