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- Lucas Gardner from Boy Scout Troop 143 of Port Deposit completed a decking project for St. Patrick's Church in Havre de Grace to reach his goal of Eagle Scout.
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A fatal train derailment in Ellicott City is expected to close Frederick Road/Main Street for up to 30 hours, impacting area businesses. - A fatal train derailment in Ellicott City is expected to close Frederick Road/Main Street for up to 30 hours, impacting area businesses.
- We've become familiar with the antique car shows at the Fire Museum of Maryland over the years, but there is a different kind of vehicle show coming up Sept. 1 at the museum.
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- $111,000 grant enables Walters Art Museum to showcase its American collection
- Youngsters picked up some pointers from experienced fishermen from the Baltimore Reservoir Metro Anglers before competing in a Fishing Derby on June 2 at Springlake Park in Cockeysville.
- Sykesville's Gate House Museum of History has always highlighted the community's past, but these days visitors entering the small museum can almost feel a sense of renewal and vitality as well.
- Photos focus on young newspaper boys and girls to mark Afro-American's 120th anniversary
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- After being shuttered to the public for nearly two decades, a new day may be dawning for Baltimore's venerable Peale Museum, if the Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture's planned restoration of the building succeeds.
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- Dozens of one-time paperboys and girls gathered for breakfast at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum as part of the paper's 120th anniversary.
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- Former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engineer who rose to become superintendent of locomotive operations for CSX and who never lost his enthusiasm for railroading, died of pneumonia.
- A Havre de Grace committee held its first meeting last week to begin planning for city's commemoration of the War of 1812.
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- Celebrate National Picnic Month in July at the summer concert in Tydings Park at 7:30 p.m., tonight (Friday). The Chesapeake Brass Band will perform, free and open to the public
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- An exhibit committee at the Laurel Historical Society is looking for items related to Laurel during the period of the Civil War for possible inclusion in an exhibit opening in February 2013.
- Renee Stout, 2012 winner of the Sondheim Artscape Prize, explores spirituality and culture through her alter ego, Fatima Mayfield.
- The Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders School has found a new home following last month's severing of ties between the school and its former home, the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum.
- The summer exhibits at Baltimore's two largest museums are very different in nature, but both emphasize local input.
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