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Bob Isennock rakes out a truckload of leaves at the Northern Landfill in Westminster Wednesday. Leaf pick-ups are scheduled throughout the county over the next couple of weeks.

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BY MEGAN MCKEEVERTIMES STAFF WRITER

After rain and winds swept throughthe area Tuesday night, leaves are lit-tering lawns and streets throughoutCarroll. For most municipalities in thecounty there are only a few weeks leftfor leaf collection.

The town of Sykesville, which picksup leaves each Friday in the fall, willhold its last curbside leaf collectionthis Friday, Town Clerk Janice Perraultsaid.

In Westminster, city officials have

yet to announce their last day for leafcollection this year. Pickups are sched-

uled on Monday for zone 4, Tuesdayfor zone 2, Thursday for zones 3 and 5and Friday for zone 1 and the Village ofMeadow Creek, according to West-minsters Department of Public Works.

Leaves can also be raked into thegutter the day before pickup, however,leaves should not be placed in guttersduring inclement weather, as it willblock the drainage system, said LarryBloom, Westminsters Superintendentof City Streets.

Residents are also asked to remem-ber that burning of leaves is prohibited

in city limits, he said.In Taneytown, the last day for curb-

side leaf collection will be Dec. 7 andresidents are asked to pack leaves inplastic bags and place them outside by7:30 a.m.

Bags must be tied and should weighno more than 30 pounds. Residentsshould make sure not to include sod otree branches, as bags with those itemswill not be picked up.

Mount Airy will pick up leaves andother yard waste through Dec. 11, ac-cording to its Sanitation and RecyclingCommittee.

In New Windsor, leaf collection willcontinue Monday to Thursday through

Baltimore

residentsentencedin shooting

BY RYAN MARSHALLTIMES STAFF WRITER

A Baltimore man will serve nearly a year at theCarroll County Detention Center for his role in a

ebruary shooting at a Westminster apartmentcomplex.

Dominique Keyser, 20, was sen-tenced at a hearing Wednesday inCarroll County Circuit Court.udge Thomas F. Stansfield sen-

tenced Keyser to 10 years in prisonon one count of first-degree as-sault for taking part in the Feb. 2shooting at Westminsters BishopsGarth apartment complex, thensuspended all but 18 months of thesentence.

Keyser didnt speak during the brief hearing.ell get credit for the time hes served since

being returned to Carroll County on Feb. 24 fol-lowing his arrest in New Jersey. Once hes re-leased from jail, hell face five years ofsupervised probation.

Keyser was sentenced as part of a plea dealwith prosecutors in exchange for his cooperationand testimony against Kashon Harris, who wasconvicted in September of being the gunman inthe incident.

According to testimony at Harris trial, Harriswas involved in a dispute with Corey Williamsand Kenneth Spaulding at the Bishops Garth

Keyser to serve nearly one

year for February incident

Tax lienplacedonmediacenter

BY CHRISTIAN ALEXANDERSENTIMES STAFF WRITER

The Community Media Center ofCarroll County plans to have all tax is-sues handled by the end of the year

after the Internal Revenue Serviceplaced federal tax liens on the non-profit organizations property earlierthis year.

The IRS reported the media centerhad an unpaid balance of $99,882.87from Dec. 31, 2006, to Dec. 31, 2009,according to U.S. Department ofTreasury documents.

According to the IRSs website, a

lien gives the IRS claim to the prop-erty as security or payment for a par-ticular persons or organizations taxdebt. The lien attaches to all of the or-ganizations property and all their

rights to property.Marion Ware, executive director ofthe media center, said the organizationwas notified about the issues in Juneand has been working to resolve them.

The tax problems stem from a con-tractual employee that misfiled per-sonnel tax forms, Ware said.

When the mistake was pointed outto the media center by the IRS, Ware

said the employee was fired.The media center, a nonprofit or-

ganization that provides a sharedbroadcast-production facility for fivelocal television channels, has hired atax firm to go through the personneltax filings.

Ware said the forms were originally

filed incorrectly and just need to beresubmitted to the IRS for review.

The amount for the tax lien, Waresaid, is the amount included in themisfiled personnel forms.

When the corrections are made,Ware said, the media center wont faceany monetary penalties.

Board of Commissioners accepts sustainability plan

BY CARRIE ANN KNAUERTIMES STAFF WRITER

The next Carroll County Board of Com-missioners will have the choice to imple-ment any of the suggested steps in the

arroll County Sustainability Plan after theutgoing board voted 2-to- 1 Wednesday toccept it.County Sustainability Director Neilidgely and sustainability committeeember John Modica presented an

mended version of the plan to the com-

missioners Wednesday, after severalcommittee members had presented theoriginal version Oct. 28.

The only change in the second versionof the plan was the removal of a para-graph that questioned the sustainabilityof the countys plans to partner withFrederick County to build a waste-to-energy incinerator.

The paragraph that was removed, thecommittee felt, was the only one that ap-proached anything that had a politicalstatement in it, so we were very comfort-

able in taking that out, Ridgely said.There are no comments in this reportthat have anything to do with polar bearsor icebergs, and we didnt ask Mr. Al Goreto come in and write any paragraphs init.

The main focus of the plan is to high-light the existing efforts by the countyand state at promoting sustainability andsuggesting new ways to promote thoseprograms and ideas, listing goals in vari-ous topics with possible future steps toachieve those goals.

Commissioner Dean Minnich said he ap-preciated the document and the more than

a year of time the committee members putinto drafting it.

Minnichsaid he was also glad that the in-cinerator language was removed because hedid not want the sustainability plan to beviewed as a political document, but ratheas a guideline for future discussions and de-cisions.

This is doable because itsflexible, Min-nich said. Its not a manifesto. It is a voicethat says these thingsneed to be discussed;

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Please see Leaves, A

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Please see Center, A

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Towns issue final leaf pickups for end ofNovember, early December

Nonprofit: Problems stem from misfiled forms

Final draft excludes paragraph questioning countys plans for incinerator

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