Rolling Road

I continue to witness the same dangerous pattern of driver behavior, ignoring pedestrians and the crosswalk, as cited by Barbara Schuessler ("Safety measures failing students using busy South Rolling Road," Catonsville Times, Jan. 11). Despite the efforts of the State Highway Administration to improve the crosswalk, there is still not enough visibility and attention to make motorists take notice. I suspect that many are aware that the crosswalk is there, but choose to ignore it or they are ignorant of the law altogether.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Wade Avenue, unit block, between 9 p.m. April 5, and 7 a.m. April 6. Generator, power washer, table saw and miter saw stolen from unlocked shed. North Rolling Road, 100 block, between 8:30 a.m. and 6:10 p.m., April 5. Two TVs, Mac PC, iPad and iPod stolen.

100 Years Ago Rolling out the welcome mat In the Times social column: "Mr. Henry J. Bender has returned to his home on Rolling Road after visiting friends in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Davis have returned to their home on Rolling Road after spending several days with friends in Baltimore. " Mr. Bender and the Davises lived on Rolling Road before its hills, vales and curves were straightened out. The road lived up to its name then and traveling it you could easily imagine those hogsheads of tobacco bumping and rolling down it toward the deep, wide, 18th-century Patapsco River where they were loaded onto ships.

A 19-year-old Churchville woman was killed Thursday morning driving out of her neighborhood. Elizabeth Wald, of the 200 block of Whitefield Court, was declared dead at the scene of the crash at Rolling Road and Route 136, according to Sgt. Comer of the Maryland State Police at the Bel Air Barrack. Around 6 a.m., Ms. Wald tried to make a left from Rolling Road onto Route 136 and failed to yield the right-of-way to oncoming traffic. Her 2001 Saturn LS was T-boned by a 1999 Ford F450 landscaping truck, police said.

Two golfers, one from Mount St. Joseph and the other from Loyola, scored holes in one on the same hole within 15 minutes of each other during a match at Rolling Road Golf Club Thursday.David Inkman of Mount St. Joseph and Craig Zabora of Loyola got their aces at the 10th hole -- a 100-yard par 3 -- while playing with different groups in a match that was won by Mount St. Joseph, 13-5.Zabora's hole in one came first and was witnessed by teammate Dyer Bell and Mount St. Joseph players Andy Dhillon and Brian Patrick.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Jenny Murdock, a rookie on the LPGA Tour, lives in Houston and plays out of The Woodlands, but may have to add Rolling Road Golf Club to her list of supporters.Murdock's grandparents, Agnes and John Turner, are longtime members of the Catonsville club, and her parents, Pam and Andy Turner, were living in Baltimore and members there when Jenny was born in 1971."They were all Baltimore and Rolling Road people, but we only lived there about a year after I was born," she said after LPGA Championship rounds of 74-75 that left her out of action for the weekend.

Drivers should avoid the intersection of Security Boulevard and Rolling Road after a crash involving a police cruiser, according to Baltimore County Police. The collision was reported just before 7 a.m. No one was fatally injured, according to police. Investigation of the crash should be completed within an hour, police said.

Catonsville area residents vow to fight for restrictions against wedging more homes in their established neighborhoods, despite the Baltimore County planning board's refusal to recommend reduced zoning densities in the county's southwest."

Joe Wood, a solid amateur player from Norbeck Country Club, produced three birdies over a seven-hole span in the middle of his round and finished 36-3470 to win a Middle Atlantic PGA pro-am at Rolling Road Golf Club yesterday. In the process, he defeated 60 pros in the 240-man field.Eight pros shot 1-over-par 71, including Dean Wilson of the Elkridge Club; Mark Spolarich, Eisenhower GC; and Jim Kardash, Glen Burnie Family Golf Center. All eight, who could have easily pointed to missed opportunities that cost an outright victory, earned places in the season-ending Tournament of Champions.

GRASONVILLE - Rolling Road Golf Club's Joan Winchester, who has won just about every area golf title available to her, collected her second Maryland State Women's Seniors championship at Prospect Bay Country Club yesterday. Winchester, who also won in 1994, posted a three-stroke victory, overcoming a six-stroke deficit with a 1-over-par 73 that gave her 154 for 36 holes. She forged her first lead when she birdied the par-3 12th and first-round leader Perry Drevo, of Norbeck Country Club, bogeyed.

I continue to witness the same dangerous pattern of driver behavior, ignoring pedestrians and the crosswalk, as cited by Barbara Schuessler ("Safety measures failing students using busy South Rolling Road," Catonsville Times, Jan. 11). Despite the efforts of the State Highway Administration to improve the crosswalk, there is still not enough visibility and attention to make motorists take notice. I suspect that many are aware that the crosswalk is there, but choose to ignore it or they are ignorant of the law altogether.

Leave Westchester as part of District 12. Leave Westchester as part of Catonsville. ("Proposal would create new Catonsville district," Catonsville Times, Jan. 11) Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to take residents living west of Rolling Road out of Catonsville, politically. We live in the part of Catonsville that is to be redistricted so that we will be part of the Security Boulevard neighborhood. There may be nothing wrong with the Security Boulevard neighborhood. I don't know.

Related to the reply to my letter ("Yield to left at roundabout and to right at four-way stop," Catonsville Times, Jan. 4), I did not realize that drivers do not need to be courteous when using traffic circles. That writer's self-centered mentality would keep us "poor saps" stranded at one of other entrances to the circle when there is an unbroken queue of vehicles in one direction. This "poor sap," having learned the written rules for drivers approaching an intersection (with no stop signs or all direction stop signs)

As a resident of Catonsville since 1997, I am saddened each time I drive down Valley Road from Rolling Road to Wilkens Avenue. Why? Litter! Not that it isn't everywhere. But Valley Road always reminds me of a country lane and I love driving along it. Although the litter is always there, it's all the more noticeable when the trees and bushes are bare. I'm guessing that the sports fields at Catonsville High School, when in use, are a major factor, as well as drivers, who indiscriminately toss trash from their cars instead of taking it to a receptacle.

As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on U.S. 50 westbound at Bay Dale Drive, due to an accident involving two vehicles. Accidents were slowing traffic on the inner loop of I-695 near Back River bridge in Baltimore County and Windsor Boulevard and Rolling Road in Baltimore County, There are no major delays reported on local transit systems.

100 Years Ago Rolling out the welcome mat In the Times social column: "Mr. Henry J. Bender has returned to his home on Rolling Road after visiting friends in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Davis have returned to their home on Rolling Road after spending several days with friends in Baltimore. " Mr. Bender and the Davises lived on Rolling Road before its hills, vales and curves were straightened out. The road lived up to its name then and traveling it you could easily imagine those hogsheads of tobacco bumping and rolling down it toward the deep, wide, 18th-century Patapsco River where they were loaded onto ships.

As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on U.S. 50 westbound at Bay Dale Drive, due to an accident involving two vehicles. Accidents were slowing traffic on the inner loop of I-695 near Back River bridge in Baltimore County and Windsor Boulevard and Rolling Road in Baltimore County, There are no major delays reported on local transit systems.

A 19-year-old Churchville woman was killed Thursday morning driving out of her neighborhood. Elizabeth Wald, of the 200 block of Whitefield Court, was declared dead at the scene of the crash at Rolling Road and Route 136, according to Sgt. Comer of the Maryland State Police at the Bel Air Barrack. Around 6 a.m., Ms. Wald tried to make a left from Rolling Road onto Route 136 and failed to yield the right-of-way to oncoming traffic. Her 2001 Saturn LS was T-boned by a 1999 Ford F450 landscaping truck, police said.

I have been a resident of Catonsville for almost 40 years, more than 25 in our present home. Over these years, I have witnessed numerous developments in Catonsville, both commercial and residential. Each and every one has been overwhelmingly successful. On the commercial side, there have been times when there were no vacancies. Presently, there are a few commercial vacancies, but actually that is good. New businesses will move into these spaces and improve the existing market.

Kudos to Frances Oldfield and her letter ("Signal seen as only solution to slow Rolling Road traffic," Catonsville Times, July 13). As a longtime resident on South Newburg Avenue, I absolutely concur with her assessment of the traffic problems that exist. Fancy crosswalks and other "band aids" that have been proposed at recent community meetings are not the answer. Another significant factor connected to the traffic volume is accidents. There have been quite a few over the last 20 years, some involving personal injury.