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The Rev. & Mrs. Philip J. Lambooy and Mr. & Mrs. Bremen Trail would like to announce the marriage of their children Joanna K. Lambooy & Matthew R. Trail. The wedding took place at Liberty Church in Owings Mills on December 23, 2006. The couple will reside in Westminster, MD.

Skills park to open Grand opening of the Rockburn Skills Park, targeted to mountain bikers and trail runners, at Rockburn Branch Park takes place at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 2. Features within the park include a pump track, flow trail, descending trail, climbing trail and an uphill return trail. The 450-acre Rockburn Branch Park includes 7.4 miles of trails, woodlands, marshes and stream valleys, several multipurpose athletic fields, baseball diamonds, tennis and basketball courts, two playgrounds, an 18-hole disc golf course and picnic pavilions.

The growing national trend toward converting old railroad beds into recreational trails for bikers, hikers, bird-watchers and flora-lovers offers no better examples than the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail in Anne Arundel County and the Northern Central Railroad Trail in neighboring Baltimore County.More than fun places to kill a few hours, these "linear parks" are cherished by the hundreds of thousands of people who travel through them each year.On a sunny summer Saturday or Sunday in Baltimore County, cars with bikes strapped to their roofs drive toward the Northern Central trail in such numbers that you'd think the Tour de France had relocated there.

The 3,000-mile water and land trail network created to relive the Chesapeake Bay's 17th century exploration by English colonists is about to grow still larger. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis are slated to visit Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis this afternoon to celebrate the addition of four new river river trails to the existing Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail .  The federal officials are to be joined by Gov.Martin O'Malley, local officials, Native American tribal leaders and conservation group representatives.

It was encouraging to read that a group of residents in Eldersburg and Sykesville were able to attract county officials and Jeff Degitz, the director of the county's Department of Recreation and Parks, to form a group to decide future trails in the South Carroll area. It appears this group, with support of county resources, will develop a feasibility study to obtain grant funding for trails that will serve residents in the local area. This will allow many of the unique destinations along the routes 26 and 32 corridors to be tied together, allowing citizens a healthy, safe and cost-saving alternative to travel by auto.

On May 5, 2004; ARTIE LEE TRAIL; beloved brother of Wilma Trail, John Trail, Fannie Cousins, and Harold, Joyce, Chiquita, Jeanie and Becky Trail. Also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4107 Wilkens Avenue on Thursday and Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM. Services will be held Saturday at 11 AM at the funeral home. Internment Mt. Olive Cemetery.

A Mass of Christian burial for J. Kenneth Trail, a retired Salisbury businessman, will be offered at 2 p.m. tomorrow at St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church on Riverside Drive in Salisbury.Mr. Trail, 70, died yesterday at his home in Salisbury after a long bout with heart disease.He retired in 1982 as a sheet metal contractor, a career that had spanned 50 years, first in the Cockeysville area and then in Salisbury, where he moved in the early 1970s.Born in Baltimore, Mr. Trail served in the Marine Corps in Okinawa during World War II, where he was injured and received a Purple Heart.

The growing national trend toward converting old railroad beds into recreational trails for bikers, hikers, bird-watchers and flora-lovers offers no better examples than the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail in Anne Arundel County and the Northern Central Railroad Trail in neighboring Baltimore County.More than fun places to kill a few hours, these "linear parks" are cherished by the hundreds of thousands of people who travelthem annually.On a sunny summer Saturday or Sunday in Baltimore County, cars with bikes strapped to their roofs drive toward the Northern Central trail in such numbers that you'd think the Tour de France had relocated there.

A new hiker-biker trail with access through the playground of Millersville Elementary School could put children in danger, nearby residents fear."It's difficult enough to keep strangers off school grounds as it is now," said Darlene Huntsman, who has two children attending school there."

Sometimes the score on the North Central Railroad Trail is Marvin 1, beavers 0. Sometimes, it's Marvin 0, beavers 1.The only sure thing is the contest, a daily event in which bicyclist meets beavers near the 17-mile marker. The marker is between Bentley Springs and Freeland in upper Baltimore County, on the northern section of the 21-mile trail.Marvin Yaker says he is not anti-beaver. The 65-year-old retired Baltimore housing official would be willing to live and let dam, if the beavers hadn't dammed Bee Tree Run, causing water to seep onto the trail.

UMBC had gone more than a month without trailing in the first quarter, but that all changed Saturday night as the Retrievers found themselves in a 5-1 hole en route to a 10-8 loss to America East rival Stony Brook. The four-goal deficit in the first quarter compounded by six turnovers impacted UMBC (4-6 overall and 2-1 in the conference), which hadn't trailed in the first since March 10 against Johns Hopkins. “I think we just came out flat and turned the ball over six times in the first quarter, and that allowed Stony Brook, who I thought was ready to play, an opportunity to build a lead on us,” coach Don Zimmerman said Monday.

Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway 12th annual River Sweep, a volunteer shoreline and roadside clean-up in honor of Earth Day, will take place in Havre de Grace, Perryville, Port Deposit and on Garrett Island on Saturday April 21. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with the cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine. Volunteers will meet at 8:30 in one of the five locations for registration: Tydings Park, Havre de Grace; Community Park or the boat launch on River Road in Perryville; or Marina Park or Octoraro Creek in Port Deposit.

In opening the season with nine consecutive victories, No. 8 Loyola had accomplished many things, but had avoided trailing in the fourth quarter. That changed Saturday when No. 19 Fairfield embarked on a five-goal spurt to assume a 6-4 advantage 3:01 into the final period. But the Greyhounds answered eight seconds later with a Davis Butts-to-J.P. Dalton goal off the faceoff, and that kick-started a four-goal run to propel them to their first 10-0 season since 1999. While preferring to avoid falling behind in the final 15 minutes of regulation, coach Charley Toomey appreciated the determination that the players showed against the Stags.

William Smith has been a member at the Towson Family Center Y since he moved to the area in 1997.There's no doubt in his mind that the facility - built in the 1950s - needs to be replaced. It's the location and size of the proposed new building that has Smith and several of his neighbors concerned. "I don't think it is a good site for the building," Smith said of plans to build the new Towson Y along the northern boundary of the center's property. "We're not interested in stopping the building.

Catonsville Rails To Trails (CRTT) has been busy this fall and winter, developing the Short Line Trail. We are a half-mile ahead of schedule, due to the many volunteers who help us week after week. Special thanks to volunteers Kit Valentine and Sheldon Smith, who are extraordinary leaders in this grass roots, hands-on effort. CRTT is not all about work; we do some fun things like free bike rides. On Saturday, March 24, Charlie Murphy has organized a spring bike ride to Dickeyville and back.

Baltimore and other Maryland localities would receive millions of dollars in federal money for bicycle trails, scenic pull-offs and street beautification projects as part of a huge, bipartisan transportation bill expected to pass in the U.S. Senate as early as Tuesday. The provision to protect funding for trails and other "transportation enhancements," as the projects are known, was threatened in an earlier version of the $109 billion highway bill. Now the measure includes the funding and would give local leaders more control over how to use the money, which could bring speedier improvements to the Herring Run and Jones Falls trails in Baltimore.

Piney Orchard's developers are giving Anne Arundel County 4.1 miles of old railroad right of way to use for a new bike trail, said a company spokesman."

A nonprofit group seeking to create a heritage trail network along a 40-mile stretch of the Susquehanna River in Harford and Cecil counties has received a federal grant intended to help get the project started. The $80,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation will be used by the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Inc. to design a plan for biking and hiking trails along improved roads, create better shoreline access for anglers, and post signs highlighting the culture, history, and environmental aspects of the area.

"Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" Developer: Big Huge Games/38 Studios Platform: Xbox 360/PS3/PC Score: 8/10 “Kingoms of Amalur: Reckoning” is not “Skyrim,” and that is completely OK. It seems unfair to review such an ambitious game solely through the lens of a title that came out three months earlier in the same genre. Even if said title was the best game released in 2011, if not ever . It would be too easy to line them up side-by-side and see how “Kingdoms” stacks up against a game it wasn't trying to directly challenge in the first place.  “Kingdoms” is less about the “open world” and more about the “open experience.” Make no mistake, while the fictional realm of Amalur is vast and varied, there are invisible walls in in the world of “Kingdoms.” Whereas a very sandbox-heavy open world title might require the player to be a “self starter” to get the full experience, “Kingdoms” falls closer to the end of the gameplay spectrum that continualy nudges you to building your player's history even if it's not at all a linear path to a dramatic end. To make one final comparison to “Skyrim” for those intent on equating the experience, “Skyrim” is a big ball of clay and “Kingdoms” is one of the biggest Lego sets money can buy. Some have also unfavorably compared it to a single player version of “World of Warcraft,” but for many, including this reviewer, that was the most pleasurable...

More trees have been cut down in the Inner Harbor - for bikers and hikers this time, not race car fans. A contractor removed 13 trees last week on Light Street by the  Harborplace pavilion, according to Adrienne Barnes, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Transportation.  They had to go, Barnes said, to make way for the final leg of the Jones Falls trail, which tracks the stream of the same name from Robert E. Lee Park through the...