White Hall

Daniel Pieper, of Hunter Mill Farm in White Hall, donated a $2,500 grant he won to Penn-Mar Human Services in Freeland Tuesday, March 27. Pieper applied for the grant in December and was informed he was the Baltimore County winner of Monsanto's American Farmers Grow Communities grant program in January. The national program is sponsored by the Monsanto, an agricultural biotech company headquartered in St. Louis. Farmers who cultivate at least 250 acres and live in any of 1,245 qualified counties across the United States can apply.

Daniel Pieper, of Hunter Mill Farm in White Hall, donated a $2,500 grant he won to Penn-Mar Human Services in Freeland Tuesday, March 27. Pieper applied for the grant in December and was informed he was the Baltimore County winner of Monsanto's American Farmers Grow Communities grant program in January. The national program is sponsored by the Monsanto, an agricultural biotech company headquartered in St. Louis. Farmers who cultivate at least 250 acres and live in any of 1,245 qualified counties across the United States can apply.

The following is compiled from police reports from the Cockeysville Precinct. Our policy is to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. White Hall Ensor Road , 19600 block, at 8:42 a.m. Jan. 29. Woman accepted ride from man inWashington, D.C. He drove to Ensor Road, pulled a knife and attempted to sexually assault the woman but she fled, ran to a nearby house and called 911. Phoenix Sweet Air Road , 4400 block, between 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Feb. 2. Riding mower removed from garage but not taken.

A 21-year-old White Hall man was hit by a car and killed Friday evening in Bel Air. Joshua L. Aversano, 21, of the 3100 block of White Hall Road in White Hall, was trying to cross Bel Air South Parkway and was hit by a 2003 Kia Sedona van driven by Kimberly A. Enders of the 500 block of Sellrus Court in Fallston. Harford County Sheriff's deputies responded to the 1600 block of Bel Air South Parkway around 6:30 p.m. Friday and determined that Enders was driving west in the right turn lane on Bel Air South Parkway toward Route 24 when Mr. Aversano, who was not in a designated crosswalk, ran across the east and westbound lanes of travel.

A Pennsylvania woman was killed early Sunday after the driver of a pickup truck in which she was a passenger lost control on an icy section of Old York Road in White Hall and crashed into another vehicle, according to Maryland State Police at the Bel Air Barracks. Police said Frank Ferguson Jr., 41, of White Hall, was driving a 2006 Ford pickup truck west on Old York Road near Route 23 (Norrisville Road) about 8:30 a.m. when he crossed the double yellow line in an attempt to pass a 2005 Chevrolet pickup.

A 21-year-old White Hall man was hit by a car and killed Friday evening in Bel Air. Joshua L. Aversano, 21, of the 3100 block of White Hall Road in White Hall, was trying to cross Bel Air South Parkway and was hit by a 2003 Kia Sedona van driven by Kimberly A. Enders of the 500 block of Sellrus Court in Fallston. Harford County Sheriff's deputies responded to the 1600 block of Bel Air South Parkway around 6:30 p.m. Friday and determined that Enders was driving west in the right turn lane on Bel Air South Parkway toward Route 24 when Mr. Aversano, who was not in a designated crosswalk, ran across the east and westbound lanes of travel.

A 14-year-old girl was killed yesterday afternoon in a one-car accident on northbound Route 136, just north of Fawn Grove Road, in Norrisville, Harford County. Maryland State Police said a Honda Accord veered off the road and rolled down an embankment about 4:50 p.m., causing severe damage to the passenger side. The driver, a juvenile whom police would not identify, suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene. But his front-seat passenger, Sara C. Tyrrell of White Hall, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The cause of a fire Thursday that destroyed a two-story barn on Norrisville Road at Old York Road in the northwestern section of the county was "suspicious," fire authorities said.The red-painted landmark near White Hall was built in 1887, said state Deputy Fire Marshal Robert Thomas.The first alarm was sounded about 2 a.m. A second alarm was sounded about a half-hour later.More than 20 fire trucks and about 150 volunteers from Harford and Baltimore counties and southern Pennsylvania brought the two-alarm fire under control in about two hours, Mr. Thomas said.

James Victor Ensor Jr., who farmed in White Hall in Baltimore County for nearly 50 years, died of pneumonia Tuesday at a Lancaster, Pa., retirement community. He was 88. Born and raised in Texas, Baltimore County, Mr. Ensor was a 1933 graduate of Sparks High School. He worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1934 until 1940, when he purchased a 522-acre farm in White Hall. Mr. Ensor married Sarah Catherine Norris in 1936, and they raised cattle and sheep at the farm. She died in 1995.

Rising at dawn yesterday, Paul Roberts climbed into a skid loader to start clearing out the muddy remnants of a storm that less than 12 hours earlier had caused several feet of floodwater to wash through his White Hall neighborhood in northern Baltimore County. "It's like a slurry," said Roberts, 40. "With this flood, the mud is particularly bad. I've never seen it like this before." By afternoon, he had managed to clear enough mud to free two of his cars - including a restored 1976 MG that had a water line up to the top of its windows - from the parking lot adjacent to the Gunpowder Falls State Park Trail and Department of Natural Resources' maintenance building where he works.

The following is compiled from police reports from the Cockeysville Precinct. Our policy is to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. White Hall Ensor Road , 19600 block, at 8:42 a.m. Jan. 29. Woman accepted ride from man inWashington, D.C. He drove to Ensor Road, pulled a knife and attempted to sexually assault the woman but she fled, ran to a nearby house and called 911. Phoenix Sweet Air Road , 4400 block, between 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Feb. 2. Riding mower removed from garage but not taken.

The bridge over Little Falls on Hicks-Wilson Road on the Monkton-White Hall line will be closed on Jan. 30 so crews can repair damage caused by Tropical Storm Lee last September. Baltimore County crews will repair deteriorated abutments that were further damaged by Lee's floodwaters. The 60-foot single-lane bridge was built in 1988. Repairs should be finished by the end of February, county engineers said.

I'm disappointed that former governorRobert L. Ehrlich Jr.will be writing a column in The Baltimore Sun, a newspaper that skewered him unmercifully when he was in office ("Ehrlich column to run in The Sun," Jan. 22). What The Sun did to Governor Ehrlich, including taking him to court, is unforgivable. I'm displeased in his decision to accept this offer as it reeks of self-promotion. Mr. Ehrlich says his first two columns will be on his decision to write for the paper and then a tribute to Ron Smith.

Kathy Renee Averella, a legal secretary, died of cancer Dec. 4 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 55 and lived in Baltimore. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of Claudia and Lou Averella and grew up in Highlandtown. She attended Patterson High School and Strayer Business College before becoming a legal secretary. She worked in downtown Baltimore for attorneys P. Paul Cocoros and Goodman Meagher & Enoch. Family members said she enjoyed trips to Florida and Disney World.

Wayne and Heidi Nash, of White Hall, announce the engagement of their daughter, Lydia Theresa Nash, to Gregory David Rose. The prospective groom is the son of David and Nancy Rose, also of White Hall. He is a graduate of Penn State College and operates Clear Meadow Farm Inc. The bride-to-be is a graduate of North Harford High School and works for Thomas H. Voss Racing Stables. A July wedding is planned.

A White Hall man pleaded guilty late last week to threatening to murder a federal law enforcement officer who was investigating a suspicious 2010 barn fire at a farm in northeastern Baltimore County near the Harford County line. Craig Allen Shepperd, 37, of the 1000 block of Wiseburg Road, in White Hall, entered the guilty plea Oct. 21 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The plea agreement was announced by U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. According to Shepperd's plea agreement, the Baltimore County Police Department and the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms identified Shepperd as a primary suspect in the arson of a horse barn that had burned down at 2808 Shepperd Road in Monkton Aug. 26, 2010.

LA PLATA -- A Charles County Circuit Court jury, after deliberating six hours, sentenced a 31-year-old Aberdeen man last night to life in prison without possibility of parole for fatally beating and stabbing two elderly deaf women in Northern Baltimore County in 1992.The jury decided against a death sentence for Charles Henry Emanuel in the brutal attack on the two women and the husband of one of them.Earlier yesterday, Emanuel apologized for his crimes and asked the jury not to sentence him to death.

Glenn and Victoria Hasenfus had a choice. If they wanted to move to the rural environment of northern Baltimore County, they would have to decide what was more important: a house large enough for their family or a nice piece of land. Because the couple worked in real estate, they knew that finding both would be difficult. So when they came upon a 1,404-square-foot home in White Hall during spring last year, their predictions were confirmed. The 3-acre parcel included a rolling landscape that sat next to a protected land trust of 300 acres.

Army Pvt. Michael P. Carney graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. Carney is the son of Joe Volpini of Glen Arm, and Kathryn Volpini-Holland of Strasburg, Va. Carney graduated in 2004 from Loch Raven High School. Navy Seaman Apprentice Joshua J. Powers , grandson of Karen and Bob Almony of White Hall recently graduated from Operations Specialist School with honors. Powers is a 2009 graduate of Hereford High School of Parkton and joined the Navy in March 2011.

The following is compiled from police reports from the Cockeysville Precinct. Our policy is to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. Phoenix Poplar Hill Road , 13600 block, between noon and 1 p.m. Sept. 6. A 1993 Ford F-150 pickup truck reported stolen and later returned. Sparks Falls Road , 15300 block, between 8:30 p.m. Sept. 6 and 1 p.m. Sept. 10. Padlock on garage door cut and door handle broken, but no entry gained.