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"The face of lower Ellicott City is in for a change; a change that will hopefully bring tourists into our historical town and will usher in a new burst of economic potential.

He had us wrapped from the first note of "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." Hidden in the wings of the Smith Theater, we first heard the baritone sing the familiar "Figaro, Figaro" before we actually saw Steven Eddy, one of two opera-singing contestants in the recent Rising Stars competition at Howard Community College.

Spread across the lawn of South Laurel's Montpelier Mansion, under a near-perfect spring sky, more than 40 vendors and craftors at the Montpelier Festival of Herbs, Tea and the Arts offered bath products, fabric art, home and garden products, jewelry, plants and herbs, food and tea for sale.

Sculptor Devin Mack, of Towson, Cockeysville chocolatier Kimberley Rigby, and painter Patrick Reid O'Brien, of Towson, will show their wares at the Sugarloaf Festival April 25-27 at the Timonium Fairgrounds.

Stevenson University unveiled "Victory" on Wednesday evening, a 12-foot-tall bronze statue of the school's mascot that will greet visitors to Mustang Stadium.

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An art exhibit designed to lift your spirits, "Visions of Hope" is true to its name at the Columbia Art Center. The group show was put together by Blossoms of Hope, Howard County Tourism and Promotion, and the Columbia Archives.

With a blinding sun and a mostly empty Yager Stadium at his back, Ravens coach John Harbaugh peered into a crowd that contained so many people that he wanted to thank.

A Delaware-based sculptor's statue of the John Harbaugh, the Ravens' Super Bowl-winning head coach, will be erected Saturday in the famed Cradle of Coaches at Miami University of Ohio, Harbaugh's alma mater.

Baltimore arts groups, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Museum of Art and Artscape, receive more than $2.5 million in NEA grants

The Columbia Association will hold elections on Saturday, April 26. During the elections, Columbia residents who pay the Columbia Association assessed fee can vote in their respective village for their village's representative to the 10-member Columbia Council, which becomes the 10-member Board of Directors.

But many of the local attractions including Ladew Topiary Gardens, the Maritime Museum and the Havre de Grace Opera House only received partial funding from General Assembly.

Marjorie B. "Midge" Price, a homemaker and singer who earlier in her life had been a professional photographer, died April 8 of Alzheimer's disease at Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson. She was 84.

Philip C. Cooper, a retired design executive who had been president of a New York fabric and furniture house, ended his life in Baltimore April 3. He was 78 and lived on Mount Royal Avenue.

Identical twin sisters who have shared a lot since birth now share the Bernice Kish Gallery walls for an exhibit titled "Two Channels Off the Sea." Leah Lewman and Lyndsay Lewman separately make artworks that explore personal identity and emotional connections.

The Maryland Department of the Environment has not followed up on at least 900 rental housing units with hazardous lead paint whose owners failed to maintain annual registration with the agency, state auditors have found.

'Workin' the Tease' exhibit offers a look back at The Block's golden age, as well as a performance by the city's current crop of burlesque queens and kings

William Maughlin and "Downtown" Kevin Brown want you to have a good time and good food in Station North, a community they love.

To close its 39th season, Pro Musica Rara included several rarities in a program that also featured a trio by Mozart.

'House of Cards' could receive extra tax credits under deal in General Assembly

When you paint on a wall in the middle of the city, people want to talk to you.

Gregory Thornton's appointment has heartened Baltimore arts advocates who hope he will breathe new life into the school system's diminished arts education.

When you paint on a wall in the middle of the city, people want to talk to you.

Bel Air and Harford County's best kept secret is no longer a secret. Well over 100 people came to the Harford Artists' Art Gallery to participate in the reopening of the gallery after it was closed during the month of February for renovations.