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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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Bealefeld defends crime-fighting strategies
Despite the city's surpassing 200 homicides after a spell of shootings and killings over the weekend, Baltimore's police commissioner said he is pleased with the overall numbers, which closely mirror those from a year ago. The city's 234 homicides in...Tags: Death and Dying, Murder, Assault, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics
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No suspects in city shooting that leaves one dead
Officers patrolling North and Druid Hill avenues at 12 :45 a.m. Saturday, heard shots coming from the 2800 block of Druid Hill Ave., said police spokesman Donny Moses. "The victim was Sammie McCullough Jr., 36, who was found sitting in a 2003 Honda with...Tags: Assault
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Two fatally shot in city as homicide count surpasses 200
Baltimore Sun reporterThe city's homicide total surpassed 200 Sunday night after an 18-year-old man was killed in East Baltimore and a 25-year-old man was shot to death in West Baltimore, according to police. Officers found the East Baltimore victim in the 1900 block of E....Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Death and Dying, Murder, Assault, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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They're going to Town
A long-awaited renovation of Baltimore's historic Town Theatre will finally move to the construction stage if a local theater company can raise the last $3.5 million it needs to pay for construction.
Everyman Theatre, which operates out of leased space...Tags: Bank of America Corp., Maryland Science Center, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Finance, Museum Dioramas
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Goats are nothing 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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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: Soups, Cheese, Ice Cream, Dining and Drinking, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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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: Vehicles, Colombia, National Government, El Paso, Dog (animal)
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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: Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Animals, Energy Saving
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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: Defense, Vehicles, Firearms, Hospitals and Clinics, Parkville
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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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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: Vehicles, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Halethorpe, Family, Charity
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2-alarm fire at Baltimore Co. church causes roof collapse
In 1972, Lewis Foust and a group of men built a new sanctuary at one of Baltimore County's oldest churches, more than doubling its size. The task took months and had its share of setbacks, but when it was complete, Foust had a sense of accomplishment...Tags: Industrial Accidents, Anglican, Baptist, Fires, Christianity
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