Northwest Middle School

Thanks to some friendly competition between two Carroll County schools, volunteers at Shepherd's Staff outreach ministry won't be running out of cranberry sauce today when they serve their traditional turkey dinner at St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. It all started with a challenge: New Windsor Middle School pupils asked members of a special education resource class at Northwest Middle School in Taneytown to match a can of sauce for every napkin holder made at New Windsor. When the contest was over, Northwest Middle pupils had collected 356 cans of sauce and New Windsor pupils had made 350 napkins holders and 300 favors for the tables, said Ellen Bower, a Northwest Middle School special education instructional assistant.

IT'S NOT every day that a former professional athlete coaches sports clinics for a local recreation council, but that's what Ray Vigliotti is doing in Taneytown this month.Vigliotti is directing Taneytown Soccer Camps at Northwest Middle School. The camps began this week and will run through June 27, registration permitting.Vigliotti has lived in Taneytown less than a year, but he is bringing his passion for the sport to northwest Carroll. In addition to directing the sports camps, he plays on the Taneytown men's soccer team.

FIRE* Taneytown: Taneytown and Harney engines were dispatched to investigate a fire alarm sounding at Northwest Middle School on Kings Drive at 1:32 p.m. Monday. Units were out 20 minutes.

FireTaneytown: Taneytown responded to an emergency water detail on George Street at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday. Units were out 28 minutes.Taneytown: Engines from Taneytown and Harney were dispatched to investigate a fire alarm sounding at Northwest Middle School on Kings Drive at 10:33 a.m. Tuesday. The call was canceled after three minutes.

A class of seventh-grade students from Northwest Middle School recently participated in the Maryland Mathematics League contest.Winners are: Sarah Guynn, first place; Shane Collins, second place; Danny Rupp, Jonathan Byrd, Jason Billings and April Wantz, third place.The contest for seventh-graders consisted of 40 multiple choice problems with a 30-minute time limit.

A 25-year-old Taneytown man, who severely cut the ends of two left fingers while using an electric wood shaper at his house about 3:30 p.m. yesterday, was flown to the Raymond Curtis Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital by a state police MedEvac helicopter.Eric Peterson, of the 3600 block of Walnut Grove Road, was taken to the Northwest Middle School for the flight by a Taneytown medic unit after paramedics treated him at the scene.His condition was not immediately available, and emergency officials said they had no information on how the injury occurred.

Cynthia H. EckenrodePrincipal, Mechanicsville Elementary SchoolAge; residence: 39; WestminsterSalary: $59,285Family: Husband: Thomas, assistant principal at Northwest Middle School; Children: Joanna, 8, and Andrew, 6Education: g achelor of science degree, Lock Haven State College in Pennsylvania, 1974; master of science degree, Johns Hopkins University, 1977; additional graduate study at Western Maryland College, Loyola College and Towson State UniversityPrevious experience:...

Honors students to be recognized at receptionNorthwest Middle School's School Improvement team will conduct an honors reception from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the school's cafeteria.BStudents with all A's and B's during the first marking period will be recognized. Qualifying students will receive a certificate and a bumper sticker. Parents are invited.The improvement team will also present school performance assessment results and the School Improvement plan for 1992-93 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday in the cafeteria.

The first public hearing on the $159 million budget proposed for Carroll County Schools drew mostly staff members, and few comments or questions Thursday at Northwest Middle School.The budget request is 6.7 percent more than the current year's $149 million.The school board will hold a second hearing at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at Oklahoma Road Middle School.The board will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 at Westminster High School to adopt a budget request that will go to the County Commissioners for approval.

State housing official to speak at Taneytown Business Breakfast The Taneytown Business Breakfasts are held monthly at 7: 30 a.m. at Thunderhead Bowling Center. The next breakfast will be held April 7 and feature Marge Wolfe, deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. On May 5, Richard N. Dixon, state treasurer, will be the guest. The group's breakfast and business expo will be held June 16 at Northwest Middle School in Taneytown. Mike Lewin from the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development will be the guest.