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'Congressional hearings' help Howard students embrace the Constitution
Being called to a congressional hearing can be an intimidating experience for national leaders, business executives and even elected officials. But Gorman Crossing Elementary School fifth-grader Tobi Arewa is getting used to it. "At first when I am...Tags: Judges, Teaching and Learning, Howard County, Students, Language
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Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary
Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...
Tags: Red Smith, Kentucky Derby, Equestrian, Churchill Downs, Triple Crown
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Sunday, May 19 Concerts The Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra will hold its final performances of the season at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at St. John's College's Key Auditorium, 60 College Ave. in Annapolis. The 3 p.m. concert features the...Tags: Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Strawberries, Softball, Music, Festive Events
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Lyric Opera Baltimore salutes Verdi bicentennial with 'Rigoletto'
The opera world has been giving a little extra attention to a couple of giants born in 1813, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. Locally, that bicentennial salute has included memorable concerts by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra featuring excerpts from...
Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Poetry, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Mount Royal, Music
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'AGT' phenom Jackie Evancho to perform with BSO
In 2010, a blond-haired girl with a sweet smile stood before the "America's Got Talent" studio audience and millions of TV viewers. The 10-year-old proceeded to sing about asking her daddy to grant her request. So far, so normal. But if the words...
Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Company You Keep (movie), Susan Boyle, America's Got Talent (tv program), Taiwan
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HCC board approves cultural diversity plan
Harford Community College officials have spent years working to improve cultural diversity on campus, leaving them well prepared to honor a state mandate to create a "plan for a program of cultural diversity." Education Article 11-406, passed by the...Tags: Towson, Teaching and Learning, Minority Groups, Harford Community College, Students
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Garden Club holds Blue Star Memorial Marker dedication
The Howard County Garden Club is holding a dedication ceremony for a Blue Star Memorial Marker on Friday, May 17 at 10 a.m. at the Howard County Welcome Center, in Ellicott City. The memorial marker is to honor service membersmen and women in all...Tags: Ceremonies
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Was 'The New Normal' truly the new normal?
The Baltimore Sun"The New Normal" was supposed to be the new normal. After "Modern Family" brought two gay dads into the spotlight on ABC, NBC was bringing audiences a show that put a gay family at its center. "The New Normal" executive producer Ryan Murphy had...Tags: The New Normal (tv program), Gays and Lesbians, NBC (tv network), Ryan Murphy, Homophobia
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Laurel Police Chief receives city's highest employee award
Laurel city employees were recognized at the 18th annual awards ceremony and luncheon May 9 at the Partnership Activity Center. Laurel Police Chief Richard McLaughlin received the Mayor's Award, the city's highest honor for employees. In presenting...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Awards and Prizes, Technology, Ceremonies
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Back Story: Arts patron revives outdoor festival in Druid Hill
Barbara Shapiro's love affair with Druid Hill Park dates to her childhood, when she passed through it daily on the way from her Ashburton home to old School 49 on Cathedral Street. And even when construction of Druid Park Lake Drive in the 1940s and...
Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Artists, Artscape, Festive Events, Arts
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CA board, not new corporation, should control Symphony Woods [Letter]
Your paper has given us, side-by-side, three glaring examples of the sheer gall and/or utter shamelessness of the proponents of CA's scrapping of Symphony Woods Park in favor of turning over control of Symphony Woods (and at least 1.6 million of our... -
Seagirt Marine Terminal's super cranes celebrated
He didn't get down on one knee, but Christopher Lee wooed his wife with a skyscraping crane she literally could call her own at the dedication of the port of Baltimore's berth capable of handling the world's largest cargo ships. As founder of Highstar...
Tags: War of 1812, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Inner Harbor, Executive Branch
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