Orchard

Orchard Market & Cafe 8815 Orchard Tree Lane -- Towson -- 410-339-7700 Zella's Pizzeria 1145 Hollins St. -- West Baltimore -- 410-685-6999 Entrees $7-$11 -- zellaspizzeria.com For less than $12, you can feast on an enormous meatball calzone or a 10-inch pizza topped with ingredients like caramelized onions, artichokes and prosciutto at this new casual restaurant across from Hollins Market. The restaurant's blond wood accents, brightly painted walls and shiny-new stamped tin ceiling make the place particularly welcoming, as does the delicious smell of garlic that greets you at the door.

Editor's note: Young Johnny Orchard befriends a baby bear, who grows up to be a problem to the whole valley. When he takes the bear out to the woods one last time, unexpected visitors change the outcome.Johnny Orchard lived on the farm farthest up the valley and closest to the woods.On the hill behind the barn Johnny's grandfather had planted a few apple trees. These were the only apple trees in the valley, and they were known as Orchard's orchard.Whenever Johnny went down the road to the store for a piece of maple sugar or something, he always felt humiliated.

THE THUMPA-THUMP of an inflatable beach ball as it bounces from hand to hand. The scratchy rhythm of papier-mache maracas. Children laughing. Counselors cheering.Warm sounds of summer fill the air at the Orchard Summer Recreation & Education Program. Held at Waterloo Elementary School, the six-week camp is a collaborative effort of local businesses, county agencies and individuals.It's also the brainchild of Rob Harper, 69, a retired businessman and longtime community and civil rights activist.

A number of residents of an upscale apartment complex in Ellicott City allege that the management company is trying to silence its critics by evicting them.Some tenants of Orchard Park Apartments on Pine Orchard Lane contend that the heavy-handed tactic has left residents too scared to voice complaints."This is crazy," says Edward Strauss, a three-year tenant who was served a 30-day eviction notice two weeks ago after he allegedly used profanity toward an employee. "If you tell them that anything's wrong, they throw it back in your face."

Michael Mir left for Florida so quietly last summer that few knew he had sold his Persian restaurant, the Orchard Market and Cafe (8815 Orchard Tree Lane, Towson, 410-339-7700). The transition was seamless, in part because the new owners are no strangers to the place.Jason Bulkeley was the former manager, his wife, Sharareh, also worked there, his mother-in-law, Nahid Vaezpour, was and still is the chef and his brother-in-law Majid Kamoei is sous chef.The menu remains much the same, with the most popular dishes being an eggplant and artichoke heart appetizer, duck with pomegranate and walnut sauce, almond-crusted salmon with yogurt cilantro sauce and dried-plum braised lamb with grilled vegetables and butternut squash.

Three weeks ago, the auctioneer's gavel was about to slam on Nancy and Lou Hoffman's farm, threatening to end operations at the largest -- and one of the oldest -- orchards in Baltimore County.But thanks to neighbors and a local land trust, the Hoffmans are harvesting another apple crop at the farm in Glen Arm.In an example of the increasing sophistication of land preservationists nationwide, Long Green Valley Conservancy raised $100,000 and pushed to get a $290,000 interest-free state loan to buy the 101-acre Maple Hill Farm three days before the foreclosure sale.

Complaints of alleged harassment and retaliatory evictions at a posh, three-story apartment complex in Ellicott City made it to court yesterday.Security Development Corp., which owns Orchard Park Apartments on Pine Orchard Lane, is asking Howard County District Judge Neil Edward Axel to enforce a notice to vacate issued to Rose Libowitz last September.Libowitz is fighting the order, asserting that she is the target of a retaliatory eviction."I've lived in apartments all my life, and I've never been treated like this," Libowitz told Axel.

FireGamber: Firefighters responded at 9: 33 a.m. Friday to a trash fire in the 1000 block of Orchard Dale Drive. Units were out 30 minutes.Pub Date: 7/07/98

The woman the Baugher family calls "Grams" doesn't have to lift a finger anymore at Thanksgiving. But every year, thousands of families still top off their turkey dinner with one of her pies.Cutting into a Baugher's pie yields a slice of life in the American tradition: a century-old family business thriving as the latest generation works in the farm and orchard operation that has grown to include a restaurant and bakery in Westminster."I'm thankful we have the capacity to take our fruit from the blossom to the dinner table where someone can eat it and be happy," said Allan Baugher as he sat next to his 86-year-old mother, Romaine Baugher, who started the bakery in her basement in 1935 to help her husband pay off the $5,500 farm mortgage.

Columbia man, 42, killed in accident near his homeA 42-year-old east Columbia man was killed over the weekend in a road accident just blocks away from his home in Owen Brown village.Police said Michael Disena, who lived in the 6000 block of Summer Rambo Court, was traveling west on Sewells Orchard Drive near Loring Drive Sunday at 1: 20 a.m. Sunday when his Toyota Four Runner crossed the road's center line and struck the back of a trailer that was parked on the eastbound side of the road.

Paul McLaren "Mickey" Pardew, who built a Towson sports complex and earned honors in his many decades as an amateur tennis player and coach, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Towson resident was 91. Born in Baltimore and raised on University Parkway, he attended Polytechnic Institute but switched to City College because he could join the school's swimming team. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from the Johns Hopkins University and worked in aircraft production at the Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River.

Jeremy Guthrie did everything that a top-of-the-rotation pitcher shouldn't do Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels. He put the Orioles in a three-run hole before their first at-bat, allowed runs two different times after his team had scored to get back in the game, walked just as many hitters (two) as he struck out and surrendered another home run. The only good news for Guthrie (7-12) was that the Orioles' late rally in an eventual 17-8 defeat kept him from suffering his fifth straight loss and 13th of the season.

Baltimore County police identified Monday a man shot to death Sunday in the 600 block of Peach Orchard Lane in the Turners Station neighborhood. Sylvester Eric Brown, 22, of the 4100 block of Coleman Ave. in Baltimore was shot in the upper body about 3 a.m. and pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, according to police. A woman walking with Brown was also shot. Police said Theresa Bunk, 21, of the 400 block of Avondale Road in Dundalk was shot several times and taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with life-threatening injuries.

A Baltimore man charged with the attempted murder of a police officer who was trying to make an undercover drug purchase Friday night was arrested in December 2007 by the same officer, court records show. According to online court records, Baltimore police Officer Dante Arthur was the complainant when Sean A. Cox was charged with trespass and possession of marijuana Dec. 27, 2007. Cox, whose address is listed in the 6100 block of Alta Ave., pleaded guilty to the possession charge in Baltimore District Court and was fined $75 in March 2008.

Police have charged three city men with attempted murder in the shooting Friday of an undercover officer outside a troubled housing complex in the Seton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. Officer Dante Arthur, an eight-year veteran of the city Police Department, remained in critical but stable condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center yesterday after the first of what Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said would likely be several reconstructive surgeries. Arthur, who was shot twice in the face Friday night after attempting to make an undercover drug purchase in the 400 block of Orchard St., is expected to make a full recovery.

Certifications *Shane Silverman and Serena Lehn have been designated as Certified Kitchen Designers by the National Kitchen & Bath Association. They are employed by Annapolis-based Kitchen Encounters. On the board *Barbara Bozzuto was selected to chair the board of St. Agnes Hospital. She will oversee the budget process, medical staff credentialing, fundraising, CEO performance evaluation and guide board consensus. *Pamela Berman, a Baltimore attorney, was elected president of the Contemporary Museum's Board of Trustees.

Foundation gets Armiger donation The Columbia Foundation has received a donation of $10,000 from Earl Armiger, who, with his wife Mary, is founder and owner of Orchard Development Corp. and Armiger Management of Ellicott City. Orchard Development is first-place winner of the National Housing Endowment's third Builder Achievement Awards for Outstanding Community Service. The NHE is a charitable arm of the National Association of Homebuilders. Orchard Development received the NHE $10,000 Gold Award for having donating a 25 percent interest in Orchard Club Apartments of Elkridge, a mixed-income apartment development, to the Columbia Foundation, which makes grants to Howard County nonprofits.

To convey what she wanted for her latest album, Lizz Wright assembled a slide show. About a year ago, the jazzy pop singer-songwriter met with executives at Verve, her recording home for the past five years. She didn't have any concrete ideas for the follow-up to her sophomore album, 2005's meditative Dreaming Wide Awake. So to help explain how she wanted her new record to feel, Wright showed pictures of her grandparents, country dirt roads and old oak trees dripping with Spanish moss.

Owners of three Howard County liquor stores were fined for not asking for identification and serving underage patrons sent by police to test them. All three admitted the infractions, which took place last year, in cases decided Feb. 21. Michael Platt and Richard Brunatti, owners of Your Wine and Spirits Shoppe on Birmingham Way in Woodstock, were fined $1,000 by the Howard County Alcoholic Beverage Hearing Board because of an incident Sept. 27 during which a clerk sold a six-pack of Smirnoff Ice to an underage female volunteer.

Orchard Market & Cafe 8815 Orchard Tree Lane -- Towson -- 410-339-7700 Zella's Pizzeria 1145 Hollins St. -- West Baltimore -- 410-685-6999 Entrees $7-$11 -- zellaspizzeria.com For less than $12, you can feast on an enormous meatball calzone or a 10-inch pizza topped with ingredients like caramelized onions, artichokes and prosciutto at this new casual restaurant across from Hollins Market. The restaurant's blond wood accents, brightly painted walls and shiny-new stamped tin ceiling make the place particularly welcoming, as does the delicious smell of garlic that greets you at the door.