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- The board of directors for the Bainbridge Museum met on Saturday in the museum at 6 S. Main St. Although the museum usually closes for three months from the middle of December to the middle of March, the museum has remained open this year, except on days when bad weather prevents it
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Joseph W. McLeary, who had careers with the city police department, state police and the Department of Homeland Security, died Sunday of a massive stroke at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 73. - Thomas Voss, a top trainer of steeplechase and flat race horses, died suddenly at his Monkton farm on Tuesday.
- Failure to include lesbian wedding announcement put Catholic school in difficult position
- Katie Tich, a junior at Marriotts Ridge High School and a flutist in the school's Symphonic Band, recently earned her Girl Scout Gold Award through a project titled "Inspiring Students with Music."
- Immaculate Conception School is gearing up to celebrate Catholic Schools Week, Campus Hills Community Association will be hosting a family bowling event County Forensics League tournament, Notre Dame Preparatory School hosted 233 students from 22 schools. NDP's team tied with Loyola-Blakefield, Towson High School, several musicians auditioned for the most recent All Honors Jazz Band and Chorus.
- Margaret Cecelia Zimmerman, a descendant of founding Towson families who was an accomplished family seamstress, died of complications of gastric disease and hypertension Jan. 3 at Manor Care Ruxton. The North Baltimore resident was 101.
- Ralph M. Vitale Sr. a retired heating and plumbing contractor, died Jan. 11 of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 81.
- John H. Brown, who had headed the Baltimore Police Department's mounted patrol for more than a decade and later became sheriff of Carroll County, died Jan. 11 of heart failure at his Uniontown home. He was 85.
- A Fountain Green Elementary School parent and her daughter pleaded with the members of the Harford County Board of Education Wednesday evening to provide suitable funding to ensure children at her daughter's school had all of the educational technology they needed.
- The Polar Bear Plunge Havre de Grace-style, the Susquehanna Hose Company Duck Dunk, a fundraiser for the volunteer fire department, will be held Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon at the Havre de Grace Yacht Basin's far launch ramp.
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- Arthur F. Jenkins, former owner of a home improvement and construction company, died Saturday of pancreatitis at Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, N.J. He was 51.
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- John Guy Cesare Jr., a utility engineer who earned degrees in both the nuclear field and in theology, who served aboard Navy submarines in the Cold War who later volunteered for Baltimore's poor and homeless, died of cancer Jan. 8 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Roland Park resident was 64.
- Notre Dame Prep wouldn't print Sarah Rupert-Sullivan's same-sex wedding announcement, citing a school editorial policy which she says discriminates against LGBT people.
- Laurel Catholic Young Adults is a new organization officially supported by four area churches, St. Mary of the Mills, St. Nicholas, St. Francis and Resurrection and the archdioceses of Washington and Baltimore. The LCYA will be hosting spiritual and social gatherings for 18- to 35-year-old Catholics and non-Catholic friends who want to join.
- On Jan. 2, members of the Laurel Thursday Breakfast, Business Networking International group, provided dinner to the homeless temporarily housed at St. Philip's Episcopal Church, as part of the Laurel Winter Shelter. This community outreach program, coordinated by the Laurel Advocacy and Referral Services and undertaken by many faith congregations in the Laurel area, provides a safe, warm shelter for homeless men and women during the winter.
- With a video titled "The Best of Spain" projecting evocotive images in the room, and six costumed dancers from the Howard County Ballet performing, the orchestra launched into music by the likes of Sarasate, Turina, Granados and De Falla to the delight of Howard County Concert Orchestra music director Ronald Mutchnik, who said the crowd in attendance was twice the number that attended the first concert of the season.
- Angelo J. Nopulos, who with his brother co-owned and operated the Double T Diner in Catonsville for nearly 30 years, died Saturday of a heart attack at his Arbutus home. He was 98.
- Judith Cloughen, a Holy Land peace activist and former Ten Thousand Villages manager, died of multiple myeloma Friday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Towson resident was 66.
- A young Joppatowne High School alum said he wants to help other young people succeed through a new basketball camp.
- David A. Dannenfelser III, a World War II naval veteran who later was a co-founder of a Baltimore truck rental firm, died Thursday of dementia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 89.
- Grace Carroll Swarm, a former partner in a Stevenson gift shop and a talented flower arranger, died Monday of a heart attack at Howard County General Hospital. She was 79.
- Richard O. "Dick" Beall, a civil engineer who was a founder of Century Engineering Inc., died Dec. 29 of cancer at his Stevenson home. He was 82.
- Calling all polar bears! Joe Kochenderfer will lead Havre de Grace's polar team to brave frigid temperatures on Saturday at 10 a.m. for a "Frost Bite Walk of the North Park Trail
- Better late than never with the results of this year's decorating contest in Port. The 2013 "Magic on Main" winners are
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- The Columbia Orchestra gets to do a lot of big pieces during the season, but it also has a free chamber music concert series that puts the focus on smaller pieces. Its next chamber concert is on Sunday, Jan. 19, at 3 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia.
- Charles Edwin Lamb, an architect of forward-looking, modernist structures and a founder of the RTKL firm, died of complications of Parkinson's disease Dec. 12 at the Heron Point Retirement Community in Chestertown. He was 87 and had lived in Baltimore and Annapolis.
- Judge John Hanson Briscoe, scion of a prominent Southern Maryland family who had served as speaker of the House of Delegates and later as a judge for the Circuit Court of St. Mary's County, died Wednesday of cancer at Half Pone Farm in Hollywood, St. Mary's County. He was 79.
- Pope Francis' inspiration at the parish level
- On Saturday, Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Deer Creek Coffeehouse will host award-winning singer-songwriter Craig Brickhardt. (www.craigbrickhardt.com)
- Nugent and Sister Jeannine Gramick founded New Ways Ministry in 1977 to support gay Catholics, drawing censure from church authorities.
- The Catonsville-based religious group, Little Sisters of the Poor, is among the employers who are fighting the Affordable Care Act's provision requiring employee health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. This, after Pope Francis himself signaled a desire to step back from the culture wars.
- Robert V. Hess, who turned his experience as a disabled veterans thrift store manager into a career as a homelessness solutions expert, died of liver cancer Dec. 24 at his home in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. The former Perry Hall resident was 57.
- The government can start enforcing the mandate requiring employers to authorize employee coverage for birth control now on faith-based non-profits that haven't gotten relief from the courts. So now is the time for Congress to act to at least delay, if not lift altogether, this onerous burden from our ministries.
- The U.S. government asked the Supreme Court on Friday not to allow Roman Catholic-affiliated groups a temporary exemption from a part of the Obamacare health care law that requires employers to provide insurance policies covering contraception.
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- Hundreds of Baltimore students started 2014 exploring a sprawling new campus that officials say will become a national model for urban education reform.
- Katherine E. Rafalko, who was a retired Stella Maris nursing supervisor who had been a World War II Army nurse and treated Battle of the Bulge casualties, died of heart disease Monday at her Timonium home. She was 91.
- Helena Williams went to the cemetery Saturday to lay a wreath on the grave of her son, Army 1st Lt. George "Geordie" Williams, a Joppatowne High School graduate, on the 25th anniversary of his death in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
- A Roman Catholic order of nuns who care for the elderly poor was hopeful Wednesday after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked an Obamacare provision that would have required it to cover contraception for employees starting with the new year.
- Harry M. Wilgar Jr., a retired Baltimore and Ohio Railroad foreman of the Riverside Roundhouse, died of lung disease Dec. 24 at his Westview Park home. He was 85.
- Stanley A. Lipinski, a retired Western Electric worker, died Sunday of leukemia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 95 and lived in Parkville.
