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- From its humble origins on the shores of the Patapsco River in industrial and rail-clogged South Baltimore, Charles Street transforms itself during its 10.9-mile journey through the heart of the city as it progresses north through the fashionable and wealthy tenderloin neighborhoods of Guilford, Homeland, Woodbrook, Murray Hill and into Baltimore County.
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- Students from across the 12 high schools in the Howard County Public School System take part in career academies at the Howard County Applications and Research Laboratory, which has come a long way from its days as a vo-tech center.
- A decade after a master plan was approved for the Route 1 corridor, one of its first projects in lower Elkrdige is en route to breaking ground next summer.
- Architects presented on Tuesday, Nov. 5, the first version of design plans for the $27.5 million addition and renovation project at Dumbarton Middle School to the Baltimore County Board of Education's Building and Contracts Committee.
- The Inner Arbor Trust Inc., a corporation created to develop Symphony Woods in Columbia, announced this week internationally renowned landscape designer Martha Schwartz has been retained as the lead designer for the phase one of the project.
- The third time was the charm Thursday, as the Baltimore City Urban Design and Architectural Review Panel gave its blessing to the planned 25th Street Station shopping center with a Walmart in Remington.
- Marilyn Johnson has only been running her sewing studio out of its new location for about three months, but a visitor could be forgiven for thinking she's been in the same space for years. And they wouldn't be too far from the truth. Johnson's new studio, on Lafayette Avenue in Laurel, is just across the parking lot from where her old one had been for a decade.
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- Historians and architects have a $5 million plan to repair the pillar that was closed to the public three years ago for safety reasons. They expect it to reopen for tours — and a panoramic view of the city from 178 feet above Charles Street — for its bicentennial on Independence Day, 2015. By January, scaffolding will begin to enclose the monument for repairs from decades of water damage to the marble, stones and bricks..
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- Walmart and 25th Street Station developers go back before UDARP with revised plans, but don't fare much better than they did last month, when the city architectural design and review panel sent them back to the drawing board.
- Pimlico Elementary/Middle School students participated in an exercise led by the architects who will design the new school, one of the first to be renovated or rebuilt under the city's $1 billion, 10-year plan to overhaul its dilapidated school infrastructure.
- 25th Street Station developers present their plans tonight to the communities, which already have questions and complaints about the revised plans.
- The new Dundalk High School that opened this fall might have ignored the past out its windows, but instead it was built to honor it, and to give students an inspiring space to continue the striking academic gains made over the past five years.
- John C. "Jack" Hornor, a respected naval architect and marine surveyor who once inspected the U.S.S. Constellation to ensure the venerable ship was still seaworthy, died Oct. 1 of brain disease at Hospice of Queen Anne's in Centreville. He was 68.
- Lady Baltimore was gingerly moved from its 190-year-old home overlooking Baltimore's Courthouse Square Saturday and taken to a new residence that will shield it from outside elements.
- The Howard County Board of Education Sept. 26 approved new capacity numbers for many of the county's 19 middle schools.
- Export proponents want companies in the Baltimore region — and nationally — to do more international business as a way to propel economic growth. Exports accounted for an expanding but still fairly slim 7.7 percent of the metro area's economic activity last year.
- Baltimore City's design review panel is holding off on giving final approval to plans for 25th Street Station, a shopping center with a Wal-Mart on 11 acres in Remington.
- Dean R. Wagner, a retired mathematics teacher who spent his retirement researching the building of Baltimore residential communities, died of cancer Sept. 11 at his Original Northwood home. He was 77.
- Televisions can add energy to a room, but others say they get in the way of conversation.
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- Brooklyn used to be every bit as bad as Baltimore, and now it's the hippest place on Earth.
- St. Paul's and other historic buildings make Baltimore a better place to live
- The Rev. Mark Stanley loves his work as rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on North Charles Street, but during his first eight years on the job, he had a problem. The lighting in the historic building was so poor, the color of the walls and ceiling so drab that he could barely make out his congregants from the pulpit.
- After a contentious series of hearings, the City Council is expected on Monday to grant developer Michael Beatty $107 million in public financing for Harbor Point, the capped hazardous waste site envisioned as home to a new office tower as well as housing, shopping and parks.
- What does a public library mean to a town? How should it look? And what should it include? On Wednesday evening, close to 30 people came to the Havre de Grace Activity Center to offer their ideas and input on those questions for a new Havre de Grace branch of the Harford County Public Library is to be built by the fall of 2014.
- The latest installment of Hidden Maryland goes to the State House dome, where only a select few can see the spectacular views and centuries-old signatures.
- Martin Aircraft employed thousands of women in the effort to win World War II
- The Calvert Court, a landmark apartment house, has stood at the southwest corner of North Calvert and 31st streets since 1915, and recently in recognition of its coming centenary, residents chose to honor its architect, Edward Hughes Glidden, with a plaque.
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- On his first trip to Washington, Austin Jarvis most wanted to visit the Lincoln Memorial, so the 11-year-old from Georgia was displeased that he and his family had to settle for an obstructed view.
- Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Martin Roesch's free computer network security program would turn into a $2.7 billion deal? Not Roesch, founder of Columbia-based Sourcefire, which just agreed to sell itself to tech giant Cisco Systems for that eye-popping figure.