Staples

Go to the weekly ad for your local Staples on Staples.com and there will be a printable coupon good for $3 off any $3+ purchase through 6/11. By my math that makes this White Out tape only 90 cents.

Nate Weiner used to do most of his grocery shopping at the Wegmans in Hunt Valley and the Giant near his Hampden home. Now he orders most of his groceries online from Relay Foods and picks it up at designated spot on Sundays. "I get most of my produce from them," said Weiner, 26, a mechanical engineer and part-time student. "The local stuff is picked that morning. They're some of the best vegetables I've ever had. " While the aspect of fresh and local food is an attraction, the real selling point for him is convenience.

Turning bologna, dry milk and rolled oats into gourmet cuisine is the challenge behind a special fundraising dinner being held this week for the benefit of Carroll County Food Sunday. The dinner — dubbed "Off the Shelf" — will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, at Carroll Lutheran Village, 300 St. Luke Circle, Westminster The retirement community's chef, Chris Spear, and his crew will use food pantry staples to create a gourmet meal, with proceeds raising money for Carroll County Food Sunday, the nonprofit that helps families in need throughout the county.

Not only is Patsy Cline's 1962 hit "Crazy" among the choices on the little jukeboxes perched on the wall at the Bel-Loc Diner's booths, the country singer with the smooth, sultry voice once ate there. So have singer Brenda Lee and comedian Redd Foxx. The Baltimore Colts legendary quarterback Johnny Unitas was known to drop in as well, and Orioles "Iron Man" Cal Ripken Jr. once graciously signed autographs during a meal. "He (Ripken) tipped pretty well," waitress Rachel Fisher recalled.

On July 31, 2009 VERONICA MARIE STAPLES, of Baltimore, MD, pass away on Friday, July 31, 2009 at the Hospice of the Chesapeake, Harwood, MD. Veronica was born on August 13, 1934 to the late David Johns Sr., and Catherine Johns. Veronica was preceded in death by her husband Maurice E. Staples Sr., son Maurice E. Staples Jr., and sister Peggy McCoy. Veronica leaves to cherish her memory; her loving children Michele V. Young and Marc X. Staples; her brother David Johns; one son-in-law Robert N. Young Jr.; one daughter-in-law, Latricia Staples; one brother-in-law Horace Staples; two sister-in-laws; Ethel Johns and Bernice Staples; two grandchildren, Ryan Young and Davina Parker and one precious great-grandson Anthony Young; nephews, nieces, a host of other relatives and friends.

Thori Staples, a senior to be at Joppatowne High, improved her stock on the national junior track and field scene by winning the AAU heptathlon for 17-18 girls at Tallahassee, Fla., Monday. Her score of 4,503 points was a personal best in the seven-event test, the women's version of the decathlon.Competing for the Baltimore City-based Ed Waters Club, Staples had personal bests of 34-10 in the shot put and 92 feet in the javelin, one of her weaker events. She covered the 100 hurdles in 15.9 seconds, and the 200 and 800 in 25.9 and 2:19, respectively.

On November 6, 2004, LAURA STAPLES; loving mother of Mary Marcus, James Gibson; step-children Ronald and Donald Staples and Karen Vaden. She is also survived by brother Henry Wilson Lee, seven grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Ave., on Thursday, after 9. Family will receive friends on Friday, in Pentacost Baptist Church, 1615 Poplar Grove Street at 11 A.M., followed by Funeral Services at 11:30.

A. GREY STAPLES, JR., a native of Richmond, Virginia, died Sunday, March 30, at his home in Fredericksburg, Virginia. A graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, he received his MBA and Law Degree in 1966 from University of Richmond. Mr. Staples began his long career in public service in Richmond at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and in 1967 became General Counsel to the Virginia State Corporation Commission. In 1972, he moved to Washington, DC as a consultant to the Wage and Price Commission.

The way Anita Andersch tells it, you've got to put forth your very best defense -- and, if possible, your biggest and best defender -- ifyou're going to stop Thori Staples.Still, that might not even work."She's just a pure threat," said Andersch, Staples' coach on the girls under-19 Crusaders soccer squad in the Maryland Youth Soccer Association."We've had teams mark her with these big women who can just knock you on your butt. And it's always the other girls who end up laying on the ground and getting medical attention while there's Thori dribbling up the field."

Staples, The Office Superstore, is set to open its first Baltimore store April 1. But that's only the beginning for the office supply giant, which has announced an aggressive plan to penetrate the regional market.Following the opening of the first area Staples in the 1500 block of Reisterstown Road, a second Staples is set to open April 22 in the 1000 block of Russell St. in South Baltimore, the former site of the Kash & Karry wholesale food market.Officials at Staples say two more stores will be opening in the Baltimore area by fall.

Back in July, I wrote about Gov. Martin O'Malley becoming a staple of network and cable Sunday morning TV. Public affairs show hosts ranging from Bob Schieffer to Candy Crowley talked about the attributes Maryland's governor brings to the national conversation about the nation's civic life. This Sunday, he will do less familiar turn on Baltimore TV sitting down for an interview with Richard Sher on the former WJZ newsman's "Square Off" show. I am interested in hearing what O'Malley has to say when he's speaking to a local audience and isn't riding TV point for President Obama's re-election campaign.

Turning bologna, dry milk and rolled oats into gourmet cuisine is the challenge behind a special fundraising dinner being held this week for the benefit of Carroll County Food Sunday. The dinner — dubbed "Off the Shelf" — will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, at Carroll Lutheran Village, 300 St. Luke Circle, Westminster The retirement community's chef, Chris Spear, and his crew will use food pantry staples to create a gourmet meal, with proceeds raising money for Carroll County Food Sunday, the nonprofit that helps families in need throughout the county.

When Irene Smith took over Baltimore's Woman's Industrial Kitchen last fall, she was determined to return it to its rightful place as a lunchroom where American home cooking is celebrated. What better way to do that, she thought, than to restore the classic deviled egg to the menu? "Deviled eggs," she said, "are so integrated into American iconography that every maker of fine china also makes a deviled egg plate. "Even the hot dog doesn't have its own plate. " The deviled egg, a staple on the Easter menu — what else are you going to do with all those hard-boiled eggs?

On a recent, unseasonably warm Thursday night, Federal Hill was jumping with people out on dates - out for happy hour, out for dinner. But Spoons, the laid-back coffee shop that's been a Cross Street fixture since 1999, was quiet, with just a few tables filled. With a menu featuring an intriguingly global mix of comfort foods and service that's friendly and prompt, Spoons is worthy of a little more bustle at dinner time. But, please, not too much more bustle. When the restaurant's owners, Shane Anderson, John Allen, Bernard Kayes and Deborah Cogan, decided last fall to add dinner to Spoons' repertoire, they recognized that the mellow atmosphere offered a welcome alternative to many of Federal Hill's more manic spots.

This almost never happens. Revivals, remakes and sequels are, by common consent, inferior products. Every once in a while, though, something comes along — the recent staging of "South Pacific," or "Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole — that feels perfectly contemporary, and honors the original and the memories people have for it. It's a matter of tone. The list of successful revivals is short, but you can add the comeback of a downtown Baltimore dining institution to it. The beloved old lunchroom in the Woman's Industrial Exchange, famed for its tomato aspic, chicken salad and blue-uniformed waitresses, has been reopened by the owner of the popular Souper Freak food truck, Irene Smith, who has renamed it the Woman's Industrial Kitchen.

You could have knocked someone over with a galaktoboureko. That's how surprising the news was in Greektown that Ikaros , which the Kohilas family has operated in the Eastern Avenue location since 1969, will be moving — a half a block up Eastern Avenue. That's Baltimore for you. The move could happen as soon as March 1, says Xenophon Kohilas, who co-owns the restaurant with his brother, Theodosis. The new location is on the same side of Eastern Avenue, just across Ponca Street, in a big corner building where Aztec de Oro was the last in a succession of restaurants to open and close.

Office-supply retailer Staples Inc. broke ground in Hagerstown yesterday for a huge distribution center that will create 700 jobs in Washington County by the end of 1998.The warehouse, located outside Hagerstown near the intersection of Interstates 70 and 81, will begin supplying products to 370 stores across the eastern United States in the first quarter of next year, according to Staples President Martin Hanaka.State and local governments offered Staples, based in Framingham, Mass., $4.2 million in incentives to build the $43 million distribution center in Washington County, where it will become the fourth-largest employer.

An FBI investigation into whether police officers violated laws while being paid for providing off-duty security at area Staples stores includes not only Baltimore officers but their colleagues in Baltimore County, sources said. Few new details emerged yesterday after the office supply store, based in Massachusetts, confirmed the investigation on Thursday. It could not be learned whether the case has been presented to a federal grand jury. Law enforcement sources with knowledge of the probe have said the investigation centers around a group of mostly city officers - at least a dozen - and could reach into the supervisory ranks.

What is it we want from Phillips? Like it or not, the restaurant is the city's unofficial headquarters for Chesapeake seafood. For the last three decades, more visitors to Baltimore likely received their first crab cake from Phillips in Harborplace than anywhere else in Baltimore. I think we want to know that Phillips is representing us well. If, like many, you've found yourself uneasy about how Phillips was performing in this ambassadorial role, I've got some encouraging news for you. Phillips' move across the harbor last fall from the Light Street Pavilion to a new home at the Power Plant has done it a world of good.

Crabs for Christmas? Yes, please. For three decades, David DeBoy has been singing his sad tale of an expatriate Baltimorean stuck in Houston on Christmas Eve, sadly lamenting to Santa that the only present he really wants is a big bucket of steamed crustaceans. That's a sentiment any local resident should be able to appreciate, and it's made the singer-songwriter responsible for "Crabs for Christmas" something of a hometown hero. "I'm just so incredibly touched that people like it as much as they do, that they sing it as much as they do," says DeBoy, who is celebrating the song's 30th anniversary with a new CD featuring his signature song and an 12 similarly Baltimore-centric tunes.