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MAURICE "Bo" KERBY, born October 15, 1919 in Baltimore, MD, passed away at his home in San Diego, CA, on April 9th, at the age of 87. Bo is survived by his wife of 60 years, Anne Kerby; his sister Theresa Kerby; his daughter Cathy Lapoint; his son-inlaw John Lapoint MD; and four grandchildren; Jeff and Eliko Lapoint; Jody and Kirk Hinkleman. Bo served his country in World War II as an Army Medic and worked for Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. directly after his service. Bo was a longtime, faithful member of the Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church in Baltimore.

After seven years running his own kitchen at Salt , his Upper Fells Point restaurant that put duck-fat fries, Wagyu sliders and changing menus on Baltimore's food map, Jason Ambrose is stepping aside. Ambrose is turning over Salt's day-to-day kitchen operations to Brian Lavin, who joined the Salt team in 2010 and has been the restaurant's sous-chef for about a year and a half, according to Ambrose. "I made a decision I was going to take a step out," said Ambrose. "Brian came to me as a line cook with a tremendous interest in food.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Even yesterday, there was the familiar electricity, the sheer thrill of seeing Vincent Edward Jackson perform. But he limped so slowly to home plate, hobbled so gingerly to first base, he would have been better off using his bat as a cane.Don't remember him that way. Remember him scaling the Memorial Stadium wall like he was riding a skateboard. Crushing a monstrous home run to lead off the 1989 All-Star Game. Starring in another hilarious Nike commercial. Flattening Brian Bosworth for the good of all mankind.

Bradley Willits is the new executive chef at B&O American Brasserie in the Hotel Monaco. Willits is the third executive chef at the Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants property, which opened in 2009, following E. Michael Reidt and Thomas Dunklin. Willits, 31, has more than 20 years of kitchen experience and education, having started his restaurant career at his father's cafe in Sarasota, Fla. His formative kitchen experience was at Tango, a Vero Beach, Fla., restaurant, where he trained under Ben Tench.

As a small boy growing up in Waverly, Thomas H. Arnold watched and listened to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad steam trains as they chugged through the neighborhood. He listened as their throaty whistles seemed to call to his soul and vowed to become a railroader one day.Mr. Arnold, who fulfilled his dream by spending almost 40 years ** in train service as a B&O Railroad freight conductor and later restored and operated historic locomotives at the B&O Railroad Museum, died Tuesday of a heart attack at the Charlestown Retirement Community.

Bo Jackson's unprecedented life as an athlete suddenly is as uncertain as a gray winter sky. The Kansas City Royals released him yesterday. Incredible. You can buy him for a buck. He is on the damaged table. His left hip is injured. There is a chance the injury is serious. Very serious.Tests have revealed early signs of a degenerative condition, common among the elderly, known as avascular necrosis. It means blood isn't circulating to his hip for some reason. The tissue there is dying. Avascular necrosis.

A most pleasant way to travel to New York from Baltimore was the Royal Blue, that beautiful train Baltimoreans believed was theirs.I will never forget the first time I saw a line of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad coaches at Camden Station. It was one sharp-looking train, awaiting passengers as the steam vapor rose out of hissing hoses. The engine and coaches were stunning, decorated in a deep, rich regal blue, perfectly offset by the warm gray, then highlighted with gold stripes and some black trim.

Wearing white gloves, Shawn Cunningham gingerly removed a heavy canvas-bound book from its shelf in a vault at the B&O Railroad Museum.In the adjacent reading room of the museum's new research library, Mr. Cunningham placed the book on the polished antique boardroom table and opened the volume to its first entry -- the minutes of the April 24, 1827, meeting of the board of directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.Written in an ornate, almost artistic, 19th-century hand, this first record of America's first commercial railroad begins, "At a meeting of the directors Elect of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Company the following certificates were produced and read to wit."

Women might not be prominently featured among the icons of the American railroad, but the Ellicott City B&O Museum is attempting to modify those images.Its current exhibit, "Women in Railroad," is the creation of museum director Jack Mitchell. After culling hundreds of issues of B&O Magazine, he is presenting "women working on the railroad through the eyes of people who made a few notes of it in the magazine."His labors chronicle the women who worked for the B&O from the days of the Civil War to the middle of the 20th century.

THEY DIDN'T have 28-year-old Wall Street analysts in 1827 to hype the initial public stock offering of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but they didn't need any. They had the media. "We have no doubt that the entire 15,000 shares will be subscribed on the first day," the American and Commercial Daily Advertiser reported of the B&O offering in March of that year. "Though it is far from being our wish to contribute in the least to any false excitement, we perceive the promptness with which the present plan has been adopted by all classes."

As part of Baltimore Green Week, the Nature Conservancy and the Oyster Recover Partnership are hosting an Earth Day "mix and mingle" event tonight at McCormick & Schmick's Staff from both organizations will introduce the new One for the Bay campaign, a new awareness and fundraising campaign that will support the organizations' ongoing efforts to help restore the Chesapeake Bay's oyster population. The One for the Bay reception is 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight at McCormick & Schmick's , 711 Eastern Ave. For information about the reception go to the Nature Conservancy website . And find more Baltimore Green Week events here . And B&O Brasserie is hosting an Earth Day oyster happy hour tonight from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oysters will be available for $1 for guests, and all collected oyster shells will be donated to the Oyster Recovery Program.

Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised in Windsor Hills, he was the son of attorney Herbert C. Forrester and Mary Davis, a legal secretary. He was a 1942 Forest Park High School graduate. He enlisted in the Army's Air Corps during World War II. Trained as a pilot, he served until 1945. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in transportation at the University of Baltimore, where he also taught from 1962 to 1964.

The Presidents' Day storm of 2003 that swept into Maryland and dumped 26.8 inches of snow on Baltimore - a record-breaker - caused a partial collapse of the B&O Railroad Museum roof on Feb. 17, wreaking havoc on its collection of historic locomotives and cars. It was this sickening sight that greeted us when my colleague Jacques Kelly and I made our way to the museum a day or two later through snow-rutted streets. There we met our friend, Courtney B. Wilson, the museum's executive director, who with his characteristic ebullience and optimism was trying desperately to put a good face on a dire situation.

Walter Scott Brown, a retired Baltimore & Ohio Railroad civil engineer whose career overseeing the railroad's infrastructure spanned nearly 40 years, died Monday at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville of complications from a fall he suffered last month. Mr. Brown, who family members said "remained sharp until the end of his life," was 106. The son of a building contractor and a homemaker, Walter Scott Brown was born at home in Lafayette Square, where he was raised.

Joseph J. Snyder has more than a passing interest in railroading and especially the venerable Baltimore & Ohio, whose storied passenger service is the subject of his recently published book. The B&O invented the passenger train. On Jan. 7, 1830, a horse pulling four coaches carrying passengers who had plunked down 9 cents for one way, or three tickets for 25 cents, inaugurated passenger service on the B&O as Old Dobbin clip-clopped along at a leisurely pace from Mount Clare to the Carrollton Viaduct in Southwest Baltimore.

B&O Brasserie is amping up its Ravens love with playoff week specials. The bar will be serving 50-cent National Bohemians and the Hail Mary, a purple cocktail concocted by Head Bartender Brendan Dorr. Thomas Dunklin is bringing bar snacks like candied bacon deviled eggs, pork belly sliders and Gulf shrimp corn dogs. The specials are in effect all day long on Purple Friday (Jan. 4) and game-day Sunday. Midtown BBQ & Brew is promoting a free halftime buffet for Sunday's game along with beer and shooter specials.

I've often thought that Baltimore possesses three truly great object collections: the Cone sisters' canvases, the treasure of Henry and William Walters and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Yes, the rail museum at Pratt and Poppleton, which suffered such a direct hit from this week's snowstorm, is this country's knockout stable of iron-horse history. And each, in its own way, casts the emotional blanket that a group of things creates when massed in one place. To a Baltimorean, to visit and revisit these addresses is like meeting up with a batch of friends and relatives.

The traffic gets hectic at the venerable B&O Railroad Museum in Southwest Baltimore.Visiting the rich collection of retired locomotives has become an entrenched Baltimore tradition once schools close for the holidays.Thousands of families converge on the 1883 brick roundhouse for a day's worth of viewing the mighty show at the birthplace of American railroading. It's the time of the year when baby strollers outnumber the steam locomotives by about 10 to 1.People who haven't been inside the museum (about five blocks due west of Oriole Park at Camden Yards)

During Kelly Coppedge's final conversation with her grandfather last Sunday, she says he was still thinking about Navy's football team. "He asked, 'When's Navy playing and who are they playing?" Kelly Coppedge recalled Thursday. J.O. "Bo" Coppedge, a former Navy football player and wrestler who ran Navy's athletic department from 1968 until his retirement in 1988, died Wednesday night - less than three days before the Midshipmen were scheduled to play Arizona State in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco.

In Baltimore, even Santa, it seems, is a Ravens fan. And vice versa. At 60, Bo Fowler can pass for Santa, and the Owings Mills resident has begun dressing in a custom purple Ravens Santa suit and entertaining at players' charitable holiday events. Fowler made his first appearance as Santa last year at a Petco store. After chatting with Ravens players at live radio broadcasts, he began receiving requests to appear at Ravens charity events. "I'd take pictures of the players and bring them copies," said the self-styled "Purple Santa," who has become friendly with current and former players Derrick Mason, Ricky Williams and Lardarius Webb.