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On December 3, 2003, PLEAS A. QUARRY; beloved husband of Alberta Ruth Quarry; devoted father of Robert E. Sr. of Running Springs, CA., Elizabeth of Kingsport, TN, and Amelia of Bulls Gap, TN. Also survived by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren of California, Tennessee and Nebraska. Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc., Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale), on Monday 11 to 12 noon, the funeral hour. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

When it comes to expanding its New Windsor quarry operation, Lehigh Cement Co. is looking years down the road. But it gave a preview Aug. 8 of its plan to transport millions of tons of stone between the quarry and its processing plant in Union Bridge about 4 1/2 miles away. Officials from the company provided the Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission members and New Windsor residents with a bus tour of the proposed expansion site, which will encompass about 635 acres between Route 31 and Old New Windsor Road, just southeast of New Windsor.

A bill co-sponsored by three Carroll delegates designed to protect residents from water and property damages that could be caused by mining is expected to be voted upon by the full House this week.It's the fourth year that the delegates have attempted to pass the protective measure. They say they expect lobbyists to battle the bill throughout the legislative process.

Harford County's most notorious native son has been exhumed theatrically. "The Booth Project," an experimental work about Lincoln's assassin premiering this week at the Theatre Project , is the brainchild of Baltimore native Ryan Clark. So is the company performing it - Quarry Theatre Clark returned to the area about three years ago from New York City, where he held posts with a theater company and a performing arts high school. He has been teaching at Harford Community College and Towson University, and will soon join the faculty at the Catonsville campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.

The developer seeking to dig a quarry in Jessup testified against a quarry proposed for his own neighborhood 27 years ago, according to transcripts of a 1969 case presented to the Howard County Board of Appeals this week.Kingdon Gould argued then that a quarry near his home on Murray Hill Road in North Laurel would be unsightly and dusty, create unsafe road conditions and harm his property's value -- the same concerns raised by opponents of the quarry Gould wants to build in Jessup."It's like we were plagiarizing his words [from the earlier case]

Washington businessman Kingdon Gould filed a petition this week to dig a quarry in Jessup, but the president of a community group near the site says he's not ready to sign an agreement the developer made with the community because of concerns about the document."

After 16 months of negotiations, 40 residents approved development of a quarry in their Jessup community last night.The quarry will be developed on the Chase property, a 600-acre wooded area between Interstate 95 and U.S. 1, north of Guilford Road. The property is owned by Washington businessman Kingdon Gould.The quarry will be mined for a crystalline rock known as Baltimore gabbro that primarily is used in Maryland for road construction.Leaders of the Ridgely Run Community Association, which represents more than 600 households east of Interstate 95, west of U.S. 1, north of Guilford Road and south of Route 175, called the meeting to decide whether to give Mr. Gould the go-ahead.

Neighbors of two quarries proposed by The Arundel Corp. said Thursday that the company and the county are pushing the project through without considering their complaints.Many of the Wakefield Valley residents were angry."Will you please take that quarry away and put it in someone else's neighborhood?" said Karl G. Koontz, a 37-year resident whose house in the 1400 block of Stone Chapel Rd. overlooks the Genstar Stone Products Co. quarry adjacent to the Arundel property."This is an ancient contention -- industry vs. residents," he said.

A woman walking with her children near a Dundalk quarry yesterday morning found the body of a man floating face-down in a pond, Baltimore County police reported.The body was recovered from the quarry near Stansbury Park by a county rescue squad and was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore.The victim appeared to have drowned. Investigators said they had ruled out foul play.

A group of Jessup residents is mounting a campaign against a proposal by developer Kingdon Gould to dig a quarry in their neighborhood.TTC "We have a petition going around now," said Tim Maier, one of the organizers of the Stop the Quarry Coalition. He said that "hundreds of people" are against the project, which is scheduled to be considered by the county Board of Appeals Jan. 4.Mr. Gould has told Jessup residents that he would not pursue the project if the community did not support it. Although he won backing from the Ridgelys Run Community Association, an organization formed to represent the community on quarry issues, some residents say many in the community still oppose it.Mr.

Quarry Bagel and Cafe guarantees the best bagel within 50 miles or your money back (with receipt). After a recent lunch there, I bought a bagel to go and ate it long after I'd left the restaurant. When I go back, it won't be for my money. The restaurant is tucked in the west end of the shops at Quarry Lake at Greenspring, which is situated on the site of a former granite operation. The shops cover all the necessities — bank, nail salon, grocery store, Starbucks, Walgreens, wine shop — along with a smattering of boutique emporiums and about a half a dozen restaurants, mostly of the chain variety.

The discovery of a discolored and worn-thin penny rarely generates enthusiasm, unless the discoverer is digging into history and the coin provides insight into the life of another era. Brianne Reynolds, an anthropology student at the University of Maryland, College Park, found the 1891 penny while sifting through what remains of an Irish-American enclave in Baltimore County just north of Timonium. "It's greenish so it stuck out in the red clay," Reynolds said. "It's definitely in the right period.

Old houses have character. You can't buy a door like that," said Bill Ward, waving at one of two curved doors in the foyer area of his family's home. The odd shape reportedly was an accommodation to hoop skirts. Hanging semicircular doors in 1819 when the house was built would have been a bear - thick, wide and tall, each weighs several hundred pounds, Ward said. The house, built on a slab and predating its Ellicott City neighborhood, offers unusual serenity, Ward and his wife, Sandy, said.

Tina Pierce knew for a long time that one day she and her husband would downsize, sell their Mount Washington home and purchase a condo. The two had always envisioned themselves amid the bustle of downtown. When her husband passed away two years ago, the move for Tina became more pressing. Rather than settling downtown, however, she chose instead to buy a condominium in the Highlands, Quarry Lake at Greenspring, which - in addition to being near the same wooded area of Northwest Baltimore that she was used to - was closer to her mother-in-law.

Police identify victim in fatal Towson shooting A man found fatally shot in the head in his Towson apartment Saturday had recently undergone surgery and was discovered after an acquaintance came to check on him, Baltimore County police said. The victim was identified yesterday as Daniel Ho Colverston, 24. Police said he was killed Friday or Saturday in his residence in the 7000 block of Lachlan Circle, in the Fairways at Towson complex. Investigators said they knew of no motive and had no suspect in the case.

Any kid can splash-dive into a swimming hole. Gunther Byrd of Lutherville chose to go the way of a trapeze artist. From a high platform at the Milford Mill Park and Swim Club in Windsor Mill, the 11-year-old gripped a suspended rope called the Tarzan Swing and soared over the water-filled quarry. Then he let go of the rope, and, while suspended about 13 feet in the air, did a twisting, backward somersault before plunging into the sun-glistened depths. Coooooool. Byrd and scores of other youngsters have taken to some of the areas most popular swimming holes this summer, abandoning Nintendo consoles and Nickelodeon cartoons for countless hours of wet-and-wild outdoor fun. "I love this place," said Taj Ingram, 12, from Columbia.

Negotiations between a developer seeking to dig a quarry in Jessup and residents near the site began peacefully, but have turned into a battle among neighbors.Residents are feuding about a community agreement supporting developer Kingdon Gould Jr.'s plan to dig the quarry on what is known as his "Chase property" -- a nearly 600-acre site east of Interstate 95, west of U.S. 1 and south of Route 175.Mr. Gould is scheduled to present his proposal before the Howard County Board of Appeals on Thursday, and tension among residents has been increasing during the past several weeks.

The Howard County Board of Appeals last night gave final approval for a proposed rock quarry in Jessup, but not without one more bit of controversy.The unanimous vote allows developer Kingdon Gould Jr., a North Laurel resident and a Washington parking lot magnate, to establish a quarry to mine a crystalline rock called Baltimore gabbro on a 546-acre wooded site east of Interstate 95, west of U.S. 1 and south of Route 175.But the board also made several changes...

ZIARAT, Pakistan - The mountain of white marble shines with such brilliance in the sun it looks like snow. For four years, the quarry beneath it lay dormant, its riches captive to tribal squabbles and government ineptitude in this corner of Pakistan's tribal areas. But in April, the Taliban appeared and imposed a firm hand. They settled the feud between the tribes, demanded a fat fee upfront and a tax on every truck that ferried the treasure from the quarry. Since then, Mir Zaman, a contractor from the Masaud subtribe, which was picked by the Taliban to run the quarry, has watched contentedly as his trucks roll out of the quarry with colossal boulders bound for refining in nearby towns.

With its chain restaurants and strip malls, Silver Spring has a serious lack of good bars. That's why it's such a surprise to find a fantastic beer bar like the Quarry House Tavern tucked into the basement of a nondescript building in the heart of the Washington suburb. Unless you're looking for the Quarry House, you'll probably drive or walk by it the first time. There's a sign on the side of the building that faces Bonifant Street, but that's your only indication. To get to the front door, you walk down 13 steps (one more than an Alcoholics Anonymous program)