Stukes

The Sixth District extends from Curtis Bay to Edmondson Village. It includes some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. Alienation runs so deep that people in Brooklyn make no secret of their desire to secede and join Anne Arundel County.A district like this needs quality representation. Alas, this Southwest Baltimore district was long known as the "Silent Sixth" because its councilmen seldom opened their mouths.This year's election gives residents of the Sixth a chance to upgrade their representation.

Years ago, around town, any mention of the Pittsburgh Steelers would have been met with a shrug. Between 1958, when the Colts won their first NFL championship, and 1968, when they won their third, Baltimore played the Steelers just once. It was a game that Charlie Stukes won't forget. A tall and physical cornerback from Maryland State (now UMES), Stukes starred in a 41-7 rout of Pittsburgh in 1968, returning an interception 60 yards for a touchdown. The Colts swiped three passes that day and ran them all back for TDs. Stukes' steal, off Steelers quarterback Dick Shiner (Maryland)

Some of the nation's finest Division I college prospects spent this summer on the football camp circuit schmoozing with college recruiters.Not McDonogh senior Dwayne Stukes."

Has Del. Melvin Stukes ever had any bones broken, like the woman who was brutally beaten on the No. 27 bus? He didn't let on. But the former Baltimore city councilman let it be known that he'd had his heart broken. Which is why he could relate to Sarah Kreager's attackers. "Please tell me what you would do if someone SPAT on you," Stukes wrote in an e-mail. "In a heat[ed] exchange of words. If you don't think words can hurt you then I am sure you have never been in love. Words and [names]

Sixth District Councilman Melvin L. Stukes introduced a resolution last night calling for establishment of a task force to find funding to relocate residents of two tiny south side neighborhoods -- Fairfield and the Heights -- that sit in the shadow of chemical and oil plants.Stukes represents both neighborhoods, which are home to about 30 people. The neighborhoods had been included in a residents' proposal for a government and industry-financed buyout of nearby Wagner's Point and its 270 residents.

THE MISCHIEF started when 6th District Councilman Melvin Stukes attended the annual City-Poly football classic in November. He had his daughter with him, 13-year-old Marian Stukes, a student at Francis Scott Key Middle School. "I saw a lot of girls screaming and hollering and talking about the stats and getting really excited," Marian told members of the Baltimore City Council's education committee Wednesday evening. Marian's dad is the committee chairman and had decided to tackle the issue of whether city public schools should field football teams for girls.

A Baltimore councilman who was swindled out of $20 after giving two women a ride is pursuing a police investigation to find the culprits, saying they "disrespected my office and the people who elected me."Melvin L. Stukes, a 6th District Democrat, said the women told him they would pay him $4 for a ride home Sunday afternoon but told him they needed to get change first. He gave them $20 to change, and the two took off and "never returned," a police report filed Monday says."I let my guard down, and I got had," Stukes said Tuesday.

City Councilman Melvin L. Stukes wasn't aware of the extent of the lack of funding for Baltimore public high school athletics until the issue hit home. Stukes' daughter, a student at Edmondson High School, complained to him about the heat and sweat of gym class. It seemed to him it was nothing that a shower couldn't solve. But when he visited the West Baltimore school, he found out that showers wouldn't help - because they didn't exist. "I was shocked when I first found out," Stukes said.

When analyzing fifth-ranked McDonogh's 31-15 win yesterday over host Mount St. Joseph, there's really no need to look at the stat sheet.The only numbers you will need to know are 17 and 126.The former is the uniform number of McDonogh speedster Dwayne Stukes. The latter is how many yards the 5-foot-11 junior moved the ball on two consecutive plays, turning a close game into a rout.At his own 46 with six seconds left in the first half, Stukes ran a fly pattern down the left sideline, blew past single coverage, caught a long floater from quarterback Bobby Sabelhaus and won a race to the end zone to make it 17-7 as the half expired.

Every night Levi Stukes walks on the court for the University of Georgia, he finds himself in a perfect situation. The 6-foot-1 freshman guard from Randallstown High has the luxury of starting with four seniors in the basketball tradition-rich Southeastern Conference. "They [seniors] can tell me to slow down a little or don't get down," said Stukes said from Athens, Ga., yesterday as the Bulldogs prepared to head to Atlanta for the SEC tournament. "I believe we can win this tournament if we all play the way we're capable of."

On November 4, 2007, LUCILLE STUKES HALL beloved mother of Mary A. Thompson and Bonita D. Thomas. She is also survived by two grandchildren, a devoted cousin and a host of other loving relatives and friends. On today, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 4-8 P.M. On Thursday, Mrs. Hall will lie in state at Ebenezer AME Church, 20 W. Montgomery Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11 A.m., with services to follow.

Midway through a 90-minute meeting yesterday, Lottie Carroll, a tenant of a West Baltimore housing development, heard a list of concessions from the building's management that she never thought possible. The community and laundry room at the Harvey Johnson Towers will remain open three extra hours until 11 p.m. Trash collection will be Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, a switch from Tuesday and Thursday. The security system is being upgraded to include all-night monitoring, and a new company could begin rodent abatement as early as next week.

WHY DO ALL these things have to happen around the same time? It's getting so a columnist would have to write seven days a week to keep up with all this stuff. Since that's not how we operate around here, I'll have to touch on several topics in the same column. So here goes. A bill to permit slot machines in Maryland once again failed to pass in the legislature, and I have a pretty good idea as to why. No, it's not because those Democrats opposed to slots do so on ethical grounds. They know better than that.

Kim Rekart is ready to do what few college athletes can bring themselves to do these days. The former Mount Hebron standout will walk away from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., with one year of eligibility remaining as a top Division II soccer goalkeeper. "It's time to move on," said Rekart, who has a 3.86 grade-point average and will graduate in May with a computer information systems/finance double major. "I'm done with my undergraduate work. I obviously gave what was required of me [to the soccer program]

Every night Levi Stukes walks on the court for the University of Georgia, he finds himself in a perfect situation. The 6-foot-1 freshman guard from Randallstown High has the luxury of starting with four seniors in the basketball tradition-rich Southeastern Conference. "They [seniors] can tell me to slow down a little or don't get down," said Stukes said from Athens, Ga., yesterday as the Bulldogs prepared to head to Atlanta for the SEC tournament. "I believe we can win this tournament if we all play the way we're capable of."

Kelsen LaBerge could write a book about patience, perseverance and the agony of defeat. They were all a major part of her swimming life for 18 years, especially the past four years at Ohio Northern University. LaBerge (Towson) spent four years chasing what seemed like an impossible dream of a first-place finish in an individual event. So why would anything change in the final event in the final meet of her collegiate career? The big breakthrough came in the most dramatic of fashions at the Ohio Athletic Conference swimming championships at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland last month.

When it comes to the game of politics, Melvin L. Stukes, a candidate for City Council in South Baltimore's 6th District, likes a narrow playing field.But the field Stukes sees this year contains 14 candidates for the three seats from the 6th. And seven of the 14 candidates are black, Stukes among them.Stukes finished fourth in the 1987 election and he rates his chances as the best to become the first black elected to the 6th.The large field of black candidates, Stukes contends, will split the black vote and reduce his chances.

Randallstown junior guard Levi Stukes is quite confident these days. So confident, in fact, he had two promises for top-ranked Douglass after the third-ranked Rams' 98-68 rout of Northwestern in a 3A North Regional quarterfinal last night in Randallstown. "Guaranteed we're going to beat them and score 100," Stukes said. Last night, at least, both Stukes and his Randallstown teammates looked as though they were capable of backing up his claim. In just three quarters, Stukes scored a game-high 31 points on 10-for-20 shooting from the field and 9-for-9 from the line, on top of seven rebounds, four assists, four steals and a blocked shot.

WELL, THAT was some swell showdown yesterday at City College. Pay attention, children: This is how the grownups look after your lives. Cassandra Jones, chief academic officer for the city's schools, and Melvin Stukes, chairman of the City Council's education committee, wanted to confront City Principal Joseph Wilson about his job, Wilson says. But Jones didn't show up -- and then denied she was supposed to. And Stukes, insulted that the meeting wasn't stacked the way he'd intended, took a powder a few minutes after he arrived -- and then sheepishly came back an hour later, when most of the day's important work was done, and gave a long speech telling everybody what a swell fellow he is. "I do not participate in witch hunts," Stukes then announced.