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WITH THE U.S. MARINES, Central Iraq - The war stopped briefly yesterday for members of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. In a simple ceremony held along the muddy route of an unfinished road about 100 miles south of Baghdad, the Marines crawled from their fighting holes, removed their helmets and hung their heads in prayer to say goodbye to two Marines who were killed during the past week. Corpsman Michael Johnson Jr., 25, of Little Rock, Ark., was killed Tuesday when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his Humvee during an ambush on his convoy by the Iraqi Army.

Earl L. Hartman, 75, civil engineer, bowler Earl L. Hartman, a retired civil engineer and avid bowler who was a member of the Duckpin Bowling Hall of Fame, died Jan. 16 of Wegener's granulomatosis, a rare disease of the immune system, at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 75. Mr. Hartman, a Forest Hill resident, retired in 1988 after 42 years as a civil engineer with the city's Bureau of Water and Waste Water. He was a Baltimore native and a 1944 graduate of Polytechnic Institute.

When golfers tee off Monday afternoon at the Don Nave Memorial Golf Tournament, the true winner in the competition probably won't set foot on the greens.The annual tourney will raise scholarship money for a South Carroll High School athlete who will graduate in June.Don Nave was a local builder who was killed in a traffic accident in March 1994.His wife, Judith, said her late husband taught at South Carroll High School from its opening to 1976. Coaching football at South Carroll High was one of his favorite activities while he was a teacher.

Rain is free, but snow and ice can get expensive. After the past week's weather barrage, some county and town officials are beginning to look nervously at their budgets.Carroll County roads operations worker Jay Nave said he came in Friday morning and worked 42 hours straight."A number of our people did the same," said Mr. Nave, administrative assistant to the chief of the county's Bureau of Road Operations. "We're talking a lot of overtime hours."Mr. Nave said the county's salt trucks hit the road by 2 a.m.He said almost 100 people and 60 pieces of equipment took part in the cleanup.

For the North Carroll baseball team, this has been a season of firsts. Earlier this month, the Panthers clinched their first-ever county title. And yesterday, they appeared in their first state semifinal, meeting J.M. Bennett of Wicomico County for the right to advance to the Class 3A championship game. "For what these kids have accomplished, it's just been a magical run," coach Denny Snyder said. "The kids have just stepped it up." That's been particularly true on the mound. Led by ace Dan Ditman, the Panthers have pitched to an ERA just over 3.00, with solid contributions from Justin Hare, who was out injured most of last season, and Dominic Pasta.

On December 2, 2009, DOROTHY J. NAVE (nee Jones); beloved mother of Donald L. Nave and his wife Rejane and the late Dottie L. Nave; devoted grandmother of Kimberly D. House and her husband Ray, Tammy M. Precht, Matthew D. Nave and Melinda R. Nave; great-grandmother of Zachary House, Victoria, Hadley and Rachel Precht; sister of Gordon Donald Jones and the late Annie E., Edward W., Albert and Charles W. Jones. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home of Bel Air Inc., 610 W. MacPhail Road (at Route 24)

Glenelg's boys lacrosse team failed to seize the opportunity at hand.Behind 6-3 to visiting South Carroll yesterday, the Gladiators enjoyed two two-man advantages of 29 seconds apiece. The sequences occurred late in the third quarter and early in the fourth quarter.But the Cavaliers held Glenelg scoreless both times, scoring two late goals for an 8-3 victory."We just couldn't do it, it was rough. We've had a hard time all year on the extra man," said Glenelg senior attack Brent Grabill, who scored two goals.

North Carroll coach Greg Knill said having twins on his Panthers basketball team is fun, although it does cause some interesting problems.Sometimes Knill will try to talk to one girl when it's really the other. Also, there are times when Knill wants to say something to one player and must pause because he's not sure to whom he's talking.Life is twice as nice for Knill this year because two sets of twins play for him. Jackie and Jamie Nave plus Kelly and Krista Summers help North Carroll's opponents double their double vision.

On Christmas Eve, 50 years ago, the first opera expressly written for television was broadcast by NBC, which commissioned it. Today, you couldn't get a commercial TV network to air an opera, let alone pay to have it composed, if your life depended on it. Well, times may have changed, but Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors hasn't. It remains as endearing as it was to that first viewing public, and it's one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. Something about its simplicity and directness, its message of hope and faith, still strikes a comforting chord.

Heavy overnight rains, joining some still-melting snow, closed two roads in the western section of Carroll County yesterday morning.Officials at the county Bureau of Roads Operation said the waters from the Monocacy River closed Keysville Frederick County Road at the county line and Baumgardner Road just off Keysville Frederick County Road.Mumma Ford Road at the county line was covered with water, and traffic was forced to move with caution along the roadway, but it was not closed.All three roads are in the Detour-Keysville area, which is known for its frequent flooding because of the Monocacy River and Big Pipe Creek nearby.