Honoring the past: In Annapolis, they know a thing or two about history. Now the city's mayor, Ellen O. Moyer, is about to become the only municipal official on a 10-member panel charged with recommending improvements to the structure of federal historic preservation programs.

Salute: Veterans Day is Tuesday, and at the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground that means combat vehicles on display - and, if all goes as planned, a World War I-era tank rumbling along for a few hundred yards.

Kitchen's closed: The upscale Howard County restaurant Trapeze, hailed as a "playful and sophisticated retreat" when it opened three years ago, has shut its doors, an apparent victim of the economic downturn.

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