Westview

The restored version of the 1960 ''Spartacus,'' starring Kirk Douglas, will play the Westview Cinema, rather than the Senator Theatre, as was originally announced. The film opens tomorrow.Tom Kiefaber, owner-operator of the Senator, said he decided not to show the film because the studio was not releasing it in 70mm. George Brehm, owner-operator of the Westview complex, said that the film will be shown in 35mm, in ''one of our big theaters, and with Dolby sound will look and sound exceptionally good.

A bomb threat at the Lowe's store at Westview Shopping Center in Catonsville caused the store to be evacuated Wednesday afternoon, Baltimore County police said. An unidentified person called the store in the 5900 block of Baltimore National Pike just after 4 p.m. and said there was a bomb in the store, and store management immediately evacuated the building, police said. Police responded shortly after with bomb-sniffing dogs, said Louise Rogers-Feher, a Baltimore County police spokeswoman.

A 68-year-old Westview woman has become the first Baltimore County resident this year to test positive for the West Nile virus. The unidentified woman was admitted Saturday to an area hospital and remains there under treatment, according to the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. There was no word on her condition. It was one of four new West Nile cases reported yesterday. Two were in Prince George's County, and a fourth in Washington County. The cases bring the statewide total this year to 16. One death in Maryland has been attributed to the mosquito-borne illness, health officials said.

Among the 76 calls the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received July 31- August 7 for medical and fire-rescue service were the following: Interstate-95 between exits 49 and 50, 11:53 p.m. August 4. Crews from the Violetville and Arbutus volunteer stations and Halethorpe career station responded to the report of a vehicle accident in Violetville involving a motorcycle. One critically injured person taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Ashton Valley Way, 7500 block, 6:00 p.m. August 4. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Westview career station responded to the report of vehicle accident in Westview involving a motorcycle.

An 86-year-old Southwest Baltimore man died yesterday after his car was struck by a pickup truck on Baltimore National Pike in Westview, Baltimore County police said. Officer Stephen McNutt of the police crash team said John Howard Stolzenbach of the 400 block of Westgate Road in Ten Hills was driving a 1995 Mercury Tracer west in the 6400 block of Baltimore National Pike about 4:15 p.m. when he turned left to enter a shopping center. McNutt said Stolzenbach was in the center lane of the three-lane eastbound roadway when he was struck by a 1992 Ford Ranger driven by Robert Lee Kidd, 48, of the 600 block of Kahn Drive in Pikesville.

Neighbors launched a petition drive calling for tighter security at Westview Mall yesterday, but shop owners and employees said they consider it a safe place despite the killing of a 49-year-old woman in a parking lot Thursday night.Most viewed the shooting death of Jane F. Tyson of the 6500 block of Redgate Circle, Westview Park, by two men who stole her purse as a random act of violence that could have happened anywhere.But many neighbors say they believe the mall should respond by tightening security at Westview, where Baltimore County police say there have been 20 robberies since the first of the year, including seven armed holdups in the parking lot."

Baltimore County police have arrested a city man and his girlfriend in the Sept. 17 robbery and slaying of a book saleswoman at a Westview motel.An anonymous telephone call from someone who had seen the suspects' names mentioned in news reports led to the arrests, the police said.Rowland Keith Hudson, 34, of the 4900 block of Queensberry Avenue and Donna Denson, 26, of the 5900 block of Schering Road were picked up about 1 p.m. at a house in the 3200 block of Woodland Avenue in Baltimore, the police said.

Two young children watched helplessly last night as their grandmother was shot to death and robbed of her purse on the Westview Mall parking lot, Baltimore County police said.The victim, Jane F. Tyson, 49, of the 6500 block of Redgate Circle in Westview Park, had returned about 8:30 p.m. to her car parked on a remote rear lot after shopping with the children at the mall near the Beltway on Baltimore National Pike.A witness told police he heard the children -- a 6-year-old boy pTC and his 4-year-old sister -- crying out that their grandmother had been shot.

Westview Cinemas -- a movie haven on U.S. 40 where images from the Beatles to Darth Vader have filled the screens over the past three decades -- will close this month to make way for a Circuit City superstore expected to be built on the site this summer.The 10-theater cinema complex, regarded by some as a cultural landmark in Catonsville, will show its last movie May 29."It was a difficult decision to make," said Bertram Potemken, an attorney who represents the Westview's owners, a private group of Maryland residents.

A LOCAL BUSINESS is a success when it makes money. It turns into an institution when it becomes part of the community's collective identity. Institutions evolve over time. They require a community's affection, which can't be bought with gimmicks.Catonsville's Westview Cinemas, which roll the projectors for the last time tonight, are an institution. People reacted as if they were losing an old friend upon learning the movie house will be razed to make room for a Circuit City. Folks even rue the loss of the theater's 1950s-1960s architecture, which, it is safe to say, no one considered classic when it was built in 1965.

Closed since 2005, the Westview Mall cinemas will reopen tomorrow as the Diamond Cinemas Westview under the ownership of local comic-book distributor Steve Geppi. "I've always had an affinity for movies and movie theaters," says Geppi, 58, owner of Diamond Comic Distributors, the world's largest distributor of English-language comic books. "And I've always thought the best place to locate a comic-book store would be next door to, or practically in, a movie theater. Not that I'm ready to announce that I'm opening a comic-book store at Westview, but you never know."

Dorothy M. Hampson, a homemaker and former department store saleswoman, died in her sleep Monday at Rose Manor, an Ellicott City assisted-living facility. The former longtime Westview resident was 92. Dorothy Marie Mulhern was born in Baltimore and raised in a house on Fremont Avenue. After graduating from Seton High School in 1931, she worked for several years as a secretary for Fidelity Trust & Deposit Co. She was married in 1933 to James L. Hampson, a drapery and upholstery salesman for the old Hutzler's department stores.

Mary Pauline Hannsen, a retired department store manager, died of a stroke Thursday at a nursing home in Saline, Mich. The former Catonsville resident was 91. Born Mary Pauline Bell in Pittsburgh, she was raised in Baltimore and graduated in 1932 from Forest Park High School. In the 1950s, she was a Girl Scout troop leader at First English Lutheran Church on North Charles Street, where she was also a member. She was also a volunteer seamstress for several amateur dance companies. After raising her family, Mrs. Hannsen became manager of the boys department at the old Hutzler's Westview department store from 1965 until retiring in 1980.

In Baltimore County Police seek car linked to killing of woman WESTVIEW - Police investigating the killing of a western Baltimore County woman are looking for a car they believe is connected to the crime. The police are searching for a blue or green 1996 Honda Civic, with Maryland license plates GLH 441. Yesterday afternoon, police had not released the name of the victim, who lived in an apartment in the 1000 block of Charing Martin Court in Westview Park. Her body was found Friday afternoon.

A woman was found dead yesterday afternoon inside an apartment in western Baltimore County, and the case is being investigated as a homicide, police said. Officers responded to the 1000 block of Charing Martin Court in Westview about 4:30 p.m. after receiving a call about a woman who hadn't been heard from in a while, police said. Homicide detectives were seeking information on a suspect and motive. The woman's name was not released last night.

On Monday, August 18, 2003, DONALD G. STOLLENMAIER, died while in the care of Hernando-Pasco Hospice in Florida. A memorial service will be held at 11 A.M. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church - Westview in Baltimore, MD followed by a burial at Loudon Park Cemetery, on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 for family and friends.

The 1980s were not kind to Westview Mall.Stewart's closed. Then Hutzler's. Hamburgers left for nearby Security Square Mall in 1988.Westview, the jewel of the Baltimore suburban shopping scene when Governor Theodore McKeldin cut the ribbon in 1958, had lost its glitter.The 1990s didn't start much better. Within the span of a year, two women were shot in robberies in well-publicized incidents in Westview's parking lot. One of them died. Longtime customers thought twice about going to the mall -- and didn't even think of going at night, mall employees say.But with new management, a $20-million face lift and expansion, improved security and a shift in strategy, the old mall at U.S. 40 and the Beltway is beginning to show signs of a renaissance.

The owners of Westview Mall are going back to the future with plans to tear down parts of the mall and rebuild strip stores similar to the ones that occupied the site 40 years ago.Baltimore County officials gave a preliminary nod to the renovation yesterday, hoping to restore life to the 42-acre site at the Baltimore Beltway and U.S. 40.Fairfax, Va.-based Peterson Cos., one of the Washington area's largest privately owned retail developers, is proposing to...

A 68-year-old Westview woman has become the first Baltimore County resident this year to test positive for the West Nile virus. The unidentified woman was admitted Saturday to an area hospital and remains there under treatment, according to the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. There was no word on her condition. It was one of four new West Nile cases reported yesterday. Two were in Prince George's County, and a fourth in Washington County. The cases bring the statewide total this year to 16. One death in Maryland has been attributed to the mosquito-borne illness, health officials said.

Robert J. Huenemeyer, a retired National Security Agency employee, died Thursday of a rare brain disorder at his Westminster home. He was 64 and had earlier lived in Westview Park. He worked at NSA at Fort Meade for 30 years before retiring this year. In the 1960s he worked in radar and electronics at the Curtis Bay Coast Guard yard after serving in the Navy. Born in St. Louis, he was raised in Highlandtown and attended St. Patrick's Parochial School in Fells Point. He was a 1956 graduate of Kenwood High School and attended the University of Maryland, College Park.