Section: NBH

Reaching across the rivalry

Cancer unites Arundel field hockey team behind South River player

By HEATHER ROTH Staff Writer

The Arundel High School Wildcats girls varsity field hockey team reached across rivalry lines this week, wearing pink warm-ups and head bands and asking for donations in honor of South River player Brooke Griffin, whose mother is fighting cancer.

"We want her to know that we're here for her; she's not alone," said Kelsey Dimka, a junior at Arundel High School. "There are people who understand."

The team wore p...

Published on 10/10/08

Teen of the Week: Arras Wiedorn

Old Mill teen has sharp wit, fast reflexes

By WENDI WINTERS, For The Capital

Arras Wiedorn, a volunteer at Maryland Therapeutic Riding, marches to her own drumbeat, but keeps in step as a member of the Old Mill High School Steel Drum Band.

"She's an avid artist with a bent toward the unconventional," said Dr. Elizabeth P. Mitchell Coronado, coordinator of the International Baccalaureate Programme at Old Mill High School. "Her talents are definitely not mainstream."

Arras, 17, describes her...

Published on 10/10/08

Local Digest

Goodwill sending truck to AACC

ARNOLD - Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake will have a manned truck accepting donations on the Arnold campus of Anne Arundel Community College from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Oct. 18.

Donations should be brought to the AACC Central Services Building parking lot, beside the barn off College Parkway, opposite the Isaac Cox House.

Those coming from Ritchie Highway on College Parkway s...

Published on 10/10/08

Teen of the Week: Teneika Williams

Arundel High teen a mentor, leader

By WENDI WINTERS, For The Capital

Teneika Williams, 16, is known as a leader at Arundel High School.

She is captain of Arundel High's Step Squad. And she helped math teacher Katara Starkey found "Pearls of Wisdom," a girls group at the school that now has about 30 members.

The group, Ms. Starkey said, "helps our female students value themselves, their education and their community."

Teneika has a "positive attitude," Ms. Starkey sa...

Published on 10/03/08

Oh, say can you drink?

Debate rages over whether Linthicum was anthem hero or Prohibition-ender

By SEAN PATRICK NORRIS, Staff Writer

Agitator, artist, historian or nitpicker?

Call Conrad Bladey what you want, but he is asking a divisive question about the new J. Charles Linthicum monument and park.

Dedicated last month, the granite pedestal and bronze plaque honor the community of Linthicum's most famous son for authoring legislation that made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem.

Mr. Bladey, however, wants his neighbors and others...

Published on 10/03/08

County swears in new fire chief

A 30-year veteran of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department is the department's new chief. John Ray, who served as the deputy chief of logistics for the past decade, was sworn in Wednesday.

Department spokesman Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia says the 52-year-old Arnold resident is the former chief fire marshal for the county and has supervised fire stations.

Ray worked on the incident management team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in At...

Published on 10/02/08

Teen of the Week: Patrick Townsend

Teen shines as positive influence at Broadneck High

By WENDI WINTERS, For The Capital

On the first official day of school, few kids at Broadneck High were smiling. With summer vacation a quickly evaporating memory, they were downright glum.

But Patrick Townsend, a junior, was grinning broadly. He'd been attending classes at the high school all summer and was happy to see the rest of the students return.

He greeted nearly everyone in the front hall and high-fived dozens, if not hundreds, of his schoolmates and staff me...

Published on 09/26/08

Local Digest

Kunta Kinte ceremony Monday

ANNAPOLIS - The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation will commemorate the arrival of Kunta Kinte in Annapolis during a ceremony at noon Monday at the Alex Haley statue, City Dock.

Kunta Kinte was one of 98 surviving slaves who arrived aboard the Lord Ligonier on Sept. 29, 1767.

In 1977, Alex Haley published "Roots," which used oral tradition and documentary evidence to trace his family ba...

Published on 09/26/08