Washington County

Washington County Hospital officials said yesterday that they're turning to a team of Maryland trauma experts to advise the hospital on ways to reopen its trauma center. The center closed abruptly June 1 - with only two days notice - after local surgeons said they would no longer provide the required round-the-clock staffing. The Hagerstown hospital has said it hopes to find a new staffing model that will allow the center to reopen. Originally, the hospital was planning to get advice from a team from the American College of Surgeons.

Teacher Scott Delpo never expected he would have to spend his summer break in the classroom. In fact, he had gone 17 years without having to work summer school. But this summer, Delpo, 39, says he was forced to get a job in large part because of the economy. "Honestly, I've been able to get by without having to work in the summer," said Delpo, who is a physical education teacher at Cradlerock School in Columbia during the school year. He's teaching math to rising second-graders this summer.

BOONSBORO -- A 70-year-old Alzheimer's patient who had been missing about 12 hours from his Frederick County home was found yesterday on a road in neighboring Washington County after a search involving six government agencies.John Jacob Gilroy, who was last seen by his family Friday night, left his home in western Frederick County on foot. The family searched for three hours before contacting the police.The missing man was found on Reno Monument Road in Washington County, about five miles from his home.

A Washington County grand jury has indicted two Hagerstown women on charges that they stole from the county's liquor board, the state prosecutor's office announced yesterday. Cindy Kaye Baer, 40, and Constance Joan Rooke, 73, are both charged with theft over $500, according to a statement from State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh. Rooke, the former office administrator at the Washington County Board of License Commissioners, is also charged with embezzlement. Baer is accused of stealing about $5,000 between May 2004 and July 2005.

State Police reported one traffic fatality over the weekend, a 26-year-old West Virginia man who was killed in a one-car accident in Washington County.Danny Wayne Dick of Hedgesville, W. Va., was alone and traveling westbound in the fast lane of Interstate 70 about 8:42 p.m Friday when his 1986 Mercury Cougar drifted off the left side of the roadway and entered the shoulder adjacent to the median strip, police said.Police said the car traveled nearly 275 feet along the shoulder before it struck a guardrail and overturned several times, ejecting Dick from the passenger side window.

A 67-year-old woman was killed yesterday when the car in which she was riding was struck head-on by a pickup truck on Md. 67 in Boonsboro, state police say.Police identified the victim as Evelyn Virginia Reeder of Rohrersville, Washington County. Mrs. Reeder was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, Harry Roscoe Reeder, 69.The Reeders were northbound on Md. 67 when their car was struck head-on . by a truck driven by Samuel Eugene O'Neil, 29, of Hagerstown, police said.Police said Mr. O'Neil's truck was forced across the center line when a tire blew.

Maryland State Police yesterday fatally shot a man who drew a loaded handgun on a trooper during a traffic stop in Western Maryland, police said. The man, believed to be a 27-year-old Pennsylvanian wanted on at least three warrants, has not been positively identified, and family members had not been notified as of last night. About 2:30 p.m., Trooper Christopher Barnard stopped a 1997 Saturn for speeding near Indian Springs in Washington County, state police said. Cpl. Todd Weaver responded as backup, and both troopers approached the car, police said.

Former Montgomery County executive Doug Duncan's decision to run for his old seat after a six-year hiatus has changed the political landscape of the state's largest county even as critics argue that new demographics could present a big hurdle to his comeback. Duncan, 57, a Democrat who ended his 2006 campaign for governor abruptly after he was diagnosed with depression, told supporters last week that he will run for county executive in 2014 — setting the stage for a possible showdown with incumbent Isiah "Ike" Leggett that would have statewide political implications.

The Peale family of painters went on and on and on, from before the Revolution down through the 19th century. It included Charles Willson Peale, born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1741; his brother James; Charles Willson's optimistically named sons Rembrandt, Raphaelle and Rubens; Sarah Miriam Peale, daughter of James and perhaps the first professional woman artist, and her sister, Anna Claypoole Peale. George Washington was once painted by three Peales at the same time, and a wag remarked that he was "Pealed all around."

Catherine Poole Shriver, a resident of a group home run by Arc of Washington County, died of an infection Oct. 13 at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown. She was 48. Miss Shriver was born in Kinston, N.C., and was raised in Baltimore until moving to the Arc facility in Washington County in 1966. "She was brain-damaged at birth and was never able to talk; however, she learned a way to communicate," said her father, Harry R. Shriver Jr. of Owings Mills, a retired Baltimore broadcasting executive.