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- The Board of Directors of the Office on Mental Health/Core Service Agency of Harford County has announced the appointment of R. Terence Farrell as the agency's executive director.
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- Sunday, Aug. 28, 3:40 p.m. — County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and Director of Public Works Edward Adams Jr. were out surveying damage from Hurricane Irene on Sunday afternoon, including a tree that fell on a house at 811 Chumleigh Road in Stoneleigh.
- Mary Lacy Fetting, a retired psychotherapist who counseled the homeless at the Franciscan Center as a volunteer, died of cancer Wednesday at her Guilford home. She was 82.
- Mary Lacy Fetting, a retired psychotherapist who counseled the homeless at the Franciscan Center as a volunteer, died of cancer Wednesday at her Guilford home. She was 82.
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- Fatal crashes were reported overnight in Essex and Towson
- Joseph L. Radebaugh Sr., an owner of a family-owned florist and greenhouse business who served customers for more than 65 years, died of congestive heart failure July 3 at his Towson home. He was 88.
- Joseph L. Radebaugh Sr., an owner of a family-owned florist and greenhouse business who served customers for more than 65 years, died of congestive heart failure July 3 at his Towson home. He was 88.
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- Weeks of community meetings and dialogue with Sheppard Pratt Health System officials have done little to ease the minds of neighbors to a mental health outpatient facility slated to open in Ruxton this fall.
- Dr. Betty W. Robinson, a psychiatrist who had been director of inpatient services at the Walter P. Carter Center in downtown Baltimore and an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died at 84.
- Dr. Betty W. Robinson, a psychiatrist who had been director of inpatient services at the Walter P. Carter Center in downtown Baltimore and an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died at 84.
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- If Sheppard Pratt can put a facility for addicts and depressives in Ruxton, what's to stop another group from buying a house for pedophiles and other sex offenders?
- Transitional housing for mentally ill works out well
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- Proposed Ruxton facility is needed to complete good mental health treatment
- Ruxton opponents of a Sheppard Pratt group home seem to be under the mistaken impression that the mentally ill are all dangerous.
- Ruxton homes look pretty but letters from residents show ugly side.
- Ruxton is welcoming — until the wrong people try to move in
- Realtors are bound by law, ethics in Ruxton and elsewhere
- Ruxton residents decry Sheppard Pratt's poor communication about its plans for a group home in the community.
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- Sheppard Pratt's proposed group home in Ruxton is a commercial enterprise and should not be shielded by federal disability laws.
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- Ruxton residents aren't discriminating against mental health treatment, they are objecting to the commercial use of a residential property.
- Sheppard Pratt is a corporate giant trying to exert its will on a community, and the federal law that allows it to happen needs to be changed.
- The folly of Sheppard Pratt's plan for Ruxton rehab house
- Sheppard Pratt President Steven Sharfstein says the establishment of a group rehabilitation home in Ruxton should not create fear but rather an opportunity for the community to learn the true nature of mental illness and psychiatric treatment.
