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Lucretia Fisher, city preservationist
Lucretia Billings Fisher, the leader of an early effort to save Fells Point and Federal Hill from a 1960s interstate highway, died of renal failure Friday at her Ruxton home. She was 98.
"Lu Fisher was way ahead of her time," said former Judge Thomas...Tags: National Aquarium Baltimore, Literature, Highway Transportation, Feminism, Federal Hill
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Dolores B. Canoles, highway foe and Canton activist, dies
Dolores B. Canoles, a longtime Canton neighborhood activist who joined the battle in the late 1960s that successfully defeated a proposed extension of Interstate 83 through East Baltimore and who later was a member of the city Liquor Board, died Aug. 3 of...Tags: St. Charles (Kane, Illinois), White Marsh, Road Transportation, Demonstration, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Joyce Ward, preservationist, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterJoyce McCartney Ward, an activist in historic preservation causes who helped establish the Irish Shrine in Southwest Baltimore, died of cancer Aug. 4 at her Bolton Hill home. She was 81. Born in Baltimore City of Virginia parents, Harry and Lucille...Tags: Road Transportation, Transportation, Christianity, Federal Hill, Demonstration
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Letters to the Editor: Cellphone distractions, student debt and FAMU hazing
Cellphone distractions Wednesday's article "Florida injury rate: No. 18 in U.S." was both interesting and thorough, but I was disappointed at the subtle reference to accidents "due to distracted driving" and including " new problems" such as...
Tags: European Union, Prices, Colleges and Universities, Interstate 4, Inflation and Deflation
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I-4 expansion plans in jeopardy because no-toll rule still stands
State plans to widen Interstate 4 by charging tolls to pay for new lanes could be in jeopardy because U.S. Rep. John Mica on Wednesday conceded he has not yet sold the idea to Congress.
Mica, R-Winter Park, is chairman of the House transportation...Tags: Winter Park, Road Transportation, Rick Scott, Transportation, Highway Transportation
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Lake Ivanhoe Trail progress continues
The Chain Gang - Orlando SentinelThe wide trail will run around the lake's southern and eastern edge from Magnolia Avenue north along Orange Avenue and Ivanhoe Boulevard to a dead end at Interstate 4. A city of Orlando construction map does show the trail then extending down along the... -
Bear scoped out downtown Orlando for new home | Video
FloriDUHThis young cub wanted a taste of city nightlife. A young male between 2 and 3-years-old weighing 200-250 lbs. was doing what all young male bears must do: Striking out on his own, looking for a new home, when he ended up in downtown Orlando, two blocks...Tags: Science, Natural Resources, Parramore, Endangered Species, Wildlife
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Letters to the Editor: Guns, School Board salaries and SunRail
Not safer with guns I wonder if Al Potter, who thinks Granny may have to take on Rambo (Letters, Monday), read Tina Lawson's letter on Sunday, indicating her fears about bringing her African-American son to Florida's "gun wonderland"? Lawson questions...
Tags: Rick Scott, Interior Policy, Seminole County, Personal Weapon Control, Maitland
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Red Gold donates to 2nd Harvest, unveils 3-D tomato billboard
The Dish - Orlando SentinelAmerica’s largest tomato cans arrived in Orlando today as part of a Red Gold brand billboard unveiling promotion and a donation of more than 15,000 pounds of food to Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. Red Gold Tomatoes unveiled the... -
SunRail studies who might hop aboard commuter train
With locomotives on order and tons of new track delivered, SunRail is now trying to figure who might ride the $1.2 billion commuter train. Once they come up with an answer, SunRail contractors are going to do everything they can to talk potential...
Tags: Winter Park, Road Transportation, Transportation, Orange County (Florida), Interstate 4
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Detectives say convicted rapist is responsible for more attacks
The East Side Rapist terrorized Orange County for nearly two years before, detectives say, they tracked him down and made an arrest.
Now, the man who Orange County Sheriff's Office detectives think is responsible for attacking four women faces a possible...Tags: Prosecution, Orange County Sheriff's Office, Orange County (Florida), Punishment, Criminals
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Wekiva Parkway: The long and winding mess
The deal looks better than even the amazing Ronco chicken rotisserie.
We get the 25-mile Wekiva Parkway.
Drivers get to avoid Interstate 4. Bears get to avoid drivers.
Land speculators get rich. Developers get thousands more acres to pave out in the...Tags: Road Transportation, Rick Scott, Lawyers, Political Corruption, Transportation
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Nov 19, 2011
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Aug 21, 2011
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