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25 years ago: Several weeks ago, unidentified youngster broke up four of the brick fireplaces at the community playground in Hampstead. "Many hours of time are put in by the Lions members to make the playground enjoyable," according to Dick Murray, a member of the playground committee. The Lions Club, which created and maintains the park, is greatly disturbed over the destruction. The 26-acre area, opened in 1954 by the Lions, will be operating without the fireplaces until spring when fresh mortar will be mixed.

FireTaneytown: Firefighters from Taneytown, Union Bridge, Harney and New Windsor responded at 1: 28 a.m. Wednesday to a vacant house on fire in the 4300 block of Nusbaum Road. Units were out four hours.Pub Date: 7/10/98

A Westminster man was found guilty yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court of his sixth drunken-driving offense since 1983.Larry S. Nusbaum, 45, of the 500 block of Hillside Court pleaded not guilty to charges of drunken driving and possession ofmarijuana but agreed not to contest the state's version of what happened when he was arrested April 21 in Finksburg after running a stop sign.Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. set sentencing for March 2, despite a request by prosecutors that Nusbaum immediately begin serving an agreed-upon 18-month jail term.

ClarificationAn article in yesterday's Business section may have left a misleading impression about which attorney at the Baltimore firm of Weinberg & Green is accused in an Anne Arundel County lawsuit of improperly siding with one alleged client in a dispute with another.The story accurately reported that then-Weinberg attorney Stanford Hess was retained in 1992 in connection with an Anne Arundel County land development deal and that the lawsuit turns in part on a dispute over Weinberg's conduct when that venture collapsed last year.

50 years ago While en route from Taneytown to his home in Union Mills, Weldon R. Nusbaum, who with his son operates a cannery at Taneytown, was attacked by two hitchhikers whom he had picked up. He was driving along the highway near the Yingling swimming pool at Union Mills when he was suddenly struck on the head by a flashlight in the hands of one, while the other started pummeling him with his fist. Realizing his danger, the driver pulled to the side of the road and jumped out of the auto, which continued to run until it struck a light.

A memorial stone listing the names of eight men killed in the Korean War was dedicated yesterday in a ceremony at Memorial Gardens behind Westminster City Hall.A ninth name is to be added. County Commissioner W. Benjamin Brown, who has been working on the memorial since 1991, pledged to have the name of Cpl. James H. Nusbaum inscribed on the stone after he learned it had been missed in the search.Westminster Mayor Kenneth A. Yowan said the ceremony was timed to be linked to dedication of a national memorial to Americans killed in the Korean War. Dedication of the national memorial is scheduled at 3 p.m. Thursday on the Mall in Washington.

The Carroll County Commission on Aging will continue to offer enthusiastic support to the county Bureau of Aging during the coming year, said the commission's new chairwoman, Vivian Nusbaum."

FIRE* Taneytown: Taneytown, Union Bridge, New Windsor and Harney were dispatched for a chimney fire in the 4300 block of Nusbaum Road at 2:47 a.m. Friday.Units were out for one hour, 12 minutes.

Food service workers in Carroll schools are asking for a 7 percent raise and more fans in school kitchens.They made the request yesterday during their first meeting to negotiate a new contract with the Board of Education.This is the second of five employee groups with which the board must bargain.The board has made no salary offers, although it has made other proposals.Board officials have said they could make an offer later this week or next week, in individual meetings with the five bargaining groups.

Carroll County firefighters passed the century mark last week, but it's an honor they may not be very happy about.Firefighters from Carroll County responded to chimney fire No. 109 early yesterday. The chimney fire season started about Dec. 1.The most recent fire was at a house on Meadow Branch Road two minutes after midnight Sunday. Firefighters from Westminster and Pleasant Valley responded to the call, and were out 36 minutes.Fire companies in Carroll responded to their 100th chimney fire of the season March 8, when they were dispatched to a house on Glenville Road in York County, Pa.Officials said 102 of the fires occurred in Carroll County and seven just outside county boundaries.

Man found in burning home was also beaten City police say a man found last week in a burning residence moments after police responded to a report of an armed person had been beaten before he died in the fire. The victim was identified Monday as Edward M. Davis, 39, but few details were available as police investigate the incident. Davis was found June 24 in the 1800 block of St. Paul St., just south of North Avenue. Police said at the time that the fire, which broke out at 6:30 p.m., was preceded by a report of an armed man in the vicinity, but officers who responded found no one. The fire was reported minutes later, and fire officials said the body was found on a burning couch.

Two Baltimore businessmen were indicted Tuesday, accused of conspiring to rig bids at Maryland tax lien auctions in the latest set of charges to develop from a sweeping multiyear federal investigation. A third defendant pleaded guilty in the case last year. According to the one-count indictment, filed in Baltimore's U.S. District Court, Harvey M. Nusbaum and his business partner, Jack W. Stollof, both in their 70s, colluded with others from April 2002 through early August 2007 to ensure that their small group of investors won the vast majority of properties by agreeing not to compete at certain tax lien auctions.

As Christopher Nusbaum reads Polar Bears Past Bedtime, his right hand moves from left to right on the page, his middle finger running over the Braille characters. For Christopher, 8, of Taneytown, who has been blind since birth, reading is a passion. He has finished four books in the past week and is a half-year ahead in reading level. Next weekend in Los Angeles, Christopher will get to demonstrate his skills in the competitive setting of the Braille Challenge, an academic contest that will test him and 11 other first- and second-graders on spelling, reading comprehension and proofreading.

Eight-year-old Christopher A. Nusbaum is an accomplished piano player, at ease singing for a crowd and well-versed in radio speak. There is no note of shyness about Christopher, an engaging second-grader who has been blind from birth. He has taught himself piano, written a few musical compositions and is now testing his mettle on violin. He likes jamming with his guitar-playing cousin and acting as the DJ at a replica of a sound studio that occupies his "office" in Taneytown. "We used to call his office the dining room," said Wendy Nusbaum, Christopher's mother.

On January 21, 2006 JUDITH "Judie" (nee Brothers) beloved wife of Gerald "Jerry" Cohen, loving mother of Lynn Fram, Mindi Leikin, Amy Nusbaum and Sherri Venick, devoted mother-in-law of Jeffrey Fram, Robert Leikin, Bruce Nusbaum and Jeffrey Venick, loving grandmother of Matthew, Lauren, Jesse, Coley, Sasha, Ethan, Zachary, Jennifer, Jill, Kori and Adam. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd., at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Sunday January 22 at 2 P.M. Interment Oheb Shalom Memorial Park, Berrymans Lane.

Nelson LeRoy Sims III, an automotive enthusiast, died Tuesday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center of injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident. The Westminster resident was 19. Mr. Sims was born in Baltimore and grew up in Carroll County. He graduated from Francis Scott Key High School last year and took courses at the Carroll County Career and Technology Center. He worked in Bethesda as a communications technician at Vision Technologies. At an early age, Mr. Sims displayed his lifelong love of wheels.

On June 19, 2004, THELMA R. (nee Singer); beloved wife of the late Samuel R. Somers and Henry Nusbaum; beloved mother of Vivian Sue Goode (Curry Lee) and the late Steven Somers; step-mother of Robin Armacost; sister of Roy Singer. Also survived by four grandchildren, one step-grandson and two great-grandchildren. Services at the Eline Funeral Home, 934 S. Main St, Hampstead, on Tuesday at 11 A.M. Interment in Wesley Cemetery. Friends may call Monday, 7 to 9 P.M. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions to Wesley United Methodist Church, 3239 Carrollton Road, Hampstead, Md 21074.

The seven Girl Scouts from Queen Anne's County and their chaperons trail Kirsten Schafer as she takes them into a gallery of Egyptian artifacts at the Walters Art Museum. Schafer, the museum's coordinator of children and family programs, gathers the scouts around a glass box with a human mummy preserved inside. Immediately they are fascinated, and even more so when Schafer leads them to a cat mummy. "I liked the Egyptian section, especially the mummies and hieroglyphics," says 10-year-old Megan McGill later in the tour.

To the historian of Asian art, it's a three-color glazed earthenware tomb sculpture from the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) that reflects the fabulous wealth of the emperors who grew rich from caravans plying the ancient Silk Road. But to a kid seeing it for the first time, it's just a cool toy animal with funny humps on its back. It's certainly a long way from the child's point of view to that of the serious scholar, museum curator or collector. Yet art educators know there's a direct line that runs between the knowledgeable adult museumgoer and the youth whose first response to the camel was, "Gee whiz!"

25 years ago: Several weeks ago, unidentified youngster broke up four of the brick fireplaces at the community playground in Hampstead. "Many hours of time are put in by the Lions members to make the playground enjoyable," according to Dick Murray, a member of the playground committee. The Lions Club, which created and maintains the park, is greatly disturbed over the destruction. The 26-acre area, opened in 1954 by the Lions, will be operating without the fireplaces until spring when fresh mortar will be mixed.