Year in Review: June 2011

We're going through the Parkville-Overlea Patch archives, month by month, to pick out some of the most important moments in 2011.

What were the biggest moments for you? How did they change your neighborhood? Tell us in the comments.

June is, of course, graduation season — school let out for the summer, and the senior class of 2011 moved on to the "real world". Parkville-Overlea Patch was there to share in the triumph for the graduating classes of Parkville, Overlea and Loch Raven high schools.

Later in the month, the "Miracle on the Hudson" plane passed through Maryland, and Parkville-Overlea Patch editor Nick Gestido was there to snap photos as it crossed through Parkville and Overlea on I-695.

June also proved to be a good month to meet interesting people: Jim Calder Jr., a Carney native and awesome woodworker carved a bald eagle from a tree and Overlea high grad Elias Bouloubassis boxed at the DuBurns Arena.

In news from the schools, teachers at Villa Cresta hosted a fundraiser for breast cancer research at Red Brick Station and we learned about a number of administrative positions that were to change hands for the 2011-2012 school year.

Finally, in unhappy news for all the families who celebrate "pizza night", Dominick's on Harford Road caught fire — fortunately the Perry Hall location was available to pick up the slack, and delivered to Parkville while the store was rebuilt.