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From Sun Magazine: When architects build a marriage — and design a home
Architects live and breathe design, blissfully losing themselves in details most people would never notice — the bevel of a trim, the way light falls across a room, squared legs or curved.
So what happens, we wondered, when two such aesthetes...Tags: University of Cincinnati, Craigslist, Inc., Fells Point, Architecture, Arts
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Letter: New Symphony Woods Park will have 'lots of trees'
Symphony Woods Park is one of the Columbia Association's greatest open space system assets, and I, the Registered Landscape Architect at CA, and others are doing our best to ensure that it becomes a great park for the community. In last week's Flier,...Tags: Music, Forests, Music, Culture, Natural Resources
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Bidding for Rio — and beyond
What figures to be golf's most scrutinized new course could have its architect by the end of the week. The eight finalists for the 2016 Rio Olympics design project — a list that includes Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Annika Sorenstam and Gary...Tags: Greg Norman, Annika Sorenstam, Diabetes, Gary Player, National Hockey League
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Boy Scouts seek land in process dating to Colonial era
The 19 wooded acres in northern Harford County blend in well with the sprawling Boy Scouts campground that surrounds it.
But on state tax rolls, the tract essentially doesn't exist. No owner is listed — a rarity in Maryland — and as the Boy...Tags: Social Organizations, Harford County, Clubs and Associations, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Baltimore's green necklace
When people think of Baltimore, things such as the aquarium, Camden Yards, the Ravens, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and perhaps past crime shows immediately come to mind. But I believe we have another asset that is unappreciated...Tags: Conservation, Hospitals and Clinics, Cook County Forest Preserve, Inner Harbor, Patapsco
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Councilman Miller questions Havre de Grace's proposed forest conservation law
At Havre de Grace's first city council meeting of 2012 held Tuesday because of Monday's New Year's holiday, City Councilman James Miller raised question about a forest conservation ordinance he introduced during the council's Dec. 19 meeting. The city...Tags: Conservation, Conservation, Havre de Grace
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Nearly $2 million in grants to restore Eastern Shore habitat
Nearly $2 million in federal grants have been awarded to protect and restore wetlands on the Eastern Shore, including a portion to enhance wildlife habitat on a 950-acre former bird sanctuary whose owner just donated the development rights to the state....Tags: Ken Salazar, Farms, Charity, Natural Resources, Anne Arundel County
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Members fret over Balto. Co. plans to close Essex Skypark
Tom Katzenberger calls the Essex Skypark "a blue-collar airport" — a place where the pilots have dirt under their fingernails.
"All of us change our own oil," said Katzenberger, who owns a small concrete construction company and flies a 1996 Maule,...Tags: Local Government, Kevin Kamenetz, Forests, Baltimore County, Natural Resources
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Havre de Grace City Council passes forest conservation ordinance
The city of Havre de Grace has 200 more acres in forest preservation than neighboring Aberdeen, a Havre de Grace councilman pointed out Tuesday night as the city council approved a forest conservation ordinance. The Havre de Grace City Council...Tags: Conservation, Conservation, Havre de Grace, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Robert W. "Bob" Roche, relief worker
Robert W. "Bob" Roche, a former Peace Corps volunteer who later worked in Africa with Catholic Relief Services, died Jan. 12 of undetermined causes at Sanctuary at Holy Cross, a Burtonsville senior living community.
The Columbia resident was 61.
"We are...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Ellicott City, Peace Corps, Roman Catholicism, Colleges and Universities
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To save the bay, save the trees
What can we say about the half-acre of stream valley forest that developer William Tarbutton recently, blatantly bulldozed near Federalsburg on Maryland's Eastern Shore?
He will likely be fined by the Maryland Department of the Environment, which has...Tags: Conservation, Sprague, Harvard University, Punishment, Agriculture
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O'Malley proposes major renovations at state parks
Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to spend nearly $23 million to improve Maryland's often-maligned state parks, proposing widespread renovations for a system that critics say has been deteriorating for more than a decade.
The money would go toward highly...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Government, Executive Branch, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Dorchester County
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