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- Roundup of arrests around Harford
- Eileen B. Graeff, a retired Verizon marketing and sales associate, died Monday from breast cancer at her Ellicott City home. She was 66.
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J. Russell "Russ" Kimmel, a retired tire company executive, died Friday from pancreatic cancer at his Reisterstown home. He was 84. - Bel Air resident Richard Bock has been named president of FranNet of Maryland, which assists individuals interested in exploring self-employment as a career option through franchised business ownership
- With FanFest just around the corner next Saturday, the Orioles caravan will make four visits across the state that will include appearances by Orioles team representatives and players.
- Donation tax break encourages giving while reducing the burden on government services
- Harford County Executive David Craig announces a plan to give almost 2,000 county employees a 4 percent pay raise. This would be their first pay raise increase in four years.
- David Harmon,17, has been swimming for eight years for Spy Swimming at the Severna Park Community Center and is in his fourth season on the Archbishop Spalding swim team.
- The field in the YMCA Turkey Trot in Bel Air continues to swell, like a turkey in a pre-Thanksgiving fattening regimen. When the annual 5K went off for the 17th time last Thursday, 1,285 runners stood behind the starting line, so many that it took 2 minutes for the hindmost to clear the line.
- Charm City Classic fencing tournament in Baltimore honors the memory of Johns Hopkins coach Dick Oles, who championed self-reliance
- Barbara L. Simmons, a volunteer and gardener, died Nov. 8 of respiratory failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. She was 89.
- Twice a week at the Bykota Senior Center in Towson, women meet for this class that combines ballet, folk and tap and other dance styles.
- Five Carroll County residents were recently inducted into the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame at McDaniel College.
- Baltimore's attitude seems to be that placing public trashcans on street corners is an invitation to littering.
- The final hearing on the construction of a 140-unit senior residence facility along with the further expansion of the Catonsville Y on South Rolling Road is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 8, in Towson.
- Abingdon's Box Hill South neighborhood is primed to get a 400-unit apartment complex, as well as a handful of new stores and restaurants near the Wegmans in Boulevard at Box Hill, the developer told the Abingdon Community Council on Monday.
- The 20th annual Komen Maryland Race for the Cure kicked off this morning in Hunt Valley.
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- The Towson Family Center YMCA reached an eleventh-hour agreement with a set of neighbors who opposed their development plans in advance of a building appeals hearing scheduled for Tuesday, according to Towson Y board member John Holman.
- Horizon Dental Care COO Drew Adia's business interest — and acumen — came from watching his family build a life in Baltimore.
- As events in Maryland and Louisiana show, those who care for kids must be prepared for an emergency at all times
- Harford County helps you stay fit all year round with these easy, fun routines
- Chaney collapsed during an offseason workout in April 2010. He figured he was just dehydrated, but doctors soon determined he had a severe case of viral myocarditis, a potentially fatal infection of the heart that causes inflammation.
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- For more than 30 years, this class has been burning calories and busting moves
- Perryville Commissioner Michael Dawson questions the juvenile outreach programs new summer initiative
- On June 15, the Y of Central Maryland celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Walter & Betty Ward Family Center Y in Abingdon. YMCA officials also introduced expansion plans for the family center. Betty Ward along with Y volunteers, members, staff and other guests kicked off the celebration with a cake cutting and shared expansion plans with a tour of the expansion areas
- Cynthia Earl Kerman, a retired Villa Julie College faculty member who wrote biographies of a Quaker economist and a Harlem renaissance writer, died of pneumonia July 22 at the Glen Meadows Retirement Community. She was 89 and had lived in Lauraville.
- Loyola University Maryland swim coach Brian Loeffler 'opened the door' for U.S. Paralympic Team swimmers Ian Silverman and Becca Meyers
- Arthur E. Petersen, a pioneering African-American educator whose career with Baltimore County public schools spanned nearly four decades, died July 6 of a heart attack at his Windsor Mill home. He was 94.
