holiday vacations
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Thanksgiving airfare bargain hunters will have to begin looking especially early this year. - Two airlines start service from BWI Marshall Airport, a chance for severe storms returns Maryland, and Andy Griffith dies.
- More Marylanders will be celebrating July Fourth away from home this year, according to AAA, which predicts the highest increase in travel in over a decade. The organization estimates that 846,000 Maryland residents will travel at least 50 miles to their destinations, with driving accounting for 86 percent of that number.
- If my calculations are correct, taking into consideration holidays and summer vacation, they work about 70 percent of the calendar year and have what I would consider adequate compensation and excellent retirement benefits.
- Senior forward Shane Walker is more focused on Friday's first-place showdown with Iona at sold-out Reitz Arena and the rest of the Loyola basketball season than he is on his professional future.
- Whittles to be inducted into Spalding Hall of Fame
- A surveillance camera in Ellicott City captured footage of a woman apparently taking a recently delivered parcel from a resident's porch Friday.
- Maryland Democrats continued to ramp up pressure on House GOP leaders Thursday over a stalled effort to extend a payroll tax cut that benefits as many as 2.6 million wage earners in the state.
- This column is the final one under my name for the year 2011 as by the time you're reading this, I will be enjoying some year-ending and holiday vacation time. I think we all know though, vacation is sometimes more busy or difficult than work.
- The Laurel Historical Society's bi-annual Holiday House Tour is Saturday, Dec. 10, and begins at the Laurel Museum, 817 Main St.
- During the first week of collection, Suzy Hill counted more than 90 toys and games. By the time representatives from the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation came for a second pick up at Curves in Glenelg, the amount of playthings had doubled. If you would like to pitch in with an unwrapped gift for a child, then bring your donation to the Curves in Glenelg by Friday, Dec. 2.
- Guests can make merry, collect cookies or sip soup
- Travelers were moving briskly through check-in and security lines at BWI on the afternoon before Thanksgiving, though airport officials expect to serve twice as many as an average Wednesday.
- To pay tribute for the wonderful help her family received at the Ronald McDonald House after a snow tubing accident, 10-year-old Gracie Virden and her friends organized a walk/run/bike ride & bake sale and raised more than $1,600 for a local location in Baltimore.
- Marriottsville's historic Waverly Mansion will open soon for traditional holiday tours
- The holiday season has begun at Greenbridge Pottery where music, cider, wood burning in the fireplace and neighbors chatting is the weekend scene from now through Christmas
- In a letter to the editor, a Laurel resident sings the praises of Montpelier Mansion, a historic house museum in South Laurel.
- Airfares can fluctuate even within the span of a few hours, but the direction of holiday travel prices is one way: up.
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- Hoteliers and merchants at Maryland and Delaware resorts are eager to show Labor Day travelers that there is life after Hurricane Irene — but they may have their work cut out for them, according to travel industry analysts.
- As Maryland drivers cruise into the July 4 holiday, they can think of their gas tanks as either half empty or half full.
- Delaware toll plaza opens ahead of schedule — possibly uncorking major I-95 bottleneck.
- "Staycations" will rule this Fourth of July, according to AAA Mid Atlantic. Marylanders traveling during the holiday weekend are projected to decrease to 760,000, down 2.9 percent compared to the 2010 season.
- About 719,400 Marylanders are expected to travel on vacation this holiday weekend, essentially even with last year's fairly robust Memorial Day numbers, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
