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LOUISVILLE, KY. - This year, Doug O'Neill and his assistants sat in the office at a barn in the far corner of the Churchill Downs backside. Few reporters dropped by, and O'Neill was not asked repeatedly to relive the running of the Kentucky Derby a day before. Last year's winning trainer, with I'll Have Another, O'Neill instead convened with his robust team to discuss plans for the 138th Preakness Stakes, scheduled for May 18 at Pimlico. Their Derby horse, Goldencents, finished 17th.

Hawthorne Elementary School in Middle River will launch its first-ever chapter of the National Elementary Honor Society during a special induction ceremony for new members at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19.   Membership in the National Elementary Honor Society is considered one of the highest honors that can be awarded to students - inductees are selected based on their accomplishments in the areas of scholarship, responsibility, service and...

On January 3, 2006, HAWTHORNE, SR., husband of Sandra A. Carpenter, father of Linda Scott-Mc Cain, Estelle, Doreen, Curtis and Hawthorne Carpenter, Jr. He is also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 East North Avenue on Saturday after 8 A.M. The family will receive friends at New Antioch Baptist Church, 2401 St. Paul St., on Monday at 10 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 10:30 A.M. See www.marchfh.com

UPDATE: Reader Margarita Noriega, on behalf of AT&T, sent us an email about AT&T giving away five pairs of tickets to the show. For your chance to win, show up at the AT&T store in Silver Spring (8519 Georgia Ave.) Friday between 5-7 p.m. to enter. Thanks for the heads up, Margarita. There's a thin-line between tongue-in-cheek and eye-rolling hipster irony, and Chromeo straddles it with the best of 'em. The Montreal duo of P-Thugg and Dave 1 rises above the vintage-for-no-reason fray with their sticky hooks and understanding of electro-pop.

CHICAGO -- Ali Gubs proved strongest in the stretch run yesterday, defeating Explosive Type by one length in the featured Lithe Purse at Hawthorne Race Course.Martini Up took third in the 1-mile, 70-yard race for fillies and mares.Ridden by Fernando Valenzuela and timed in 1 minute, 47 1/5 seconds, Ali Gubs paid $9.40, $6.80 and $4.40. Explosive Type returned $12.40 and $8.20, while the show price on Martini Up was $9.20.

Dr. Lucia Sheila Hawthorne, a retired Morgan State University public speaking professor, died of complications from diabetes at Good Samaritan Hospital on July 5. The Morgan Park resident was 68. Born in Baltimore and raised on McKean Avenue, she was a 1954 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School. She earned a degree in language arts from Morgan State University and a master's degree from Washington State University. She received a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University in 1971.

We all know Hester Prynne committed adultery and wore a big red "A" on her chest. But until now, her marriage, how she got to America and why she committed this awful sin have been a puzzle. Christopher Bigsby attempts to fill in what Hawthorne left unsaid in his tender, insightful -- if somewhat didactic -- book "Hester.""Hester's" strongest point is the heroine's voyage across the Atlantic on a tiny ship called the Hope. In her flight, Hester manages to escape from her loveless marriage to Roger Chillingworth and for the first time experience freedom from social fear.

Displaced pupils will return to their classrooms at Hawthorne Elementary School on Jan. 9, three months after an asbestos accident shut the Middle River facility and officials decided to relocate the children to two other schools. The closing kept Hawthorne's nearly 500 pupils out of class for two weeks while officials figured out what to do about the Kingston Road building, where a renovation project was under way on nights and weekends. The children were split between two schools - the youngest attended nearby Middlesex Elementary, while the older ones were bused to Battle Grove Elementary, eight miles away - so that construction crews could continue renovation work at the 1950s-era building without further risk to pupils.

In February last year, Hawthorne Elementary School teachers Bonnie Mallon and Dawn Kerner decided that the prickly hawthorn bushes that lined the front walkway didn't provide the appropriate welcome. Instead, the pair envisioned a flower garden to be built by their 21 special-needs pupils as an extracurricular project that would beautify the Middle River school and give the children a feeling of accomplishment. The project was under way last fall when Kerner had to cancel it. Mallon had been stricken with a brain tumor and was receiving chemotherapy that left her too weak to oversee the third-grade horticulturists.

Nikki Charlebois was back yesterday, her three little girls in tow, finally able to eat breakfast with them in the cafeteria again, as had been their daily ritual for so long. So was Erin Thomas, a third-grader who had spent the past three months apart from the rest of her classmates -- sent in all the uncertainty to a school 18 miles away, near her mom's waitress job. So, too, was Principal Barbara Clark, with the CD player she uses to usher in each day with a "musical moment." On this morning it belted out "We Are Family" because, she said, they are. Yesterday, more than three months after asbestos contamination forced the closure of Hawthorne Elementary School, the Middle River campus was finally open for the business of education, much to the relief of nearly everyone who set their damp feet inside.

After more than 20 years in TV and feature films, Baltimore native Jada Pinkett Smith could hardly be blamed if she wanted to slow down and ease back a bit. It seems as if the Baltimore School for the Arts graduate has been working nonstop on the national stage since her breakthrough TV debut in 1991 as a member of the cast of Bill Cosby's hit NBC series, "A Different World. " But at 39, the wife of actor Will Smith and mother of two children — who are already launched on their own show-biz careers — sounds like she is pushing herself harder than ever.

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary.. This week's word: SCAPEGRACE Sometimes English, instead of adapting from the Latin or Greek, reverts to its Germanic heritage of fusing words together. Scapegrace combines scape , an archaic variant of escape , with grace , in the theological sense. A scapegrace is literally a person who has escaped the grace of God. In its milder applications, a scapegrace is mischievous and wayward, especially in references to a child or young person.

Kyra Sedgwick, Holly Hunter, Angela Lansbury - Baltimore native Jada Pinkett Smith is about to join some pretty exclusive company when her new weekly TV series, HawthoRNe, debuts Tuesday on TNT. Like those other actresses who made their reputations in feature films, she is coming to TV as both star and executive producer of a series designed to showcase her talents. The trade-off is a simple one: The TV network or cable channel gets a film-caliber star who will attract new viewers, and the star gets a steady paycheck and control of the material in which she appears.

When Agnes and Leroy Hawthorne grew weary of having grass to cut, snow to shovel and stairs to climb at their Northeast Baltimore home, the retired Baltimore County teachers thought the time was right for a permanent vacation spot. They headed north toward Cockeysville to High View at Hunt Valley, where condo living and its multiple amenities suited their needs perfectly. "I have not missed my house at all," Agnes Hawthorne said. "When we first moved, people asked how we could live in one house for 35 years and not miss it, [but]

On September 22, 2008, VENITA KAYE. Friends may call at Parker Funeral Home, P.A., 3512 Frederick Avenue, on Tuesday from 3 to 7 P.M. Family will receive friends at Mt. Pleasant AME Church, 235 Tollgate Road (Owings Mills), on Wednesday from 10:30 to 11 A.M., with funeral service to follow. Interment King Memorial Park.

Norah Jean-Marie and student teacher Christine Coppage, a Towson University senior, looked over the prekindergartner's work. Step 1: Draw the setting. Step 2: Glue on your favorite animal. Step 3: Tell about your drawing - in Norah's case a pig she had colored orange, red, black and yellow under the heading "The House on the Hill." The assignment, pegged to a book the class recently read, gave the 5-year-old Hawthorne Elementary School student the chance to demonstrate many of the lessons she had learned in the past few days, such as the concept that book characters can be animals or people, how to follow directions and how to explain a story.

When Karen Berends was a youngster growing up in Hawthorne, she never thought that she would one day raise her child in the same house she was raised in. But fate played out and she couldn't be happier. "The opportunity came for me to move in, and I thought I would rent for a while," Berends said, recalling that she really didn't think she would buy the home she grew up in. "It just worked out that my mom was going to sell and I was looking for a house," said Berends. "It's just me and my son, so it's plenty of room for the two of us. It's perfect."

ATLANTA -- Although Alice S. Hawthorne did not run a single lap or win a single competition, her name is likely to be forever associated with the 1996 Summer Olympics as a casualty of the Games' spirit of harmony and openness.Hawthorne, who was 44, died in the Saturday morning bomb blast that sprayed shrapnel over a swath of Centennial Olympic Park, the 21-acre grass and brick-paved area that stands at the physical heart of the Olympic Games. The park had been reclaimed from slums and old warehouses to become a place for visitors and locals to meet, greet and celebrate -- no high-priced tickets or special passes needed.

The Hickory Ridge Community Association will sponsor a family-night bingo from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Hawthorn Center, 6175 Sunny Spring. Paper cards will be six for $1. Drinks will be 50 cents, and snacks will be free. Cash and prizes will be offered for each game. A class in "Preparing Your Garden for Spring" will be offered from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 22. Steven Marks of the River Hill Garden Center will explain what is necessary to prepare a garden to bloom all year, and he will describe new spring plantings.

Ryan Cunningham and Benjamin Moy, sophomores in Bob Hawthorne's engineering design class at Long Reach High School, were trying to teach the robot they had built to think. Well, not really to think. Just to avoid some objects and recognize others, without benefit of remote control. Cunningham and Moy were preparing for the Mars Rover Challenge, sponsored by the Technology Education Association of Maryland. The competition, scheduled for March 17 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, is open to all Maryland students in grades seven through 10. The students placed their robot on a large table that had been set up with bricks interspersed to create an obstacle course.