Snoops

Two side-by-side townhouses that were once home to former Gov. William Donald Schaefer and his longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops, go on sale Thursday in Pasadena's Chestnut Hill Cove community. Schaefer has donated both properties to the Baltimore Community Foundation, which hopes to sell them and use the proceeds to help endow the William Donald Schaefer Civic Fund, the foundation announced Wednesday. The fund, created a year ago with Schaefer's leftover campaign funds, supports a program that awards neighborhood grants.

In Baltimore CitySchaefer fund-raiser postponed because of Snoops' deathA fund-raiser scheduled for Tuesday by Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer has been postponed indefinitely because of the death of his longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops.The $250-a-head breakfast was to be at the Best Western Hotel at the Baltimore Travel Plaza, 5625 O'Donnell St.Services for Mrs. Snoops will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.Man shot by police officer found at county hospitalA man who was shot in Baltimore Thursday by a police officer trying to stop a car with stolen license plates was found at a Baltimore County hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to his pelvis, city police said Friday.

In Baltimore CitySchaefer's donation helps establish Snoops scholarshipWith a donation of $350,000 from state Comptroller William Donald Schaefer, the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore recently established the Hilda Mae Snoops Memorial Scholarship Fund in honor of the longtime friend and companion of the former governor and Baltimore mayor.Snoops, who died in June, graduated from the Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing and was a health care analyst for the federal Health Care Financing Administration before serving as the official State House hostess during Schaefer's years as governor.

Hilda Mae Snoops, close companion of Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer and the state's official hostess when he was governor, died yesterday from complications of emphysema at Howard County General Hospital. She was 74.Mr. Schaefer was at Mrs. Snoops' bedside when she passed away at 1: 20 p.m."She was a great girl and a gracious hostess and fully aware of her surroundings until the end of her life," Mr. Schaefer said yesterday.Mrs. Snoops, who had lived in recent months at Harmony Hall Retirement Community in Columbia, was rarely seen in public after Mr. Schaefer's last term as governor ended in 1995.

Hilda Mae Snoops' role as the state's official hostess was celebrated by about 150 friends and relatives yesterday at ceremonies that included a police motorcade, a helicopter flyover and a touching eulogy by her best friend and longtime companion."

Schaefer fund-raiser postponed because of Snoops' deathA breakfast fund-raiser scheduled for Tuesday by Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer has been postponed indefinitely because of the death of his longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops.Services for Mrs. Snoops will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.Man shot by police officer found at county hospitalA man who was shot in Baltimore Thursday by a police officer trying to stop a car with stolen license plates was found at a Baltimore County hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to his pelvis, city police said Friday.

Perhaps you thought you could pin that pint of Haagen-Dazs you polished off while watching your sister's child on someone else. But it just may be that your every move was monitored by a video camera.Thousands of people across the country are using hidden cameras and other tools of the spy trade to snoop on family members and baby sitters.The equipment for home spying ranges from miniature video cameras hidden in stuffed animals and smoke detectors to kits that test snippets of children's hair for traces of drugs.

Gov. William Donald Schaefer and his longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops, have had their official portraits painted, thanks to friends, lobbyists and political associates whose tax-deductible contributions covered the total $40,000 price tag.Mrs. Snoops, in a brief telephone interview last night, said the portraits are to be unveiled in November, then hang together on the walls of the Governor's Mansion until January, when Mr. Schaefer's successor is inaugurated.After that, she said, the governor's portrait will be hung in the State House, the traditional location of paintings of departing chief executives, "and mine goes to the Archives."

The new River Hill High School in Clarksville came in $3.9 million over budget and money will have to be taken from other accounts to make up the difference, school board members were told yesterday.The overrun -- the first in years for the Howard County school system -- is attributed to construction delays and property acquisition that added $1.9 million in costs to the $30 million project. The state's refusal to pay $2 million of the $8.7 million it had pledged for the project also was blamed.

ANNAPOLIS -- For his entire political career, Gov. William Donald Schaefer has kept very careful track of whom he considered naughty or nice.Yesterday, presiding over his last annual Governor's Mansion holiday open house, the governor shook his head at the sentimentality that poured forth for him -- a temperamental, colorful character leaving elective office after nearly 40 years in the fray.Everyone was nice."Except one guy, he was trying to be funny, he said, 'I want to see my taxpayer dollars,'" Mr. Schaefer said, gesturing around the mansion he and Maryland's official hostess Hilda Mae Snoops have restored -- and explaining that none of it was paid for with taxes.

Two side-by-side townhouses that were once home to former Gov. William Donald Schaefer and his longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops, go on sale Thursday in Pasadena's Chestnut Hill Cove community. Schaefer has donated both properties to the Baltimore Community Foundation, which hopes to sell them and use the proceeds to help endow the William Donald Schaefer Civic Fund, the foundation announced Wednesday. The fund, created a year ago with Schaefer's leftover campaign funds, supports a program that awards neighborhood grants.

Famous Marylanders have had streets, airports and libraries named for them. Hilda Mae Snoops has a ... crane. The port of Baltimore posthumously named one of the machines that lifts big metal containers on and off ships for Snoops during a dockside ceremony yesterday. The naming of the crane for the late, longtime companion of Comptroller and former Gov. William Donald Schaefer drew several state officials, including Schaefer, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and First Lady Kendel Ehrlich. "Hilda Mae was a big proponent of the port," Schaefer said after climbing onto a pier in the late-morning sunshine from the state tour boat where the ceremony was held.

On Sept. 4, 1994, then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer dedicated a fountain to his longtime companion and official hostess, Hilda Mae Snoops, a few months before leaving office in Annapolis. The elaborate 12-foot-high bronze fountain was the most notable exterior change initiated by Snoops during her eight-year residence at Government House, and it remains a part of the mansions landscape on the northwest quadrant of the grounds. The $170,000 fountain, which can be seen in the background of an official portrait of Snoops, incorporates Maryland wildlife and agricultural symbols, such as blue crabs, oysters, terrapins, rockfish, waterfowl, white oak leaves, corn and wheat.

On July 3, 2005, CHARLES ALLEN SNOOPS of Arizona, formerly of Maryland. Husband of Maria H. Snoops. Also survived by daughters Dorothy Levi, Caroline Snoops, sons and daughters-in-law Lawrence Sr. and Karen, Craig and Bernadette and Phillip and Tracy. Also survived by sister F. "Gerry" Hopwood, 10 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Brother of the late Jeanne Roppelt and Lillian "Peck" Moxley. Funeral Services will be held Saturday, July 9, 11:30 A.M. at the Jeffrey N. Zumbrun Funeral Home & Monument Company, 6028 Sykesville Road, Eldersburg, MD. Interment in Lake View Memorial Park with military honors.

On July 3, 2005, CHARLES ALLEN SNOOPS of Arizona, formerly of Maryland. Husband of Maria H. Snoops. Also survived by daughters Dorothy Levi, Caroline Snoops, sons and daughters-in-law Lawrence Sr. and Karen, Craig and Bernadette and Phillip and Tracy. Also survived by sister F. "Gerry" Hopwood, 10 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Brother of the late Jeanne Roppelt and Lillian "Peck" Moxley.Funeral Services will be held Saturday, July 9, 11:30 A.M. at the Jeffrey N. Zumbrun Funeral Home & Monument Company, 6028 Sykesville Road, Eldersburg, MD. Interment in Lake View Memorial Park with military honors.

William Donald Schaefer achieved a long-sought vindication yesterday as his beloved fountain - turned off by former Gov. Parris N. Glendening - gushed again. In an emotional celebration at Government House, the comptroller watched as Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s 3-year-old son, Drew, worked the pump that restored the water to the ornate artwork that is the legacy of Schaefer's late companion, Hilda Mae Snoops. Drew pumped and pumped until water began to drip from the fountain's lower basin and onto the sculpted symbols of Maryland's bounty.

Comptroller William Donald Schaefer's feud with Gov. Parris N. Glendening turned personal yesterday as the former governor denounced his successor for turning off an ornate fountain installed at Government House by Schaefer's longtime companion, the late Hilda Mae Snoops. Appearing with Glendening at a meeting of the Board of Public Works, Schaefer unloaded his frustrations with the governor on a long list of issues. But he saved his greatest vehemence for Glendening's decision in May to cut off water to the fountain -- one of the best-known symbols of the Schaefer era in Annapolis.

In Baltimore CitySchaefer's donation helps establish Snoops scholarshipWith a donation of $350,000 from state Comptroller William Donald Schaefer, the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore recently established the Hilda Mae Snoops Memorial Scholarship Fund in honor of the longtime friend and companion of the former governor and Baltimore mayor.Snoops, who died in June, graduated from the Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing and was a health care analyst for the federal Health Care Financing Administration before serving as the official State House hostess during Schaefer's years as governor.

Hilda Mae Snoops' role as the state's official hostess was celebrated by about 150 friends and relatives yesterday at ceremonies that included a police motorcade, a helicopter flyover and a touching eulogy by her best friend and longtime companion."

In Baltimore CitySchaefer fund-raiser postponed because of Snoops' deathA fund-raiser scheduled for Tuesday by Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer has been postponed indefinitely because of the death of his longtime companion, Hilda Mae Snoops.The $250-a-head breakfast was to be at the Best Western Hotel at the Baltimore Travel Plaza, 5625 O'Donnell St.Services for Mrs. Snoops will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.Man shot by police officer found at county hospitalA man who was shot in Baltimore Thursday by a police officer trying to stop a car with stolen license plates was found at a Baltimore County hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to his pelvis, city police said Friday.