Mountain Road

On a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon, 10-year-old Laurel residents Rylan King and his friend, Ryan Russell, are sitting in a strawberry field in western Howard County. Each boy reaches into the low-lying plants, pulls out a berry and plunks it down into a roasting pan. "My mom wants to make jam," says Ryan, who came with his family to pick berries at Larriland Farm, one of nearly 40 farms in the state that offer pick-your-own fruit. Errol Small, chief of the division of marketing for the Maryland Department of Agriculture, predicts a good crop of strawberries, cherries, raspberries and blueberries this year.

As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, traffic was slow on I-95 southbound near Mountain Road, due to an accident involving two vehicles. Accidents were slowing traffic on I-83 south near Mount Carmel Road in Baltimore County and Goucher Boulevard and Taylor Avenue in Baltimore County. A water main break was causing icy road conditions near Monumental Avenue and Hammonds Ferry Road in Baltimore County. There were no major delays reported on Baltimore area transit systems.

As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, traffic was slow on I-95 southbound near Mountain Road, due to an accident involving two vehicles. Accidents were slowing traffic on I-83 south near Mount Carmel Road in Baltimore County and Goucher Boulevard and Taylor Avenue in Baltimore County. A water main break was causing icy road conditions near Monumental Avenue and Hammonds Ferry Road in Baltimore County. There were no major delays reported on Baltimore area transit systems.

The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. on Mondays. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). We do not accept results by phone. When two Howard County teams play, players from both teams (first and last names) must be mentioned in the write-up. Questions? Call 410-332-6578. Soccer Soccer Association of Columbia The Soccer Association of Columbia's U-11 select team, Chelsea Blue, was the U-11 champions of the recent Mountain Road tournament.

County police will close Mountain Road 9 to 9:30 a.m. tomorrow between North Shore Drive and School House Lane.More than 500 youngsters from the Lake Shore Youth Baseball Organization, their coaches, local politicians and the Chesapeake High School Marching Band will be participating in an Opening Day 30-minute community parade and celebration. Marchers will assemble at Lake Shore School and proceed east on Mountain Road to North Shore Drive and opening day ceremonies at Looper's Field.

A Pasadena bank was robbed of an undisclosed sum yesterday by a man who claimed to have a gun, police said.The robber approached a teller in the Signet Bank on Mountain Road near Lake Shore Plaza about 1:10 p.m. and placed a note on the counter that said he had a gun.Police said the robber -- described as black, 30 to 35 years old, 6 feet tall and slender, wearing a multicolor fall fleece jacket, darkjeans and a dark golf cap -- fled with the money that...

LIFE ALONG the congested eastern section of Mountain Road just got a little more complicated, thanks to a new county public works project on Woods Road. Earlier this month, a sign appeared, seemingly overnight, informing commuters that a section of Woods Road would soon close temporarily. Vehicles coming from Mountain Road would be allowed only as far west as the Lake Shore Athletic Complex. No dates for road closure were listed on the sign. "The sign just appeared telling us that Woods Road was closed," said Wilbert Parks, a Ryan Road homeowner.

Residents along Mountain Road in the Joppa area say they are tired of the hazardous traffic on that busy roadway and they want state officials to do something to slow drivers down.Too many drivers exceed the 50 mph speed limit along the stretch of Mountain Road (Route 152) between Route 1 and Interstate 95, they say, risking the lives of those who use &L intersecting roads in residential areas off the two-lane highway.The intersections at Cheyenne Avenue and Old Joppa Road, in particular, have been the scenes of numerous accidents in recent years.

State transportation officials said yesterday that a project to widen Mountain Road, having reached a fiscal dead end last year, may again be considered for funding.But the money to improve Route 3 in Crofton and relieve congestion is not likely to materialize any time soon.The transportation officials, who included state Secretary of Transportation O. James Lighthizer and State Highway Administrator Hal Kassoff, made the remarks at an annual briefing to Anne Arundel officials.District 31's State House delegation and Councilman Carl G. "Dutch" Holland have been pressing the state to widen Mountain Road.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I got a glimpse of why people are clamoring to impose a development moratorium on Pasadena's Mountain Road peninsula.I just didn't know it at the time because I was preoccupied with more mundane matters, such as finding my way to the latrine and figuring out how to cook breakfast over an open fire.I was one of a half-dozen parent chaperones who accompanied a troop of boisterous Brownies to a weekend adventure at Camp Whipporwill, a Girl Scout camp on Cockey Creek off Lake Shore Drive.

Bright, blue-tinged pellets of glass from a shattered windshield remain trapped in twisted aluminum siding on a vacant house just above the makeshift shrine erected to 17-year-old Kala Austin, who was fatally injured near that spot this month. Mountain Road in Anne Arundel County, also known as state Route 177, has seen many such memorials in recent decades. At least 20 people — many in their teens or only a little older — have died along the 11-mile stretch since the early 1990s.

The following timeline, assembled from Sun clips, Anne Arundel County Police records and SafeRoadMaps (an aggregator and cartographer of federal crash data), shows summaries of fatal crashes on Mountain Road in Pasadena. It is not necessarily a complete record. Readers who know of other fatal incidents on the road can email details to michael.dresser@baltsun.com . Supporting documents may be requested. 2011 Oct. 16: JB Cobb, 74, of Pasadena died when his Dodge Ram truck crashed into two other vehicles at Magothy Beach Road.

Anne Arundel County police have identified a man they believe was the driver of a vehicle that fatally struck a retired fencing coach last Thursday as he walked along Mountain Road during a snowstorm. No charges have been filed against Maximilian Hopkins Bode, 21, of the 1500 block of Baywood Road in Pasadena, police said. Richard Francis Oles, a fencing coach at the Johns Hopkins University for 45 years, was killed around 2:30 a.m. Police said Oles, 77, of Pasadena, was on the eastbound side of Mountain Road near Brumwell's Flea Market when he was struck.

Bible class A monthly Bible class using clips from movies for a discussion, "The Jesus I Never Knew," will be held at noon the first Wednesday of the month for the next six months, at Galilee Lutheran Church, 4652 Mountain Road in Pasadena. The class will look at excerpts from movies, including "Gospel Road," "King of Kings," and "The Gospel According to Matthew." Viewpoints portrayed will be compared with what the Bible teaches about Jesus. Free. Information: 410-255-8236 or go to galileelutheranchurch.

Vanessa Washington-Redd has been hired as the new director for Active Day Medical Adult Day Care, 354 Mountain Road, Suite G, Pasadena. She holds a bachelor's degree in mental health technology from Morgan State University in Baltimore. She also attended the Johns Hopkins University and studied special education. She is pursuing a master's degree in public administration at Sojourner-Douglass College.

Joseph "Jay" A. M Friends may call on Sunday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at Stallings Funeral Home, P.A., 3111 Mountain Road, Pasadena, where funeral services will be held at 8 P.M. Interment Private

An engineer for the State Highway Administration will speak at the next meeting of the Greater Pasadena Council at 7: 30 p.m. Thursday at the Eastern District Police Station on Mountain Road.Lawrence Elliott, an assistant district engineer for traffic, will discuss alternatives for improvements to Mountain Road.The mostly two-lane road is the main artery on and off the Pasadena peninsula.Information: 437-2661.Pub Date: 9/20/96