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Sarah's Hope, a shelter in Sandtown-Winchester provides, private rooms for intact family after a $8 million renovation that doubled capacity at the city's largest shelter for men, women and children.

On Saturday, Aug. 2, Greenbridge Pottery had an open house to celebrate the shop's 30th anniversary.

Feeding those who are less fortunate is the mission of the Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen at Ascension Episcopal Church in Westminster, the same as it's been since it began three decades earlier, making it the oldest active soup kitchen in the Carroll County.

In its eighth year, Empty Bowls has become not only a major fundraiser for one of Baltimore's oldest and busiest charities but a popular event for which people are willing to get in line early.

Sue Van Essen reports from Greater Loch Raven that thrift shop at Arnolia United Methodist Church is in the black and helping area needy families.

The federal government has ordered Baltimore to pay back $3.7 million from a homeless services grant, saying the city and its subcontractors cannot sufficiently account for how the money was spent.

A coalition of interfaith leaders joined Gov. Martin O'Malley and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake at a rally Monday to call for a higher minimum wage, saying Maryland lawmakers shouldn't wait for the economy to make a full recovery before raising pay for low-wage workers..

Historians and architects have a $5 million plan to repair the pillar that was closed to the public three years ago for safety reasons. They expect it to reopen for tours — and a panoramic view of the city from 178 feet above Charles Street — for its bicentennial on Independence Day, 2015. By January, scaffolding will begin to enclose the monument for repairs from decades of water damage to the marble, stones and bricks..

As Baltimore's suburbs have grown in population they've also become more economically diverse; homelessness is now as big a problem there as in the city

St. Vincent de Paul Society's Front Door program is due in the Baltimore suburbs, where the population of poor has grown. Front Door recognizes that subsistence strategies like soup kitchen lines and homeless shelters are mere holding actions. The program teaches financial planning, among other skills, and moves clients into housing with the rent covered for a time.

Jean E. Patterson, who served as an inspiration to all who knew her, died Sept. 26 of complications related to Down syndrome at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 43.

This summer, the shelter for women and children launched a program called "Front Door," which focuses on quickly finding housing.

Revamped workforce development initiative by St. Vincent de Paul aims to place 300 in jobs in first year

Since the 1980s, Baltimore has greatly expanded its Enterprise Zone tax credit program, offering multimillion-dollar tax breaks to developers in many of the city's most popular neighborhoods.

Unemployed and underemployed individuals are invited to an open house on Aug. 14 to learn about job search resources available at Career Connections in Baltimore.

Baltimore bride celebrates a Kentucky Derby-themed wedding

Whiskey Island Mick, a former stunt man turned spice maker and bartender who was known for his colorful pepper-inspired kilts and bandannas, died Sunday from cardiac arrest at his Annapolis home. He was 48.

St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore's Empty Bowls fundraiser draws 2,000 guests to state fairgrounds

The families of nearly 400 children in East Baltimore Head Start classes received boxes packed with healthy food items Thursday through Feed the Children and the United Way of Central Maryland.

Patrick Norris, a student at St. Joseph School in Cockeysville wins gold medal in essay contest sponsored by Optimist Club of Timonium;

Venus Wiles would rather sleep, tucked away in a tent stuffed with blankets and all her worldly possessions on the side of the JFX with her boyfriend, Michael Spence, than stay the night in an emergency shelter.

Camp St. Vincent, a free summer day camp at Patterson Park, has been serving homeless children ages 5 through 12 from Baltimore City and Baltimore County for more than 100 years.

Virginia T. "Ginny" Dobry, a neighborhood activist who was also described as being "Patterson Park's One-Woman Welcome Wagon, died Sunday from a brain tumor at her North Kenwood Avenue home. She was 79.

The article neglected to mention that there is one more Catholic School in Harford County, St. Joan of Arc School in Aberdeen.

Mary S. "Molly" Jameson, who established the Outreach Program at St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore, died Sunday from breast cancer at her Lutherville home. She was 81.

The staff of Baltimore Reads, a literacy advocacy organization, is turning a half-acre spot in Park Heights into a food oasis, with a book component.

Elkridge: This spring, the Friends of Patapsco Valley and Heritage Greenway, Inc. has 24 cleanups planned throughout the Patapsco River Valley.

Elkridge: Five Elkridge Landing Middle School students were honored at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's "Girl Power – Reach For the Sky: Career Opportunities for the Women of Tomorrow in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics" event March 11

Baltimore is making itself into a magnet for the homeless.

The organizers of Beans and Bread say that a planned 14,000 square foot expansion will help them better serve the needy. But community leaders say the expansion threatens the quality of life in their neighborhood – and their property values.

William J. Nauman Jr., a retired Verizon quality manager, died Nov. 17 of a brain tumor at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 78.

William J. Nauman Jr., a retired Verizon quality manager, died Nov. 17 of a brain tumor at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 78.

Calvert Hall College High School held its annual Thanksgiving food drive from Nov. 14 to Nov. 22. The theme of this year's drive was "A Place at the Table."

Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Jewel surprised the crowd at a dinner benefit Saturday night for The Journey Home, a partnership between Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and United Way of Central Maryland to "make homelessness rare and brief in Baltimore in the next decade."

Elkridge: Browine Troop 4877 earns a merit badge and helps the homeless along the way

Elkridge: Grace Episcopal Church is celebrating the 100th anniversary of consecration of the stone church at Brumbaugh and Main Streets with a combined Festival Eucharist Sunday, Oct. 9 and a catered brunch.

William Donald Schaefer — the former mayor, governor and comptroller who left an indelible mark on Baltimore — is heading back to the city this afternoon for one last tour.

Eighty-six years to the day after the "shot heard round the world" rang out in Massachusetts, its deadly echo resounded near the spot where Pratt Street crosses the Jones Falls at the Inner Harbor.