Reisterstown

Caprice Mossner's parents didn't want their 14-year-old daughter hanging around the older teen-agers in their Reisterstown neighborhood, particularly after two of the young women were involved in a drunken-driving accident that killed a 3-year-old boy in July."

Nearly 30 years after the Social Security Administration opened its $92 million Metro West complex on Baltimore's west side, federal officials are planning to move 1,600 employees from there to an office building to be constructed near the Reisterstown Plaza Metro station in Northwest Baltimore. The state Board of Public Works is scheduled to consider Aug. 26 a request from the Maryland Department of Transportation to transfer an 11.3-acre parcel at 6100 Wabash Ave. to the U.S. General Services Administration in preparation for the proposed development.

Whump, whump, thwack! Whump, whump, thwack! There we were, smacking our steamed crabs with wooden hammers at Reter's Crab House and Grille in Reisterstown, when my 9-year-old daughter started singing, "We will, we will rock you." Poor:]

The pastor of a Reisterstown congregation has been tapped to lead Washington's Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, the national church of United Methodism. The Rev. Frank E. Trotter Jr. is scheduled to preach his first sermon in the high-profile pulpit tomorrow. Trotter, who has served as pastor of Reisterstown United Methodist Church for the past 17 years, was appointed to the 1,400-member Washington congregation by Bishop Felton E. May after a national search. He succeeds the Rev. William B. Lawrence, who left to take a position as associate dean for development and church relations at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta.

A Reisterstown youth was killed yesterday when the car he was riding in was rear-ended and pushed into the path of oncoming traffic on Butler Road in Glyndon, Baltimore County police said.Dontay Yarbrough, 17, of the 11900 block of Tarragon Road in Reisterstown was dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred just after 2: 30 p.m. at Butler Road and Third Avenue, said Cpl. James Conaboy, a police spokesman.Dontay, a senior at Franklin High School, was a guard on the basketball team.The driver of the car, Timothy Goins, 17, of Wooden Bridge Court in Reisterstown was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center last night.

A 23-year-old man was charged in warrants with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting Friday of a couple in Reisterstown, Baltimore County police said yesterday. Daniel Jayde Henderson, whose last known address was not available, was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and related handgun charges, police said. According to police, Sylvia Brasher, 29, of the 12000 block of Bonfire Drive, and her boyfriend, Kenneth Wiley, 24, whose address was not available, were arguing with another man near Brasher's home about 5 a.m. when the man pulled a handgun and began chasing the couple and shooting at them.

Another of the Baltimore area's longstanding duckpin and tenpin bowling alleys is closing its doors. After 40 years of operation, Bowl America Inc. will close its lanes at 11973 Reisterstown Road on Sunday. The bowling alley is the second with duckpin lanes - a Baltimore tradition in which players use 5-inch balls to knock down short, squat pins - to close in the metropolitan area in less than a year. Last fall, Southway Bowling Center in South Baltimore closed to make way for upscale apartments.

One hundred years ago, Sgt. Augustus Walley was in Cuba and the Philippines, fighting in the Spanish-American War. A member of the all-black Buffalo Soldiers cavalry unit, he fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders at Kettle Hill and San Juan Heights.Yesterday, the memory of the Reisterstown native was honored with the unveiling of a memorial plaque at the intersection of Route 140 and Cockeys Mills Road in Reisterstown.For Houston Wedlock, a retired Army sergeant and Buffalo Soldier re-enactor, the memorial represents long-overdue recognition for Walley, who also received two Medals of Honor.

At a time when Baltimore County has 2,500 low-income senior citizens waiting for affordable housing, the federal government announced $12 million in grants yesterday to develop two housing projects in Randallstown and Reisterstown for the elderly poor.The money to build 142 apartments comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.The Randallstown project, to be built with $6.4 million in grants at Liberty and Old Court roads, will accommodate 74 apartments for the elderly.

Skeptics may shrug at holly, ivy and brighter colors to dress up a drab subway station, but all those suggestions surfaced at bTC meeting held to discuss ways to improve Reisterstown Plaza Metro.Riders and residents registered distress with the way the subway station looks during the April 3 meeting at Northwestern High School.Sympathetic to the complaints, state officials plan to incorporate community concerns in future metro designs."People were very upset with the quality of the walking experience" as they approach and leave the station, said urban planner Anton Nelessen, hired by the state to survey the Northwest Baltimore neighborhood's views.