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Volunteers help rebuild playground for formerly homeless children
A team of 90 volunteers painted and cleaned the playground at the Pratt House this week to prepare the site for an overhaul next month. College students, part of Students Today Leaders Forever, joined Volunteers of America Chesapeake to enhance the...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Teaching and Learning, Students, Volunteers of America
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Harriet Tubman park to be on Maryland land she worked as a slave
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman's struggle to help roughly 70 slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad was remembered on Saturday at the groundbreaking of a Maryland state park in her honor. An escaped slave herself, Tubman toiled in bondage...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Wildlife, Transportation, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Dorchester County
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Lions Club taking pictures for charity [Perryville]
The Perryville Lions Club will be taking pictures of children, adults or pets on March 23 and 30 at the Perryville Outlet, Store 39, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Donation of $5 each. All you can eat breakfast is served at Harmony Lodge on Jacob Tome Highway...Tags: Family, Korean War (1950-1953), Kensington, High School Sports, Cecil County
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Pie, breakfast, bingo and chili for charity [Perryville]
A soup and pie sale will be held at Hopewell United Methodist Church on Saturday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please note that the Perryville United Methodist Church has canceled its chicken pot pie sale until further notice. An all you can eat...Tags: Conservation, Soups, Christianity, Culture, Port Deposit
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Blood drive coming to Our Lady of Perpetual Help [Ellicott City]
Ed Parvis, president of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church's St Vincent Society, informed me that the church hosts a Red Cross Blood Drive on Sunday, March 3, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Harrison Hall. To schedule an appointment, contact Lori Merl at 410-...
Tags: Ellicott City, Auction Service, Senior Health, Medicare, Howard Community College
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Harford hopes to improve parks, recreations areas for the public
In its Land Preservation, Parks and Recreation Plan, Harford County hopes to add recreational opportunities and facilities to meet the needs of the public, provide and healthy opportunities for county residents, acquire additional land for recreation...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Land Resources, Conservation, Agriculture, Harford County
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Cycling advocates find a lot to like in state, local bikeway plans
Proponents of pedaling Maryland's streets and trails say they've covered a lot of ground in their efforts to increase bicycling opportunities, but there's also much more to do.
"I'd give the city a B-plus and the state a B," said Carol Silldorff,...Tags: Cycling, Conservation, Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Government
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R. Lucille Eliasberg, former executive assistant at Roland Park Country School
R. Lucille Eliasberg, a former executive assistant at the Roland Park Country School who was known equally for her charm and toughness, will be remembered Saturday at the school where her daughter and granddaughter followed her. Ms. Eliasberg died of...
Tags: Charles Street, Howard County, Anglicanism, Timonium, Christianity
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New proposal for Columbia
Decades ago, developer James W. Rouse looked at a rundown industrial waterfront in downtown Baltimore and saw the makings of an attraction called Harborplace at the Inner Harbor. Now a former Rouse employee looks at an expanse of woods in downtown...Tags: Harborplace, Culture, Inner Harbor, Ken Ulman, Sculpture
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Symphony Woods Park should create a community meeting place [Commentary]
In 2010, the Columbia Association retained an outstanding firm of landscape architects to prepare a master plan for Symphony Woods Park. The plan that evolved over a two-year period reflects the creative talent of a team of landscape architects and...Tags: Howard Hughes, Tourism and Leisure, Cultural Development, Investments, Culture
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Commentary: Ah, Fallston is a wild(life) place, indeed
By far my favorite headline of the year just ended was: "Ah, the wilds of Fallston," written tongue-in-cheek, no doubt, by my colleague Jim Kennedy for our story about Aumar Village developer Mike Euler's plan to put an RV park on one side of the shopping...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Game, State Parks
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In Pleasant Valley, it's not hard to gauge train garden's attraction
For many Carroll residents, a visit to the Pleasant Valley Christmas Train Garden is a touchstone of the holiday season that brings them back year after year. And each year for the past 30 years, there have been others who discover the garden's magic...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Holidays, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Sykesville, Trips and Vacations
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