Camden

The O'Malley administration has chosen a Canadian company to operate two MARC commuter train lines, passing over a competitor whose critics have tied it to Nazi Germany and avoiding a potential fight with Holocaust survivors. The Maryland Department of Transportation is expected to seek Board of Public Works approval Oct. 3 for a nearly six-year, $204 million contract with Bombardier Transportation Services to run the Camden and Brunswick lines. The lines are now owned and operated by CSX Transportation, which has long wanted to get out of the business of running a commuter railroad.

R. Arden Lowndes, a Baltimore native and a retired vice president of the South Carolina National Bank, died Saturday of heart failure at his home in Camden, S.C. He was 85.He was a graduate of the Gilman School and Yale University. He had been captain of the Gilman football team and had played soccer at Gilman and Yale.He lived in Cumberland and worked for the Second National Bank there before World War II. He moved to Camden after serving in the Navy during the war.Graveside services were set for 11 a.m. today at the Quaker Cemetery in Camden.

1992: Camden Yards opens1993: Reggie Lewis dies1994: Rangers win first Cup in 54 years1995: UConn women go 35-0

CAMDEN, N.J. -- The Moshulu is setting sail for Camden. A fixture on the Philadelphia waterfront for most of its quarter-century on the Delaware River, the ship will make its new home at a pier between the New Jersey State Aquarium and the Campbell's Field minor-league baseball stadium, said Tom Corcoran, president of Cooper's Ferry Development Association. Cooper's Ferry, which is overseeing redevelopment of the Camden waterfront, plans to ask the Delaware River Port Authority for $600,000 for work to prepare the pier to handle the 97-year-old, four-masted, 394-foot steel bark, the only one of its kind still afloat.

July 13, 1971: The All-Star Game was held at Camden Yards, 35 years after it was last played in Baltimore.

Aubrey Huff, Orioles first baseman How annoying are the Red Sox fans who fill Camden Yards? I'm used to it. I played in Tampa for six years. It's the same everywhere.

In the 1980s, private colleges priced themselves out of the market for most American students. This is the 1990s. It's the state colleges' turn.The Os could always trade Camden Yards for a couple of real pitchers.

Anthony N. Marchione, 58, a trumpet player and musical director at the Valley Forge Music Fair in Pennsylvania for almost two decades, died Sunday in Camden, N.J. The cause of death was not immediately available.@

The new Os owner took one look at Camden Yards stadium and demanded there be more of it.Cheer up. The United Nations General Assembly is back on the job.

The scene is jarringly familiar: a massive new aquarium overlooking the waterfront, with harbor seals frolicking outside and thousands of fish and other specimens inside. Tourists strolling along a brick promenade and public park at the water's edge. Land cleared all around for a hotel, offices, conference center, shops and restaurants.This isn't Baltimore's Inner Harbor, circa 1981. This is 100 miles north, the refurbished waterfront of Camden, N.J.Yesterday, before a sellout crowd, officials of Camden and New Jersey cut the ribbon opening the $52 million Thomas H. Kean New Jersey State Aquarium at Camden, foundation of a $500 million effort to rejuvenate a city struggling to end nearly 50 years of decline.