School Grounds

Baltimore police are at Windsor Hills Elementary/Middle School in Northwest Baltimore after a body of a young man was discovered on the edge of school grounds Friday morning. The school has been closed for the day. Anthony Guglielmi, a department spokesman, said the body if of a man 18 to 20 years old. It was found sometime between 7 and 7:30 a.m., before school opened for the day. Guglielmi did not know who made the discovery. The school is located in the 4100 block of Alto Road, several blocks from the heavily wooded Leakin Park, and south of Lake Ashburton.

A decade-long vision to have Baltimore become the next hub of fashion and design will begin to take shape as construction begins at the old Lebow Clothing Factory, which beginning in fall 2013, will be the home of the Baltimore Design School. City and education leaders gathered Monday to celebrate the official groundbreaking for the 120,000-square-foot building, which will begin undergoing a $25 million renovation to accommodate aspiring fashion artists in grades six through 12. The school, co-founded by Baltimore state Sen. Catherine Pugh and Fred Lazarus, president of the Maryland Institute College of Art, is designed after the Baltimore School for the Arts and will focus on nonperformance arts like fashion, graphic design and architecture.

POLICE* New Windsor: Officials of New Windsor High School told state police that four vehicles parked on the school grounds were broken into Wednesday. Bolt cutters and two citizens band radios were stolen. The bolt cutters were used to cut chains on one of the doors of the school, police said. Several windows also were broken. The loss was estimated at $930.

ON THE SITE... Governor's crime chief to depart : Kristin Mahoney, one of Gov. Martin O'Malley's longest-serving aides, is leaving her role as head of the governor's crime prevention office for a job in the U.S. justice department. She said her move is unrelated to the resignations of Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III and Sheryl Goldstein, a crime adviser to the mayor, on Thursday. Body found on elementary school grounds in city :  Windsor Hills Elementary/Middle School in Northwest Baltimore is closed Friday after a body of a young man was discovered on the edge of school grounds Friday morning.

Seeking to end a spate of playground disputes that authorities said escalated well past a typical fracas, Baltimore police officers went into an elementary school this week and took four children out in handcuffs. But news of three 9-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy shackled Thursday afternoon inside Morrell Park Elementary School — and then held for nearly 12 hours in a juvenile detention center nicknamed "Baby Booking"— has riled relatives and raised questions about whether the arrests were proper under state law. "There was no need to handcuff children," Michael Vogel, the grandfather of one of the girls who was arrested, said Friday.

The Howard County Zoning Board approved a change i zoning for a Savage school Wednesday.A Montessori school called SCI Limited Partnership wanted to change the zoning of its school grounds on Guilford Road from residential to business so it can build a quarter-acre playground.The request was approved 3-0, according to a board representative.Pub Date: 8/01/97

A 20-year-old Essex man wearing a red sweat shirt bearing a swastika was arrested yesterday after allegedly trying to start a racial incident at a Hampden middle school, according to the Baltimore police.Brian K. Wigfield was charged with two counts of assault and with trespassing on school grounds, said Agent Arlene Jenkins, a police spokeswoman. A 14-year-old youth was also charged with assault.The incident occurred about 8:20 a.m. at the Robert Poole Jr. Middle School in the 1300 block of West 36th Street after rumors of a pend-ing racial confrontation among students.

(Editor's note: Four students were shot and killed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970) As reported May 12, 1970, in The Sun: Howard County police arrested 21 students from Atholton High School yesterday after a group of students refused to give up their attempt to lower the school's American flag to half-staff. The arrests which were made at the request of the county's school superintendent, Dr. M. Thomas Goedeke, came after a lunch-hour protest against the war in Southeast Asia, according to school officials.

A 15-year-old student at Lake Clifton High School today shot himself in the leg with a gun that he apparently had smuggled into one of the school's buildings. No one else was injured.The student was taken to Union Memorial Hospital, where his condition was unknown.Police said the incident occurred about 8:45 a.m. Police could not say why the student brought the weapon to the northeast Baltimore school, nor had they recovered it immediately. Another student may have taken it off school grounds, they said.

Starting July 1, you may smoke on school grounds only if the dismissal bell has rung and you're outdoors.The Board of Education approved the policy change Wednesday, extending its no-smoking policy to all school grounds, including those that are leased.The state requires such a policy to be in place by September, but Superintendent R. Edward Shilling recommended July 1 because the current contracts with school employees end June 30. Those contracts allow staff members to smoke outdoors at any hour.

Baltimore police are at Windsor Hills Elementary/Middle School in Northwest Baltimore after a body of a young man was discovered on the edge of school grounds Friday morning. The school has been closed for the day. Anthony Guglielmi, a department spokesman, said the body if of a man 18 to 20 years old. It was found sometime between 7 and 7:30 a.m., before school opened for the day. Guglielmi did not know who made the discovery. The school is located in the 4100 block of Alto Road, several blocks from the heavily wooded Leakin Park, and south of Lake Ashburton.

Seeking to end a spate of playground disputes that authorities said escalated well past a typical fracas, Baltimore police officers went into an elementary school this week and took four children out in handcuffs. But news of three 9-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy shackled Thursday afternoon inside Morrell Park Elementary School — and then held for nearly 12 hours in a juvenile detention center nicknamed "Baby Booking"— has riled relatives and raised questions about whether the arrests were proper under state law. "There was no need to handcuff children," Michael Vogel, the grandfather of one of the girls who was arrested, said Friday.

In response to letter writer Susan Brown, I would like to offer her an invitation to visit Mays Chapel Park so she can get an idea what is involved ("Mays Chapel school would be an asset to the area," March 11). First, she will not see many school children in the area during the day, nor many school buses since it is an adult community around the park, and most people are retired. Second, she will see a 20-acre park that is busy this week because there are lacrosse games going on for school children from all over the area.

When the Mays Chapel planned unit development was approved by Baltimore County, part of the agreement was that there was to be a school built as part of the project. Since it is sorely needed now, the county should build a school that serves the area. It has been many years since this agreement, but the county hasn't fulfilled its promise. There are many children who are living in the area considered Mays Chapel. While it is true that one of the closest residential areas is a retirement community, that should not affect where a school is located.

A City College staff member has been charged with attempting to sell a gun to a school police officer, school officials said. Tyree Miles, 33, a temporary employee at the prestigious public high school, was arrested Oct. 15 after city school and Baltimore city police arranged the sale on the school's campus, according to Jonathan Brice, executive director of student support and safety for the school system. Miles, who had been hired "to make sure kids weren't in the hallway," was terminated immediately, Brice said.

C leaning out your closets can be overwhelming, yet satisfying. So imagine how it feels to clean out approximately 500 strangers' closets for a school yard sale: exhausting, yet fabulous! Well, maybe it wasn't so fabulous when I opened a trash bag full of in-line skates and kneepads that had obviously been nibbled on by a mischief of mice. But most of the stuff donated to our public high school's music foundation flea market was in decent condition. Still, it takes a special kind of volunteer to work all day unpacking and sorting other people's treasures.

Waverly Elementary School grounds will go herbicide-free this springto test whether teachers and students can find an alternative for killing weeds and grass where mowers cannot reach.The school is thesecond in Howard County to request a halt to herbicide sprays. The Thunder Hill Elementary School PTA is working with the school system'sgrounds staff on plans to maintain the grounds without herbicides this spring and during the 1992-1993 school year.Grounds workers routinely spray areas outside the reach of mowerseach spring and summer.

When the Mays Chapel planned unit development was approved by Baltimore County, part of the agreement was that there was to be a school built as part of the project. Since it is sorely needed now, the county should build a school that serves the area. It has been many years since this agreement, but the county hasn't fulfilled its promise. There are many children who are living in the area considered Mays Chapel. While it is true that one of the closest residential areas is a retirement community, that should not affect where a school is located.

Cathy Miles is talking about "the children," and seven mothers sitting in the lunchroom of the East Baltimore Community School are gazing at her intently and nodding in agreement. "Every child deserves the opportunity to succeed," Miles says on this autumn evening. "That's our commitment to our students." And the women nod again. It's community engagement night at the school, and although only seven mothers have come - down from 50 parents last month - Miles, the principal of this new school set in a redevelopment project, stands in the center of the room talking about achievement and discipline.