Telephone Pole

A North Point-area woman was killed late Tuesday when she lost control of her car in Edgemere and struck a telephone pole, Baltimore County police said.Police said Brenda Paska, 38, of the 7200 block of Waldman Ave. was westbound on Millers Island Road shortly before midnight when her car went off the road on a curve. Paska died at the scene, police said. Investigators attributed the accident to speed, alcohol and driver error.Pub Date: 1/09/97

The driver of an all-terrain vehicle was killed early yesterday when his vehicle struck a telephone pole in Mount Airy, authorities said. Wallace Edward Ritter Jr., 34, of Martinsburg, W.Va., was driving a 2002 Honda FourTrax east on Harrisville Road about 1 a.m. yesterday when he swerved off the road and traveled up an embankment before striking the pole, according to state police in Westminster. Ritter was pronounced dead at the scene a half-hour later, police said. The investigation continues.

A man was killed and his passengers injured when his vehicle slammed into a telephone pole early Sunday in eastern Baltimore County, police said. Baltimore County police said the single-vehicle crash happened around 1:30 a.m. at Earls and Ebenezer roads, in Middle River. The two passengers, also male, were taken to local hospitals with what police believe are non-life-threatening injuries. Police are withholding names until family members are notified. jhopkins@baltsun.com twitter.com/realestatewonk Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

A 19-year-old Silver Spring man was killed Monday when he leaned out of a truck traveling on a Davidsonville road to motion to friends walking in an adjacent field and the vehicle sideswiped a telephone pole, according to Anne Arundel County police. Officers were called about 5:40 p.m. Monday to Governor Bridge Road near Patuxent River Road and found David Shigeru Yamamoto Hepner of the 900 block of Devere Drive suffering from life-threatening injuries. Investigators said Hepner was the right rear passenger in a 2004 Chevy truck traveling east on Governor Bridge Road and driven by Zachary Taylor Bennett, 18, of the 3900 block of Bayside Drive in Edgewater.

A 31-year-old Pasadena man was killed Sunday when his van sideswiped one telephone pole, bounced off another and crashed into a tree in front of a church in the the 4700 block of Mountain Road.William Alan Armentrout, 31, of the 8400 block of Lockwood Road was pronounced dead at the scene.The accident was the first of two on Mountain Road in the hours after midnight Sunday, county police said.In the second crash, Lennell V. Boone, 33, of the 7900 block of Caldwell Road in Pasadena was thrown from his bicycle when it was struck by a car. He was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released.

I GOT HOME from work the other night, and there, resting on the kitchen table, was a car part. It was a piece of a side-view mirror. It should have been attached to the side of the station wagon, not resting on the kitchen table.As I stood in the kitchen holding the broken mirror, I sensed I had entered a new stage of family life. For a little more than 25 years, I have been holding the post of Protector of the Family Vehicles. Until recently those duties had primarily consisted of asking my mate, in a kind and loving way, "Dear, did you happen to 'bump' into anything lately?"

A dispute over whether one or more of the Navy's landmark communications towers on Greenbury Point east of Annapolis should be saved erupted last night at a Navy-conducted public meeting on issues surrounding the planned removal of the towers.The Navy wants to take down all 15 towers in 2000, under recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which found the transmission station was obsolete.The environmentally sensitive and archaeologically significant 231-acre peninsula is being turned over to the Naval Academy, which intends to maintain it as a wildlife refuge.

After clipping treetops and TV antennas above two homes, a single-engine plane crashed yesterday into the yard of a Chestertown home, where its impact was cushioned by a skateboard ramp.The Cessna airplane and the skateboard ramp -- where two young children had been sitting with a kitten moments earlier -- were demolished. But the pilot, Steven M. Beres, 25, of Baltimore, walked away from the wreckage with minor injuries."God was in Chestertown today, I'm telling you," said Assistant Chief Kenneth W. Neal of the town's volunteer fire department, still marveling hours later that no major injury or death resulted, and that the plane did not go up in flames.

A dispute over whether one or more of the Navy's landmark communications towers on Greenbury Point east of Annapolis should be saved erupted last night at a Navy-conducted public meeting on issues surrounding the planned removal of the towers.The Navy wants to take down all 15 towers in 2000, under recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which found the transmission station was obsolete.The environmentally sensitive and archaeologically significant 231-acre peninsula is being turned over to the Naval Academy, which intends to maintain it as a wildlife refuge.

A dispute over whether one or more of the Navy's landmark communications towers on Greenbury Point east of Annapolis should be saved erupted last night at a Navy-conducted public meeting on issues surrounding the planned removal of the towers.The Navy wants to take down all 15 towers in 2000, under recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which found the transmission station was obsolete.The environmentally sensitive and archaeologically significant 231-acre peninsula is being turned over to the Naval Academy, which intends to maintain it as a wildlife refuge.