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- The Water Witch Firemen's Carnival will start Monday, May 21 and run through Saturday, May 26. The carnival opens at 6 p.m. each evening and there will be a matinee on Saturday at 2 p.m
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The head of a Howard County health foundation targets sugary drinks as a contributor to childhood obesity. - Ellicott City: Peak into history as The Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage tours seven Howard County historical homes on May 19.
- West Friendship: West Friendship 4-H Livestock Club reporter Katie Coles met a lot of new sheep enthusiasts during the Sheep and Wool Festival the first weekend in May
- Unhealthful foods kill more Americans every year than tobacco
- Clarksville: Some days are filled with a variety of opportunities to be out and about. May 20 is one of those days. Great Sage will be donating a percentage of sales for the entire day to the Humane Society of the United States.
- Alan Gross, the Maryland man who is serving 15 years in a Cuban prison after taking communications equipment into the communist nation, is asking authorities there to let him return to the United States.
- Young people risking skin cancer by getting sunburns and indoor tans, CDC studies show
- The Wellness House of Annapolis, which offers services and programs to assist those living with cancer and their relatives, including children, has walk-in hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.
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- The first Port Palooza of the season was a grand success Saturday. There were lots of folks in town listening to music, browsing the vendors, eating along the river, strolling Main Street and enjoying the beautifully sunny day. The next Palooza on June 2
- The right line up of products will fight off damaging rays and help you stay hydrated.
- Clarksville: Bark! to host Operation Paws for Homes adoption event on Saturday, May 5
- After growing up with lacrosse, Mercy's Shannon Aikens following in her late mother's footsteps. Senior will play at Loyola, the school Diane Geppi-Aikens turned into a national power
- Hopkins students unveil medical devices
- Longtime member and director, of Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company, worked as claims adjudicator for state
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome nearly takes Baltimore woman's sight; others lose their battles
- Dixon switched from No. 11 to 5 and then paid his friend another tribute on the field against the Ohio Machine.
- Mostly Main Street: This Sunday is Mother's Day and I can think of no place better to spend it than in the historic district.
- A proposal to speed the approval of new prescription drugs has patient advocates and biotechnology firms, including many that are based in Maryland, hoping that Congress can deliver a rare dose of bipartisanship this year.
- Patrick J. Coughlin III, a retired catering and event planning consultant, died of cancer April 30 at the Capital Caring Hospice in Arlington, Va. The former Ednor Gardens and Homeland resident was 66.
- Runners, dog mascot raise come out Sunday to benefit Greenebaum Cancer Center
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- Graham Motion pleased with his Kentucky Derby Horse; jockey Albarado arrested
- Linda Read was kind enough to send me information about this season's Port Paloozas. The event is a monthly street festival, held on the first Saturday of each month from May through October.
- The Wellness House of Annapolis, which offers services and programs to assist those living with cancer and their relatives, including children, has walk-in hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.
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- Pit bulls are no more likely to be aggressive than any other dog.
- Reader-submitted photo of attractive fungi is none other than the Turkey Tail mushroom
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- Too bad for John Edwards that Super PACs didn't exist back in 2008
- Maryland Half Marathon and Dozer's Dash
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- The real mission of Gardens Day is to encourage the greening and flowering of downtown Towson and its neighborhoods. To that end, the Gardens Day committee will honor those who have excelled this year during a noon awards ceremony on the County Courts building steps.
- Dr. Richard T. Koritzer Sr., who was practiced dentistry for 50 years in Glen Burnie and whose thirst for knowledge resulted in earning a master's degree in theology when he was 84, died Thursday of blood clots at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He was 85.
- Joseph A. DiPaola Jr., an award-winning Baltimore Sun photographer whose 1962 picture of the nose-to-nose Preakness finish resulted in the suspension of a jockey who claimed foul, died Friday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 91.
- The Orioles have announced that the Brooks Robinson sculpture unveiling has been postponed to Saturday Sept. 29 because of Robinson's "health issues." The ceremony was originally scheduled for Saturday May 12.
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- Ravens coach Cam Cameron promoting skin cancer prevention.
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Lisbon/Woodbine: All-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner fundraiser set for May 5 at Jennings Chapel Church
Lisbon/Woodbine: There will be an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner on Saturday, May 5 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Jennings Chapel Church, 2601 Jennings Chapel Road. -
- 'Mad Men' recap: Season 5, Episode 7, 'The Codfish Ball'
- New hospital Hopkins begins moving in new patients and will open officially May 1
- Elizabeth McKenrick Winstead, an award-winning knitter and Bryn Mawr School graduate who established a scholarship fund there, died Tuesday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 73.
- Lester J. Rose, a retired aeronautical engineer and World War II veteran, died Thursday of cancer at his home in Newport News, Va. The former Northeast Baltimore resident was 91.
