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CSM Roger Woods Haller The family will receive friends Tuesday, January 30th at Governor's Hall, Sailwinds Park, Cambridge, MD, from 3 to 5 p.m. The family will also receive friends at Sailwinds on Wednesday, January 31st from 11:00 to 1:00 with the funeral service beginning at 1:00 p.m. with Full Military Honors. Officiating at the service will be The Rev. David Stewart. Inurnment will be held privately at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial offerings may be made in Roger's memory to the CSM Roger W. Haller Scholarship Fund, c/o Bank of the Eastern Shore, P.O. Box 757, Cambridge, MD 21613, Dorchester County Humane Society, American Cancer Society, c/o Mrs. Doris Weber, 5163 Maple Dam Rd., Cambridge, MD 21613 To send letters of condolences, please visit www.curran-bromwell.

CAMBRIDGE -- They came from Virginia, New Jersey and as far away as Hawaii yesterday to prepare to bury two young boys - 8-year-old Jarris Robinson, who fell through the ice on a neighborhood pond Sunday afternoon, and his brother Aaron, 12, who died trying to save him. Relatives and friends gathered inside the red-brick house with Jenise Robinson, who had warned her sons not to climb the fence around the pond. Neighbors and schoolmates, struggling with disbelief, spoke of two vibrant, energetic kids.

CAMBRIDGE -- Gov.-elect Martin O'Malley intends to play a central role in efforts to reform Maryland's centuries-old ground rent laws to prevent the seizure of homes over small unpaid bills, an administration official said yesterday. O'Malley's chief policy and legislative adviser, Joseph C. Bryce, said administration officials will participate in a meeting of top legislators about ground rents, scheduled for Wednesday morning before the General Assembly convenes for its annual session.

William Alfred, 76, a playwright and Harvard professor, died Thursday in his sleep in Cambridge, Mass. He was credited with influencing a number of Harvard students who went on to theatrical careers, including Stockard Channing, John Lithgow and Tommy Lee Jones.Abne Parker Wigglesworth,78, an artist whose paintings combined elements of American and French art traditions, died of cancer May 1 in her home in New York City.

IT IS NOON on the Sunday before the annual Varsity match against Cambridge, and the Oxford University boxing team has just finished a grueling two-hour session of sparring, shadowboxing, bag work and circuit training.Still dripping sweat, they gather around an upright, gray-haired man known as the Colonel. A veteran of the Second World War, Lt. Colonel Peter Fleming boxed for Oxford in the late 1940s, and each year he delivers a series of talks on strategy to the team as they prepare for the big match.

CAMBRIDGE -- On a recent weekday, innkeeper Stuart Schefers spent the morning turning away callers from his fully booked Queen Anne-style bed-and-breakfast."

CAMBRIDGE -- At first, the young father told police that the carjacking horror began on the bridge that spans the Choptank River.But after 13 hours of police interrogation, according to charging documents, Richard Wayne Spicknall II confessed that he had shot his 2-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter while they were strapped in safety seats in their grandmother's automobile.The 27-year-old Laurel man was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his son, Richard III, and the attempted murder of his daughter, Destiny Array Spicknall.

The Maryland Jockey Club's off-track betting network lost a member recently when The Shoals, located in Cambridge, closed for business."The owner [Charlene Burton] informed us last month that she was selling her motel and restaurant," said Jim Mango, chief operating officer. "She didn't own the land and they're going to develop that property for other purposes."Mango said the MJC is investigating other sites on the Eastern Shore, possibly in Cambridge or Salisbury. "We're certainly looking at the alternatives," said Mango.

Charles E. Edmondson, a retired judge in Dorchester County, died Saturday of cancer at his Cambridge residence. He was 84.Judge Edmondson was appointed to the Dorchester County District Court by Gov. Marvin Mandel in 1971 and served as administrative judge of the District Court for the 2nd District, which includes Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester counties.In 1975, he was appointed to the Circuit Court for Dorchester County and served until 1984, when he reached the mandatory retirement age. He was recalled by the Court of Appeals and continued to sit in District and Circuit courts past 80."

PROSPERITY has eluded Cambridge, a historic town of 10,800 on the Lower Eastern Shore. While nearby communities -- St. Michael's, Oxford and Easton -- draw tourists and wealthy retirees, Cambridge, the focal point of agricultural Dorchester County, limps along.Unemployment in Dorchester County, at 7.8 percent, is third-highest in the state, exceeding Baltimore's 7.4 percent jobless rate.That could change, thanks to a deal sealed this week between the state and Hyatt Hotels to turn 342 acres on the shores of the Choptank River into a luxury resort.

Hanging around in Cambridge, Mass., has its drawbacks. You may, for instance, feel undereducated, maybe even IQ-impaired. But spend the time anyway. This country's first college town is full of far more American history, smart shops, cool museums, inviting restaurants and all-around entertainment than your average city of 95,000. Harvard University sprawls on about 380 acres at one edge of Cambridge. Massachusetts Institute of Technology sits on 168 acres at another edge. The Charles River bends around both campuses, and the tree-lined streets should be exploding about now with red and gold leaves.

Do you think the police in Cambridge, Mass., acted wrongly in the incident that resulted in the arrest of Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.? Yes 78% No 19% Not sure 3% (4,199 votes, results not scientific) Next poll: : Do you think that recent positive signs for the economy mean that the recession is almost over? Vote at baltimoresun.com/vote

John V. Lewis Jr., the former longtime proprietor of a landmark general store in Cambridge that sold everything from steaks to screwdrivers, died May 15 at Dorchester General Hospital of complications from heart disease. The Cambridge resident was 80. Mr. Lewis, the son of grocers, was born in Cambridge and raised in the city's Neck District neighborhood. In 1946, his father established the Lewis Drive Inn, and a year later, the Lewis Store on Route 343. Mr. Lewis was a graduate of Cambridge High School and served in the Army as a military policeman from 1950 to 1953.

George M. Radcliffe Sr., a retired lawyer and Eastern Shore environmentalist, died March 13 of viral meningitis and pneumonia at Memorial Hospital in Easton. He was 89. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Radcliffe was the son of U.S. Sen. George L. Radcliffe, a Maryland Democrat, and Mary McKim Marriott Radcliffe. Mr. Radcliffe was raised on Edgevale Road in Roland Park and graduated from Gilman School in 1939. He earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1943 from Princeton University.

There we are, the wallflowers at the party. We pretend to be vitally interested in the books on the host's shelf or our very own shoes, anything to avoid interacting with - eek! - other people. Maybe they're boring anyway, maybe they'll talk about us after we leave. Better to go home right now and just deal with the people we already know if not necessarily love. That, fellow Marylanders, is how we stacked up in a recent "psychological map" of the U.S. that rated the states (including D.C.)

C. John Ciekot, a former Essex gas station owner and World War II veteran, died of cancer Sunday at his Cambridge home. He was 88. Mr. Ciekot was born and raised in Middle River and attended Baltimore County public schools. He was working at RustlessSteel in Baltimore when he enlisted in the Navy in 1944. He served as a bosun's mate aboard the USS Eldorado, an amphibious force command ship, in the Pacific. After being discharged in 1946, he went to work as a filling station attendant at an Esso station on Eastern Avenue.

Race Street runs through the center of Cambridge, and for much of the town's history, it was a physical as well as a symbolic divide: Whites lived on one side, blacks kept to the other. That is why the election this week of Victoria Jackson-Stanley, a 54-year-old social worker, as Cambridge's first black mayor marks a historic turning point for the town that's just a few miles from Harriet Tubman's birthplace. In 1967, Cambridge's biggest employer was a canning factory and segregation was a fact of life despite Congress' passage of landmark civil rights legislation earlier in the decade.

CAMBRIDGE - This Eastern Shore city has elected its first African-American mayor, four decades after images of an angry clash here between black protesters and white police played across the nation's television screens. Victoria Jackson-Stanley, deputy director of the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, said her victory over two-term incumbent Cleveland Rippons left her humbled at breaking racial and gender barriers. "As a woman and an African-American, I'm overwhelmed," said Jackson-Stanley, 54. "I think it shows just how much things have changed in Cambridge since the 1960s."

CARMELITA M. COOLAHAN, died July 3, 2008 at home in Cambridge, MD. Beloved wife of the late Dr. John F. Coolahan and beloved mother of the late Barbara Coolahan Mack and Kevin Patrick Coolahan. Loving mother of Marion Coolahan Thomas and husband Tony of Cambridge, MD, Patricia Coolahan Smith of Catonsville, MD, Eileen Coolahan of Cambridge, MD, Valerie Coolahan Laupert and husband Bill of Ft. Myers, FL, John F. Coolahan, Jr. and wife Nancy of Tampa, FL, Mark E. Coolahan and wife Beth of Severna Park, MD; adoring grandmother of 17 and adoring great-grandmother of 17; cherished sister of Mary Michiak of Baltimore, MD and Joseph Lehman.

Carmelita M. Coolahan, a retired nurse, died Thursday of complications from old age at her Cambridge home. The former Wilkens Avenue resident was 91. Born Carmelita Lehman in Baltimore and raised in Westminster, she was a 1932 graduate of St. John's High School. She attended classes at what was then Western Maryland College and was a 1938 honors graduate of the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing. In 1940, she married Dr. John F. Coolahan Sr., a general practitioner. Mrs. Coolahan was a member of St. Agnes Hospital Auxiliary for several decades and was its president from 1960 to 1961 and from 1961 to 1963.