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• Opinion

To protect Baltimore's parks, look to New York

Baltimore’s park system is truly one of our city’s great assets.But those parks don’t come cheaply; as it is the city is barely able to keep up with maintenance. For a solution, we should look to Central Park.

• Central Park

Great urban hiking, biking trails in the Northeast

There are exhilarating adventure trails where you can take in the great outdoors and crisp autumn air without leaving town.

• Baltimore City Paper

The Olmsteds' historic footpaths wind through Roland Park

Landscape architects John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., whose father is best known as the designer of Central Park, designed Baltimore's neighborhood of Roland Park to embrace the topography of the hills just to the east of the Jones Falls, following design principles set by Olmsted Sr.

• Baltimore City

Baltimore's own Central Park enjoys revival atop Druid Hill

A pair of good shoes, some time and accurate directions helped me experience the hidden assets of Druid Hill Park.

By Jacques Kelly

Apr 15, 2016

• Harford

Cast-iron fountain is the newest gathering spot in Bel Air's Shamrock Park

With the recent installation of a cast-iron fountain, visitors to Bel Air's Shamrock Park have one more "focal point," or location where they can gather and enjoy the park.

• Opinion

NYC's glam moms get paid for performance

Susan Reimer on the 'wife bonus'

By Susan Reimer

May 20, 2015

• Anne Arundel

Annapolis Summer Garden's again steps outside theatrical box

Anne Arundel has major cause for celebration in the 50th season of our unique outdoor Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre. At the historic former colonial blacksmith shop at 143 Compromise Street, across from City Dock, the challenges of presenting 50 seasons under the stars have shaped this troupe's identity.

• Obituaries

Paula Kovarick Segalman

Paula Kovarick Segalman, a former registered nurse who was a volunteer, fundraiser and athlete, died Friday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 11, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

Third Place in Fiction: "Meet Me Near the Sign for 2 For $3 Fish Filets"

• Features

$39 Amtrak fares from Baltimore to New York City

• Obituaries

Junetta Jones

Junetta Jones, a pioneering African-American soprano who performed with the Metropolitan Opera after winning its 1963 Young Artists competition, died.

By Jacques Kelly

Mar 3, 2015

• Opinion

Using allegations of rape in a grab for power

Maybe I live in a cocoon of some kind, but it seems to me that as terrible and unjust as it surely can be, the stigma of having been raped is hardly as deleterious to one's reputation as the stigma of being accused of being a rapist.

• Harford

Loper brothers finish 2nd, 3rd in 5K race at Oriole Park at Camden Yards

The Loper brothers of Bel Air sought a one-two finish at Oriole Park at Camden Yards Saturday. In the Fifth Annual KidsPeace Trick or Trot 5K, they finished just short of a brotherly sweep, however, with Alex Loper taking second place and Shawn, third.

• Howard County

Symphony Woods plan shouldn't rely on novelty [Letter]

• Harford

Fountain coming to Bel Air's Shamrock Park; Plaza Starbucks open

Bel Air town officials are preparing to install a fountain in Shamrock Park next month.

• Maryland

Where would you rather your child be?

• Baltimore City

From summer retreat to suburban haven, Sudbrook Park retains an original charm

Residents of Sudbrook Park are celebrating the community's 125th anniversary this week. It's been a quiet birthday party, in keeping with the neighborhood's subdued ways. A gathering was held on one of the neighborhood community triangle spaces where its curving streets bend.

• Howard County

Rollicking fun carries 'Penzance' to Toby's stage

Summer family fun is now served at Toby's Dinner Theater in Columbia in the form of Gilbert and Sullivan's ever-popular musical "The Pirates of Penzance," delivered by a lively cast of eager lads, comic swashbucklers and bumbling Bobbies - along with exuberant lissome lasses.

• Maryland

'Once Upon a Mattress' composer Mary Rodgers dies

Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical "Once Upon a Mattress" and as the author of the body-shifting book "Freaky Friday," has died. She was 83.

• Opinion

Don't touch Fells Point promenade [Letter]

Plan for Fells Point hotel should not be allowed to close that portion of city's waterfront promenade

• Features

Wedded: Danielle Young and William Kelly

This wedding featured a pop of peacock and a little 'Disco Inferno'

• Baltimore City Paper

Olmsted Doc Screens at Patterson Park

• Entertainment

Novelist Wolitzer reflects on creativity, success

"The Interestings" – the rare best-seller that also is critically acclaimed -- is a meditation on creativity, talent, luck and success.

• Harford

Hoppin' Hawks Jump Rope Club isn't just for exercise

On an average Wednesday, Thursday or Friday night year-round, the members of the precision and competition Hoppin' Hawks Jump Rope Club teams can be found at Prospect Mill Elementary School in Bel Air. These young people, who represent six middle schools, six high schools and one home school, can be found perfecting skills, developing routines and experimenting with new tricks

• Obituaries

George B. Brosan, state police superintendent

George B. Brosan, a career law enforcement officer who had been Maryland State Police superintendent, died Thursday of cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 78.

• Features

New York mayor vows to ban horse-drawn carriages

New York mayor vows to ban horse-drawn carriages

• Howard County

Details of downtown Columbia arts park revealed

Symphony Woods in downtown Columbia is a patch of nondescript land used mainly as a pathway for the tens of thousands of people who attend concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion each year.

• Howard County

Kangaroo Kids jumping for joy at opportunity to take part in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

As the 16 jump rope athletes headed into their 12th lap around the quarter-mile track at Howard High School — their ropes twirling, whirring and slapping in rhythm — the head coach of the Kangaroo Kids was ecstatic

• Central Park

Baltimore est dangereux, non?

• Maryland

Inner Arbor introduces design team for Symphony Woods

The six-headed design team includes London-based landscape designer Martha Schwartz, Scott Rykiel from the Baltimore-based landscape design firm Mahan & Rykiel, New York-based digital architect and artist Marc Fornes, Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge of nArchitects in New York and acoustics engineer Raj Patel from the international engineering firm Arup.

• Features

Baltimore? Non!

French tourists are warned that Baltimore is a dangerous place, and other U.S. cities don't fare much better

• Maryland

Washington Monument set to undergo $5 million in repairs

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..

• Lifestyle and Leisure

How I spent my summer vacation

• Opinion

Prison education benefits everyone

We need inmates to be prepared to reenter society

• Opinion

Prison education benefits everyone

• Harford

Bel Air set to approve band shell work, storm pond repairs

Contracts for more improvements to Bel Air's two midtown parks and repairs to a neighborhood storm pond are expected to be approved during the next town meeting this Monday evening.

• Maryland

On the big screen in the Big Apple

• Aberdeen Proving Ground

Catherine Baumgartner to Wed William Keitzman

Catherine Baumgartner to Wed William Keitzman

• Financial Aid

Holmgren's first job as headmaster is at prestigious Calvert School

Andrew Holmgren is the new headmaster of Calvert School. We profile him.

• Maryland

Planning a trip up the coast

• Entertainment

'Ashe to Amen' exhibit at Reginald Lewis museum raises questions

60-work exhibit is among the first to trace connections between Biblical and African traditions

• Opinion

Keep Baltimore promenade dream alive

Keep dreams of a 7-mile city waterfront promenade alive

• Opinion

Keep Baltimore promenade dream alive

• Howard County

'In the Heights' soars at Toby's Dinner Theatre

As a Broadway musical with a Latin beat, "In the Heights" rises pretty high. Set in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, it fuses the traditional sound of Latin music with contemporary hip-hop energy. The vibrant result makes for a lively show at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia.

• Central Park

Sara Dimmick to wed David Burya

Richard and Julia Dimmick of Jarrettsville announce the engagement of their daughter, Sara, to David Burya, son of Ida Stratton of Mohave Valley, Ariz., and Eugene Burya of Spokane, Wash

• Arts and Culture

New proposal for Columbia

Decades ago developer James Rouse looked at a rundown industrial waterfront in downtown Baltimore and saw the makings of an attraction called Harborplace at the Inner Harbor. Now a former Rouse employee looks at an expanse of woods in downtown Columbia and sees the possibility of an "Inner Arbor."

• Arts and Culture

Letter: Symphony Woods' open space should not be sacrificed for the arts

The new CA Symphony Woods plan is much, much larger than the original plan approved by the Planning Board. Please do not let those who are mesmerized by the glossy pictures of possible (and expensive) new attractions drive us/CA deep into debt. Fostering the arts is important, but is Symphony Woods the best location for this support, given the scarcity of natural open space?

• Maryland

Columbia Association plans arts district for Symphony Woods Park

The Columbia Association unveiled a concept plan Friday for Symphony Woods Park that includes the construction of a headquarters, the relocation of Toby's Dinner Theatre and the creation of an "arts village."

• Baltimore City Paper

A detailed look at Baltimore City murders through Dec. 26

• Baltimore City Paper

City Paper's 14th Annual Fiction Contest