Joy

WJZ meteorologist Bernadette Woods is leaving the CBS-owned station to join a non-profit firm in New Jersey focused on climate change, she said Wednesday night. Woods, who has been with WJZ for seven years, said she will remain at the station helping with the transition for the next month. After that, she, her husband and their two children will be moving to Princeton, N.J., where she will join Climate Central as staff meteorologist. "I'm very excited about the opportunity in Princeton," she said.

As far back as Robert Lewis can remember, he has been fascinated by what he heard on the radio — he would even sneak a receiver under his pillow when he was younger so he could listen to music late at night. Decades later, he's still feeling that joy of radio. As the executive director of the Radio Reading Network of Maryland, he's bringing it to others who need it: fellow blind people in Maryland. "I enjoy going to work every morning," says Lewis, 63. "I've always loved radio, so I'm blessed to be able to come back to where I've started.

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For his first full season as Center Stage artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah focused on works that could spark conversation about a variety of heady issues. Midway through that season, he has unveiled a very different theme for the next one. "If this season is cerebral, with the join-the-conversation message, [2013-2014] is one of spirit and joy and fun, I'm hoping," Kwei-Armah said. "I have been traveling a lot and looking at productions across the country. I have seen audiences react to several of these plays, which gives me the security to present them.

If you're a big fan, you already knew what was coming in the season finale. But it didn't make it any easier -- or less heartbreaking -- to watch. The majority of the Season 3 "Downton" finale, or the "Christmas special" as its called in the U.K., took place in Scotland, where the whole family (minus Branson) visits the Highlands home of the Dowager's niece, Susan, and her husband, Shrimpy. Most of the trip included bagpipes, hunting, more bagpipes and Scottish reel dancing. But more on that later (and more on O'Brien meeting her Scottish lady's maid doppelganger)

Joy and Grant Pivec's palatial new home rests as a columned tribute to country gentility at the end of a half-mile-long, gravel driveway in northern Baltimore County. Just a couple of months from completion, the interior is about to be painted. Joy Pivec stands in the midst of exposed drywall, in what will soon be her state-of-the-art kitchen. She speaks first about a master plan, one that preceded the custom design of this house. Her in-laws, Sharon and Dave Pivec, nurtured dreams of a family compound, one on which they, and all three of their children, would eventually build four homes on land off Old York Road.

Gardeners are forever looking for something to wrap a flower bed around. There has to be a bed along the front of the porch, and others might be carved out around a garden shed, a birdbath or the trunks of shade trees. For many people, there's another opportunity right out by the curb: the mailbox. A garden bed around a mailbox gives gardeners a chance to put their horticultural stamp where it's sure to show. In the midst of handsome shrubs, interesting ornamental grasses or hard-working annual and perennial flowers, a standard-issue mailbox on a post becomes a piece of functional art. When there's a flower bed to visit, the trip out to the mailbox is much more interesting, even if the postman brings nothing but bills.

How appropriate the front page photo shows a joyous Libyan rebel in American battle dress uniform ("Rebels in Tripoli" Aug. 22). Glad he's so happy. As a taxpayer I'm sickened to realize once again our dollars (billions of them) have been squandered in another unnecessary war. So I guess now we can look forward to the executions of Moammar Gadhafi, his son and other family members. Where does our Constitution mandate America must police the world? While NATO will claim honors for the Libyan rebel victory, everyone knows it was the United States that did the heavy lifting.

On September 1, 2008, JOY, dear mother of Terrell Boston-Smith, daughter of Sylvia and William Deaver Boston, sister of Deborah, Robin, J. Edward Boston and Brad Rowe. Also survived by other relatives. Friends may call Phillips Funeral Home P.A., 1721-27 N. Monroe Street (Westwood Avenue) Thursday from 3 to 8 PM. Family will receive friends Friday 10:30-11AM with service to follow. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery.

On June 13, 2003, DONNIE A. JOY, JR. On Friday friends may call at the Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Service, 4101 Edmondson Ave., from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mr. Joy will lie instate at Olivet Baptist Church, 3500 Edmondson Ave., where the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Earl Weaver was a reporter's dream-come-true. If you were a young columnist covering the Orioles in the early 80s, as I was for the old Evening Sun, you couldn't ask to be around a more colorful manager. You almost didn't have to talk to any of the players on those great Orioles' teams. Weaver would fill your notebook all by himself. With Weaver, baseball meant show-time and the ballpark was his theater. His hat-spinning, spittle-flying confrontations with umpires were legendary, some of the funniest bits of vaudeville I've ever seen in the game.

When I heard the news that Ray Lewis was retiring at the end of this season, I cried. Ray Lewis has an emotional hold on this community, state, and fan base - and on my family. He has been, for 17 years, a leader, an inspiration, a sign of hope. A constant. I was a daddy's girl, but inside there was always a yearning to be one of the boys. I was the middle child, a "rose between two thorns" as my mother said, with a brother on either side. I was always wanting to be one of the guys but never quite fitting in. When the Ravens came to town, that all changed.

Like preachers across the country preparing for Christmas services today, William Lori has grappled with the question of how to celebrate the joy of the day so soon after the devastation of Newtown. But for Baltimore's new archbishop, the challenge also is "rather personal. " Before his arrival here in May, Lori served for 11 years as bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. The diocese includes the quiet, leafy suburb of Newtown, where on Dec. 14 a gunman forced his way into an elementary school and shot 20 first graders and six educators to death.

It soon became obvious last weekend at the Westminster Senior Center that there are certainly different approaches to wrapping presents. Westminster Police Chief Jeffrey Spaulding had a no nonsense approach, cutting fast and flipping a box quickly. Detective John Emminizer was more meticulous, helping his 7-year-old companion, Caleb, even the sides and wrap tight. "I do all the gift wrapping at home," Emminizer said with pride. "I'm a perfectionist when it comes to wrapping.

A favorite holiday tradition has come to Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia for the first time in a musical production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol. " Toby's has chosen the version by Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, known for his work in Disney films, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens of "Ragtime" fame. The show ran for a decade of holiday seasons at New York's Madison Square Garden, where it consistently played to capacity audiences. Menken's music brings an upbeat quality to Dickens' familiar tale of stingy, nasty Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by several ghosts on Christmas Eve to bring about his transformation by Christmas Day. More relevant to contemporary tastes, this fast-paced version is suitable for all, from grandparents to children.

Early in December, the Howard County Council will cast its vote on the virtually unknown growth tiers of "Plan Howard 2030," a general plan for Howard County, as required by the statewide Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act of 2012 (Senate Bill 236), dividing all of Howard County into new development tiers.   For the eastern half of Howard County, this means locking in higher density housing development and continued overcrowding of schools, roads and facilities, for decades to come.

On April 23, 2004 KENNETH F. JOY; beloved husband of Grace M. (nee Ward) Joy; devoted father of Kenneth F. Joy, Jr. and his wife Wendy and Donna M. Joy; brother of Robert E. Joy; grandfather of Shannon, Daniel and Kayla. Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories, 8800 Harford Rd., Parkville on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday at 9 A.M. at St. Ursula Church. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

On Friday, July 28, 2006 JOSEPH "FRANK" JOY, JR., of Glen Burnie. Cherished husband of Muriel V. Joy and the late Glenda Joy; loving father of Dana Thompson; dear brother of Glenn Joy. The family will receive visitors at the family owned Singleton Funeral Home, 1 Second Avenue SW, (at Crain Hwy) Glen Burnie, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. on Monday. The Funeral Ceremony will be held on Tuesday at 11 A.M., at the Marley Park Church of the Nazarene, 7741 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Glen Burnie, MD 21060.