NEWS
By ELIZABETH LARGE | November 18, 2007
Earth Alley 3602 Elm Ave., Hampden 410-366-2110 Hours: 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday; 4 p.m.-8 p.m. Thursday; noon-7 p.m. Friday & Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday Just in time for an eco-friendly holiday, Earth Alley has opened in Hampden. The gift and home accessories shop with the grass-green facade is one with the planet, so to speak, and features sustainable design and fair-trade items. Owner Eva Khoury likes to think of many of the things in her store as "upcycling" - things like purses made of old records, tires and magazines; picture frames from parts of old boats; and tree-free greeting cards created with sugar cane fiber.
NEWS
By Anne Haddad | January 12, 1999
A group of parents intent on building a high school in Westminster by 2002 gained support last night from Westminster City Council, which learned that the latest enrollment projections justify their cause.Together, they hope to persuade the county commissioners to build the school despite a recommendation from Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission to delay it two years."I think the enrollment projections show there is a need for the new Westminster high school," said Councilman Gregory Pecoraro, who met with the activist parents last week with Mayor Kenneth A. Yowan and Westminster Director of Planning Thomas B. Beyard.
NEWS
By Nancy A. Youssef | November 18, 1999
A woman died yesterday after being shot multiple times in a Dundalk alley, according to Baltimore County police.Officials said they have identified the woman, but had not notified her next of kin last night.Police received a call at 1: 15 a.m. yesterday in the 2500 block of Yorkway from residents saying they heard gunshots. When they arrived, officers found a woman face down behind a row of apartments, said Cpl. Vickie Warehime, a county police spokeswoman.The woman was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 1: 48 a.m., Warehime said.
FEATURES
By Rob Kasper | November 13, 1999
AN OPTIMIST is a guy who believes the potholes in the alley are half full, not half empty.That is what I told myself this week as I made yet another phone call trying to get the potholes fixed in a two-block stretch of the alley running behind my house. It was the third time in four months that I had called "pothole central" (technically, the complaint line run by the Baltimore City Public Works Department).Every time I call I try to be as upbeat as the cheerful fellow who answers that phone.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | December 30, 1999
Walters Omington Lawson, 28, whose last known address was in New York City, was identified by police yesterday as the man who was fatally shot Monday in an alley in West Baltimore.Lawson was found by police about 8: 30 p.m. in an alley behind the 1300 block of Edmondson Ave., bleeding from gunshot wounds.Fire Department medics pronounced Lawson dead at the scene about 8: 50 p.m.Police knew of no motive and had no suspects.Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Chris Bieling at 410-396-2100.
NEWS
By Laura Sullivan | November 18, 1999
As workers installed the shiny wooden lanes and unloaded crates of pins, Robert E. Thompson stared at his financial ledger in growing horror. He realized he would be broke before his new Glen Burnie bowling alley had even opened for business.Already $600,000 in debt, his applications for further financing rejected by several banks, Thompson turned to Anne Arundel County's Economic Development Corp. But even this county-financed agency -- set up to promote new business in the county -- turned him down, calling his venture too risky.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | January 20, 1999
A police sergeant suffered a graze wound in the neck last night when a man opened fire on him in a West Baltimore alley.Sgt. Michael D. Caperoon, 42, of the Western District, was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and released, police spokesman Robert W. Weinhold Jr. said.Caperoon and other officers were near the 500 block of N. Schroeder St. about 6: 40 p.m. and heard gunshots, Weinhold said. When Caperoon confronted a man in an alley, he fired several shots, wounding Caperoon. The officer fired back as the gunman fled down the alley then exchanged gunfire with other officers.
FEATURES
By ROB HIAASEN | March 10, 1999
Something brings her to this stinking alley, some swell of emotion and purpose beneath her. Vonnie Gowe, 37, pierced nose, thick hair, is so shy before humans. But kneeling in this alley, she reaches out to a hairball of a dog. It's OK, it's OK. Come to her, dog.Dog shuffles toward Gowe's can of food, then jerks back when Gowe tries to pet his matted, stringy back. She tries to feel him with the softness of the back of her hand. She wants him home with her. But the dog retreats under a splintered porch and ducks his head, clearly in fear of some other, invisible hand.
FEATURES
By ROB HIAASEN | April 1, 1999
FROSTBURG -- This town is so small the alleys have their own street signs ("Alley 2, Alley 3" etc.). This town is so small when you ask for the chamber of commerce, a local nudges you and says, "What commerce?"Frostburg is so small the mayor, being the mayor, was entitled to P.O. Box 1. Even Ralph Race, a 91-year-old native, didn't rate in the top five. He's P.O. Box 6. Race is amused by this fact. He might even tell you about the post office situation over the phone, provided you don't call around dinner.
NEWS
By Jim Haner | October 10, 1998
Smeared with filth and soaked by rain, four college students set out yesterday to clean an alley clogged with soggy trash, dead rats and hundreds of dirty heroin needles near an East Baltimore elementary school. They came well aware there might be trouble.But they didn't expect it to come from the city Public Works Department.In a neighborhood that needs all the help it can get -- where even the heroin addicts pitched in yesterday for the sake of the kids at nearby Dr. Rayner Browne Elementary School -- city officials nearly strangled an all-volunteer clean-up campaign with red tape.