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Maryland-built riverboat is bound for the Mississippi
Gleaming white with twin black smokestacks and a 23-ton red paddle wheel at its stern, the Queen of the Mississippi is an apparition rising more than five stories above the Wicomico River.
Before the month is out, the lines holding it dockside at...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Manufacturing and Engineering, Companies and Corporations, Cruises, Shipbuilding
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Havre de Grace: Celebrate Arbor Day in Havre de Grace – a Tree City USA
Today, dear readers, is National Arbor Day (April 27). Plant a tree. HdG has been designated Tree City USA for more than the past 10 years by the National Arbor Day Foundation. Great! Happy birthday wishes to Shannon Taylor (April 27); Bayou Restaurant...Tags: Christianity, Dining and Drinking, Shannon Taylor, Restaurants, Museums
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Schools with grants struggle with teacher evaluation systems
Elliott Elementary in Lincoln, Neb., struck off on its own last year when it became the only school in the city to win money through the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. Winning wasn't something to be proud of, though: It meant the school...Tags: School Examinations, Examinations, U.S. Department of Education, Concerts, Freedom of the Press
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Marvin T. Haw III, administrator
Marvin T. Haw III, who had held administrative positions with several heavy equipment and trucking companies, died Jan. 26 of a heart attack at his Timonium home. He was 75. Mr. Haw was born in St. Louis and raised in Bonne Terre, Mo., and West...Tags: University of Missouri , Perry Hall, Christianity, Heart Attack, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Baltimore is best city for hospital care
Baltimore area hospitals provide the best patient care in the country, according to a new survey. Nearly half of the area's hospitals - nine out of 16 - are in the top 5 percent of all of the hospitals in the United States, according to the survey by...Tags: Franklin Square Hospital Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Heart Attack
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'The Voice' recap: Episode 2
Phew! Two hours of “The Voice” is a lot to process. The NBC show was heavy on the tug-at-your-heartstrings contestant backstories tonight, which can make for some intense emotional weight-lifting. But we all survived, and slowly but surely,...Tags: Tom Petty, Avril Lavigne, Cee Lo Green, Adele (music artist), Prince (music artist)
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J. Claver Richardson, teacher
Joseph Claver Richardson, a retired teacher and World War II veteran who was the patriarch of a family of nearly 60 children and grandchildren, died of cardiac arrest related to asthma Jan. 8 at Sinai Hospital. He was 89 and lived in Walbrook Junction....Tags: Christianity, Colleges and Universities, Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Police training consultants under scrutiny for contracts, expenses
A nonprofit foundation paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Baltimore Police Department as part of the commissioner's signature training program reported that nearly 40 percent of the foundation's expenditures over two years covered entertainment,...Tags: Advanced Training, Peace Corps, University of Missouri , Montgomery County (Maryland), Frederick H. Bealefeld, III
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Head of the Class
Robert Snyder III, of Towson, graduated cum laude from the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., with a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics. Nina C. Groseclose, of Cockeysville has been named to the spring 2011 dean's list at Roger...Tags: Towson University, Colleges and Universities, Chestertown, Roger Williams University, Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Virginia)
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Six Flags America to launch 'Apocalypse' in 2012
Six Flags America is envisioning 2012 as the end of the world and wants visitors to take that last ride aboard a new roller coaster.
The Apocalypse, a thrilling coaster that will drop riders 90 feet, is set to open at the Maryland theme park on May 25....Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Theme Park Vacations, Gardens and Parks, Mexico, Six Flags Inc.
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Vasily Petrenko returns to Baltimore Symphony podium
Blond and boyishly handsome, Vasily Petrenko might be mistaken for a gymnast, or perhaps a player of his favorite sport, soccer. But when the 35-year-old Russian conductor steps onto a podium, there's no doubt about his true calling.
In 2009, Petrenko...Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Opera (genre), Paul McCartney, Music, Saint Petersberg (Russia)
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Blogger Rocco Palmo uncovers Vatican secrets — all from his basement in Philly
A 28-year-old guy living in his parents' basement in South Philadelphia just might be one of the foremost experts on the Archdiocese of Baltimore, if not the whole American Catholic Church.
Rocco Palmo facetiously calls himself "The Church Whisperer,"...Tags: Vatican City, Edwin F. O'Brien, Christianity, Prostate Cancer, Fells Point
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