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  In one corner of the bar, a couple finished a crab cake sandwich. In the dining room, several families wearing lobster bibs struggled with their steamed crabs. That Saturday's lunch at Obrycki's in Fells Point was business as usual belied the fact that sometime before 10 p.m., it would serve its last meal in a city where it had spent nearly 70 years. The restaurant will keep its locations at BWI-Marshall Airport and at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, but plans for a new location at the Arundel Mills mall have fallen through, owner Rob Cernak said.

An educational testing firm is planning a job fair Friday for positions at its new facility in Baltimore County. Prometric says the event is scheduled for 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Hampton Inn Baltimore/White Marsh, located at 8225 Town Center Drive. The company is hiring customer-service employees for its new location in White Marsh. Job seekers should bring copies of their resume and be prepared to meet recruiters and hiring managers, the firm said. The company has corporate headquarters in Canton, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of ETS. People also can search for Prometric jobs at prometric.submit4jobs.com . alisonk@baltsun.com twitter.com/aliknez Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Mango Grove has announced that its new location will be on Stanford Road. Mango Grove and its sister restaurant Mirchi Wok will be re-built at 8865 Stanford Blvd., just a few minutes from the restaurants' original Columbia location. The announcement was made on Mango Grove's Facebook page . Mango Grove, a vegetarian mainstay in Columbia, known best for its dhosa, a kind of Indian crepe, closed in late August after 15 years to make way for new development. It was not immediately clear when the new restaurants(s)

Baltimore's year-old National Pinball Museum, a pinging, clanging, tilting tribute to the flipper machines that have been mainstays of American popular culture for decades, will be shutting its doors March 3. The museum, which re-located to Baltimore from Georgetown in January of last year, has once again fallen victim to the terms of its lease agreement, owner David Silverman wrote in an email Tuesday evening to supporters. Silverman, whose 600-plus machines formed the core of the museum's collection, said he could not afford to keep it open.

Special to The Baltimore Sun Watch for some changes at Grano on Chestnut Street, otherwise known as Big Grano. In a week, maybe two, Gino Troia will be unveiling a new lunch menu for this larger, table-service version of the original, and still running, storefront location a few blocks away in Hampden. The lunch menu arrives along with a major physical change, too, currently underway, as Big Grano will become even bigger, expanding into what was formerly an Indian clothing store next door.

Since January, Baltimore Fashion Week founder Sharan Nixon has been operating under the assumption that she would hold her four-day event in the tony neighborhood of Harbor East. Nixon announced Wednesday that after months of meetings and dozens of e-mails with H&S Properties Development Corp., the group responsible for developing the Harbor East area, she was not able to secure a lease with them and is therefore in talks with Baltimore City officials to move the event to another location.

Mango Grove will open its new Columbia location on Stanford Road on Valentine's Day. The news of the opening was posted late, late Sunday night on the restaurant's Facebook page. The keeper of the How Chow blog, who has been assiduously following the journey of Mango Grove to its new location, posted the news early Monday morning. Mango Grove is calling this a soft-opening, with a limited menu. A vegetarian mainstay in Columbia known best for its dhosa , a kind of Indian crepe, Mango Grove closed its original location in  August 2011 after 15 years to make way for new development.

Beginning Saturday, Dec. 1, the Laurel Lions Club's Christmas trees sales lot will be open in the parking lot of Laurel Shopping Center, Route 1 at Montrose Avenue. Hours are 5 to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday. The club's Christmas tree lot moved from its usual spot in the parking lot of Laurel Mall this year because of the ongoing demolition at the mall. The sales lot will be underneath the new, brown Laurel Shopping Center sign, near Route 1. Sales will continue until all trees are sold.

Aida Bistro & Wine Bar closed its original location of six years on Thanksgiving Eve. One week later, on Dec. 2, Mary and Joe Barbera reopened a new Aida across the way in Columbia Gateway office park. The new location gives the Barberas a few things they always wanted but were never able to have in their loyally followed and well reviewed Italian restaurant. An expanded kitchen allows them the extra space they always wanted to add a lunch operation. Aida had always been a dinner-only location, and Joe Barbera knew he was losing out on the potential business from his business park neighbors.

Baltimore County officials said Monday they no longer intend to relocate a fire station to Towson Manor Park, a plan the community had fought. County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced the county now plans to build the new Towson fire station at the corner of Towsontown Boulevard and Bosley Avenue, where the county owns a gas station that's used for county vehicles. The fire station is currently located at the corner of Bosley Avenue and York Road, and plans to move it to the park sparked controversy among residents.

Three years after opening its original Fells Point hot dog shop, Stuggy's is adding a location in Federal Hill. The new location will be at 17 E. Cross St. in a an approximately 1,000-square-foot space that was most recently an M&T Bank branch. A Stuggy's stand debuted last year at Oriole Park at Camden Yards and will return this season, according to Stuggy's co-owner Ryan Perlberg. Since taking over the old Burritos en Fuego space on South Broadway in 2010, Stuggy's has annexed the properties to either side, the Whistling Oyster and Sam's Kid, and converted them into the contemporary lounge spaces Rye and Willow , respectively.

The Freshii on Light Street downtown has closed. The other Baltimore location, on St. Paul Street in Charles Village, will remain open, the company says. "Closing a restaurant is never something we want to do,'" said Freshii project manager Mia Jacobs in an emailed statement, "however it is the right move when it means we can refocus our efforts on other opportunities within the community, such as our Charles Village location. " Founded in 2005 in Toronto, Freshii provides a fast-food alternative with customer-created salads, wraps, soups and bowls.

Few people can recognize the yearning to escape better than Carla Hayden, chief executive officer of the Enoch Pratt Library. As a librarian, she has spent many years helping her curious clientele explore new realms and journey to wondrous places through books. So when Hayden decides that it's time to turn the page or open a new chapter in her life, it is no wonder she favors a destination famed like no other for its joie de vivre - Paris. We caught up with her to chat about her Parisian adventures and her favorite hidden treasures.

A First Watch is coming to Timonium. The new location, in the Timonium Square Shopping Center, will be the second Baltimore-area location. The first is in Pikesville.  The restaurant is expected to open in the spring and will employ approximately 25 people, according to the Bradenton, Fla.-based company. The fast-growing chain , which specializes in breakfast and lunch, says it is currently the largest and fastest-growing daytime-only restaurant concept in the U.S. Follow Baltimore Diner on Twitter @gorelickingood  

It didn't move far — just one block up Eastern Avenue — but the new Ikaros is a world apart from the original, which the Kohilas brothers opened in 1969. Sometimes bigger is better. The new Ikaros, which opened last summer, has things the old one didn't, like a banquet facility on the building's second floor and a dedicated bar space, separated from the main dining room by a wall partition. The bar seems like a nice place to wait for a table, but when we visited, most guests kept close to the hostess stand instead, which seemed a bit overwhelmed.

The Social Security office in Westminster will open at a new location Monday. The new office is in 125 Airport Drive, Unit 10, not far from the old location at 115 Airport Drive. The old office will take its last customer at 3 p.m. Friday. Partial service will start at noon Monday at the 125 Airport Drive location. Beginning Tuesday, the new office will provide full services. Regular hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The office is open from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday.

After 15 years, Mango Grove shut its original Columbia location last August and reopened nearby on Valentine's Day. That's only six months — a quick turnaround in restaurant time — but it must have felt like much longer for fans of Mango Grove's terrific Indian cuisine. Vegetarians must have been especially desolate. For them, Mango Grove was a serene retreat, with an atmosphere just fancy enough to qualify as a date night. Just think: six months without those well-tempered vegetable curries and all that time without a single dosai.

Baltimore County officials said Monday they no longer intend to relocate a fire station to Towson Manor Park, a plan the community had fought. County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced the county now plans to build the new Towson fire station at the corner of Towsontown Boulevard and Bosley Avenue, where the county owns a gas station that's used for county vehicles. The fire station is currently located at the corner of Bosley Avenue and York Road, and plans to move it to the park sparked controversy among residents.

Last year at this time, we told you to look out for some of the restaurants that would be opening in 2012. Most of them, like Fleet Street Kitchen and Heavy Seas Alehouse, actually did. A few projects we told you to look forward to didn't see the light of day. Here's what we're reasonably sure about for the first few months of 2013: First up, My Thai , originally located in Mount Vernon's Park Plaza building, will reopen in a new location in...