Normandy

Orb's path to the finish line in the second leg of the Triple Crown remains uncrowded. Normandy Invasion, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, dropped from contention for Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness on Sunday. Trainer Chad Brown and owner Rick Porter decided to stick with their original plan and point the horse toward prestigous races for 3-year-olds later in the summer. That leaves Orb, the colt co-owned by Baltimore County resident Stuart Janney III and Ogden Mills "Dinny" Pipps' stable, with only seven confirmed challengers at this point.

Orb's path to the finish line in the second leg of the Triple Crown remains uncrowded. Normandy Invasion, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, dropped from contention for Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness on Sunday. Trainer Chad Brown and owner Rick Porter decided to stick with their original plan and point the horse toward prestigous races for 3-year-olds later in the summer. That leaves Orb, the colt co-owned by Baltimore County resident Stuart Janney III and Ogden Mills "Dinny" Pipps' stable, with only seven confirmed challengers at this point.

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  Annapolitans are loyal, and the city has an impressive list of long-running restaurants. Once a place clicks, it tends to stay. That's not too surprising for a political town. Call it the incumbency effect. In 1986, Jean-Louis Evennou opened the original Cafe Normandie on Main Street in Annapolis. Five years later, he and his wife, Suzanne, moved the restaurant five doors down, where it's been ever since, serving a reasonably priced menu of French cafe classics like escargots, bouef bourguignonne, bouillabaisse and roast duck.

Howard Community College professor Fred Campbell is about to take his third group of students to the site of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II, with the hope that, like students before them, the group with return with a perspective of Normandy they rarely get in American history classes. "Most Americans, and it's understandably so, look at World War II through the lens of America's participation. When we go over there … they see this in an international light, and it gives them a broader idea about the impact of this war," said Campbell, who heads the college's World War II study-abroad program.

John Colbert has been bowling tenpins for over 30 years.That bowling career started at Fort Lee, Va., when he served in the Air Force. Now the Baltimore resident does all his league bowling at Brunswick Normandy in four leagues -- Tuesday Doubles, Friday BGE, Saturday Weekend Wonders and Wednesday Anytime/Funtime.In May 1993 he posted a 300 game and just a few weeks ago he came very close to an 800 series.Colbert, a right-handed down-and-in bowler, also came close to another 300 game."That first game [in the Tuesday Doubles]

* SOUTHSEA, England -- Queen Elizabeth II, President Clinton, 12,000 veterans at Drumhead Service to commemorate commitment of forces on D-Day, 7 a.m. EDT* SPITHEAD, England -- Heads of state on royal yacht review veterans embarking for Normandy, 9 a.m. EDT* PORTSMOUTH, England -- Royal yacht, USS George Washington and rest of Normandy flotilla embark, 11 a.m. EDT* SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France -- A group of U.S. veterans will parachute again at the first village...

Brunswick Columbia and Brunswick Normandy, with a few changes, are ready for the winter tenpin season.Mechanic Wayne Jones has transferred from Normandy to Columbia. He'll be working under the supervision of John Newby. Royal Antoine will be the lane man, and Kim Dyer is the pin chaser.At Columbia, Gwen Huckaby will be at the control counter. The daytime snack bar attendant is Helen Hines and at night it's Anita Harris.In the lounge, open the same hours as the center, Ginny Copley and Bob Lamartina will be pouring for the bowlers.

Normandy Ford, a car dealership in Ellicott City, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying it owes more than $6 million to creditors.In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, the dealership on Baltimore National Pike claims assets of $2.2 million and says it has unpaid debts from about 170 creditors.The largest unsecured creditor in the filing is $20,684 owed to RMP National, a Philadelphia firm serving the auto industry.Other large debts include $14,306 owed to B&L Sales, a Baltimore distributor of car polishes; $6,100 owed to Miller Brothers Chevrolet in Ellicott City; $5,950 owed to BJ's Wholesale Club; and $5,204 owed to Bell Atlantic.

George S. Wills can still hear his father's voice, 60 years later, summoning his family to the kitchen radio in the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, to hear the news of the invasion of Normandy. The first radio reports announcing that Allied troops had landed on the northern coast of France arrived at 3:32 a.m. Eastern War Time by way of a trans-Atlantic radio hookup direct from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters. Wills, who lived on the grounds of McDonogh School where his father directed the school's agricultural training programs, recalled the other day hearing President Franklin D. Roosevelt's prayer for the fighting forces.

Howard Community College professor Fred Campbell is about to take his third group of students to the site of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II, with the hope that, like students before them, the group with return with a perspective of Normandy they rarely get in American history classes. "Most Americans, and it's understandably so, look at World War II through the lens of America's participation. When we go over there … they see this in an international light, and it gives them a broader idea about the impact of this war," said Campbell, who heads the college's World War II study-abroad program.

Nicholas J. Passarella, a retired jeweler and World War II veteran who landed at Normandy on D-Day, died Sept. 28 of congestive heart failure at his daughter's Annapolis home. The former longtime Rodgers Forge resident, who moved to Annapolis four years ago, was 90. The son of Italian immigrants, Mr. Passarella was born in Baltimore and reared in Little Italy. He was a Patterson High School graduate. Before joining the Army in 1943, Mr. Passarella worked in a Baltimore war plant.

New zoning approved Wednesday night for Howard County's oldest shopping center would allow a mixture of apartments, offices and stores to replace the partly empty Normandy Center on U.S. 40 in Ellicott City. Over neighborhood objections, the county zoning board, composed of the five County Council members, unanimously approved a zoning change that will allow the dense development. Before the panel could issue that approval, members had to rule that the County Council had erred by denying "traditional neighborhood zoning" for the property during comprehensive rezoning in 2004.

A plan to remake Howard County's oldest shopping center into a mixed community of apartments, shops and offices reached a key stage Thursday night as the county zoning board began hearing the case of the half-century-old Normandy Shopping Center on U.S. 40. Cultivated as a Moxley family farm in 1893, Normandy was the first commercial development of its kind west of the Patapsco River, testified David Moxley, who told the board that three generations of...

Howard County's first suburban shopping center got a weak recommendation for rezoning by the county planning board Thursday night, a move that could help pave the way for a major redevelopment into a new-generation mixed-use project. If the county zoning board agrees with the 3-2 planning board vote, the 25-acre Normandy Shopping Center, a 1961 precursor of suburban commercialism along U.S. 40 in Ellicott City, would be reborn with about 200 apartments, stores and offices in a "main street" configuration in the next few years.

The prospect of an urbanized "avenue"-style replacement for the nearly half-century-old Normandy Shopping Center drew no opposition from about 60 Ellicott City residents at a public information meeting on the project, but the idea of including 200 apartments evoked concern. The center's owners are proposing a mixed-use project that would combine retail, offices and apartments on the 23-acre site on U.S. 40 near Rogers Avenue. With their 48-year anchor Safeway supermarket gone, the Moxley family said it is time to update and redesign the aging center with one- and two-story commercial buildings in front and four-story apartments surrounding a parking garage in the rear.

On Week 24 in the Thursday Club 55 league at Brunswick Normandy, Rita Coles exceeded her average by 59 pins and was named Bowler of the Week."I guess that I've been bowling for about 30 years," Coles said. "Long enough that I've had to drop the weight of my bowling ball from 15 pounds to 13 pounds."With that 13-pound ball, Coles carries a 149 average with a high game of 226 and a high series of 600-plus. She bowls in another league -- the Wednesday Senior Merry Makers at Woodlawn.* Lou Bender retired from the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. after 44 years.

Scott Holden of Ellicott City bowls at Brunswick Normandy and Country Club lanes. On Thursday nights it's a mixed league at Country Club, Friday it's the Gas & Electric league at Normandy.Bowling since he was 12 years old, Holden has built his average to 206, and this season is posting some big numbers.In February, in the Friday league at Normandy, he fired his career high three-game series, a 799.On April 15, again in the Friday Gas & Electric league, he rolled his second career 300 game using a new Nitro R2 reactive resin bowling ball.