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A Columbus Day tradition in Little Italy lives on
As a brisk wind blew down South President Street Sunday afternoon, 85-year-old Mary Sudano stood against a light pole leaning on a cane, a string of red, white and green beads around her neck. The Little Italy native and lifelong South High Street...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, United States Naval Academy, Roman Catholicism, Festive Events
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Saul Genendlis, city schools educator
Saul Genendlis, an advocate for special education and a retired Baltimore City schools principal and administrator, died of heart disease Sept. 25 at his Hampstead home. He was 84.
Known by his students as Mr. G., he was once the city's acting...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Mickey Rooney, Fort Meade (military base), Heart Disease, Separation of Church and State
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Mayor Schaefer musical gets second reading
William Donald Schaefer sang Baltimore's praises loudly, so it's only fitting that a new musical should be singing his.
The title of "Do It Now!" — music by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra member Jonathan Jensen, book by Baltimore-born playwright Rich...Tags: Elections, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Entertainment Events, National Aquarium Baltimore, Music Theater
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Benjamin C. Whitten, city educator
Benjamin C. Whitten, a prominent Baltimore educator and community activist who served as president of the Baltimore Urban League, died Sept. 21 of cancer at Good Samaritan Hospital. The Morgan Park resident was 89.
"Ben was a true giant in the...Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Good Samaritan Hospital (Baltimore), Penn Relays, National Aquarium Baltimore, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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In defeat, a victory for Baltimore pension reform
Baltimore's Fraternal Order of Police is celebrating what is, at most, a Pyrrhic victory in its effort to reverse the pension reforms Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the City Council enacted two years ago. Federal Judge Marvin J. Garbis' ruling that...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Pension and Welfare, Judges, Laws, Interior Policy
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Save the Mechanic
Robert Moses told Baltimore to put a highway through Mount Vernon Square. Aren't you glad Baltimore did not listen? William Donald Schaefer and every public official in Maryland wanted to put an interstate highway through Fell's Point that would have run...
Tags: Robert Moses, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Harbor East, Mount Vernon, Highway Transportation
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150 years later, preservationists see victory at Antietam
— The fighting that killed or wounded 21,000 Americans in the rolling hills of Western Maryland was over in about 12 grisly hours. But a century and a half after the bloodiest day in American military history, the struggle to preserve the ground...
Tags: Slavery, Armed Conflicts, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), National Parks
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State poised to cut Rocky Gap losses
After sinking millions of dollars into the dream of a world-class tourist destination in the mountains of Western Maryland, the state is poised to cut its losses and turn the Rocky Gap hotel and conference center over to a private company that plans to...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Rentals, George C. Edwards, Golf, Jack Nicklaus
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Tropical Storm Agnes flooded Maryland 40 years ago
Forty years later, records from Tropical Storm Agnes still stand. But the records barely tell the story. As measured at BWI Marshall Airport, June 1972 saw a record 9.95 inches of rain. June 21 and 22, meteorologists measured 2.19 inches of rain and 3.84...
Tags: Floods, Windsor Mill, Weather Reports, Ellicott City, Sykesville
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Hearings on utilities' derecho storm response scheduled
Maryland energy regulators will grill Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. officials on their cleanup after the June 29 derecho storm in a hearing scheduled for Sept. 13. Eight public hearings will meanwhile take place across the state in August, the...
Tags: Government, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Civil and Public Service, Weather Reports, St. Paul Street
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Carl Hyman, neighborhood activist
Carl S. Hyman, an executive of a firm that tests students and assesses their achievement both in the U.S. and overseas who was also a Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood activist, died of lung cancer Sept. 5 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 57.
Born in...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Culture, Social Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Lung Cancer
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Louise K. Smith, retired teacher
Louise K. Smith, a retired Harford County public school kindergarten educator and longtime volunteer, died Aug. 27 at her Havre de Grace home from complications of recent surgery. She was 84.
A daughter of an artist and a homemaker, the former Louise...Tags: Towson University, Teachers, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Teaching and Learning, Harford County
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