digital harbor high school
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It’s true that large tunnels were dug in Federal Hill more than a century ago. But who built them? Why? And why are Baltimoreans so fascinated by them?
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When Letrice Gant helped organize Baltimore’s peace movement Ceasefire, she didn’t know the devastating pain of a killing first-hand. That changed Wednesday when Gant’s 21-year-old niece Kaylyn High was shot in the head on E. 22nd Street near Guilford Avenue, the untended target of gunfire.
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A nonprofit, called Beat The Streets Baltimore, aims to save Baltimore kids by resurrecting the sport of wrestling. The young league partners with Banneker Blake and about a dozen other city schools to give kids a place to play a sport, get academic help and develop character.
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After three days of early closings and no after-school activities for a dozen non-air conditioned Baltimore City high schools, their teams will be allowed to play Friday despite closing early again. Some football games are being moved up to try to beat impending storms for this evening.
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Three days of severe heat in Baltimore continue to force changes in the city football schedule as non-air conditioned schools will close early Friday for the fourth straight day. A decision on Friday games likely won't come until morning. Some games were already moved to Saturday or Monday.
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In a district where African-American children made up roughly 80 percent of the student body last year, only about 40 percent of the system’s roughly 4,900 teachers were black. District officials say something must change, for the sake of Baltimore’s future.
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The Panthers are beginning to feel as if they have hit on something big with fourth-round draft pick Ian Thomas, who grew up in Baltimore City.
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Prayer gathering ends a weekend full of events promoting a citywide ceasefire.
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Baltimore transportation officials on Friday announced they were adding 37 new traffic camera locations throughout the city — including 27 new sites for speed cameras.
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Summer camps across the Baltimore region opened on Monday. Sunscreen-slathered kids showed up to play soccer, sail or revel in the sun. There was just one problem: For many of the children, school was still in session.
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The Indiana tight end is expected to be taken on the second day of the draft, capping a remarkable story of perseverance and brotherly love.
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Maryland wide receiver DJ Moore went from having no scholarship offers from FBS schools as a high school junior to being the Big Ten's leading wide receiver as a college junior last season.
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Emilita L.H. Poling, who taught English for Speakers of Other Languages at Patterson High School, died Feb. 25 from a streptococcus infection at the University of Maryland Medical Center. she was 43.
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When we ban literature that reflects the realities of many students’ lives, we say to them that their voices and experiences do not matter. That they do not matter.
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"There isn't a city in the U.S. ... that can get from the city center to the airport in five minutes."
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On the first day of classes in Baltimore Tuesday, about 27,000 students who take MTA buses to school encountered Gov. Larry Hogan’s $135 million BaltimoreLink bus system overhaul.
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Community-run pocket parks provide recreation, respite for residents
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A group of Baltimore teachers is getting a crash course in the Chesapeake Bay's challenges and its ecological recovery through a program aimed at improving students' environmental literacy.
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The Baltimore City Police's child abuse unit is investigating a video allegedly showing people having sex at Digital Harbor High School, a city schools spokeswoman said.
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Baltimore police said they will increase patrols in Federal Hill after a 61-year-old woman was assaulted by a teenage girl after dismissal last week at Digital Harbor High School.
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The two Baltimore teens killed in the East Baltimore row house firebombing that also injured six others early Saturday were Shi-Heem Sholto, 19, and Tyrone
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18-year-old's fatal shooting by Baltimore police becomes flash point in debate over repeat offenders
Almost immediately after his fatal shooting by a Baltimore police officer on Tuesday, the circumstances under which 18-year-old Curtis Deal had managed to land back on the street after being arrested three times in the preceding weeks became a flashpoint in the broader and burgeoning debate in Baltimore around perceived leniency for repeat gun offenders in the court system.
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While the New England Patriots were slowly and inevitably killing off the Houston Texans’ season in another boring NFL playoff game Saturday night, boxer
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I sat on North Avenue one afternoon in mid-October during an abnormally hot day, the kind when global warming smirks at us, specifically Baltimore. I
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Members of the City Council's education committee are speaking out against a change in the state bus system that is causing Baltimore students to miss after-school activities.
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Despite a new coach and considerable turnover in personnel, Douglass' football team continues its winning ways.
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The late summer heat wave has wiped out games and practices again Friday for all Baltimore City high schools and seven non-air conditioned Baltimore County high schools.
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A panel of lower-polling Democrats running for mayor promoted their visions for Baltimore at a forum Wednesday: teaching children coding in schools, recruiting police drawn as much to public service as fighting crime and clustering small businesses in incubators.
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Spurred by a recent immigration crackdown and inspired by fellow student activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, a group of high school students gathered Saturday to draw up a list of demands for city and state officials, calling on them to boost resources for the city's growing immigrant population
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A new survey of 209 youths in Baltimore reveals just how prevalent violence is in their lives. Forty-three percent of the students said they witness physical violence at least once a week, and 39 percent said they know someone who has been killed before they reached their 20th birthday.
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The National Association of Manufacturers concluded a nationwide tour of small manufacturing companies in Baltimore on Friday.
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A Baltimore city councilman wants the city to issue a single identification card allowing young people to ride buses and use other school and government services, but a civil liberties advocate says the proposal raises privacy concerns.
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Baltimore has joined the White House's TechHire program, which is offering $100 million in federal grants for technology training.
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Baltimore city police and city school police responded to a large fight at Digital Harbor High School on Thursday, causing a heavy police presence around the Federal Hill school, officials said.
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An 11th grader at Digital Harbor High School was stabbed in South Baltimore after dismissal on Tuesday, city school officials said.
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A look at how The Baltimore Sun's Top 15 football teams in Week Four of 2015.
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Lesson and boarding fees support the Graham Equestrian Center, a Parkville-area nonprofit that educates children about good horsemanship.
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When it comes to women's representation in politics, particularly African American women, Baltimore City is queen. Take the 2011 Baltimore City mayoral election, where not only was the winner an African American female (then-appointed Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake), so was her closest competitor (state Sen. Catherine Pugh).
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It's hard to get ahead when your family struggles with addiction
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Baltimore Health Department officials have credited a program that dispenses birth control to students with helping to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate, renewing debate about the decades-old practice in the city's schools.
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About 20 students from Digital Harbor High School and The Crossroads School, a middle school operated by the Living Classrooms Foundation, worked alongside almost 30 Navy reservists Tuesday morning to re-rig the historic ship in the Inner Harbor.
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More apartment buildings are in the pipeline for Baltimore, with plans for two projects presented Thursday to the city's design review panel.
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Apartment developer Bainbridge Companies said Tuesday it plans to build more than 200 apartments across the street from the Digital Harbor High School.
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The East All-Stars beat the West 15-8 in the 5th Annual President's Cup at Camden Yards
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Baltimore city schools officials said Tuesday that they will reverse an earlier decision to cut summer school programs.
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Baltimore city schools CEO Gregory Thornton on Tuesday proposed a $1.3 billion budget that includes fewer central office staff, more classroom teachers and a series of changes at the school district headquarters.
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For the past three years, while their peers were sleeping in or on vacation, a group of teenagers from across Baltimore City have converged on Digital Harbor High School with a common goal: to face a challenge.
