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Stanley J. Andrzejewski Sr., a retired electronics engineer who survived the nearly ill-fated assault on Italy's Mount Belvedere during World War II, died Thursday of respiratory failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 88.

Besides giving a boost to start-ups, the show is a welcome start to the fall convention season for the city

The Pick-Up: CSA challenge: Hola jalapenos

The Harford County Public Library, Jarrettsville Lions Club, businesses of Jarrettsville, and representatives from Harford County Government have partnered to create an evening Twilight Farmer's Market from 3:00 to 7 p.m. on October 5th at Jarrett's field on Route 23.

Backyard chickens are trendy and some want to ease the one-acre rule for residents who want to raise the birds. We disagree because there are consequences such as noise and possible neglect and ask Baltimore County not to change regulations.

A County Council resolution under consideration would have the county's planning board review whether to ease county regulations that restrict many residents from keeping chickens in their yards. Council members say they have gotten many requests to examine the issue.

Doris McG. Neumann, a retired Friends School educator and longtime activist, died July 16 from heart failure at her Timonium home. She was 93.

How about the credit for the Farmland Forever Program being soaked up by the Howard County Government rather then given to those who rightfully deserve the acclamation: The taxpayers whose hard work and tax dollars make this program possible?

Carroll County could add more than 3,000 acres to its agricultural preservation program over the next month, adding to Carroll's position as being the county with the most acres preserved statewide.

Three Havre de Grace women are putting on the first annual Lunar Bay Music & Arts Festival.

I¿ve heard a lot about raw dog food, but it seems pricey. Is it safe? Are the health benefits substantial?

Finding specialty goods ¿ organic eggs, goat cheese, whole grain bread and rolls, honey, vegetables, herbs, native plants and flowers ¿ just became easier now that the new Hereford Farm Market is beckoning shoppers every Saturday morning through the end of October.

Relay Foods is one of several grocery delivery services operating in the Baltimore area, each with a different niche. Giant-affiliated Peapod home-delivers some 12,000 items that can be found in Giant stores to nearly 400,000 customers. Hometown Harvest, based in Frederick, delivers locally grown produce and is adding meats, dairy products and even salmon.

John E. Simms, a retired executive vice president whose career at American Credit Indemnity Co. spanned more than four decades, died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 88.

The 17th annual Montpelier Festival of Herbs, Tea and the Arts is held outdoors on the grounds of the mansion, and is scheduled this year for Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Preliminary designs for Maple Lawn South show an apartment complex in the area of the water tower, a collection of townhouses through the middle of the property and single family homes abutting the homes on Murphy Road.

It was Dirty Finger Club Day at Linton Springs Elementary School, near Eldersburg. Out in the vegetable garden ¿ one of a dozen "outdoor classrooms" in the meadows, wetlands and woodlands of school's spacious grounds ¿ Anna Letaw, a volunteer who has been the dynamo behind Linton Springs' Environmental Education Program, was giving a kindergarten class a primer on gardening.

If Maryland wants to clean up Chesapeake Bay, it must spend more on farm conservation

It's the time of year when I probably ought to be thinking about gardening, but this year I'm thinking about not gardening.

Another farm in a heavily developed portion of Harford County is passing into residential use, but if the people who end up living there are anything like the folks living on other former farmland, the change won't be terrible. It'll just make things a bit more crowded.

Columbia Digest

Low sulfur gasoline may raise prices but that doesn't mean proposed EPA rules are not in consumers' best interest

Weis Markets stores in Towson and Woodlawn will open March 3

Recipe Finder: Fruitcake

The "All-Member Holiday Show" at the Artists' Gallery is all over the place in terms of subject matter, but surely the onset of winter accounts for several of the artists adopting a snowy outlook. Let's hope the snow remains in the pictures on the wall and does not fall on the ground outside.

This Howard County movie has played before: the County Council considering laws to restrict rural land development, farmers staging a tractor parade protesting an attack on their property values, public officials saying preservation efforts would only push land owners into the arms of developers.

"Creating Columbia: The Idea and the Gamble," the first of a series of exhibits, will open Tuesday with an open house at the Columbia Archives on Wincopin Circle.

Six steps to preventing a repeat of the failed garden at Guilford Elementary/Middle School.

State rules requiring "offsets" for water pollution from new development have been delayed until next year, Maryland's top environmental regulator told lawmakers Wednesday.

Curtis B. Reiber, an Army intelligence officer whose career spanned three decades, died Nov. 20 of a stroke at Saint Agnes Hospital. He was 77.

Farmer of the Year 'Brownie' Pearce reflects on career

Good intentions weren't enough to make a garden thrive at one Baltimore school

Residents and farmers in western Howard County sparred Thursday night over whether three farm families should be allowed to reclaim the development rights on their farmland — the first-ever attempt to defect from Maryland's agricultural land preservation program.

As state and local officials weigh Maryland's first request by any farmer to reclaim development rights voluntarily sold to the state decades ago, preservation advocates and state planners warn that permissive zoning in some rural counties threaten to erode the state's remaining open space.

A Howard County family wants to terminate deals made with the state in the 1980s that bar anything but farming on the 490 acres where they currently raise corn, soybeans, grain and cattle — the first time any Maryland farmer has formally asked out of the state's farmland preservation program.

Halloween's favorite vegetable deserves a more culinary treatment

The changing of the guard recently took place at the annual installation dinner of the Optimist Club of Timonium.

Organic and natural foods and products companies display their products at the Natural Products East Expo in Baltimore

If organically grown foods aren't healthier to eat, why pay more for them?

Laurel Health Foods, a family-owned business in Laurel for four decades, has moved from Bowie Road

Ervin M. Milner, who founded Milner Productions in the basement of his Northwest Baltimore home, which grew to become one of the nation's largest producers of educational audiovisuals for physicians and hospitals, died Aug. 17 from complications of diabetes and kidney failure at Springhouse Assisted-Living in Pikesville. He was 94.

Giant Food's new Perry Hall store to serve as a prototype for future outlets.

This episode's title couldn't be more accurate. Snooki was a complete hormonal b-----

On Wednesday evening, Howard Hughes announced that Whole Foods Market had signed a lease to open a 45,000 square foot store inside the Rouse company building in downtown Columbia. On Thursday, the company welcomed the Austin-based grocer to Columbia with a ceremony inside the building's conference room overlooking Lake Kittamaqundi.

Hughes Corp. announced Wednesday that Whole Foods Market has signed a lease to open a store inside the former Rouse Company building in downtown Columbia. The store is scheduled to open in late summer or early fall of 2014..

Maryland's yield of corn could be cut in half this year amid the nation's worst drought since 1956.

Should you choose the organic strawberries versus conventional ones? Both are bright and colorful at the perfect ripeness and provide vitamins, antioxidants and fiber while being low in sodium.

Charles Osborne Fisher, a prominent Carroll County attorney and World War II veteran whose legal career spanned more than six decades, died Friday from complications of a broken hip.