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Lane reduction on Route 40 scheduled as construction nears completion
The newly reconstructed Patapsco River Bridge on Route 40 connecting Baltimore and Howard counties is set to open in the coming days, causing lane shifts and closures. According to a release from the Maryland State Highway Administration, eastbound...Tags: Ellicott City, Transportation, Road Transportation, Trips and Vacations, Traffic
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State grant helps upgrade city sewage plant
The state Board of Public Works approved Wednesday a $75.2 million grant to help pay for upgrading Baltimore's Patapsco sewage treatment plant, Maryland's second largest. The facility, which can treat up to 63 million gallons daily from the city and... -
Living with historical quirks in Havre de Grace
Ron Browning enjoys showing off his historic Havre de Grace home to visitors, and when he has the room, they are invited to stay in his 1868 mansion-turned-bed-and-breakfast.
Once the home of Harrison Hopkins of the Johns Hopkins family, Browning well...Tags: China, Bethlehem Steel, Hobbies, Railway Transportation, Russia
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For Lego model of historic Ellicott City, builders hit the bricks
The beige-plastic Wilkins-Rogers Mill is unmistakable, as are the red B&O Freight House and the purple Obladi hotel. Rendered in toy building blocks, the replicas of historic Ellicott City landmarks lend an air of authenticity to the Baltimore & Ohio...
Tags: Frosty the Snowman (fictional character), Museums, Building Material, Holidays, Railway Transportation
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Consultants to track sources of waterway contamination
On good days, the Tiber Hudson tributary of the Patapsco is a pleasant part of the scenery in Historic Ellicott City as it flows through a stone channel by Tonge Row, beneath Tiber Alley alongside Main Street and past the B&O Railroad Museum before it...
Tags: Ken Ulman, Business, Howard County, Ellicott City, Chesapeake Bay
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State lawmakers hopeful for city schools facilities plan
Lawmakers across Maryland lauded the Baltimore school system's ambitious $2.4 billion blueprint to shed underused school buildings and upgrade the most dilapidated ones — calling the plan a critical first step in securing financial backing from...
Tags: Conservation, David R Brinkley, Fiscal Cliff, Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., Montgomery County (Maryland)
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City schools unveil 10-year renovation plan
In the next 10 years, Baltimore's school system will have a leaner, modernized look under a proposed $2.4 billion facilities plan that calls for closing 26 school buildings and upgrading 136 others in a large-scale face-lift of Maryland's oldest school...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, American Civil Liberties Union, Students, Finance, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Little boats will vie for space during Sailabration
For folks who want to partake in Sailabration by water this weekend, expect tight quarters. "An unprecedented number of boats are anticipated. We could have thousands of recreational boaters all trying to come to one location," said Coast Guard Cmdr....
Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Cruise Line Ports, Inner Harbor, Fells Point, Conservation
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Back Story: Guilford executive killed wife at Falls Road farm in 1957
My column several weeks ago on the brutal 1956 murder of Myrtle Agnes Bopst brought a flood of emails from people who vividly remembered it. One reader, Turney McKnight, recalled the murder a year later of a Baltimore socialite at the hands of her...
Tags: Murder, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Upper East Side, Southbury, The New York Times
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Talent resides in Howard County artists
Artists tend to work quietly in their studios, but eventually they emerge to exhibit their work in art galleries. Some Howard County artists only have to make a very short indoor walk from studio to gallery for the "Resident Visual Artists Exhibit 2012"...
Tags: Artists, Fine Artists, Ellicott City, Painting, William Shakespeare
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Howard County Briefs
Practice SAT The American Association of University Women will host a practice SAT exam for middle and high school students from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at Vantage House auditorium, 5400 Vantage Point Road in Columbia. There will be a...Tags: Jane Austen, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Illness, Rentals, Diseases and Illnesses
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Dollars and scents
On the wave of unwanted publicity over unruly youths downtown, owners of businesses around the Inner Harbor were probably none too thrilled to have the smell of dead fish wafting through the air last weekend. Naturally, they brushed it off as having no...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Wildlife, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Aquaculture, Inner Harbor
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