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Patty Rouse, widow of Columbia founder James Rouse, has died - Peyton Skipwith Cochran Jr., a longtime Rouse Co. executive who helped develop shopping centers but was deeply interested in land preservation, died Thursday at Springwell Senior Living in Baltimore after suffering a stroke. He was 85.
- Emily Lincoln came to Howard County in 1969, arriving in a nascent community with plenty of potential. Columbia was in its early stages, a planned city based, in part, on a promise of diversity, something the 30-year-old had seen little of during a youth spent in Missouri
- Llewellyn Washington Woolford Sr., a retired Social Security Administration attorney who was a past Howard County Human Relations Commission chairman, died of stroke complications Feb. 22 at his Columbia home. He was 81.
- The Genesis of Columbia: Nearly 50 years have passed since James Rouse began secretly buying up the land that became Howard County's largest city
- When a street name in Howard County is deemed offensive, changing it to something more acceptable should not be an ordeal
- The Columbia Association want to drop the "People Tree" logo — a cluster of 66 interconnected human figures — from its signs, uniforms, and other objects at a cost of as much as $200,000.
- What began as a younger brother railing against "the Man" has morphed into a Facebook fundraising phenomenon that has buoyed his older brother in the health battle of a lifetime.
- Columbia leaders are soliciting input from community members for a plan to improve the area's nearly 100 miles of pathways.
- Members of the All-County Improv Troupe perform at Wilde Lake High School after months of honing their skills.
- In his new job as assistant to the Howard County Delegation, which he started on Dec. 12, Goldberg said he hopes to assist Howard's state lawmakers in their efforts to help Maryland residents.
- Former RTKL chairman recalled for his ability to lead an office and transform the shopping center into a mall
- A display at the Gary J. Arthur Community Center in Glenwood has laid bare the walls of Warren G. Sargent's nearby home of nearly 60 years and literally sent him back to the drawing board, he said.
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- With two levels of interactive exhibits set amid 18.3 wooded acres, the James and Anne Robinson Nature Center is Howard County's new front door to nature
- Former Howard County farmland envisioned as site for innovative children's garden
- The small cemetery hardly seems the fitting resting place for the owner of a farm that thrived more than a century before James Rouse began acquiring the land that became Columbia.
- After spending the past 22 years in Columbia, the African Art Museum of Maryland is settling into its new home in another part of Howard County.
- General Growth Properties, a Chicago-based company that owns the Mall in Columbia, announced Monday, August 1, the transfer of 30 malls into a new real estate trust named Rouse Properties, Inc.
- Columbia has its own sense of place, purpose
- Baltimore's open-air film series promise fun for all ages – and a sprinkle of midsummer's nights dreams
- Gaia uses hybrid creatures and historical figures to revitalize worn-out urban sites
- William Donald Schaefer, the dominant political figure of the past four decades of Maryland history, died yesterday after a "do-it-now" career that included four terms as Baltimore mayor, two as the state's governor and two as comptroller.
- Unlike some Democratic governors and mayors, at least William Donald Schaefer had a dialogue with Maryland business leaders. If you can call a blistering, hold-the-phone-from-the-ear conversation a dialogue.
