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Richard D. Pickens
Richard D. Pickens, owner of a Crofton interior design firm who lived in Union Square, where he served as president of the Friends of the H.L. Mencken House, died Tuesday of stomach cancer at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
He was 50.
"I was dumbfounded...Tags: House and Home, Business Enterprises, Smithsonian Institution, Baltimore County, Nashua Corporation
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County Board of Estimates approves software contracts, stream restoration
Two contracts requested by Harford County's information and communication technology department were approved Thursday by the Harford County Board of Estimates. The contracts, however, are for management systems that affect the entire county....Tags: Harford County, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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Back Story: Restoration of Homewood nearly complete
North Charles Street motorists, bikers and walkers will notice that the scaffolding that has masked the elegant south portico of historic Homewood Museum since late last fall has been removed, revealing a dazzling and historically accurate restoration....Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Charles Street, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), Druid Hill, Architecture
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Sondheim Artscape Prize exhibit moves to Walters
The finalists' exhibit and awards ceremony of the annual Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize will move from the Baltimore Museum of Art, where it has been held since the inaugural competition in 2005, to the Walters Art Museum next year. The...
Tags: Ceremonies, Baltimore Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Awards and Prizes, Arts
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Charming changes give home personality, but family gives it meaning
Lynn and Scott Wegner are used to people telling them theirs is the most unusual home in the Towson neighborhood of Chartleigh. They agree wholeheartedly, even as they enjoy the multiple renovations they have made since purchasing 1950s split-level back... -
Renovated 13th Floor dazzles
Sitting atop the Belvedere like a brilliant Christmas ornament, the recently renovated 13th Floor will likely impress first-timers the moment its elevator doors open to the intimate space. First, they'll wonder: Is this view really of Baltimore? Then: Is...
Tags: Fells Point, Music, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Federal Hill
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Board opts for Longfellow renovations over new Faulkner Ridge
The Board of Education Thursday opted to renovate Longfellow Elementary School in phases, with the students still in the building, rather than build a new school on the site of the Faulkner Ridge Center. Building a replacement school would cost more than...Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Schools, Elementary Schools
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Maryland House's historic art to be preserved, but won't return
The Maryland House on I-95 near Aberdeen may be known more for its fast food and bevy of bathrooms than for fine artwork, but its murals portraying Maryland history, that have adorned the travel plaza for more than 40 years, have a significant history...
Tags: Biography (genre), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lobbying, Bucks County, Arts
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Editorial: School construction selection process is broken
As communities in Harford County have begun squaring off to push for rebuilding one or another school, members of the Harford County Board of Education have begun to lament what they're calling a broken and politicized process for setting school...Tags: Elections, Havre de Grace, Homes, Public Officials, Executive Branch
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Humorist returns to stage of her youth
In her senior year at the Catholic High School of Baltimore, Michele "Wojo" Wojciechowski performed her first stand-up comedy routine. She wrote the jokes and found she liked delivering them to a crowd. "I love making people laugh," she said. "Writing...
Tags: Science, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Comedy (genre)
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Schools' capital budget request up $30 million from this year
The cost of school construction is rising, the Board of Education was warned Thursday night, as Superintendent Renee Foose presented her $107.3 million capital budget request for fiscal year 2014, which means projects will cost more to build. "I want...Tags: Renee Foose, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Schools, Ray Brown
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ReinCARnation: Union Bridge company resurrects vintage vehicles from the scrap heap
John Tokar, owner of Vintage Restorations Limited, in Union Bridge, started tinkering with British cars in 1969 when he was a teen in Bayonne, N.J., and his uncle sold him a 1959 Hillman Minx for $50. "It needed a clutch, so I got involved in working...
Tags: Vehicles, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Frederick County (Virginia), Hobbies, Washington, DC
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