Five anonymous bidders wanted the rusty “spark plug,” so-called for its cylinder base and 70-foot tower, three miles off the coast of Dorchester County. In the end, someone paid $192,000.
Timothy W. Edlund, a former professor at Morgan State University’s Graves School of Business and Management and avid sailor, died from complications of dementia on Dec. 13 at FutureCare Lochearn in Baltimore. The Homewood resident was 92.