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Dropkick Murphys, The Gaslight Anthem to headline September 'Shindig'
Dropkick Murphys, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Gaslight Anthem and more will perform at Carroll Park in Pigtown on Sept. 14 for the debut of The Shindig, an all-rock music festival, organizer Paul Manna announced today. Tickets go on sale Friday....
Tags: Concerts, Dropkick Murphys (music group), Festive Events, Music
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Volunteers pour into Fort McHenry wetlands to clean up
More than 100 gloved volunteers, some in boots and others in waist-high waders, streamed along narrow paths and historic sea walls Saturday in a secluded nook of wetlands just south of Fort McHenry, their eyes scanning for trash or the perfect spot to...
Tags: Pikesville, Patapsco, National Parks, Wetlands, Fort McHenry
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From 'Middle East' to 'Eager Park,' a community is rebranded
Hundreds of residents have been relocated and dozens of homes cleared from Baltimore's Middle East neighborhood in recent years. Now the area just north of Johns Hopkins Hospital may be losing something more: its name. As an ambitious redevelopment...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Realty, University Heights, George Washington University, Fells Point
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Ravens partnering with Habitat for Humanity to build rowhouses in Pigtown
The Baltimore SunThe Ravens are partnering with Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake to build rowhouses in Baltimore. The two organizations are combining to construct three new rowhouses in the Washington Village neighborhood called Pigtown on Russell Street near M&...Tags: Habitat for Humanity International
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Rebecca Rigger, activist
Rebecca Rigger, a League of Women Voters activist who monitored the Baltimore County Planning Board, died of a heart attack March 25 at her Monkton home. She was 85. Born Rebecca Rogers in Big Island, Va., she was raised at an apple orchard in the...
Tags: Polio, Towson, Voting, Baltimore County, Anglicanism
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Raymond L. Klingmeyer
Raymond Leroy Klingmeyer, a former boxer and referee who is a member of the state's boxing Hall of Fame, died Friday of renal failure at the Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was 88. "When he came into the ring, he looked like a referee. He...
Tags: Harford County, Boxing, Baltimore County, Judges, International Boxing Federation
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Man killed in Pigtown shooting early Thursday
A man died in a shooting reported in Southwest Baltimore about 4 a.m. Thursday, city police said. Officers were called to the 1300 block of Carroll Street in the Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood, where they found a black man with a gunshot wound...
Tags: Shootings
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Founders of ballroom dancing club at Catonsville High honored
Swing dancing is not the dance of choice for most high schoolers. But for Catonsville High School juniors Rachel Albert and Hannah Lane, it's more than just a favorite dance — it's a way of life. Albert and Lane were awarded the school's first...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Dance, Catonsville, Music, Entertainment Events
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Sherwin M. Adelman, health economist
Sherwin M. Adelman, a retired U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health economist and strategist, died Feb. 4 from complications of dementia and heart failure at Sunrise Senior and Assisted-Living of McLean, Va. The longtime Pigtown resident was 77....Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Chicago Blackhawks, American Red Cross, Southern Illinois University, Heart Failure
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Two women charged in knife-point robberies in Federal Hill
City police have charged two women - one who was released from jail recently after prosecutors dropped armed carjacking charges against her - in connection at least four knife-point robberies in the Federal Hill area, a spokesman said. Officers...
Tags: Federal Hill, Theft, Prosecution, Justice System, Lawyers
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Formstone would be banned on new buildings under proposal
Frankly fake but authentically Baltimore, the Formstone that swaths many a rowhouse may seem low-brow or even tacky to some. But should it be illegal? A proposed overhaul of the Baltimore's zoning code would do just that, banning the faux stone...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Hospitals and Clinics, Building Material, American Visionary Art Museum, Barry Levinson
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Hunt's Memorial United Methodist Church leads gift-giving to city school children
A holiday tradition that's been months in the making inched closer on Sunday, Dec. 16, to its gratifying conclusion. In the bright basement of a Towson parishioner's home, which in recent years has become a hub of holiday activity and goodwill, a...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Family, Religious Festivals, Methodist, Schools
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