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Digest: Ripken Foundation sets 7K 'Streak Thru Aberdeen' Sept. 6

Running

Esther Williams dies at 91; athletic star of aquatic musicals

The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite costar.

Charlie Singer is 'stoked' to be part of crew for Annapolis to Newport Race

Lutherville native Charlie Singer is juggling school and a lifelong dream.

Baltimore's parks slip to 21st in nation

Baltimore's park system has slipped from 15th to 21st in an expanded ranking of open space in the nation's 50 largest cities with relatively low funding cited as a continuing problem.

Dismal shad run puts Conowingo Dam in crosshairs

It's been a busy but ultimately disappointing spring for the crew that runs the big fish lift at Conowingo Dam.

Milford Mill Swim Club going to auction this month

The Milford Mill Swim Club, where generations of Baltimoreans cooled off during the summer heat, is going to auction later this month.

Erika Brannock home from Boston [Video]

Harbor's water quality rated C-minus - with an asterisk

Despite a foul-smelling algae bloom and fish kill this time last year, Baltimore's ailing harbor actually earned a C-minus grade overall for water quality in 2012, according to the latest ecological report card issued by the

Rock Creek residents help grow oysters

As gulls and cormorants perched on the walls of Fort Carroll looked on, a crabbing boat stopped long enough to jettison 30 bushel baskets of very special oyster shells into the Patapsco River.

Don Backe Memorial CRAB Cup taking place this weekend in Annapolis

A two-day regatta for disabled sailors takes place this weekend in Annapolis. The Don Backe Memorial CRAB Cup, hosted by the Annapolis Yacht Club, honors the memory of the Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating's founder and former executive director.

For Joe Datsko, 92, cycling has helped him lead 'more active, longer life'

Joe Datsko was an admitted workaholic for the first 25 years of a 47-year career as a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan. Datsko likes to say that until he was in his early 50s "most of my exercise was writing on a blackboard."