Martha “Marty” Bailey Schmidt Lanham, 75, of Westminster, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 21, 2023, at her home. She was the cherished wife of Dr. Howard G. Lanham, whom
Former West Virginia trainer Harry Dodson of Martinsburg, WVa., is the subject of a criminal complaint of 14 counts of animal cruelty filed in local court in March. The complaint details a weeks-long investigation by animal control authorities into repeated complaints about the condition of horses – some of them former racehorses – in Dodson’s care.
Kathleen Schwartz Howe, founder and former executive director of Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rehabilitating neglected horses, died at Forest Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Catonsville on March 6 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 71.