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The turkey and cheddar wrap at new Southeast Anchor library location is better than expected

A 70-year-old film that captures annual summertime excursions to Carr's Beach in Annapolis will debut at 5:30 p.m. today at the Walbrook Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 2302 W. North Ave.

On Monday, more than 800 people had signed up to participate in a planned protest in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. But shortly after noon Tuesday, when the protest was scheduled to begin, only a handful of people had shown up.

Three days remain to return overdue library materials to Enoch Pratt Free Library branches without paying fines.

Organizers of the 16th annual Baltimore Book Festival, which opens Friday, say they couldn't care less that a larger, glitzier, more star-studded event is being held on the exact same weekend in the nation's capital just 40 miles to the south.

Central Maryland libraries go high-tech and try to create dining options and community spaces to lure patrons

Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young faces four challengers in the Democratic primary, including former Senator Theater owner Thomas Kiefaber.

Tuesday night's mayoral debate was ugly, with the candidates' supporters repeatedly disrupting the event, but it may be just what was needed to shake up the contest.

Mayoral challengers assailed incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in a vitriolic candidate forum Tuesday night, accusing her of burying Baltimoreans in burdensome taxes and funneling too much money to developers.

Hazel E. Melchior, a retired registered nurse and avid reader, died Aug. 18 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 88.

Hazel E. Melchior, a retired registered nurse and avid reader, died Aug. 18 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 88.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is launching two pilot programs aimed at putting into customers' hands not just virtual titles, but the electronic devices with which to read them.

Ruth Garbis, a homemaker who enjoyed writing poetry, died July 18 of heart failure at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 91.

At 19, Meredith Good-Cohn is already a woman of tomorrow, a community activist, a scholar, a filmmaker, a volunteer and the state's recycler of the year.

Friday forecast: Sunny and hot, high near 105

Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" casts the two medical giants as intellectual trailblazers — and cokeheads

Thursday forecast: Sunny and hot, high near 101

Wednesday forecast: sunny and hot, high near 95

Evelyn G. Calhoun, a retired Baltimore County public school educator and thoroughbred racing fan, died July 10 of pancreatic cancer at her Parkton home. She was 89.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is in search of Civil War era documents and wants to preserve them on computers and share them on the Internet. Librarians have joined up with the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program.

Alice F. Bowie, a former newspaper reporter and editor who enjoyed gardening, died Thursday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 87.

Enoch Pratt and Verizon team up to keep Baltimore kids from falling behind

An avid reader who considered the library a second home has left a $950,000 bequest to be shared by the Baltimore County Public Library and the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Downtown resident puts on her walking shoes and ends up falling in love with her adopted city

Elizabeth Warren treated as a rock star in Baltimore town hall meeting

Baltimore's nonemergency call center will remain open under its current hours, a reversal of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's planned cuts to the 311 program's budget, under a plan approved by the city's spending board Wednesday.

As work begins on a statewide fiber-optic network that will connect every Maryland school, college, hospital, police and fire station, senior center and library, businesspeople are hoping to get involved

Schaefer funeral will affect some Baltimore-area roads

William Donald Schaefer — the former mayor, governor and comptroller who left an indelible mark on Baltimore — is heading back to the city this afternoon for one last tour.

William Donald Schaefer hired Pam Kelly as an aide when he was mayor and brought her to Annapolis when he became governor. It is sad but fitting, their friends say, that they died on the same day.

Despite a new upscale locale, a New York-inspired structure, a celebrity announcer, and the addition of national retailers, ticket prices for Baltimore Fashion Week will be less expensive than last year, according to the event's executive director.

For home decorators and artists alike, books are the new bricks. They pile them up, paint them, and drip wax over them.