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Maryland Teacher of the Year to be named Friday
baltimoresun.comThe 2009 Maryland Teacher of the Year will be named Friday night during an awards gala at Martin's West in Baltimore. The celebration recognizes the teaching profession and the 24 local teachers of the year, according to the Maryland State Department of... -
O'Malley, Somerset officials to meet on water dispute
The Associated PressGov. Martin O'Malley and the state's environmental secretary will meet this evening with Somerset County officials to discuss a dispute over the local water supply. State officials have refused for the past two years to issue permits for wells in the...Tags: Patapsco, Water Restrictions, Martin O'Malley, Princess Anne
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Morgan president to retire in 2009
Earl Stanford Richardson, the hard-charging educator who led Morgan State University through a rapid and at times rocky transformation from underfunded urban college to modern research university, said yesterday that he plans to retire at the end of...Tags: Towson University, Death and Dying, Engineering, Heads of State, Howard P Rawlings
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Lucretia H. Harris
Sun ReporterLucretia H. Harris, a retired Somerset County housekeeper and cook who was recently honored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and who established a scholarship in her name on her 100th birthday, died Saturday at Manokin Manor Nursing and...Tags: Cancer, Mount Vernon, Awards and Prizes, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Diseases
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Check your target area's home glut
If you don't absolutely, positively have to sell a home at the moment, how do you figure out if you really, honestly want to? Once you get past the financials - how much do you owe, how much could you get - you might consider how many homes in your neck...Tags: Homes, Sales
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Watermen ponder suit over crabbing plans
Sun reporterChesapeake Bay watermen are considering legal action over proposals in Maryland and Virginia to reduce the crab harvest, arguing that the states shouldn't punish crabbers for government's failure to clean up the bay. Lawyers for the watermen say it is...Tags: Rivers, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution, Wildlife, Litigation
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The poor and plenty
Sun ReporterThe statistics are eye-opening - if not startling. In Maryland, one of the most affluent states in the nation, significant swaths of poverty endure in urban and rural areas, among families and children. In Baltimore, 22.2 percent of residents live in...Tags: Population, Health Treatments, Wages and Pensions, Adult Education, Personal Income
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State has long history of capital punishment
Sun reporterMaryland has been engaged in capital punishment for more than 200 years - first by hanging, then a gas chamber and finally by lethal injection. The earliest recorded execution in the state took place Oct. 22, 1773, when four "convict servants" were...Tags: Local Authority, Theft, White Marsh, Assault, Criminal Laws
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Harrison Phoebus left his mark on tourism, town
223-5682The Phoebus community might have picked up a different name if its namesake had followed through on a plan that he stewed over in 1881. A fed up Harrison Phoebus, proprietor of the famous Hygeia Hotel, wrote to his financial backer in Baltimore that he...Tags: Adams Express Company, Fort Monroe, Heart Disease, Ulysses S Grant, Tourism and Leisure
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Maryland's lost
Still more Maryland residents are dead or missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Amelia Fields Amelia Fields, 38, a clerical worker who had been transferred to the Pentagon on Sept. 10, is listed as missing. Mrs. Fields grew up in Somerset...Tags: Fort Meade
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Maryland education links
Baltimoresun.com StaffAllegany County Public Schools boe.allconet.org Anne Arundel County Public Schools www.aacps.org Baltimore City Schools www.bcps.k12.md.us Baltimore County Public Schools www.bcps.org Calvert County Public Schools www.calvertnet.k12.md.us Caroline...Tags: Dorchester County, Kent County, St. Mary's County, Examinations, Teaching and Learning
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Ehrlich looks at selling assets
Sun StaffThe Ehrlich administration is considering selling such valuable state assets as the World Trade Center in the Inner Harbor and land at Baltimore-Washington International Airport to replenish a transportation fund that will be raided to help balance the...Tags: Thomas V. Mike Miller, Sales, State Budgets, Company Privatization, Railway Transportation
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