MARYLAND BRIEFING
MARYLAND BRIEFING
County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) announced that Montgomery County will host the 2008 Maryland Senior Olympics.
(By Lucian Perkins -- The Washington Post)
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Ex-State Official Picked for Environment Chief
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) tapped Robert G. Hoyt, a former assistant secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment, yesterday to serve as his environment chief.
Hoyt, 56, co-founded EcoLogix Group in Annapolis, which provides strategic environmental planning to companies and government agencies. For five years before serving in state government, Hoyt worked for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
His appointment to lead the county's Department of Environmental Protection would fill the last major vacancy in Leggett's administration. Leggett said yesterday that the search was prolonged because of his interest in finding someone with the right "environmental credentials and credibility."
Environmentalists praised Hoyt's track record. Dolores Milmoe of the Audubon Naturalist Society said the department "needs a very strong environmentally sensitive leader, and Mr. Hoyt fits the bill."
Hoyt replaces James A. Caldwell, who was among the appointees of former county executive Douglas M. Duncan fired soon after Leggett took office. If confirmed by the County Council, Hoyt would be paid $176,000.
-- Ann E. Marimow
2 Charged in Sligo Creek Park Stabbing Death
Montgomery County police charged two men over the weekend in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 41-year-old Laurel man whose body was found Nov. 11 in Sligo Creek Park, authorities said yesterday.
Antonio Rivera-Contreras, 25, of Laurel and Miguel Gomes, 21, of Windsor Mill, Md., were charged with first-degree murder. Police say the men confronted Julio Alvarado about a recent arson in Laurel in which Alvarado was a suspect. The night of Nov. 10, the two men drove Alvarado to Sligo Creek Park, where Rivera-Contreras, also known as Antonio Escobar Rivera, stabbed him and then fled with Gomes, according to police.
Police say Alvarado was a suspect in a July 22 arson at a garden apartment building in the 14800 block of Bowie Road in Laurel. The fire displaced hundreds of people but caused no serious injuries, Prince George's County fire department spokesman Mark Brady said.
-- Ernesto Londoño
County Is New Home for State Senior Olympics
Montgomery County will be the new host of the Maryland Senior Olympics beginning next fall, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) announced at a news conference yesterday.
The annual event, held for its first 26 years during the fall at Towson University and last spring at Salisbury University as part of the Eastern Shore Games, attracts about 2,000 athletes older than 50.
