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City expands Healthy Neighborhoods program

Baltimore officials yesterday announced a significant expansion of the Healthy Neighborhoods initiative, a Baltimore program that provides low-interest loans for residents in certain neighborhoods to purchase or renovate homes.

"Baltimore is a city of neighborhoods, and Healthy Neighborhoods ensures that these communities receive the resources necessary to thrive," said City Council President Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake.

Until recently, residents in 10 city neighborhoods were eligible for the program. Officials added seven neighborhood associations yesterday: Brooklyn Curtis Bay Coalition, Coldstream Homestead Montebello, Coppin Heights, Greater Homewood, Cylburn/Levindale Communities, Glen Neighborhood Improvement Association - CHAI, and Edmondson Village.

For more information, residents can visit www.healthy neighborhoods.org/.

Baltimore

: Druid Hill

Broken pump motor closes park pool

The Druid Hill Park pool has been closed because of a broken pump motor, Baltimore Department of Recreation and Parks officials announced yesterday.

The pool will remain closed until the motor is replaced, city officials said, and it is unclear how long that will take. Residents are being directed to the Roosevelt Park pool in Hampden.

Anne Arundel

: Edgewater

Teen cuts his thumb in work accident

A 15-year-old Eastern Shore boy was treated yesterday at the Raymond M. Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital after seriously injuring a thumb while operating a circular saw at a construction site in Edgewater, Anne Arundel County.

The boy's name was not released.

Capt. Harry Steiner, a spokesman for the county Fire Department, said the boy and his father, both from Chester in Kent County, were doing subcontracting work at Mayo Apartments in the 800 block of Mayo Road about 6:15 p.m. when the saw cut the youth's left thumb.

Steiner said the boy was taken by a Galesville Fire Co. ambulance to a nearby elementary school, where he was put aboard a state police helicopter and flown to the Montebello filtration plant on Hillen Road in Northeast Baltimore.

From there, the boy was taken by a city Fire Department ambulance to the hand center and immediately went into surgery. The severity of the injury and the boy's condition were not available.

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