Vermont

Years of pain and unanswered questions ended for two Bel Air residents this week with word that their son's remains have been found in Vermont. William Michael Hogan's skeletal remains were found Sunday by a hunter in Cuttingsville, on land adjacent to the 600-acre ranch where he was being treated for a mental illness when he disappeared in May 2005. Dental records confirmed the identity of the remains. Lt. Timothy Oliver of the Vermont state police said more remains and personal effects were found in a subsequent search.

Don Zimmerman figured it would take Scott Hopmann some time before he began to re-discover his footing in UMBC's offense. The coach's patience has been rewarded as the junior midfielder has recorded 11 points in his last three contests after posting five points in his first five games since returning from a hamstring injury. The Annapolis native and St. Mary's graduate amassed three goals and one assist in the Retrivers' 11-8 victory over America East foe Vermont Saturday.

LAWMAKERS IN VERMONT stand tiptoe at the threshold of tolerance. Will they make same-sex marriage legal for the first time in the United States? Although Hawaii and California have already passed domestic partnership laws, Vermont proposes enacting a far more extensive same-sex marriage law. So far the country road to same-sex unions in Vermont has been paved with legislative responsibility, public hearings and positive results. Recently the Judiciary Committee of the state's House of Representatives indicated, in an informal 8-3 vote, that it would draft "a broad civil rights bill that does not cross the legal threshold of marriage."

No one would have faulted UMBC fans for fearing the worst as Vermont scored three consecutive goals - including two in the final 47 seconds of the second quarter - to knot the score at 6 with 6:50 left in the third period. But the Retrievers answered with a four-goal run into the fourth quarter en route to an eventual 11-8 victory in an important America East contest Saturday. UMBC's response was especially encouraging after the team failed to hang onto a lead of 8-6 in the third quarter and 11-8 in the final period that allowed Towson to record a come-from-behind 12-11 decision Wednesday night.

No one would have faulted UMBC fans for fearing the worst as Vermont scored three consecutive goals - including two in the final 47 seconds of the second quarter - to knot the score at 6 with 6:50 left in the third period. But the Retrievers answered with a four-goal run into the fourth quarter en route to an eventual 11-8 victory in an important America East contest Saturday. UMBC's response was especially encouraging after the team failed to hang onto a lead of 8-6 in the third quarter and 11-8 in the final period that allowed Towson to record a come-from-behind 12-11 decision Wednesday night.

The UMBC men's basketball team was having plenty of problems at home before last night. Then, youthful, talented Vermont came to RAC Arena and humbled the Retrievers from start to finish in every phase of the game. Freshman forward Joe Trapani scored a game-high 25 points to lead the sharp-shooting Catamounts, who dominated the boards and shredded the UMBC defense, as Vermont rolled to an 83-63 rout before 1,320. UMBC (6-11, 2-2) lost for the sixth time in its past eight games and fell to 1-5 at home.

THETFORD, Vt. -- This is not Vermont at its finest. The autumn leaves that turn this state into a foliage theme park have gone by. And Vermont's image as the benign, harmonious state that dines on Ben & Jerry's and sends the only Socialist to Congress is being shattered. This fall, a heated, angry governor's race hinging on civil unions for gay couples has divided neighbors and split the seams of what everyone now describes as Two Vermonts. The split is easy to see in Thetford, where some folks go to the bean and ham supper at the community hall Sunday night and others commute across the New Hampshire border to Dartmouth College on Monday morning.

BRIDPORT, Vt.-- --Holsteins on the Blue Spruce Farm step gingerly around a mechanical shovel that scoops their waste and shoots it into a "cow-powered" electric generator. Besides pumping out 8,000 gallons of milk a day, these 2,000 dairy cows also light up 400 homes. The fuel is methane gas that bubbles from manure treated with bovine bacteria in heated underground tanks. Environmentally conscious utility customers in the Green Mountain State can pay an extra $20 a month to get their electricity from such manure-fueled generators.

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Matt Clune and Kevin Travis each scored five goals to help No. 14 Towson State keep its hopes alive for an NCAA tournament bid with a 25-7 North Atlantic Conference win yesterday over Vermont.Parker Sides led the Catamounts (5-10, 1-5) with three goals. Dan Luciano added three goals and Dannie Ross five assists for the Tigers (8-4, 5-1), who outshot Vermont 70-24.Towson State 4 8 4 9 -- 25Vermont .... 2 1 2 2 -- 7Pub Date: 5/05/96

UMBC led Vermont by 10 points with just less than a minute to play yesterday, but the fact that the Retrievers had been up by 20 just a few minutes earlier was enough to make coach Randy Monroe as animated as ever on the sideline. And he had good reason: UMBC had never defeated Vermont in six tries -- including an 0-4 mark in the Monroe era that began last season, making the Catamounts the only America East opponent it had yet to beat. But yesterday, the Retrievers ended that, never trailing on their way to an 86-73 win before 2,122 at the RAC Arena on a day when the school recognized nine former athletes being enshrined into the UMBC Hall of Fame.

Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, admitted in federal court Tuesday that he stole thousands of documents regarded as cultural treasures from historical societies and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast. The 63-year-old's guilty plea, to two criminal counts involving theft of artwork, revealed a scheme in which prosecutors said he compiled lists of items to steal by matching names of historical figures, from poets to president, to their "potential monetary value.

Sophomore forward Luke Apfeld came off the bench to score a career-high 24 points in only 22 minutes as Vermont (6-7) took an early lead and didn't look back in a 65-49 nonconference win over Towson on Friday night at Towson Center. The loss dropped Towson to 0-12 and was the Tigers' 31st in a row. The record for consecutive losses by a Division I team is 34, by Sacramento State. The overall record is 51 straight by New Jersey Institute of Technology as it transitioned from Division II to Division I. Apfeld made all 11 of his shots from the field, including his only 3-point field goal attempt.

A Halloween without pumpkins? Good grief! But before you race to the grocery store for canned pumpkin to mold into fall's favorite orange orb, consider this: While the soggy residents of Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont are facing a shortage of jack-o-lanterns, Maryland's trick-or-treaters will be spared the trauma. "We definitely lost some, but pumpkins will be around," said Dwight Baugher, who has started harvesting more than 70 acres of oversized squash at Baugher's Orchard and Farm inWestminster.

Prior to Aberdeen's Wednesday-night home matchup with the Vermont LakeMonsters, the IronBirds had failed to win back-to-back games this season. But that streak ended as the hosts prevailed with a 6-4 win Wednesday. Aberdeen, which beat Tri-City Monday, was 6-20 on the year through Wednesday, putting the IronBirds at the bottom of the New York-Penn League's McNamara Division, seven games in back of the Brooklyn Cyclones. "We played some good baseball the last couple games, won on the road, then came back today and did a good job," Aberdeen manager Leo Gomez said after the game.

College basketball UMBC women set school marks in throttling Vermont Junior forward Erin Brown scored 19 points and visiting UMBC (15-10, 9-3) held America East rival Vermont (3-21, 3-8) to record lows in a 43-32 victory Wednesday night. The Catamounts shot 17.0 percent (8-for-47) from the field, the lowest field-goal percentage ever by a Retrievers opponent; the previous low was 17.3 percent by Bowie State in 1985. In addition, Vermont's eight field goals in the game matched the fewest ever by the Catamounts, while their 32 points scored were the fewest UMBC has allowed since Dec. 11, 1981, against Western Michigan, which also scored 32, and set a school Division I record.

In her letter to the editor, "Guns do kill people" (Jan. 16), Mary Chestnut repeats the tired and discredited mantra that gun laws control criminals and prevent crime. The tragedy in Tucson was caused by an individual and not by the firearm he used or the gun laws in Arizona. Ms. Chestnut blames the gun and the gun laws rather than the perpetrator. She even goes so far as to insinuate that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is somehow responsible because she supports the Arizona gun laws and (according to Ms. Chestnut)

The roots run deep between Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos and Vermont coach Mike Lonergan, as they were teammates at Catholic University and worked under Maryland coach Gary Williams. The similarities between the two coaches extend to the court, where both have the same fiery style and like to play up-tempo to force their opponents into turning over the ball. Patsos got the best of his former roommate as the Greyhounds shot 52.2 percent from three-point range en route to a physical 83-79 victory over the Catamounts last night before an announced 1,327 at Reitz Arena.

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Years of pain and unanswered questions ended for two Bel Air residents this week with word that their son's remains have been found in Vermont. William Michael Hogan's skeletal remains were found Sunday by a hunter in Cuttingsville, on land adjacent to the 600-acre ranch where he was being treated for a mental illness when he disappeared in May 2005. Dental records confirmed the identity of the remains. Lt. Timothy Oliver of the Vermont state police said more remains and personal effects were found in a subsequent search.