Thursday, April 25, 2013
A 2012 college teaching position held by Councilman David Marks, while legal, should have triggered an amended financial disclosure report.
Baltimore County Councilman David Marks said Thursday that a 2012 teaching job at a local university should have been part of his required financial disclosures. Marks acknowledged the job and failure to file an amended report last year with the Baltimore County Ethics Commission during an interview. "It was an oversight," Marks, a Perry Hall Republican, said after being asked about the job. The undisclosed teaching job as well as two previously disclosed consulting positions do not appear to violate county law. Marks said the teaching job will appear in disclosure forms that he has already filed that will be made public next month. Following the interview, Marks issued a statement by email: "As soon I was offered a three-month teaching …
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Watch as a wrecking crew brings down part of the old, vacant Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills.
As contractors ceremoniously tore down one exterior cinder-block wall at the former Solo Cup plant, they ushered in a 9-month demolition project, making way for the new, retail development Foundry Row. "It's going to be a spectacular development," said Brian Gibbons of developer Greenberg Gibbons after a ceremony Thursday at the plant, 10100 Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills. "Our goal is late 2015, but it could be 2016," he said. The $140 million development project will be home for a new Wegmans among Foundry Row's 365,000 square feet of retail space. Also planned are a national fitness store, a sporting goods store and upscale shops, restaurants, and 60,000 square feet of office space, according to the Greenberg Gibbons Commercial …
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Councilwoman Vicki Almond garners a mention as a possible Lt. Governor candidate.
Councilwoman Vicki Almond hasn't finished the third year of her first term in office but one state blogger has her on a list of possible candidates for Lt. Governor. "Wow," Almond said when asked Monday about the potential statewide run for office. Almond, a Reisterstown Democrat, appears on a list of eight names said to be under consideration by Anthony Brown—the current holder of the office and widely believed to be running for governor in 2014. The list was published last week by David Moon, author of the Democratic party blog Maryland Juice. "This is not a complete list of all of the possible candidates on Brown's shortlist. However, each of the names below have been mentioned to me by knowledgeable sources, and at least some of them …
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The bill would impose fees on residents, businesses and nonprofits for federally mandated efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
At least two members of the Baltimore County Council say they would like to delay a vote on proposed stormwater management fees. Vicki Almond and David Marks both said Tuesday they would like to delay the vote for a month. "Considering the enormity of all this and the information that we have I would personally like us to have a little more time to come up with some amendments and really study this even further," said Almond, a Reisterstown Democrat. "I think three weeks really isn't enough to digest all of this," Almond said, speaking of a briefing the council received last month. Almond added that County Executive Kevin Kamenetz developed the new fees without involving the council or holding any public meetings. The council, in its …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Baltimore County opened its 19th and largest public library in Owings Mills Thursday.
“It’s just beautiful.” Councilwoman Vicki Almond was glowing with excitement as she walked around the Owings Mills branch of the Baltimore County Public Library Thursday. She and her senior aide, Jonathan Schwartz, were treated to a tour at the library, which opened Thursday morning, by library system director Jim Fish. “Think about what this is going to look like in a few months,” Fish said, as he and Almond looked out on buildings and a parking garage still under construction. The library, Baltimore County’s 19th and largest branch, is the first tenant to open its doors at the Metro Centre at Owings Mills, a 1.2 million square-foot transit-oriented development at the Owings Mills Metro station. The library will share its building the …
Monday, March 18, 2013
County Executive Kevin Kamenetz seeks a reduction in fees charged to developers who want a waiver on open space.
UPDATED (10:07 p.m.)—Protesters will have to stay a little farther away from public and private schools if one Baltimore County Councilman gets his way. County Councilman Todd Huff, a Timonium Republican, introduced a bill Monday night that will require protesters to stay at least 300 feet from the entrance of a public or private elementary, middle or high school. Protests would be prohibited during school hours or within one hour before or after school hours. It would also be illegal to block or prevent the use of public streets, sidewalks or other spaces while protesting. Violators would be subject to a fine of $1,000 or up to a 90-day jail sentence or possibly both. "It's another layer of protecting our kids," Huff said. "That's it, the…
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
About 35 people gathered at Bubb’s Deli in Reisterstown Tuesday morning to discuss the Main Street Maryland program.
While Reisterstown’s Main Street Committee is keeping its focus on earning the town Maryland’s Main Street designation, the group wants to improve the town through any means. “We need all the ideas we can get from everyone in town,” said Calvin Reter, a member of the committee and the Reisterstown Improvement Association (RIA). The Main Street Committee held a breakfast meeting with business and property owners at Bubb’s Deli on Tuesday morning. The meeting, which was attended by about 35 people, allowed the committee to give an overview of the program and its progress and served as a forum for business owners to share ideas and talk about challenges. The committee has been meeting every Monday morning at Reter’s Crab House to work on …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Reisterstown-Owings Mills-Glyndon Chamber of Commerce honored hometown heroes at its annual charter night on Wednesday.
The Reisterstown-Owings Mills-Glyndon Chamber of Commerce announced its new president and honored hometown heroes at its annual charter night Wednesday. The event, which was held at the Double Tree by Hilton in Pikesville, honored the Community Crisis Center, Baltimore County Police Franklin Precinct and Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company. Each honoree had a chance to speak, and each thanked the community right back. "We are truly blessed in Baltimore County to have the level of support we have," said Lt. Stephen Doarnberger, assistant commander of the Baltimore County Franklin Precinct, who plans to retire in May. Michele Crumbacker, president of the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company, acknowledged that without the joint efforts of …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Community leaders in Owings Mills and Reisterstown support the Board of Election’s decision to nix the possibility of bringing two zoning decisions to referendum.
An effort two bring two Baltimore County zoning decision to referendum on the 2014 ballot has been stopped, for now. While they don’t think the battle is over, Owings Mills and Reisterstown officials think the Baltimore County Board of Elections made the right decision when it deemed the petitions legally deficient on Tuesday. “I think most of the people at ROG were concerned, as a lot of people were, with the nature of the name collecting,” said George Harman, president of the Reisterstown-Owings Mills-Glyndon Coordinating Council (ROG). “We thought that the process whereby people may not have been told the truth about what they were seeing brought into question the whole process.” Two groups backed by developers David S. Brown …
Monday, January 7, 2013
The Catonsville Democrat said the council will have to deal with another difficult budget but there's "no political will" for a tax increase.
Newly-elected Baltimore County Council Chairman Tom Quirk is looking forward to a more collegial relationship between the council and county executive and no new taxes in the coming year. "I think 2013 is the year the county executive and the county council work together collaboratively," Quirk, Catonsville Democrat, said, who was elected unanimously by his colleagues. The relationship between the council and County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has undergone considerable strain. Quirk along with then-Council Chairwoman Vicki Almond, Councilwoman Cathy Bevins, and Councilman David Marks all opposed a pension bill that would have ended the use of overtime in the calculation for pension benefits for some county employees. The bill was part of an …
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5:35 am on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
breadman you know nothing and i don't care if i live in annapolis , if a representative of md is doing ok in this corrupt thievery of a state then it should be told. I wonder how many of you have been to hearings opposing the issues you don't want? if you don't complain you don't win. If you really want something to crow about look at your leader. The worst governor and worst record Md has ever … more ›