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Maryland (2-0) vs. Maine (1-0) When: 2 p.m. Where: Comcast Center Television: Comcast SportsNet Radio: 105.7 FM Last meeting: Maryland won, 97-68, in the only meeting in school history on Jan. 24, 1970. Preview: The Black Bears will look to knock off their second Atlantic Coast Conference opponent in as many years when they travel to College Park to face the Terps on Sunday. Maine beat Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., last season en route to a 19-11 record.

Bel Air's new Marketplace on Main will open for the first time this coming Wednesday, May 8, in the town's new Main Street parking lot between the Sheriff's Office and the Main Street Tower restaurant and across from the courthouse. The Bel Air Downtown Alliance is a partner in the new outdoor market in partnership with The Town of Bel Air and The Mill of Bel Air. According to a news release from the alliance, Marketplace on Main will feature local growers and producers, artists from the Harford Artists Gallery, a delicious menu from Main Street Tower and a variety of weekly specials and promotions, including live entertainment.

Why didn't our president and his family take their weekend vacation in the oil-soaked gulf area instead of Maine? It would have meant a lot to so many Americans to see our president lead by example instead of their privileged me and mine first attitude! For supposedly smart people, they sure can do dumb things! Joe Caplan, Baltimore

Owner Haluk Kantar has big plans for his pizza-focused sports bar. Last April, he opened the first HomeSlyce Pizza Bar in Federal Hill. Six months later, a second location came downtown to North Charles Street, next to Mick O'Shea's. Kantar - who also owns the Turkish restaurant Cazbar in Mount Vernon - recently said Canton and Hampden are likely the next neighborhoods to get their own HomeSlyce. After the city, he wants to expand south to Columbia, College Park and eventually D.C. Kantar has ambitious plans for HomeSlyce, and based on a recent Saturday night at the downtown bar, it made sense why. The atmosphere was approachable and laid back, and never boring.

UMBC's Bria White scored 14 of her team-high 15 points in the second half to help the Retrievers pick up their first conference victory of the season, a 54-50 win over Maine in America East action Saturday at RAC Arena. White, UMBC's America East Player of the Game, was one of three Retrievers who scored in double digits. Senior guard Brittany Crowell scored 12 points, and classmate Raven Harris had 10 points, six rebounds, five steals and three assists. Trailing by 11 points at the break, Maine (1-13, 0-1)

Towson knows that if it cuts down on penalties and reduces its turnovers, it has the potential to be one of the elite teams in the Football Championship Subdivision. On Saturday night, the Tigers addressed one and kept the other manageable in a 24-19 win over Maine at Johnny Unitas Stadium. Quarterback Grant Enders led Towson with 104 yards rushing, including a 52-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter to ice the victory. Tailback Terrance West (Northwestern) pitched in 96 yards on 18 carries for the Tigers (3-3, 2-1 Colonial Athletic Association)

The Black Point Inn, a 19th-century waterside hotel on Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Maine, has a 'Tis the Season shopping package starting at $169 a night, double occupancy. The package is available from Nov. 27 to Jan. 2. Included are transportation to outlet shopping and up to a $50-a-day room credit for each shopping receipt showing $50 spent in Maine (excluding taxes). Taxes and fees of 22 percent are extra. Reservations: 800-258-0003; blackpointinn.com.

ORONO, Maine -- Terry Hunt scored 10 of his game-high 19 points in a 2:36 span of the second half and grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds to lead Maine over Loyola, 71-59, in a nonconference game last night.Hunt led a balanced Maine offense that also included Ramone Jones, who scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half.Loyola (4-8) was led by senior forward B. J. Pendleton, who scored 11 points and pulled down 10 rebounds. Freshman point guard John McDonald added 11 points for the Greyhounds, who have lost four straight.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Running for governor again, Joe Brennan's prime asset is his resume. At 59, he can look back on 30 years as a state legislator, Cumberland County district attorney, two terms as state attorney general, two as governor, then two in the House of Representatives.But that same resume is Joe Brennan's greatest liability. He is the quintessential career politician in a time and a state where that experience may be difficult to market.Nor is the political context encouraging for any conventional politician.

C You can say you don't like her novels, or that she gets too passionate for her own good. In fact, Carolyn Chute says she's gotten used to being criticized for her three quirky novels about working-class Maine -- "after 20 or so reviews, your book is totally bruised."But don't make fun of the people she writes about. That makes Carolyn Chute mad.The Carolyn Chute who will read tonight at 8 at Goucher College's Haebler Chapel is an exception in the current American literary environment, in which writers are expected to write dispassionately or ironically about their subjects.

Laurel has undergone many changes since the 1980s, but one thing has remained consistent over the years: the Laurel Board of Trade's annual Main Street Festival. This year's Main Street Festival, the 33rd one overall, will be held on Saturday, May 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Main Street will be closed to traffic between southbound Route 1 and Seventh Street for the festival, which could attract upward of 100,000 people. The festival usually hosts about 300 vendors and service organizations are spread out along the street, said Janet Able, treasurer of the Laurel Board of Trade.

Timothy R. Streett, a Bel Air lawyer and outdoorsman, died Saturday of complications from cardiac arrhythmia at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. He was 53. Timothy Ryan Streett, whose father owns Boyd & Fulford Drugs in Bel Air, was born in Baltimore and raised in Bel Air. He was a 1977 graduate of Bel Air High School, where he played varsity football. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from what is now McDaniel College. Mr. Streett earned a law degree from the Shepard Broad Law Center, which is the law school of Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Fla. A solo practitioner, Mr. Streett worked from a Main Street office in Bel Air as a criminal defense attorney for nearly 30 years.

What a difference a week makes. It's not like the members of The Shield weren't already on an upward trajectory to main event status. But, when you get to interact with The Undertaker to the degree the trio did last week in WWE, that's a game changer. On Raw last week, The Shield beat The Undertaker, Kane and Daniel Bryan. On Smackdown, The Undertaker beat Dean Ambrose, but then The Shield left the Dead Man laying and vulnerable. This week, The Shield was victorious again, against the team of Team Hell No and John Cena.

Growing up in the 1970s, I never set foot in a school until it was time for me to go to kindergarten. However, times have changed. Over the past three decades, the number of preschools in our country has grown exponentially, and with this growth comes the expectation that children will attend preschool in order to be "ready" for kindergarten by age 5. Unfortunately, this expectation is often accompanied by great pressure to send one's child to the...

City leaders hope that by this time next year they'll have returned from Annapolis with funds to put toward making the Inner Harbor what its original designers intended it to be - "a playground for Baltimoreans. " "The city has changed so much since the original development of the Inner Harbor," said Laurie Schwartz, executive director of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc., a nonprofit that manages and advocates for the city's waterfront. It's time to evaluate the Inner Harbor and decide what needs to be done to sustain it as a vibrant part of the city, she said.

Laurel Police report felonies, arrests and property crimes. Prince George's County police report violent crimes and property crimes. City of Laurel Marshall Avenue, 300 block, April 7. Theft of motor vehicle parts, accessories. Baltimore Avenue, 13600 block, April 7. Forced-entry burglary. Contee Road, 6900 block, April 6. Motor vehicle theft. Main Street, 300 block, April 5. Forced-0entry burglary. Main Street, 300 block, April 5. Attempted burglary.

ORONO, Maine -- With cold winds whipping rain across Morse Field yesterday, scoring opportunities were limited. So with Maine leading by a point and only 2:02 remaining in the game, Towson football coach Gordy Combs decided to go for a two-point conversion and the lead. Villanova@Towson Saturday, noon, 1570 AM

The Western School of Technology and Environmental Science in Catonsville is scheduled to reopen Friday after an early-morning fire Thursday damaged two portable classrooms and the roof of the high school's main building, school officials said. Staff worked Thursday to prepare the building for reopening and ensure that it would be safe for students, school system spokesman Mychael Dickerson said. Firefighters responded to the school in the 100 block of Kenwood Avenue about 2:34 a.m. Thursday for reports of a possible fire and found one portable classroom engulfed in flames, with the fire spreading to a second portable classroom, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department.

The passing of yet another icon of old school, the much beloved Peter N. Panos, came late last month. The heart and soul of Bel Air's Main Street for many years, Pete passed away Monday, March 25, and the main thoroughfare through Bel Air became just a little emptier. You won't see the name of Pete Panos on any buildings or hear him honored for being a big noise. On the contrary, Pete, his brother Gus and his mom, Pota, were quiet, hard-working, middle-class folks with a passion for honest trading, human kindness and integrity.