quakerism
- Seton Keough opened the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference field hockey regular season with a 4-0 victory over visiting Friends on Thursday afternoon, but it took a few motivating words at halftime from new head coach Maureen Stumme to get them going.
- Harry E. Klages, a World War II pilot who later owned Cathell Bros. & Co. Inc. and was a longtime volunteer with the Friends of Jerusalem Mill, died Monday at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center of complications from a fall. He was 93.
- The Cove Point LNG export plan must be stopped.
- A hearing on the Harford County Council's proposal to legalize stun guns drew few, but passionate, reactions.
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- Friends School students interview senior citizens at Broadmead retirement community and write bios as a class project.
- Jerusalem Mill Village Awakens the Past During Colonial Event
- Harford Friends School recently hosted its first "Dazzle and Denim" Dinner Dance, raising $20,000
- "...in the neat little village of Fallston - rather a small village, there being only seven or eight houses and a store. There is also a schoolhouse, and a machine shop, altogether it is quite a nice little Quaker village."
- This weekend, June 8 and 9, Little Falls Friends Meeting in Fallston will celebrate the 275th anniversary of its founding.
- Seventh-graders at Harford Friends School have a new opportunity to let their voices be heard as far away as Afghanistan. The only school in Maryland selected to participate in an interactive program entitled "Afghanistan Hearts and Minds," Harford Friends incorporated the program into the seventh-grade social studies curriculum, taught by teacher Lauren Redding
- A Senate bill on visa waivers for Israel would allow it to keep out those it suspects for any reason — including their religion, Arab heritage or sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
- Harford Friends School hosted the 5th annual "Judy's Night of a Thousand Stars" recently, drawing more than 70 participants. This special event, coordinated by Alice Remsberg, is held each year in memory of Judy Harlan, one of the founding members of the school's board of trustees, who died in 2008.
- Eighth-graders from Harford Friends School recently toured the original lab at Johns Hopkins, where the HeLa cells were discovered. A HeLa cell is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in scientific research. Although many groups tour the facility every day, this group of middle schoolers was one of the youngest ever to be received by researchers
- An American woman's diary of the 1938-39 British-Arab fighting is instructive for today's conflict
- Seton Keough unscored on and unbeaten in league play
- We urge others to join us in telling our congressional candidates and incumbents that we want a federal budget recognizing that our strength rests not just on military might, but what kind of country we are defending
- Don't restore Pentagon budget at the expense of domestic spending
- Simplicity will be the theme at their Quaker wedding, with vintage tablecloths, a dress that's been in the family since the 1930s and rings with stones that come from heirlooms.
- The 9th annual reenactment of Maj. Harry W. Gilmor's 1864 raid across Baltimore and Harford counties and on the general store in Jerusalem Mill Village will be Saturday, June 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday, June 3 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m
- Friends School senior Emilio Martinez wins a 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing gold medal. This kid is the real deal artistically, according to school officials.
- Friends School senior Emilio Martinez wins a 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing gold medal. This kid is the real deal artistically, according to school officials.
- Visit the Hays House Museum in Bel Air this Sunday, April 15, at 1 p.m. and explore the health issues and illnesses that plagued 18th Century women and children.