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With opening of Mill No. 1, the Jones Falls Valley's makeover is nearly complete
Standing amid his $44 million refurbished textile mill, now nearing completion, developer and one-time mayoral candidate David Tufaro observed a bird wading in the Jones Falls nearby. "That's our great blue heron," Tufaro said. Water birds fly up...
Tags: Whitehall, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Maryland Transit Administration, Clipper Mill, Hampden
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With a morning boom, BGE's landmark gas holder became a local memory
As the clock ticked down Sunday, the morning clouds disappeared, as if they were in on the months-long planning that went into the destruction of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s final natural-gas holding silo. Then, as if someone were turning on...
Tags: Roland Park, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Jones Falls Expressway, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)
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BGE prepares for gas tower implosion
For about eight decades, the 258-foot Melvale Gas Holder has towered above northern Baltimore. In seven seconds Sunday morning, the storage tank will be brought to the ground. BGE plans to implode the steel structure, which hasn't been used since 1997....
Tags: Jones Falls Expressway, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Physiology
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Unlocking the mysteries of the Jones Falls Valley
A few years ago I raised my hand at an auction and bought a box of 19th-century sepia-toned landscape photographs. After hours of looking at them, I detected that they had been taken not far away, in the heart of the Jones Falls Valley in Baltimore City,...
Tags: Clipper Mill, Whitehall, Roland Park, Mount Vernon, Highway Transportation
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State awards $600,000 grant to improve Stony Run path
The state has awarded Baltimore City a grant of $600,000 to improve and fill in the gaps in the Stony Run stream walking path that runs roughly between Roland Park and Wyman Park. The Maryland Board of Public Works last week approved the Program Open...Tags: Charles Village, Johns Hopkins University, Roland Park, Energy Resources, Inner Harbor
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Going, going: Last of city's giant gas holders coming down
The giant gray cylinder has loomed over the North Baltimore landscape for decades, providing heating gas for city homes and a familiar landmark for drivers on the Jones Falls Expressway. Soon it will disappear from the skyline, and with it will go an...
Tags: Energy Resources, Memorial Stadium, Business, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Jones Falls Expressway
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Tropical Storm Agnes flooded Maryland 40 years ago
Forty years later, records from Tropical Storm Agnes still stand. But the records barely tell the story. As measured at BWI Marshall Airport, June 1972 saw a record 9.95 inches of rain. June 21 and 22, meteorologists measured 2.19 inches of rain and 3.84...
Tags: Windsor Mill, William Donald Schaefer, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Carroll County (Maryland), Sykesville
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City building bike trail to connect Penn Station and Inner Harbor
About 16 months from now, bicyclists will be able to ride from the Inner Harbor to Pennsylvania Station on a smooth path all their own.
Little by little, crews working in the shadow of the Jones Falls Expressway are inching their way north, building a...Tags: Clipper Mill, Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Commuting, B-cycle, LLC, Inner Harbor
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City police officer shoots, kills man in Reservoir Hill
A Baltimore police officer investigating a domestic disturbance on Saturday morning in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood shot and killed a man armed with a knife, according to authorities. A police spokesman identified the man who was killed as George...Tags: Weaponry, Michael Gordon, Injuries and Wounds, Shootings, Jones Falls Expressway
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Baltimore targets 'food deserts'
More than a third of Baltimore neighborhoods don't have ready access to healthy foods, leaving one in five residents to rely on high-fat, high-calorie meals from corner stores and carryout restaurants, a new assessment shows.
City, academic and nonprofit...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Health and Safety at School, Restaurants, Johns Hopkins University, Diabetes
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Senior basketball is serious business
They have survived badly sprained ankles and torn knee ligaments, mild concussions and more than their share of poor shooting days. Ralph Piersanti, one of the oldest in a group, has had two heart attacks. But they keep playing a game that used to be...
Tags: College Sports, Injuries and Wounds, Basketball, Jones Falls Expressway, Sprained Ankle
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Traffic: Accident on I-695 outer loop near Belair Road
As of 9 a.m. Monday, traffic was slow on the outer loop of I-695 near Belair Road, due to an accident.
Accidents were blocking traffic on I-95 southbound near the Harbor Tunnel in Baltimore City, on I-83 near 28th Street in Baltimore City and on Route...Tags: Belair Road, Fort McHenry, Jones Falls Expressway, Harford Road, Traffic
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