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The seed from which an urban garden grew
Elisa Lane is not much bigger than the pigtails she wears when she gardens at the Whitelock Community Farm in Reservoir Hill. But she has a big impact. She sells the fresh vegetables from the empty corner lot that she just kind of took over at below-...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Finance, Mount Vernon, Farms, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Renaissance for North Avenue as arts district
When Christa Daring was a student, she rode a bus from her Waverly home and crossed North Avenue on her way to classes at the Baltimore School for the Arts. "This was always oh-so no-man's land," she said of the commercial crosstown street that is...
Tags: Arts, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Johns Hopkins University, Mount Vernon, Dining and Drinking
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Brown to announce candidacy for governor Friday
Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown will formally announce his candidacy for governor Friday at a cookout in his home county of Prince George's. Brown, a Democrat who has been expected to seek the governorship in 2014 since he was elected along with Gov. Martin...
Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Executive Branch, Ken Ulman, Elections
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City presents latest plans for upgrading Waverly Library
The Waverly library would be about 2,000 square feet bigger than it is now, with a wall of glass, more computers, modernized equipment and separate areas for children and teens, as planned in a $6 million renovation project, Baltimore City library...
Tags: Govans, Libraries, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Roland Park, Mary Pat Clarke
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Word has it Scrabble fundraiser is Saturday in Roland Park
The word was tristeza. It's a disease of citrus trees, but more importantly, for Tobey Roland, it once scored 228 points for him in a game of Scrabble, he said. Roland, 52, of Mount Washington, loves Scrabble and estimates he has played in 120...
Tags: Schools, Johns Hopkins University, High Schools, Roland Park, Cafe Hon
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Man in critical condition after Waverly shooting
A man was in critical condition Friday night after he was shot in the head in the Waverly neighborhood of Baltimore, police said. The shooting occurred in the 3600 block of Old York Road, police spokesman Det. Vernon Davis said. The man, whose...
Tags: Shootings
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55th annual Smith College book sale coming to Maryland State Fairgrounds
Four volunteers, all graduates of Smith College in Northampton, Mass., spent a glorious Sunday cooped up inside a small warehouse in Timonium. They were preparing more than 1,300 boxes of used books for moving trucks to deliver this week to the Maryland...
Tags: Vehicles, Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities, Labor Day, Financial Aid
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Greater Homewood sponsors 6th annual Neighborhood Institute
Samantha Armacost, 27, grew up a country girl in Hereford. "There's not even sidewalks where my parents live," said Armacost, nicknamed Sam. But she was always thrilled when her mother took her on the light rail to Baltimore City to see Orioles...
Tags: Arts, Bill Henry, Media Industry, Roland Park, Real Estate Buyers
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'Bubble' brings Baltimore's Waverly community together
The rhythmic thud of the drum filled the air of Baltimore's Waverly community, alerting residents that something special was taking place in the neighborhood. The joyous sound of children's laughter and eventual singing reinforced the sense of...
Tags: The Home Depot, The Happiest News!, Mary Pat Clarke
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Volunteers work to reopen shuttered Barclay Rec Center
A dozen neighborhood volunteers will spend their Presidents Day turning around a former city recreation center that new sponsors envision reborn as an education and community center. After 32 years, the Barclay Recreation Center shut down in August, a...
Tags: Government Debt, William Donald Schaefer, Johns Hopkins University, Enoch Pratt Free Library, St. Paul Street
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Senator Theatre restoration moving along
The sight of a few ladders outside the Senator Theatre did not prepare me for the scope of the restoration project that is transforming this Govans-Belvedere Square landmark, a Baltimore treasure being taken apart and reassembled. There will be three...
Tags: Govans, Lobbying, Arts, Senator Theatre, Belvedere Square
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Reactions mixed to Postal Service request to stop delivering mail on Saturdays
Lanny Gans had not heard, until she went to the Roland Park post office Wednesday, that the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday service in August, in an effort to save $2 billion a year.. "I hate to see anything like that...
Tags: Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Elijah E. Cummings, Financial and Business Services, U.S. Postal Service, Mail Order Industry
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