SPORTS
By Jeff Zrebiec, The Baltimore Sun | June 20, 2010
Kevin Millwood figured as much. His first 2 1/2 months in an Orioles uniform have been dominated by defensive gaffes, poor run support, some recent bad pitching and, of course, a lot of regrettable losses. So as he sat in the visiting clubhouse at Petco Park on Saturday night to watch the ninth inning and resisted the urge to join his teammates in the dugout, Millwood had one prevailing thought. "I definitely didn't think it was going to be easy, by any means," he said. Boy, was he right.
NEWS
By Nicole Fuller | nicole.fuller@baltsun.com and Baltimore Sun reporter | April 7, 2010
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a new four-year contract for Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell, keeping the leader of the state's fifth largest school system in place four more years. Maxwell's new contact pays the superintendent $257,000 annually and calls for the board to contribute $20,000 each year to a retirement fund, an increase over his current $238,703 annual salary. The contact doesn't contain automatic salary increases, but gives the board the option of awarding a pay increase or bonus based upon performance.
NEWS
By Jonathan Pitts and Baltimore Sun reporter | February 19, 2010
Gov. Martin O'Malley and Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake have announced the appointment of a new member to the city school board and the reappointments of two others, returning the panel to its full complement of nine members for the first time since June. Working from a list of applicants generated by the state board of education, O'Malley and Rawlings-Blake announced Thursday the addition of Lisa Akchin, the head of marketing and public relations at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the reappointments of members Jerrelle Francois and Maxine J. Wood, both of whose terms were set to expire.
NEWS
By Larry Carson and Larry Carson,larry.carson@baltsun.com | June 21, 2009
The movement to alter or defeat a zoning bill intended to create a way to redevelop ailing Columbia village centers got an unexpected boost when the county Planning Board chairman revealed Monday night that he opposes the measure. The five-member board had split 2-2 on the issue March 23, passing the zoning bill on to the Howard County Council without a recommendation. David Grabowski, an Elkridge resident with a background in construction, had been out of town that night and Vice Chairman Gary Rosenbaum said he forgot to make a prearranged call to get the chairman's vote.
NEWS
By Sara Neufeld and Sara Neufeld,sara.neufeld@baltsun.com | October 3, 2008
A former Baltimore school board member got his old position back in an appointment announced yesterday by Mayor Sheila Dixon and Gov. Martin O'Malley. David Stone, 45, served on the board from 2002 to 2004, when he resigned to work as the school system's director of new and charter schools. He left the system last year to become director of special-education operations for Kennedy Krieger Institute, working in the division that provides services and runs a school for children with disabilities.
NEWS
By Susan Gvozdas and Susan Gvozdas,Special to The Sun | June 29, 2008
Thanks to a new law, the Anne Arundel County Board of Education will grow this week. Gov. Martin O'Malley recently appointed Teresa Birge, a part-time accountant from Seven Oaks, to represent state legislative District 32, bumping up the size of the board from eight members to nine. Until this year, Districts 21 and 32 shared a seat on the board. He also reappointed board president Tricia Johnson of Davidsonville to serve a second five-year term in the at-large seat, while Collin Wojciechowski, a senior at Chesapeake High School, will serve one year as the student representative on the board.