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By Childs Walker and Childs Walker,SUN STAFF | September 17, 2003
Governments in Baltimore, Baltimore County and Carroll County should intensify efforts to monitor water quality and preserve forests and farmland in the Prettyboy Reservoir watershed, according to a report released this week by a national conservation group. The Trust for Public Land spent more than a year studying the watershed, an 80-square- mile expanse in Baltimore County, Carroll County and York County, Pa., that serves 1.8 million water customers in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
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By Winyan Soo Hoo and Winyan Soo Hoo,Special to baltimoresun.com | July 12, 2005
A police dive team found a Hampstead man's body in the Prettyboy Reservoir in northern Baltimore County just after 1 a.m. today, authorities said. Frederick Stein, 44, of the 4000 block of St. Paul Road, drowned last night while trying to swim the width of the dam near Middletown. Stein was seen swimming across the reservoir near the dam's face about 9 p.m. by a female friend who called police after he disappeared from view, authorities said. He had been drinking, police said. A police helicopter equipped with a high-intensity searchlight and an infrared unit capable of locating a body -- even when it us underwater -- contributed to the search hours after darkness, authorities said.
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By Richard Irwin and Richard Irwin,SUN STAFF | July 9, 2004
Two men died and a third was missing and presumed drowned last night as a family fishing outing on Prettyboy Reservoir in northern Baltimore County ended in tragedy when their boat capsized, authorities said. A fourth man survived, swimming to shore after he was unable to save the others, according to a county Fire Department spokesman. The men had been drinking, and while one man was steering the boat another was rocking it back and forth when it capsized, plunging all four into the water, said Capt.
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By Joan Jacobson and Joan Jacobson,SUN STAFF | November 6, 1998
A plan by Loyola College to build a retreat center, three parking lots and 10 cabins in northern Baltimore County off Beckleysville Road has angry residents warning about storm water runoff, traffic and potential use of alcohol by people at the retreat center.Those concerns erupted this week, when 250 people turned out at a community meeting organized by the Prettyboy Watershed Preservation Society, formed to fight the center proposed for a narrow road near Prettyboy Reservoir."The main thing was the concern that this kind of commercial use would forever change the rural nature of our community," said Sharon Bailey, who lives near the 101-acre site.
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By Jay Apperson and Jay Apperson,SUN STAFF | May 27, 2000
Plundered beehives and ransacked bird feeders were the tell-tale signs. But for proof that a bear is roaming parts of northern Baltimore County, you can go to the tape. See the bear peek over the rim of the above-ground swimming pool. Watch it drink from the pond and scrounge for food. See it flop down on its haunches, sittin' and chillin' - right there behind Teresa Snodgrass' cabin in the woods. "He looked like a circus bear, really well-mannered," said Snodgrass, who captured the animal on videotape one recent evening at her family's home near Prettyboy Reservoir.
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By John Rivera and John Rivera,Sun Staff Writer | April 30, 1995
Dry conditions caused by a lack of significant rainfall have caused an increase in the number of brush and forest fires in the state, including a blaze that burned more than 20 acres of woodland Friday near Prettyboy Reservoir.The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has no immediate plans to reinstate the burning ban it imposed statewide for six days this month, said spokesman Bob Graham. But state forestry officials were concerned that windy conditions this weekend might turn some activities, such as lighting a charcoal barbecue, into fire hazards.