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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.

ROBERT E. JR., 58, of Cambridge, passed away on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at Dorchester General Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Justine Jones of Cambridge, his father and stepmother, Robert E. Jones, Sr., and Grace Seward Jones of Ridgely, MD, his daughter, Kelly Price of Arnold, his son, Bobby Jones of Cambridge, his daughter, Emily Jones of Easton, His daughter,Sara Hartman of Chester and his step children, Jennifer Atwell of Frederick, Ana Carr of...

CAMBRIDGE - A historic building dating to 1790 and most recently used as a law office was destroyed by fire in Cambridge yesterday morning, according to the state fire marshal's office. The 2 1/2-story building was originally a home but had been converted to offices. Deputy State Fire Marshal Joseph Zurolo said the structure has been vacant for the past five years. It had been up for sale for two years. Investigators are trying to determine what sparked the flames.

CAMBRIDGE - Nearly 200 watermen packed the pavilion at Sailwinds Park last night to hear details of new harvest rules that they fear will ruin commercial fishermen whose business depends in large part on catching female blue crabs, the Chesapeake Bay's signature fishery. The number of crabs has dropped so sharply that Maryland and Virginia imposed restrictions last month that are aimed at reducing the annual harvest of females by one-third. About half of the blue crabs harvested in Maryland waters are females, officials say, and many are caught in warm fall waters.