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The last episode of the last season of the HBO series The Wire airs Sunday. You can toast the occasion by having a taste at one of the bars featured in the show over the years. Here are two spots where characters from the show spend their evenings slamming back shots and beers. New Haven Lounge 1552 Havenwood Road, Northwood Shopping Center, 410-366-7416 This is the bar where Detective Lester Freamon meets state Sen. R. Clayton "Clay" Davis to threaten him with a federal indictment in the fifth season.

On February 9, 2008, DOROTHEA LYNETTE devoted wife of Roger Bagley, Sr. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at Immanuel Temple A.M.E. Church, 2931 E. Madison Street on Friday at 10 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 10:30 A.M.

Baltimore city work crews restored water service last night to the part of the Mount Vernon neighborhood affected by a water main break a day earlier, but they said they would have to work through the weekend to reconstruct a damaged road. The break, which occurred in the 200 block of E. Madison St., between North Calvert Street and Guilford Avenue, flooded two streets and prompted the closing of two Maryland State Highway Administration buildings, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works said.

Several streets will be closed in Mount Vernon starting tomorrow for the Baltimore Book Festival. Mount Vernon Place will be closed between St. Paul and Cathedral streets from 8 a.m. tomorrow to 4 p.m. Monday. North Charles Street will be closed between Centre and Madison streets from 10 a.m. Thursday until 6 a.m. Monday. Madison Street between St. Paul and Cathedral streets and North Charles between Madison and Read streets will be closed from 10 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday. Westbound Mount Vernon traffic will be detoured south onto St. Paul Street, west onto Franklin Street, north onto Park Avenue and back to Mount Vernon.

The marchers who trekked north on Port Street on Saturday evening sure were an eclectic bunch. There were guys in their 20s wearing T-shirts that read "Operation Safe Streets East." There were tykes as young as 4 years old trudging along. There were men and women in their 40s and 50s. A young woman who looked to be in her 20s pushed along a baby in a stroller. Youngsters of middle school age rounded out the mix. The procession crossed first Monument Street and then Madison Street before hanging a right on Ashland Avenue.

It is common for photojournalists to be called on a moment's notice to cover breaking news. On Friday, June 1, a fight broke out in a prison yard at Baltimore's Metropolitan Transition Center and I was sent to cover the chaos. I was expecting ambulances, officers and a few hurt men. The reality was much uglier - 18 stabbed or otherwise injured inmates, some critically. Lines of emergency vehicles waited to take their turn, pulling into the prison gates to pick up injured prisoners and then pulling back out. Only two vehicles at a time could fit inside.

An 11-year-old boy was in serious condition last night, a victim of apparent crossfire in West Baltimore, police said. The boy was shot in the right shoulder about 5 p.m. yesterday in the 1500 block of McKean Ave. in Sandtown-Winchester, police said. He was taken to the pediatrics unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where police said he remained in serious but stable condition. Police are searching for two unidentified suspects but know of no motive. Carroll County : Westminster Thieves strike at historic farm The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is investigating at least two incidents of theft from a historic property in the 1800 block of Bachman Valley Road, Westminster.

Baltimore: west side Street closures for King parade Several streets in West Baltimore will be closed tomorrow for the annual Martin Luther King Day parade. From 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Franklin Street from Greene Street to Freemont Avenue will be closed; access to westbound Interstate 70 will be permitted. From 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., the following streets will be closed: Eutaw Street from Dolphin Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; Preston Street from Madison Street to Eutaw Street; and Madison Street from Dolphin Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

The pumpkin patch that the Rev. Roger Scott Powers and his fellow congregants built doesn't offer hayrides. It has no view of rolling pastures or grazing cows, no corn maze, no quaint country shop selling jams made from fresh berries grown on the farm next door. Instead, visitors will likely hear the roar of ambulances, the lurch of city buses stopping nearby and the click-click of fashionable heels hitting the well-traveled sidewalk. There is a lovely view, but it's of 19th-century townhouses.

Numerous streets in downtown Baltimore and Mount Vernon will be closed tomorrow for the city's annual Columbus Day parade, which is to begin at 2 p.m. at N. Charles and Centre streets. The parade will proceed south on Charles, east on Pratt Street, south on President Street and east on Fleet Street. It will disband along Central Avenue. According to the city's Department of Transportation: Closed from noon to 4 p.m.: Charles from Madison Avenue to Franklin Street; Mount Vernon Place from Cathedral to St. Paul streets; Centre from Cathedral to St. Paul; Central Avenue from Fleet to Bank streets; Charles from Mt. Vernon Place to Conway Street; Pratt from Charles to President; President from Pratt to Fleet; and Fleet from President to Central.