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Enoch Pratt Free Library CEO Carla Hayden has been named one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune magazine.

By John-John Williams IV

Mar 25, 2016

Even today, just one out of five surgeons is female

By Mary Carole McCauley

Mar 11, 2015

Baltimore officials are seeking residents' input on their budget decisions this Saturday.

By Luke Broadwater

Feb 12, 2015

Decatur H. "Deke" Miller III, former chairman and managing partner of the Baltimore law firm of Piper & Marbury, died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Feb 4, 2015

"The Work" describes the author's search for a larger purpose to which he can devote his life

By Mary Carole McCauley

Jan 24, 2015

Jacqueline "Jackie" Watts, the former editor of The East Baltimore Guide who became an Enoch Pratt Free Library editor and graphic designer, died.

By Jacques Kelly

Jan 8, 2015

Roger D. Jay, a Wyatt Earp expert and American West magazine and journal writer, died of encephalitis on Dec. 25th at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 69 and lived in Tuscany-Canterbury.

By Jacques Kelly

Jan 1, 2015

The Enoch Pratt Free Library has selected the site where some of the 1.4 million books housed at the Central Library will move during its building renovation, expected to start next year, officials said.

Amy J. Scherr, a Baltimore lawyer who represented the Maryland Division of Unemployment Insurance and was executive secretary and counsel to the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities, died Monday at Symphony Manor assisted living in Roland Park of Alzheimer's disease. She was 62.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Nov 8, 2014

Princesses Anna, Elsa are popular costumers this year

Residents of the 50-year-old Highfield House, a National Register of Historic Places landmark at 4000 N. Charles St., are marking their home's five decades with a plaque unveiling.

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 24, 2014

Show includes original illustrations from "Where the Wild Things Are" and life-sized, kid-safe replicas of Max' bedroom, boat and forest

Sol Hirsch, a former National Weather Service forecaster whose career spanned three decades, died Oct. 5 at his Pikesville home of complications from heart disease. He was 91.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 17, 2014

The Baltimore Book Festival, once an annual staple in historic Mount Vernon Square, is smack dab in the touristy Inner Harbor this year, a move that got mostly positive reviews Saturday.

The manuscript contains 200 pages of previously unpublished material and period photographs snapped by Mencken

"Blue-Eyed Boy" recounts how Timberg rebuilt his life after being severely injured in a land mine explosion in Vietnam

Joan Erbe, a prolific and successful artist who painted whimsical characters doused with wit and satire, died of stroke complications Aug. 21 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Cheswolde resident was 87.

Albert Asbury "Ab" Logan, a retired Boys' Latin School teacher who worked in Baltimore neighborhood organizing in the 1970s, died of cancer Aug. 25 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Cockeysville resident was 70.

Literary tourism

The city re-launched its Virtual Supermarket Program with two sites in Cherry Hill this month through the ShopRite of Glen Burnie, operated by Collins Family Markets. People can place orders and pick up their groceries from the Cherry Hill branch of the Enoch Pratt library and Cherry Hill Senior Manor apartments.

Efforts to curb coal-related pollution are needed to clean up state's polluted air

On Monday night, about 50 community members gathered for the opening of a garden that now commemorates the space where Williams' school used to be, on the corner of Brentwood Avenue and Merryman Lane.

Baltimore author Karsonya Wise Whitehead transcribes three diaries from 1863-65 kept by a young seamstress

Just because the public school year is over doesn't mean that it's time for vacationing youngsters to curtail reading

"All Fall Down" features a woman who has everything but who slides into an addiction to painkillers

Baltimore Housing has launched a marketing campaign for a selected group of so called "eclectic" properties, in an effort to highlight the value hidden in the sea of roughly 1,000 vacants listed for sale.