Subway hires locally, opens Hereford store

You may not see Jared Fogle, the guy in the Subway commercials, in Hereford -- but you will see a lot of people walking to their cars carrying Subway sandwiches in bags.

A Subway store opened June 16 in the Village Plaza, a building owned by Carl Yarema at 107 Mount Carmel Road.

The store is the 15th opened by Ray Burrows, of Abingdon.

He said he had heard from a mutual friend that Yarema had space available.

The Hereford Subway is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week.

"We haven't even been open a week, but business has been great," Burrows said.

The store's eight to 10 part-time employees are local, he said; managers rotate among various locations.

Rotary breaks ground for project in Monkton

Officials with the Rotary Club of Hunt Valley and Civic Works, a job-training program in Baltimore, broke ground June 16 for improvements to a rest stop on the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail, formerly the NCR Trail, in Monkton.

The rest stop, just north of the old Monkton train station, will be paved with engraved bricks that Rotary Club members sold to individuals and businesses to raise money for the project.

Civic Works is installing a frost-proof water fountain and two benches on the trail, which is popular with walkers, runners, bicyclists and equestrians.

The fountain will be similar to one the Rotary Club installed at the trail's Paper Mill Road parking lot in 2005. The fountain has three faucets -- ground level for pets, mid-level for children or people in wheelchairs, and a top level for others.

The project should be completed before summer's end, said Suzanne Amos, a vice president with the Rotary Club.

"The area will be tastefully landscaped with plantings local to the area, and the historic nature of the Monkton area will not be disturbed in any way," she said.

Helicopter evacuates woman after injury

County rescue teams evacuated a woman June 23 from the Gunpowder Falls State Park in Parkton after she suffered a minor injury.

While walking on a trail near Falls Road, the woman bent down to pick up her dog and suffered an unspecified injury, said Elise Armacost, spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Fire Department. She then sat on a rock and called 911, Armacost said.

Firefighters from Parkton and Hereford responded, along with members of the county's advanced tactical rescue team, based in Cockeysville. County police used a recently acquired helicopter to move the woman from rough terrain to an ambulance that took her to Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Armacost said.

Unlocked cars, thefts form pattern in Sparks

County police are urging residents of Loveton Farms in Sparks to lock their cars after a rash of thefts from unlocked vehicles.

The thefts occurred in the first two weeks of June at Loveton Farms, as well as in Timonium and Towson, said Capt. Marty Lurz, commander of the police department's Cockeysville Precinct.

A gray or green van or gray Chevrolet Suburban with dual exhaust pipes and custom wheel rims may have been involved, he said.

"The common denominator with all of these thefts is that in the vast majority of cases, the car doors were left unlocked. That allows quick, easy and quiet access into the vehicle," Lurz said in an e-mail to residents and community groups.

Anyone with information about the thefts may call the precinct's Investigative Services Team at 410-887-1823. Police ask anyone who sees suspicious vehicles or activity to dial 911 immediately.

Parkton resident held, charged in burglary

A 38-year-old Parkton man is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center, awaiting a hearing on burglary and theft charges.

William Openshaw, of the 1300 block of Dairy Road, is charged with the June 8 burglary of a home on Spooks Hill Road in Parkton. Openshaw allegedly removed a leaf blower and a chain saw from the home around 11:13 a.m. Both items were recovered nearby, according to a police report.

Openshaw is charged with one count each of second-degree burglary and theft of items valued under $500.

He is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 3 at 8:30 a.m. in District Court in Towson.

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