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Baltimore County police are investigating the early Saturday stabbing of a woman outside of a club in Woodlawn. Cpl. John Wachter said police transported the woman, whose name was not released, to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with non-life threatening injuries. Her status was not available. Police responded to a call at 1:36 a.m. in the Days Inn parking lot at 1660 Whitehead Court and found an adult female suffering from several cuts, Wachter said. The hotel shares a parking lot with Club Paradise, he said.

Gunpowder Falls State Park ranger Robert Bailey will lead a Mill Hike on Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Winter is the best time of year to see the ruins of mills that once operated along the Gunpowder Falls. The hike begins at the Paper Mill Road parking lot of the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail. Participants will visit the site of Ashland Furnace, an anthracite-fired furnace active in the mid-19th century, as well as other buildings from that same time period. Bailey will have old photographs showing the area in its prime.

Here comes the bride. All dressed in white. With a hint of sawdust. The Woodworking and DIY Show and the Wedding Show take place simultaneously each year at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, sharing a parking lot if not much else. Sunday was no exception, as carloads of patrons parked and made a decision: bride's side or groom's side? Waiting inside the Exhibition Hall, which was bedecked in flickering tea candles and floral arrangements, were vendors and booths full of the accoutrements of matrimony.

Anne Arundel County police said a Glen Burnie woman was robbed early Friday by a man who hid in her car, arose from the backseat, and demanded her purse. The incident happened in the parking lot of the Glen Ridge Apartments, in the unit block of Glen Ridge Road, at about 4:30 a.m. The unknown suspect grabbed the purse, which contained an undisclosed amount of cash and property, and fled the car on foot. County police searched the area, but did not find him.

It has been a long slow decline for Harold's Market since former owner Ronnal Simpson moved to Florida. Today, Harold's has been reduced to rubble, and it is uncertain what will happen to the property it occupied now that the new owners are seeking a zoning change through Baltimore County's Comprehensive Zoning Map Process. Located at 1750 E. Joppa Road for nearly 40 years, it had been the place to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables for those who didn't want to bother with the parking and check out lines of a large supermarket.

Editor: Mr. John Harvey's letter to the Aegis of Nov. 30 beat me to it. I was going to write about the tax surplus also and agree with Mr. Harvey's comments 100 percent and would add that Bel Air had a surplus of $2 million and elected to purchase the old bank building on Main Street stating it was being done as an investment, first to be torn down and made into a parking lot and possibly later to have the new town office built there. In both cases Harford County and Bel Air should have reimbursed the tax payers and there should be laws put in place to make sure that all future surpluses are given back to the rightful owners, the taxpayers.

Two employees of the Odenton Dollar Tree were robbed at gunpoint Friday night, police said. Shortly after 11 p.m., the clerks had just left the store in the 1100 block of Annapolis Road and were crossing the parking lot when a maroon minivan pulled up near them, Anne Arundel County Police said in a Saturday statement. A man got out of the van, pointed a handgun at the victims and demanded money, police said. A cell phone was also taken from one of the victims. The robber was last seen driving west on Annapolis Road.

A drug-sniffing dog alerted once during a scan of lockers and the parking lot at Fallston High School Tuesday, but no drugs or tobacco were found. A dog, under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office, scanned 320 lockers in six minutes, from 8:08 to 8:14 a.m., and 29 vehicles in the school's parking lot in 19 minutes, from 8:17 to 8:36 a.m. The dog did not alert on any lockers and alerted once on a vehicle in the parking lot. No drugs or tobacco products were found.

A 25-year-old man died after he was shot Sunday night in the parking lot of Mo's Seafood in Glen Burnie. The Anne Arundel County police department identified the victim as Andrew Michael Johnson of the 100 block of Sloane Drive in Glen Burnie. According to police, officers responded to a report of a shooting about 10:34 p.m. Sunday outside the seafood restaurant, in the 7100 block of Ritchie Highway. Officers found the victim in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to the upper torso, police said.

The popular Annie's Playground in Fallston has been closed for repairs since the middle of last week but, aside from a few somewhat inconspicuous roadside signs, little appears to have been done to let the public know. The playground is supposed to reopen sometime in the middle of this week, a spokesperson for the county said Monday. A white sign with red lettering was affixed to one of the Annie's Playground directional signs on Connolly Road, just before the turn onto Smith Lane where the playground is located.