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- The Orioles announced their lineup of pre-game activities for Friday's Opening Day today, with a nod to the 20th anniversary of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Fans are encouraged to be in their seats by 2:30 p.m., when ceremonies will begin. Gates open at noon.
- Manchester Valley High senior and Hampstead resident Kristen Cannon has been a standout in basketball, soccer and lacrosse and also in the classroom and in her community — a combination that has earned Cannon the Carroll Eagle's Winter Sports Student-Athlete award.
- Girls basketball: Calvert repeats as Class 2A champ with 57-22 win over No. 14 Century. Knights shoot only 23 percent from the floor in first state final appearance.
- The Winters Mill High School wrestling team was favored to bring its second consecutive state crown back to Carroll County when the state championships were held last weekend.
- U.S. Mint launches sale of 2012 Star Spangled Banner Commemorative Coins
- "Over the Moon," a collaboration of several local Carroll County high school theater groups, is set for performances March 9-10 at Winters Mill High School.
- Eight locals -- so far -- advance to state girls basketball tournament
- MPSSAA state wrestling scores/results from Friday's first day of action from Cole Field House.
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- Varsity Q&A: Dan Mullen, South Carroll, basketball. Senior point guard dishes on the upcoming postseason, his commitment to Navy and his mother's cooking.
- Indoor track: No. 2 Liberty girls win their first state title in Class 2A. Winters Mill senior Hannah Oneda sets two meet records.
- Baltimore Sun high school sports polls: Feb. 21, 2012
- A document, outlining deliberations over a version of the song that would later become the national anthem, donated by Oregon woman.
- Baltimore school officials proposed Tuesday night to close one school, Southside Academy, a Cherry Hill high school with about 274 students.
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- In his fifth year as the head of Liberty's athletic program, Ed DeVincent earned recognition for his efforts when he was named this month as the District 1B Athletic Director of the Year by the Maryland State Athletic Directors Association.
- Sorting out Harford County's hard court morass as it gets stickier
- The takeover of the Baltimore City archives by the Maryland State Archives is part of a broader effort to take all steps necessary to protect valuable Maryland records before they are lost forever.
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- Wolfgang Oehme, a renowned landscape architect and a founder of the New American Garden movement that incorporated windblown ornamental grasses and massed perennial plantings, died of cancer Thursday at his Towson home. He was 81.
- The U.S. Mint unveiled the designs Wednesday for two limited-issue coins that will be issued in March to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The $5 gold piece and the silver dollar pay homage to the National Anthem, Fort McHenry and the Battle of Baltimore.
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- The weather outside might turn frightful, but the Board of County Commissioners is promising a delightful ceremony nonetheless as the county hosts its eighth annual Christmas Tree Lighting today, Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the county office building, 225 North Center St., Westminster.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley announced for the Star-Spangled Sailabration, an international maritime festival in June, the first of many that bicentennial events that will showcase Maryland's role in the War of 1812.
- A talented Walkersville team showed South Carroll the exit door in Friday's regional semifinal, jumping to a 21-0 first-quarter lead on the way to a dominant 35-0 win over the Cavaliers.
- Cougars drop Mavericks 4-0 in semifinals on Wednesday
- Harford, Cecil counties tell their stories from War of 1812: Havre de Grace was burned after British sailed up bay in 1813
- Students at St. Mark School in Catonsville gathered Tuesday morning to learn about the history of the American flag. The students have also raised money to provide supplies to troops overseas.
- Westminster won its first county championship since 2005 with a resounding 39-6 victory over host South Carroll in Friday's regular-season finale. But Coach Brad Wilson's team was eliminated from the Class 4A North Region playoffs because of a forfeit loss last week to Manchester Valley — a loss that was confirmed Friday when the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association denied an appeal from the school.
- Cougars moving on to state tournament with a 4-2 victory over Huskies
- The recent PBS documentary on the War of 1812 failed to make any mention of the Battle of North Point
- Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.
- The Battle of North Point was overlooked once again by PBS's most recent documentary on the War of 1812
- Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.
- Landmark Harbor East Cinema sneak preview of PBS film on War of 1812 tailored to local audience
- Dr. James Patrick Connaughton, a psychiatrist who was the founder of what is now the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at his Cloisters home in the Woodbrook neighborhood of Baltimore County. He was 80.
- On its anniversary, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' asks us something this is worth trying to answer
