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Building new Rodgers Forge Elementary among overcrowding solutions
The suggestion of building a new 700-seat elementary school to replace Rodgers Forge Elementary in Towson was made during a meeting held Thursday evening to address Towson's elementary school overcrowding problem. The meeting held at Carver Center was...
Tags: Elementary Schools, PTA, Teaching and Learning, Towson, Timonium
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Letter: Past provides lesson for solution to Catonsville school overcrowding
Learn from past for answers to overcrowding We have all heard, "If you don't learn from history, you are destined to repeat it." We must learn from events 18 years ago when citizens wanted the (County Executive Dutch) Ruppersberger Administration to...Tags: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Schools, Catonsville
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Measure would reduce open-space fees for Balto. Co. developers
The Baltimore County Council could vote next week to reduce fees that developers pay to help the county build parks and buy recreational land. A council resolution would lower — in some cases by nearly 90 percent — so-called open-space waiver...
Tags: Todd Huff, David Marks, Tom Quirk, Lobbying, Dundalk
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Officials' phone records show political, personal contacts
Days before last November’s election, Gov. Martin O’Malley used his cellphone to call Jim Murren, the chief executive of MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas. The two talked for 11 minutes that Sunday. Not surprisingly, the topic was the...
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Executive Branch, Elections, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Baltimore Police Department
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County is making right call on the Mays Chapel school [Letter]
County Executive Kevin Kamenetz deserves thanks for his leadership on the new school in Mays Chapel. It's disheartening to see baby boomers, most of whom benefited from public education (and a boom in school construction), refuse to support the needs of...Tags: David Marks
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County Executive Kamenetz speaks with forked tongue [Letter]
A truly ironic position by our County Executive Kevin Kamenetz who proclaims the environmental positives of trees (Towson Times, May 1, "Kamenetz plans to increase county forest county canopy") yet makes the decision to destroy 10 acres of hardwood... -
Fallen Heroes of Maryland deserve our respect and attention [Editorial]
Sometimes, it's easy to pay no attention. Life goes smoothly when you disregard that which is heartbreaking. Even when sacrifices are made on your behalf, no need to share in someone else's pain. But there are times when we are asked, for a little...
Tags: Fires, Baltimore County
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Meeting scheduled to address overcrowding at Towson elementaries
Parents at five Towson schools were informed Wednesday of an input meeting that school officials say will begin the process of dealing with the area's crowded elementary schools. The meeting, which a school system spokesman called an "input work...
Tags: Elementary Schools, Teaching and Learning, Todd Huff, David Marks, Finance
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Hillcrest Elementary goes green twofold
Though Earth Day has come and gone, Hillcrest Elementary School is continuing the green movement through a new and old program. The school was hosting an official ribbon cutting for its new outdoor courtyard classroom on Thursday, May 9, and will host...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Gardening, Pumpkin, Students, Tom Quirk
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Why can't today's pols be more like the Founding Fathers?
Where has honor gone? The Founding Fathers knew what it meant to serve the people first, and with honor, not in hopes of financial kickbacks or political favors. Yet in 2013 I am distraught by the lack of honor shown by our public servants. I think of...
Tags: Dundalk, Todd Huff, Martin O'Malley
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Rawlings-Blake victorious in United Way healthy cooking contest
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz hosted a set of powerful peers for a healthy cooking competition at the Hunt Valley Wegmans Wednesday, but home field advantage wasn't enough to top his counterpart from Baltimore City. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-...
Tags: Laura Neuman, Hunt Valley, Dining and Drinking, Tony Foreman, Healthy Diet
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Baltimore County Fire Department's dangerous understaffing
Over two years have passed since firefighter Mark Falkenhan was killed at an apartment fire on Dowling Circle in Towson. His death resulted, in part, from a collapse of the Incident Command System (ICS), when first-arriving units were faced with heavy...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Fires, Towson, Prince George's County
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