Taneytown

If you bought a lottery ticket for the Powerball drawing on Saturday in Dundalk or Taneytown, you might be $1 million richer. The Maryland Lottery announced Monday that two second-tier Powerball tickets worth $1 million were bought in the state - one at the Giant on Merritt Boulevard in Dundalk and one at the Thunderhead Bowl and Grill on Old Taneytown Road in Taneytown. Neither winner has come forward yet. The winners have 182 days to claim their prizes, the lottery said. Lottery officials said nearly 26,000 people in Maryland won $4 or more through Saturday's drawing, and urged those who had purchased tickets to check to see if they are winners.

The State Highway Administration is warning motorists to expect lane closures on Md. Route 194 (Frederick Street/York Street) in Taneytown beginning Monday as crews patch and resurface the one mile of Route 194 in the city limits. Lane closures will occur between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. SHA will use flagging crews, signs, cones and barrels to guide motorists through the work zone. The project will begin Monday and will be complete in late May, weather permitting.

A Taneytown man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court to robbing and beating a fisherman with a brick in April.Lawrence R. Horner III, 20, received a 20-year sentence for robbery with a deadly weapon and a consecutive 10-year zTC sentence for assault with intent to maim. All but 15 years were suspended. He also received a five-year concurrent sentence for battery and a 10-year concurrent sentence for conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

If you bought a lottery ticket for the Powerball drawing on Saturday in Dundalk or Taneytown, you might be $1 million richer. The Maryland Lottery announced Monday that two second-tier Powerball tickets worth $1 million were bought in the state - one at the Giant on Merritt Boulevard in Dundalk and one at the Thunderhead Bowl and Grill on Old Taneytown Road in Taneytown. Neither winner has come forward yet. The winners have 182 days to claim their prizes, the lottery said. Lottery officials said nearly 26,000 people in Maryland won $4 or more through Saturday's drawing, and urged those who had purchased tickets to check to see if they are winners.

A Taneytown couple whose historic mansion became a lead-dust nightmare want a court order allowing them to keep a mobile home on the property while they continue trying to fix the problem.Trevanion had been vacant for several years, and its price had dropped from almost $1 million to about $350,000, when Jane E. and David Williams Jr. moved in in January 1995.The couple knew the nearly 200-year-old, 27-room house in the 1800 block of Trevanion Road would need a lot of work, Jane Williams said, but they had no idea of the problems with lead paint they would encounter.

At a time in life when retired couples often consider downsizing with the goal of uncomplicating their lives, Jean and George Smorse took a different path. In March 2000, the couple moved to Taneytown in northern Carroll County, where they purchased a home in the development of Meadowbrook. The builder allowed George Smorse, a 76-year old retired electrician and avid woodworker, to customize several interior elements of the two-story Colonial-style home while it was under construction.

FIRE* Taneytown: Taneytown, Union Bridge and Harney responded to a house fire on Crouse Mill Road at 3:51 p.m. Monday. Units were out for 30 minutes.

The State Highway Administration is warning motorists to expect lane closures on Md. Route 194 (Frederick Street/York Street) in Taneytown beginning Monday as crews patch and resurface the one mile of Route 194 in the city limits. Lane closures will occur between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. SHA will use flagging crews, signs, cones and barrels to guide motorists through the work zone. The project will begin Monday and will be complete in late May, weather permitting.

FIRE Taneytown: Engines from the Taneytown station responded for a vehicle fire on East Baltimore Street at 4:28 p.m. Saturday. They were out for 12 minutes.

Henry Reindollar Jr., Henry Heine Jr. and George Dodson Sr. (seekingthe mayoral seat) and Jacqueline J. Polk and W. Robert Flickinger (running unopposed for council) were asked these four questions:* What do you view as the city's three most immediate needs?* Considering the anticipated growth in Taneytown, how could the city assure adequate services for its residents (i.e.: water, roads, fire and emergency services, public facilities)?* Do you believe the county and towns can meet the 1994 mandate for 15 percent recycling?

James Wilmer "Bill" Bowles Jr., retired CEO of Evapco Inc., died Dec. 28 of lung cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 66. Born and raised in Leonardtown, Mr. Bowles was a 1966 graduate of St. Mary's Ryken High School and earned a degree in history from St. Mary's College of Maryland. Mr. Bowles went to work in 1972 for Baltimore Air Coil, a cooling system manufacturer, where he rose to vice president. In 1990, he joined Evapco Inc., the Taneytown manufacturer of industrial and commercial cooling systems, where he was CEO until his 2004 retirement.

A grand jury in Carroll County has indicted a sex offender registered in Maryland and Pennsylvania on 20 counts of sexual offenses involving minors, according to a statement issued by the Maryland State's Attorney's Office. The grand jury registered the indictment against David Michael Blaker, a 31-year-old Taneytown resident currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania. The move is the culmination of a six-month investigation by the Carroll County Advocacy and Investigation Center, a division of the State's Attorney's Office.

Carroll Hospital Center and Carroll Hospice announced this week that the Taneytown-based Kahlert Foundation has donated $5 million to the "Campaign to Cure & Comfort, Always," a $22 million community fundraising initiative. This is the first multi-million dollar gift the hospital has received in its 50-year history. "This gift will impact thousands of people in our community and will continue to shape the future of quality health care in Carroll County," said John Sernulka, Carroll Hospital Center's president and CEO. Greg Kahlert, president of the Kahlert Foundation, said he was motivated by the campaign's focuses on hospice and cancer care.

The Taneytown History Museum is featuring two small, but vivid, exhibits that focus on very different aspects of north Carroll County history: Its brush with the Civil War, and its 200-year heritage of dairy farming. The exhibit "Got Milk: A Brief History of Carroll County Dairy Farming, 1800-1930" takes up only one room in the museum on East Baltimore Street, yet offers a glimpse into dairy farming's economic and cultural importance in Carroll during earlier times. The displays are comprised of an eclectic assortment of photographs, paintings and articles describing several diary industry tools that were invented in Carroll County and marketed nationally.

MANCHESTER - State Sen. Joe Getty this week asked the Carroll County Board of Education to adopt a north county zone for implementation of school delays - similar to the "Hereford Zone" that currently operates in Baltimore County. In a letter sent on Jan. 24 to Board President Jennifer Seidel, Getty cited hazardous road conditions that confronted students, parents and school bus drivers on Jan. 23 in the Taneytown, Manchester and Hampstead communities as an example that demonstrates the need for such a zone.

Sometimes politics in Carroll County resemble Kabuki Theater. Everyone knows the plot, and the only matter of interest is the pronunciation of the expected script and the stylized movements of the actors. Such is the current play entitled "Drafting a New Commissioner District Map. " You may remember the last performance a few years ago, in which three Democrats on the redistricting committee and one representative of the county voted for one particular option - a sensible map with compact districts - but the delegation to Annapolis (all Republicans of course)

FIRE* Uniontown: A transformer fire on Uniontown Road at 5:21 p.m. Wednesday brought firefighters from the New Windsor station, who remained at the scene for 32 minutes.

The Taneytown City Council will contribute $5,000 toward a feasibility study for the downtown revitalization project.The City Council voted Wednesday during a special meeting to add the money to a $10,000 state grant that Taneytown recently received from the Maryland Small Cities Community Block Grant Program, a division of the state Department of Housing and Community Development.The project is intended to renovate the "town square" area at East Baltimore Street and Francis Scott Key Highway.

Taneytown's ambitious salute to the victims and survivors of 9/11, held Sept. 11, on the 10 anniversary of the terror attacks, stretched from mid-afternoon until well after sunset with a program of speakers, musical presentations and community spirit. The ceremonies and patriotic celebrations, planned and presented by American Legion Hesson-Snider Post 120, culminated with the Legion's dedication of a new 9/11 memorial in Taneytown Memorial Park, where the event was held. There were tears and more than a few somber moments, yet the event also had the old-fashioned, small-town flavor of a street fair.

Growing up in Carroll County, Libby Cain always wanted to be an artist. She eventually became a school teacher, but after a long educational career ended, she pursued her childhood passion. And during the next five weeks, the fruits of her labor will be on display in her hometown of Taneytown. Cain is one of four artists whose work will be featured at an upcoming Taneytown History Museum exhibit, which opens Saturday. Sept. 10 and runs through Oct. 15. The actual museum site, at 24 E. Baltimore St,, is closed because of Taneytown's ongoing streetscape project, so the artists' work will be shown at the Taneytown branch of New Windsor State Bank, 222 E. Baltimore St., Taneytown.