Route 30

Hampstead has announced that Shiloh Road east of Route 30 and west of Black Rock Road might be limited to single-lane travel from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. this week. The road might be closed tomorrow and Friday. A detour route will be posted if it is closed. Local residents are advised to use East Mott Avenue between Route 30 and Black Rock Road as an alternate route. The contractor, L.R. Hollman, will be responsible for traffic control. Information: 410-239-7408. Market to offer `Peter Pan' and Latin music show Spring Meadow Farms produce market is featuring multiethnic performing arts programs this summer for families.

United Methodist churches to present outdoor concert today Carroll County United Methodist churches will sponsor an outdoor concert and worship service at 3:30 p.m. today at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster. The public is invited to bring picnic lunches and lawn chairs to this afternoon of music and fellowship. Musical groups scheduled to perform include Race to Grace, a Christian rock group; Union Street Vocal Ensemble, a gospel choir; and bluegrass band the Instruments.

State highway officials asked the Carroll commissioners yesterday to donate a 5.9-acre parcel in Hampstead to protect endangered bog turtles, a necessary step for the long-planned Route 30 bypass to proceed. The plan has one snag: The parcel includes a deteriorating driveway and a small bridge that Dana Hinds uses to get to her home on Sterling Court, and the state has offered no written assurances that she would be able to maintain the narrow gravel strip. The State Highway Administration would like to own the parcel because it lies within a 72-acre bog turtle habitat that must be protected before the agency can proceed with construction of a Route 30 bypass around Hampstead.

Hampstead residents will have a second opportunity tonight to register their distress over a planned extension of Boxwood Drive that many say would turn the residential street into a high-speed throughway. As part of a general public hearing on Hampstead's reworked comprehensive plan, residents will plead their case to a panel of county and town officials. The Boxwood extension, an approved and funded project, hadn't caused many ripples in Hampstead before a Town Council meeting Feb. 12, when about 30 residents showed up with stories of how their children would be in danger traversing the extended road.

A 79-year-old Carroll County woman died yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore from injuries she sustained in a three-vehicle accident Jan. 9 on Route 30 near Manchester, state police said. According to police, Julia Ann Longhenry of the 2300 block of Cape Horn Road, near Manchester, was waiting to make a left turn from northbound Route 30 onto Cape Horn Road, when her 1997 Chevrolet Lumina was struck from behind by a 1984 Dodge van, police said. The van was driven by Charles Eugene Rill, 57, of the 400 block of Maple Grove Road, Manchester.

Icy roads throughout Carroll County caused at least 50 traffic accidents yesterday, including one fatality, doubled commute times, and made hundreds of students late for school. Slick conditions snarled traffic for several hours on the county's major road, particularly in South Carroll, according to state and municipal police. Gary P. Haines, 47, of Eldersburg was killed when he was hit by a skidding car as he directed traffic in his neighborhood, police said. Hundreds of Carroll County students arrived late to school yesterday morning because of slippery, clogged roads and accidents, interim Schools Superintendent Charles I. Ecker said.

Icy roads throughout Carroll County yesterday caused at least 50 traffic accidents, including one fatality, doubled commute times, and made hundreds of students late for school. Slick conditions snarled traffic for several hours on the county's major road, particularly in South Carroll, according to state and municipal police. Gary P. Haines, 47, of Eldersburg was killed when he was hit by a skidding car as he directed traffic in his neighborhood, police said. Hundreds of Carroll County students arrived late to school yesterday morning because of slippery, clogged roads and accidents, interim Schools Superintendent Charles I. Ecker said.

The long-awaited Hampstead bypass - a $35 million road to ease traffic congestion on Route 30 - tops the list of eight highway projects the Carroll commissioners will discuss with state transportation officials tomorrow. County officials plan to urge the Maryland Department of Transportation to start building the Hampstead bypass, which has been planned since 1960. The bypass would divert traffic, much of it trucks and tractor-trailers, from Hampstead's Main Street, Route 30. "We know the state is trying to wrap up engineering and land acquisition," said Jeanne Joiner, county director of planning.

The long-awaited Hampstead bypass - a $35 million road to ease traffic congestion on Route 30 - tops the list of eight highway projects the Carroll commissioners will discuss with state transportation officials tomorrow. County officials plan to urge the Maryland Department of Transportation to start building the Hampstead bypass, which has been planned since 1960. The bypass would divert traffic, much of it trucks and tractor-trailers, from Hampstead's Main Street, Route 30. The bypass would run roughly parallel to Route 30 from near Wolf Hill Drive to Brodbeck Road.

The bog turtle is no friend to Lee Walsh. Because of concerns that a proposed Route 30 bypass around Hampstead would harm the endangered turtle's habitat, the State Highway Administration has shifted the proposed route to the west, deep into Walsh's 115-acre cattle farm. Walsh estimated he would lose about 50 acres if the bypass takes this planned course and that it would be a grave blow to his business, he said. "I'd probably be done." He figures the best he can hope for now is a good deal on his land from the state.