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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: Roman Catholicism, Comedy (genre), Christianity, Science
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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: Elementary Schools, Renee Foose, Ray Brown, Middle Schools, Public Finance
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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: Washington, DC, Vehicles, Frederick County (Virginia), Hobbies, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Engineers inspect Washington Monument in preparation for restoration
Tracy Marcotte scanned a hand-held metal detector across various spots on the base of the Washington Monument as if she were searching for gold.
But it was iron she was after. Specifically, she was searching for iron cramps that hold together stones that...Tags: War of 1812, Washington Monument, Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Place
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Dream home: Pasadena renovation creates space for growing family
In the beginning, the Pasadena home purchased by Matt and Jenny Knoepfle was not so much a dream as it was a challenge.
"This was a 1940s shore cottage [back when] people were building randomly and then adding on to their houses," said Jenny Knoepfle...Tags: Federal Hill, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Land Price, Hybrid Vehicles, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Schools get summer construction makeovers
During the school year, the halls and classrooms are filled with students and teachers. But during the summer, many schools are instead packed with construction workers. "The heavy lifting occurs during the summer," Howard County school construction...
Tags: Elementary Schools, Schools, Manufacturing and Engineering, Energy Saving, Heavy Engineering
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Catonsville pumping station getting $2.8M renovation
The severe thunderstorm that hit the metro area on June 29 caused an estimated 75,000 gallons of sewage to spill from the Frederick Road Sewage Pumping Station. Fortunately, the liquid flowed into an area designed to hold it. Had the sewage breached the...
Tags: Patapsco, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Dundalk
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Howard Hughes Corp. welcomes Whole Foods to Columbia
What Howard Hughes Corp. Senior Vice President John DeWolf called "the worst-kept secret in Howard County" was confirmed Thursday as he and other county leaders welcomed Whole Foods Market to Columbia. On Wednesday evening, the Hughes Corp. had announced...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Whole Foods Market, Arable Farming, Frank Gehry, Howard Hughes
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Group hopes to restore Peale Museum into history, architecture center
After being closed to the public for nearly two decades, a new day may be dawning for the Peale Museum on Holliday Street if its planned restoration as the Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture comes to fruition.
"I think it has lots of...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Arts, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Fort McHenry
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Report: BGE struggled to gather storm crews after derecho
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. struggled to muster the out-of-state crews from partner utilities needed to restore hundreds of thousands of power outages in the days after a deadly derecho struck June 29, the company said in a report to state energy...Tags: Ecosystems, Energy Resources, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Media Industry, Weather Reports
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Baltimore housing authority pays $3.7 million for lead paint poisoning
Baltimore's public housing agency announced Monday it has paid $3.7 million to a former public housing resident who suffered lead-paint poisoning as a young child in the 1980s. The insurance payment to plaintiff Markeath Justice, now 29, marks the...Tags: Finance, Baltimore Housing, Painting, Physical Conditions, Justice System
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Youth detainees transferred to air-conditioned building within city jail
Youths detained at the Baltimore City Detention Center were moved over the weekend into a building that has air conditioning, state officials confirmed. The move comes amid increasing concerns over conditions for juveniles charged as adults at the city...
Tags: Justice System, Substance Abuse, Trials, Safety of Citizens, Juvenile Delinquency
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