BUSINESS
By Natalie Sherman | May 16, 2014
The Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church plans to sell an 1881 church in Bolton Hill at auction next month. The Strawbridge United Methodist Church property, which stopped being used in 2009 and likely requires “multiple millions” in renovation, will go to the highest bidder at the auction June 19, regardless of price, said Stephen Ferrandi, a principal with the NAI KLNB commercial brokerage, who is marketing the...
FEATURES
By Samantha Iacia, For The Baltimore Sun | April 9, 2014
Date: Jan. 4 Her story: Bridget Norberg, 31, grew up in Millersville. She is a health care consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Va. Her parents, Eric and Catherine Norberg, live in Millersville. His story: Keith Jankowski, 31, grew up in Clawson, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. He is a research analyst for Schafer Corp. in Washington. His parents, Ron and Ruth Jankowski, live in Royal Oak, Mich. Their story: Bridget and Keith met through eHarmony.com in September 2010 while they were both living in Arlington, Va. The two talked online for about a month before meeting in person for the first time that October.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Sarah LaCorte, The Baltimore Sun | February 7, 2014
The razor-sharp satirists behind "The Onion" and a former director of the embattled National Security Agency are among this spring's speakers in the Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Affairs Symposium, a series of free public lectures. Students selected the guests for the symposium, titled "Confronting Global Dissonance: The Balance between Realism and Idealism. " The schedule features: •Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, Feb. 19. The two-term governor has given indications of a potential run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
NEWS
Jacques Kelly | November 22, 2013
A train derailment this week near Pennsylvania Station showed me how confused we are about the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, where the mishap occurred. This 1873 work of engineering burrows under West Baltimore neighborhoods for 1.4 miles, but its role in local transportation remains little known. I winced when a radio news reader described its location as "south of Baltimore. " Though many assessments say that this 140-year-old engineering relic needs to be replaced, it has not happened.
NEWS
By Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun | July 12, 2013
The residents of the Memorial Apartments in Bolton Hill first started complaining about the intersection in front of the complex when a firetruck was broadsided four years ago. The intersection is dangerous, they told City Hall. Its wide median, poor signage and confusing design are causing frequent accidents to occur at the corner of McMechen Street and Eutaw Place, where schoolchildren and many senior citizens cross the street. The collisions continued — including eight in the past 12 weeks.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | June 26, 2013
Edward Trail Mathias, a retired banker and longtime denizen of Bolton Hill, died June 17 from complications of a stroke at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 85. The son of Charles McCurdy Mathias, a lawyer, and Theresa Mcelfresh Trail Mathias, a homemaker, Edward Trail Mathias — he never used his first name — was born in Baltimore and raised in the family home on Court Square in Frederick. He graduated from Frederick High School in 1943, and took an additional year of high school studies at the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., from which he graduated in 1944.