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On June 15, 2004, following a long illness, ANNE E. STACK, a resident of Linthicum Heights since 1947; survived by one daughter Leanne Martin and one son Richard Stack. Preceded in death by Leon Stack, Jr., her husband. Memorial Service to be held on June 24, 7 P.M. at St. John Lutheran Church, Linthicum Heights. In lieu of flowers, family requests donations to the American Cancer Society.

Recent news coverage of the U.S. Postal Service's proposal to end Saturday mail deliveries has focused mainly on the public's reaction to the change ("For mail carriers, Saturday routes roll on - for now," Feb. 10). What has scarcely been mentioned, however, is the elephant in the room: The main reason the Post Office is in trouble is not a decline in first-class mail but two laws passed by Congress. The first was the 1971 Postal Reorganization Act signed by Richard Nixon. This required that the Post Office be run as independent agency that makes a profit from its services.

Once again, rage in the streets has captured the nation's attention, as it did during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s. Now it is the turn of the tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements. But the latter two have not achieved the numbers, the intensity or the success of first two. The outpouring of millions of demonstrators against the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia that cost 55,000 American lives eventually led to a pullback and the first major military defeat in the nation's history.

The state, city and CSX Transportation have tentatively selected the Mount Clare train yard in Southwest Baltimore for a roughly $90 million facility where containerized cargo would be transferred from trucks to trains, a project designed to improve the Port of Baltimore's efficiency. The project would help the port and CSX by allowing the railroad to bypass the more than century-old Howard Street Tunnel, which is too low for passage of trains with containers stacked two high. Such double-stacking of truck-sized shipping containers is the most cost-effective way to move them by rail.

Anne E. Stack, a homemaker and former executive secretary, died of respiratory failure Tuesday at North Arundel Hospital. The Linthicum Heights resident was 84. Born Anne Elizabeth Brighoff in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park, she was a 1938 graduate of Forest Park High. "She gave herself the equivalent of a college education through her love of reading," said her son, Richard Stack, a Linthicum attorney who became a children's book author and dedicated his 1990 book, The Doggonest Vacation, to his mother.

CSX Corp., in conjunction with the Maryland Port Administration, is studying the cost of providing full double-stack rail service to the port of Baltimore, Adrian G. Teel, the executive director of the port agency, said yesterday.Special trains using rail cars capable of carrying containers stacked two-high have become important in recent years for moving cargo between ports and distant inland markets.The port of Baltimore has been unable to offer full double-stack service to the Midwest, however, because of height restrictions in tunnels and under bridges along CSX tracks.

On Tuesday, December 30, 2008, MRS. MABEL (nee Womer) STACK, age 93 of Middle River, MD, died at Ivy Hall Nursing Home in Middle River. A 1934 Tamaqua High School graduate, Mrs. Stack retried from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company where she worked as a clerk. She was member of the Essex Senior Citizens of Baltimore, MD. She loved to square dance and traveled extensively with the seniors. Born in Tamaqua, PA, she was the daughter of the late Irvina nd Ella (Daubenspeck) Womer. Preceded in death by her husband, Peter Stack; brother, Norman Womer; sister, Mrs. Verna Yorke.

William S. Stack Sr., a retired insurance executive and vegetable gardener, died Wednesday of heart failure at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 83. Mr. Stack was born in Baltimore and raised on Arlington Avenue. In his youth, he helped his family operate a lunch wagon that supplied food to workers at the B&O Railroad's Mount Clare shops. After graduating from City College in 1942, he worked briefly in Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Key Highway shipyard building Liberty ships. He was drafted into the Army Air Forces, where he served in Europe as a clerk.

CSX Corp., in conjunction with the Maryland Port Administration, is studying the cost of providing full double-stack rail service to the port of Baltimore, Adrian G. Teel, the executive director of the port agency, said yesterday.Special trains using rail cars capable of carrying containers stacked two-high have become important in recent years for moving cargo between ports and distant inland markets.The port of Baltimore has been unable to offer full double-stack service to the Midwest, however, because of height restrictions in tunnels and under bridges along CSX tracks.

Q: We want to convert a large and little-used family room int a multipurpose space for our three children, ages 8 to 15. The room will probably be used at different times for different activities. It needs to include storage for toys, games and stereo equipment. Do you have some suggestions for how to carry out this conversion on a limited budget?A: For any design project, the real question is: Exactly how limited?Most people, I've found, don't have any specific dollar amount in mind when they think about refurnishing.

The Maryland Department of Transportation is working with CSX Transportation to review four sites in Baltimore that the railroad company could use as a new multi-million-dollar cargo transfer facility needed to accommodate increased freight demands at the Port of Baltimore, a state official said Friday. Leif A. Dormsjo, MDOT's acting deputy secretary, said his department and CSX officials are considering four parcels of land currently owned by CSX in South Baltimore. The possible sites are in the areas of Locust Point, Curtis Bay, Mount Clair and Mount Winans, he said.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter said he doesn't pay attention to the standings until August. For the past 14 seasons, Orioles fans haven't had the need to either, their team usually already long out of contention by this time of year. "I haven't looked at them today," Showalter said before Wednesday's series finale in New York against the Yankees, holding back a smirk, "but I have an idea. " With two months to play, the Orioles find themselves in a tight playoff race. The addition of a second wild-card spot in each league makes it even more interesting.

Your editorial ("Doing better than 'fine,'" June 12) was correct in mildly chastising President Barack Obama for not being upbeat enough about the record of the private sector during his administration. You correctly cited the mess he inherited form the Republicans. You also pointed out Ronald Reagan as an example. The Republicans, including Mitt Romney, always say this president is doing a terrible job on the economy and long for the days of Ronald Reagan's performance in this area.

Sen. C. Anthony Muse is drawing attention in the Senate this morning because of a stack of amendments 18 inches high on his desk. The Prince George's County Democrat has also used his senatorial privilege to hold a series of Gov. Martin O'Malley's departmental bills until Monday, the final day of session. Each time he holds one of the bills, he stands, taps the stack of paper and tells his colleagues that he has amendments for it. Muse hasn't yet explained what he's up to -- but staffers have occasionally entered the chamber to add new amendments to his stack.

In the past 30 years we have seen such an incredible change in the WWE. If you were alive to witness it, or if you went through the archives, you'll notice how unique and diverse each era has been, especially those eras of prosperity. With recent claims that WrestleMania 28 will become the most financially successful WrestleMania of all time, it seems that we are firmly entrenched in another upswing in WWE. The two previous eras of major upswing in WWE were the “Rock N' Wrestling” Era (roughly 1984-1991)

This was a tough week on "The Amazing Race. " The challenges were actually challenging, and the Express Pass didn't solve anything. We also got some foreshadowing that wasn't, some arguing, some crying and, well, the unquittable pyramid of watermelons. Oh, and I ogle! Let's go! This episode gave us two firsts - the first time the show has gone to Paraguay, and the first time that a team has not completed a challenge on a leg and still stayed in the "Race. " That's what Phil said, although I wonder about that awful meat-eating challenge several years back when Boston Rob got everyone to quit and take a 4-hour penalty.

The Stack family home sits at Lewis and Young streets, one block from the water's edge. The body of water is the mighty Susquehanna River; the town clinging to it, Havre de Grace. With double-decker 12-foot-wide wrap-around porches, the three-story home stands out from the quaint cottages and grand Victorians that line the town's streets. Interior dimensions measure 50 feet wide by 30 feet deep. The mustard yellow composite board exterior is dressed to the nines with white porch rails and staircases.

Donna Harmon from Greentown, Ind. was looking for the recipe for making what she called an apple stack cake. She said her grandmother used to make it when she was growing up, but Harmon never watched her to see how she made it. As she remembers, the cake had six to eight layers with an apple filling in between. Her grandmother would cover the finished cake with a dome and allow it to sit overnight to soak up the flavors. Sarah Morris from Havre De Grace sent in a recipe for a Tennessee stack cake from Southern Heritage Cakes Cookbook that she thought sounded like what Harmon was looking for. As described in the introduction to the recipe, this cake has an interesting story.

Once again, rage in the streets has captured the nation's attention, as it did during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s. Now it is the turn of the tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements. But the latter two have not achieved the numbers, the intensity or the success of first two. The outpouring of millions of demonstrators against the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia that cost 55,000 American lives eventually led to a pullback and the first major military defeat in the nation's history.