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By Mary Gail Hare | March 25, 2009
Soon after Harford County Councilwoman Veronica L. "Roni" Chenowith was diagnosed with leukemia in 2006, she waged a vigorous campaign for re-election and won a fourth term. "You need continuity," she said in explaining her rationale for wanting to remain on the council. "You need experience and knowledge to make good decisions." In the past few months, when she relied on portable oxygen and a walker, she insisted on attending weekly council meetings. Joe Chenowith Sr., her husband of 48 years, drove her to the sessions.
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By Sumathi Reddy | October 21, 2008
For 50 years, Greeks have made their way to Kentrikon, a shop on Eastern Avenue where they come to buy Greek music and trinkets, wreaths for weddings and christening ribbons after babies are born. Only now there is a new draw, and new customers. "Musica Latina de Venta Aqui," reads a sign visible from outside Kentrikon - "Latin music sales here." "The majority of people coming into the area are Hispanic," says owner Nitsa Morekas, 67, explaining her decision to branch out. "It's like Greektown international now."
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By Andrea F. Siegel | November 18, 2007
These days, Maple Lawn is more than the turkey farm in southern Howard County owned by the Iager family for more than a century. The mixed-use planned community of homes, offices, businesses and stores is about 20 percent finished and is expected to be completed over the next decade or so. The community of about 700 acres lies in Fulton, a rural area about midway between Baltimore and Washington. The design, with residences close to the street and sidewalks everywhere, is geared toward fostering over-the-fence neighborliness and pedestrian traffic.
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By Alia Malik | July 9, 2007
The percentage of Baltimore-area residents who volunteered their time dropped slightly last year, mirroring a national trend as educated baby boomers grow impatient with unskilled volunteer tasks, according to a federal report being released today. Across the Baltimore metropolitan area, 27.1 percent of the population volunteered at least once in 2006, according to the report by the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency. That's a 2.2 percentage point drop from 2005.
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By Ellen Goodman | September 12, 2005
BOSTON - This is the phrase repeated again and again when Katrina broke through the levees of denial: "I can't believe this is America." The mantra of disbelief echoed from a veteran of the war in Afghanistan to the president of Jefferson Parish, to mothers and fathers in the Superdome to families around their television sets: "This doesn't happen here." For days, we watched a toxic gumbo of natural and man-made disasters cooking along the Gulf Coast. "The city that care forgot" felt forgotten.
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By Chris Guy | July 2, 2005
OCEAN CITY -- The end is coming for the last RV campground here in Maryland's beach resort, and Lee and Catherine Roberts are mourning already. It was 37 years ago that the couple from Laurel parked a trailer for the summer and began building friendships that now span three generations. But with $800,000 condos literally looming over their modest vacation spot, they weren't surprised to learn that the owners of the Ocean City Campground have gotten an offer they can't refuse. Land is at a premium on this 10-mile sliver in the Atlantic, and more wrecking balls and construction cranes seem to turn up every day. "This is going to be a real emotional separation," says Catherine Roberts, 66, a retired administrative assistant.
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By Laura Shovan | September 29, 2004
There is a historic display at Bryant Woods Elementary this week. A line of yellow paper - marked with the years 1968 through 2004 - stretches along the hall. Under almost every number are signatures. The paper is both a timeline and a guest book for the school's 35th anniversary. On Sunday, former students, parents and staffers came to celebrate that anniversary at a school that has changed physically but - many at the event said - maintains its welcoming, community philosophy. "I was very pleased to see that after all these years a lot of [people]
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By Laura Shovan | January 29, 2003
For most youngsters, Saturdays are a break from busy daily routines. But last weekend, dozens of children gathered in Worthington Elementary School's media center for an extra morning of school. For these children, the six-week-long Saturday school is not perceived as punishment. The small classes, run by Helping Hands Enrichment and Leadership Foundation and taught by Howard County teachers, have no homework and no tests. The pressure to perform is off. The foundation was established in 1987, aiming to provide academic enrichment to county schoolchildren.
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September 27, 2001
LONG BEFORE humanity invented gunpowder, humans crouched in terror at the furies of nature. For all the advances in climate control and shelter, nature remains untamed and able to remind us of it. Tornadoes have visited Maryland occasionally, never in profusion and rarely with great damage. Marylanders think of them as something in distant Kansas wheat fields. While Maryland and the nation sought spiritual recovery Monday from the human terrorism Sept. 11 in New York and Washington, the storm including an F3 tornado moved like a shot from Stafford, Va., to Laurel, Md. The havoc at the University of Maryland, College Park was a reminder that no law of man or nature restricts a tornado to rural areas away from crowded cities or vital facilities.
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By Tanika White | August 12, 2001
When Rochelle Michaux-Conway and her husband, David, moved to an idyllic corner lot on serenely beige Daring Prince Way in the Columbia Village of River Hill, they knew they had found the right spot for their future children to play safely, grow up peacefully and be educated in some of the best schools Maryland had to offer. What they didn't know was that several years later their 5-year-old firstborn would cry in kindergarten class because there were no little children there who looked like her. "She felt alone," Michaux-Conway said.