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By [LORI SEARS] | October 8, 2006
Victorian Week in Cape May Step into the Victorian era in Cape May, N.J., today through Oct. 15 at the town's annual Victorian Week. Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, the weeklong event features historic home tours, Victorian music, a tea dance, architectural Cape Island boat tours, craft-beer tastings, winery tours, living history reenactments (including John Philip Sousa), a murder-mystery dinner, glassblowing demonstrations, antiques appraisals, craft shows and more.
NEWS
June 29, 1993
The eighth annual Western Maryland College Summer Band Camp Concert, featuring 75 middle and high school student musicians from schools across Maryland, will be held in the college's Decker College Center Forum at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.The concert, which will include several contemporary selections and an audience participation number, is free and open to the public.At 7 p.m. Friday in the Forum, band campers and staff members will present a talent show including comedy skits and music. Like the concert, it is free and open to the public.
NEWS
By Mary Johnson and Mary Johnson,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | June 27, 2002
It's now a local tradition to start celebrating Independence Day early with an outdoor music festival jointly sponsored by Anne Arundel County and the Cultural Arts Foundation at Anne Arundel Community College's Siegert Field in Arnold. The Star Spangled Celebration gets under way at 6 p.m. Saturday with musicians such as the Crabtowne Big Band and the Arundel Vocal Arts Society entertaining until a few minutes before 8:15 p.m. when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra takes the stage to offer patriotic music.
NEWS
February 8, 1996
Dr. Lester L. Luntz, 72, the first forensic dentist ever to use a search warrant to examine a suspect's mouth for evidence, died Tuesday in West Hartford, Conn.Dr. Luntz developed the science of examining teeth, dental structures and bite marks so they could be submitted as legal evidence for murder and other cases. Forensic odontology is now routinely admitted in court.In 1973, he executed a search warrant on a murder suspect's mouth. His comparison of plaster casts of the suspect's teeth to a bite mark on the victim's thigh led to a conviction.
NEWS
March 25, 2008
C-SPAN to bring Campaign 2008 bus to county C-SPAN will bring its Campaign 2008 bus to the county tomorrow as part of its "Road to the White House" tour. The red, white and blue bus will visit the Cockeysville library, 9833 Greenside Drive, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and Towson University, 8000 York Road, from noon to 2 p.m. The 45-foot-long mobile production studio is used in C-SPAN's political coverage and in educational programs for teachers and students. In Baltimore County, C-SPAN is on Comcast cable Channel 16; C-SPAN2 is on Channel 17 or 104; and C-SPAN 3 is on Channel 105. Information: 202-309-3358.
NEWS
By Lisa Respers and Lisa Respers,Sun Staff Writer | August 19, 1995
James Stanley Brozik, a musician who performed locally for more than 60 years and performed for John Philip Sousa in 1922 as a member of the Evening Sun Newsboys' Band, died of lung cancer Thursday at his Rosedale home. He was 83.Known to his friends and fans as Jim Stanley, Mr. Brozik played tenor saxophone and led a band that performed at dances at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Charles Evering Post No. 6506 in Rosedale for 20 years, until his health began failing in the early 1990s."The people down here really enjoyed him," said Betty Ruth, a barmaid at the post for the past 12 years.