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For a park, Druid Hill certainly has an abundance of features to keep its visitors busy. Pathways wind through the park's 745 acres and treat those who tread its grounds to what seems like a quiet oasis in the middle of one of the East Coast's most popular metropolises. Foremost of the treasures hiding within the bounds of Druid Hill is the Maryland Zoo, formerly known as the Baltimore Zoo. Opened in 1876, the small zoo saw moderate traffic until it was beset by financial troubles following a major cosmetic overhaul that was designed to boost the number of visitors and make the zoo more visually appealing.
For a park, Druid Hill certainly has an abundance of features to keep its visitors busy. Pathways wind through the park's 745 acres and treat those who tread its grounds to what seems like a quiet oasis in the middle of one of the East Coast's most popular metropolises. Foremost of the treasures hiding within the bounds of Druid Hill is the Maryland Zoo, formerly known as the Baltimore Zoo. Opened in 1876, the small zoo saw moderate traffic until it was beset by financial troubles following a major cosmetic overhaul that was designed to boost the number of visitors and make the zoo more visually appealing.
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Police Blotter
Baltimore Sun reporterPolice reports in Baltimore city and county Northeastern Baltimore Victim identified Police identified Wednesday the man found stabbed in the upper body in the 1500 block of Montpelier St. in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood about 5 a.m....Tags: Vehicles, Defense, Hospitals and Clinics, Prosecution, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Street becomes mall for strollers on an autumn morning
For five hours of a perfect autumn morning, half of Roland Avenue went to the dogs. To the bikes. To the runners and the walkers and the stand-around-and-schmoozers. And the skateboards, baby carriages, wagons, skates, at least one unicycle and a three-...Tags: Dog (animal), Vehicles, San Francisco, Charles Village, Portland (Multnomah, Oregon)
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Making pesto before the frost is on the basil
As soon as the first snowflake falls in Garrett County, basil plants in Baltimore fold for the season. That is an exaggeration, but only a slight one.
Basil is a weather wimp, the first plant to swoon when the temperatures dip near freezing, if only...Tags: Mount Washington, Butter, Cheese, Ice Cream, Garlic
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Goats aren't new to Druid Hill Park
The Sun's front-page story about goats clearing Druid Hill Park ("Riding herd on weeds," Oct. 10) could have used some historical perspective. As Eden Unger Bowditch and Anne Draddy show with pictures in their recent book about Druid Hill Park, that's...Tags: World War II (1939-1945)
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Goats help planned rec center take a bite toward progress
The decrepit mansion once served as home to the president of the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, but two decades of brush has grown and, along with vandals, has made it uninhabitable.
Cue the goats.
In what's the first step to a $10 million project to...Tags: Animals, Energy Saving, Maryland Zoo Baltimore
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Changing lives, one car at a time
Sheila Horsey used to leave her South Baltimore home at dawn and board the first of four buses with her young daughter. The pair rode two buses together to the 9-year-old's school, and Horsey took two more buses to her job near Druid Hill Park. The end of...Tags: Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Family, Vehicles, Halethorpe, Charity
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Bethel AME congregation returning to repaired church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has been holding worship services in a synagogue since a July 1 lightning strike damaged its historic building, plans to head back home next week, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The church is set to return...Tags: Christianity, Judaism, Anglican
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City police respond to 9 shootings, 2 of them fatal
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III huddled with commanders on Saturday to plot a strategy in response to at least nine shootings in a 24-hour period. Two of the shootings were deadly, police said. Detectives are trying to...Tags: Legs, Murder, Hospitals and Clinics
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Martha E. Rhodes, sales associate
Martha E. Rhodes, a former department store sales associate who earlier had been a beautician, died of heart failure Saturday at St. Elizabeth Nursing Home in Southwest Baltimore.
She was 100.
Martha E. Hall, the daughter of a chauffeur and a homemaker,...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Sales, Catonsville, Death and Dying
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Zoo raises weekday ticket prices
Baltimore Sun reporterThe price of a weekday adult admission to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore will rise by $2, a move administrators say will help compensate for a drop in revenues received from the state, county and city governments. The new entry tab will rise from $11 to...Tags: People, National Government, Adults, Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Government
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