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After the last ribbons are handed out at the Carroll County 4-H/FFA Fair, some serious money starts changing hands when county bigwigs open their checkbooks to bid two to four times the market value on steers, lambs, hogs and other animals that fetch about $179,000 a year.Some of the money raised in the livestock auctions that are the culmination of the fair is donated to the fair or scholarship funds, but most 4-H members keep at least enough to cover feed costs, which can easily reach $1,000, and to build their savings for college.

After the last ribbons are handed out at the Carroll County 4-H/FFA Fair, some serious money starts changing hands when county bigwigs open their checkbooks to bid two to four times the market value on steers, lambs, hogs and other animals that fetch about $179,000 a year.Some of the money raised in the livestock auctions that are the culmination of the fair is donated to the fair or scholarship funds, but most 4-H members keep at least enough to cover feed costs, which can easily reach $1,000, and to build their savings for college.

After leading the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce for 27 years, Helen Utz says the time has come to make a change. She plans to kick off the new year in a new occupation -- college student.The 64-year-old Smallwood resident announced yesterday that she will retire Dec. 31."I plan to get my associate's degree at Carroll Community College," said Utz, the widow of Harrison Utz, former judge of the Orphans' Court. "I'm going back to school for my own fun. I have no plans to start a new career."

Within a month, Patterson Park's Utz Twardowicz Field should have an underground irrigation system and a new scoreboard. By next fall, a press box is scheduled to be installed, as well as additional bleachers and new signs directing traffic to the field.The renovations are being paid for by a $100,000 grant from the NFL as part of its program to promote youth football in the league's cities.Mary Roby, a community organizer with the South East Community Organization, said SECO and the Friends of Patterson Park organization applied jointly last summer at the suggestion of the United Way of Central Maryland.

The state fire marshal's office is investigating the cause of a three-alarm fire that destroyed a large barn near Lineboro yesterday.The fire was discovered by the owners, Robert Boyd and Karen Wooden of Stoney Lane, shortly before noon.By the time firefighters arrived, the two-story barn was ablaze, and a second alarm was called. The fire eventually went to three alarms.A house about 50 feet from the burning barn suffered minor damage to the vinyl siding, said Lineboro Fire Chief Robert Utz.Ten companies, including four from southern Pennsylvania, responded.

A Millers teen-ager was injured when the car he was driving ran off Falls Road late Monday in northeast Carroll County.State police said the 1980 Mazda was northbound on Falls south of Hoffmanville Road at 9: 30 p.m. when it spun off the opposite side of the road, ran down an embankment, went through a wooden plank fence, crossed several hundred feet of pasture and went through another plank fence before coming to rest.The driver, Christopher P. Langston, 16, of the 4900 block of Roller Road was taken by state police helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

FireHampstead: Firefighters from Hampstead and Manchester responded to a brush fire on Utz Road at 11: 49 p.m. Thursday. Units were out 27 minutes.Manchester: Firefighters from Manchester, Hampstead and Lineboro responded to a house fire in the 2800 block of Hilltop Drive at 5: 30 p.m. Thursday. Units were out 30 minutes.Pub Date: 11/30/98

An article in Tuesday's Maryland section implied that Patterson High School controls the Utz Twardowicz Field at Patterson Park, where the school plays some sports. The field, which has received a $100,000 improvement grant from the National Football League, belongs to Baltimore's Department of Recreation and Parks. It is used by Patterson High and several other schools.The Sun regrets the error.The Patterson High School football team has endured its disadvantaged home field long enough.The East Baltimore high school's athletic complex at Patterson Park, Utz Twardowicz Field, lacks many of the necessities, such as a working scoreboard, to be eligible to play host to state playoff games.

NANCY L. AIRING has served nearly a full term as register of wills. She was named in early 1995 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Reese Starner, who was elected eight times to the office. Ms. Airing had been chief deputy since 1987, and worked in the office since 1978.While there is natural concern that interim appointees may be automatically confirmed by voters regardless of performance, this is not the case with the incumbent. She is qualified by experience and administrative capability to run the office, which files wills of deceased persons, collects related taxes and advises the Orphans' Court judges.

An article in Tuesday's Maryland section implied tha Patterson High School controls the Utz Twardowicz Field at Patterson Park, where the school plays some sports. The field, which has received a $100,000 improvement grant from the National Football League, belongs to Baltimore's Department of Recreation and Parks. It is used by Patterson High and several other schools.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 11/12/98

Michael Papantonakis says he's in jail, awaiting trial on federal firearms-dealing charges, because of his big mouth and his big heart. One led him to sell guns to help pay for his sister's cancer treatments, he said, and the other to lie about trading weapons to gang members and to spout off - more than once - about wanting to see a business associate "beaten up," perhaps by baseball bat. In a recent 5-minute jailhouse interview at the Maryland Correctional...

Lexington Market doesn't want the Utz potato chip stand anymore. The workers say they sell chips and always have. The feds say that - at least until one of the owners, a former bounty hunter, was busted April 1 - they also sold guns to gangs. Crab cakes and Uzis may fit the stereotype of a violent city, but it's not what the purveyors of a world-famous market want to promote. So Lexington Market Inc. filed suit in Baltimore's Wabash District Court against Stella Tsourakis, the woman they say owns the place along with her brother, Michael Papantonakis, who is in jail facing federal firearms charges.

O n April 6, 2009, ESTHER V. SULLIVAN (nee Howe); formerly Utz; beloved wife of the late Ezra D. Sullivan and Edgar M. Utz; loving mother of Mary K. Gaffney and her husband the late Robert Gaffney, Thomas Utz and wife Barbara, Doris Heubeck and husband Frank, Martha Carbone and husband Sam, Bobbie Gray, Charles Sullivan and wife Barbara and the late Richard and William Sullivan. She is also survived by a daughter-in-law Ellen Sullivan also many loving grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

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It's known to many as the "Utz building" because of the large rooftop sign advertising a certain brand of potato chips. Its original name is Old Town National Bank, after the original occupant. Soon, the seven-level building at 221-233 N. Gay St. will be reborn as Baltimore's newest hotel, one of three planned for the eastern edge of downtown. Local businessman Nicholas Piscatelli heads a group that plans to begin converting the 1924 building to a 70-room, $8 million hotel before winter and open it by late next year.

While most other big cities put national potato chip retailer Lay's at the top of their favorite list, Baltimoreans remain loyal to their regional brand. Utz leads locally with $28 million in supermarket sales in the Baltimore-Washington area, leaving Lay's in second place with $11 million, according to a Chicago company that studies food trends. Utz, produced in Hanover, Pa., is among such local favorites as Esskay bacon and Berger Cookies. And in this region, the chip has long been able to outsell Lay's potato chips, the national brand of behemoth Frito-Lay Inc. Lay's has successfully dominated the chip market in other cities throughout the country.

EDITH MARY UTZ COOK of Columbia, MD, formerly a long time resident of Potomac, MD, died November 2, 2005. Beloved wife of the late John S. Cook. Loving mother of Catherine Cook Brockway, Janet Cook Gumaer and husband Don and Phyllis Cook and husband Rich Hanlon. Cherished grandmother of John and Jared Gumaer and Alta and Erin Hanlon. Predeceased by her brother, Fielding A. Utz, Jr. Cherished aunt of Eric Utz and wife Linda, their children and grandchildren, and Kim Utz and wife Paulette Hill-Utz.

DICKERSON - The trip started in 21st-century Maryland, but there was this strange turn down Mouth of Monocacy Road in Montgomery County, across some railroad tracks and through a canopy of trees, into a clearing. What place is this? Scenes like this show up in European paintings, old ones mostly, not least because the Europeans built plenty of stone bridges similar to the Monocacy Aqueduct. Surrounded by woods and grassy embankments, the aqueduct spans the Monocacy River in a rhythm of seven pale stone arches, restored recently to look much as it did when coal, wheat and flour moved quietly along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at the pace of a walking mule.

Tasty tours Spend the dwindling days of National Snack Food Month in York County, Pa., the self-proclaimed snack food capital of the world. The area's snack food factories are marking the month by inviting visitors into their kitchens. Snackers can take a free tour and sample sweet and salty goodies at Martin Chips, Snyder's of Hanover, Utz Snacks, Wolfgang Candy Company, Herr's Snack Food Factory and Hershey's Chocolate World. To plan a 45-minute tour at Martin Chips, call 800-272- 4477.

Kevin R. Utz, Westminster's fire chief is one of the first to file for one of two seats on the city's five-member Common Council in the nonpartisan election scheduled for May 9. Kevin R. Utz, 47, a Westminster native, is a newcomer to politics, although he applied to fill a seat in the House of Delegates vacated last year when Carmen Amedori resigned to accept a post in state government. Utz was unsuccessful in that bid. For more than 25 years, he served as a state trooper and volunteer firefighter.