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Beginnings: Long before droves of senior citizens were drawn to the huge Leisure Village retirement community, the Randalls took up residence on Whiskey Road. In 1728, Stephen Randall staked out a farm in the mid-Island terrain that was once the hunting ground for the region's Indian tribes. So many Randalls followed Stephen that Ridge was originally called Randallville. Early maps also identified it as Ridgeville or Ridgefield, inspired by the geographical feature on its north side. Old-timers still refer to the area as ''the Ridge,'' as the Smith family once did.
Photo: Pond in the woods of Peconic River County Park south of Route 25 in Ridge. (Newsday / Jim Peppler)
Photo: Pond in the woods of Peconic River County Park south of Route 25 in Ridge. (Newsday / Jim Peppler)
Beginnings: Long before droves of senior citizens were drawn to the huge Leisure Village retirement community, the Randalls took up residence on Whiskey Road. In 1728, Stephen Randall staked out a farm in the mid-Island terrain that was once the hunting ground for the region's Indian tribes. So many Randalls followed Stephen that Ridge was originally called Randallville. Early maps also identified it as Ridgeville or Ridgefield, inspired by the geographical feature on its north side. Old-timers still refer to the area as ''the Ridge,'' as the Smith family once did.
Photo: Pond in the woods of Peconic River County Park south of Route 25 in Ridge. (Newsday / Jim Peppler)
Photo: Pond in the woods of Peconic River County Park south of Route 25 in Ridge. (Newsday / Jim Peppler)
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Ruth B. Gans, legislative aide
Ruth B. Gans, who had worked in Annapolis as a legislative aide and later for several state agencies, died Jan. 20 of a brain tumor and pneumonia at the Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Care in Brookhaven, N.Y.
The Fells Point resident was...Tags: New York City, Labor Legislation, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Colleges and Universities, Annapolis
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Marriottsville/Sykesville/Woodstock: Talented students earn Musician of the Month honors at West Friendship Elementary
The band students at West Friendship Elementary School get a kick out of seeing their names in print and teacher Amy Syversen enjoys praising them for a job well done. This week, she would like to recognize the February Musicians of the Month: Joseph...Tags: Christianity, Montgomery County (Maryland), Ceremonies, PTA, Music Industry
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Harford County Police Blotter
Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Samantha Welch, 20, of the 400 block of Ruby Drive, was charged Monday with driving while her license and privilege were revoked, displaying suspended license, possessing...Tags: Road Transportation, Rosedale (Queens, New York), Barnes & Noble, Inc., Police Arrests, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Police Blotter
Aberdeen James Emory Chapman, 28, of the 100 block of Hawkins Drive, was charged Tuesday with three fourth-degree burglary, two counts of second-degree burglary and two counts of vandalism. Sonya Nicole Risby, 20, of the first block of East Bel Air...Tags: Nottingham, Prosecution, Prisons, Stratford, Melbourne
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Setting the table for first-ever Carroll County Restaurant Week
County restaurants are hoping residents and visitors alike will sink their teeth into the first-ever Carroll County Restaurant Week, scheduled for Aug. 21-28.
Promising a wide variety of menus and deals for lunches and dinners, the goal of the...Tags: Baldwin, Dining and Drinking, Mount Airy, Restaurants, NFL Lockout (2011)
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Officials widen hunt for anthrax
Sun StaffInvestigators offered new details about the anthrax used in the deadly mail attacks yesterday, as the bacteria sickened a State Department mail worker and federal officials widened the hunt for contamination to hundreds of mailrooms and post offices along...Tags: Employees, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of State, Government Postal Delivery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Postal route in N.J. tracked
Sun StaffTRENTON, N.J. - Federal investigators descended on suburban Ewing Township yesterday, tracking a postal carrier's route where at least one of the anthrax-tainted letters that have rattled the nation in recent weeks might have been mailed. FBI agents went...Tags: Business, Hospitals and Clinics, Employees, CBS Corp., Government Postal Delivery
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2 mail workers die, 2 ill
Sun StaffThe capital region's bioterrorism crisis deepened yesterday after two employees at Washington's primary mail-handling facility died of suspected inhalation anthrax, and two others were seriously ill with the same illness. Health authorities said they...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Employees, U.S. Postal Service, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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U.S. raises terror alert
From Staff And Wire ReportsWASHINGTON - The Bush administration raised the nation's terror alert level yesterday, warning that new intelligence suggests the threat in this country that may be greater now than at any time since the Sept. 11 attacks two years ago. U.S. officials,...Tags: Weaponry, U.S. Department of State, San Francisco, Tom Ridge, Defense
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U.S. finds comfort, kinship in Bush's down-home style
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The famously informal, backslapping style that President Bush brought to Washington is being well-received in the midst of tragedy. As they recover from the shock of the terrorist attacks Sept. 11 and brace for war, many Americans say they...Tags: New York City, Regional Authority, University of Texas at Austin, White House, Terrorism
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N.Y. woman dies in head-on crash in Lakeland
A New York woman was killed Friday when the car she was driving in Lakeland went the wrong way on U.S. Highway 98 and sideswiped a van before crashing head-on into another car.
Nancy Fine-Dick, 50, of Ridge, N.Y. was the only person involved who didn't...Tags: Accidental Death, Longwood (Bronx, New York)
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Margaret Warren, 85
Margaret "Peggy" Warren died May 31, 2012, in Norwood, Mass., following a brief illness. She was 85. Born in Bethel, Conn., she was the daughter of the late Nelson Judd Washburn and Pauline K. Washburn. She graduated from Norwalk (Conn.) High School...Tags: New York City, Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), U.S. Air Force
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