Towson

William Joseph deThrom Somerville Jr., an insurance executive and Army veteran, died May 23 at Blakehurst, a retirement community in Towson. He was 90.

Towson University student Rakeem Bowdry, a quadripalegic from Mississippi who initially came to Baltimore for medical care, graduated Friday with a bachelor's degree in communications.

Bishop Leroy H. Cannady Sr., founder of the Refuge Way of the Cross Church of Christ in Baltimore, died May 13. He was 100.

Cockeysville Middle School Principal Adam Carney has been named the 2022-23 School Counselor Advocate of the Year by the Baltimore County Association for Counseling and Development.

The Towsontown Spring Festival celebrated 54 years as families and friends flocked together May 5-6 to enjoy the festival’s golden decade.

The last thing the nation's public institutions of higher learning need is to be made even more anti-conservative than they already are.

Barry Walter Moore, a retired Towson University professor, died April 26. The Towson and Loch Raven Village resident was 76.

The Dulaney High School Key Club won several district awards recently; while Sherwood Episcopal Church held Earth (Sun)Day with the Beaverdam Green Team, a new consortium of local churches.