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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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Patricia E. Sadowski, reading specialist
Patricia E. Sadowski, a retired Baltimore County public schools reading specialist and music lover, died Sunday from congestive heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 76. "Pat worked with children who were...
Tags: Dyslexia, Perry Hall, Heart Failure, Greenwich, Carney (music group)
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Harford County Police blotter: Street lights shot out in Forest Hill
Aberdeen Aberdeen police report: A man was exposing himself Thursday at Route 22 and Beards Hill Road. A theft was reported Thursday in the 600 block of West Bel Air Avenue. Construction equipment was stolen at the pumping station in the 300 block...Tags: Theft, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Vandalism, Prosecution, Shootings
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday
WEATHER The National Weather Service is calling for Friday to be mostly sunny, with a high near 93 and south winds 5 to 8 miles per hour in the morning. Friday night is expected to be partly cloudy, with a low around 75. Saturday is expected to be...
Tags: Carrollton, Barack Obama, Baltimore Weather, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees
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Glenwood: Plenty on the plate for Girl Scout Troop 4503
Members of Junior Girl Scout Troop 4503 of Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School have been busy over the past year earning their Bronze Award. The girls completed their Agent of Change Journey, as well as a variety of Service Projects of Helping the...Tags: Autism, New York City, Howard County, Ellicott City
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Harford County Police Reports: Tombstones knocked over at Grove Presbyterian Cemetery
Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Aberdeen police report: Justin Corey Griffith, 25, who has addresses in the first block of Lewis Drive and the 600 block of Carsins Run Road, was arrested on a bench warrant...Tags: Theft, Rosedale (Queens, New York), Juvenile Delinquency, Harford County, Rosedale (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Harford County Police Blotter
Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Alexander Isaac Brown, 49, who has addresses in the 200 block of Engle Avenue and the first block of Norman Avenue, was arrested on a bench warrant Thursday in a case in...Tags: Theft, Harford County, Police Arrests, Property, Oxford (Talbot, Maryland)
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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: Animals, Music Industry, University of Maryland, College Park, Montgomery County (Maryland), Awards and Prizes
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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: Colleges and Universities, University of Baltimore, Mount Royal, Pneumonia, Labor Legislation
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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: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Baldwin, Restaurants, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Bars and Clubs
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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: Theft, Juvenile Delinquency, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Melbourne, Police Arrests
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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: White House, Tom Ridge, The Washington Post, Defense, Medical Research
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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: Symptoms, White House, Tom Ridge, Atlanta, Defense
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