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The Turkey Bowl, Baltimore's annual Thanksgiving high school football game featuring Calvert Hall and Loyola, will be played on the same day and time, only in a temporary new home for this year's 92 n d meeting. With M&T Bank Stadium unavailable on Thanksgiving morning because the Ravens will be hosting the San Francisco 49ers later that night, the game will be moved to Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium with the same 10 a.m. start on Thanksgiving Day. The two schools and Towson University reached an agreement late last week.

Patching potholes and balancing Howard County's or Maryland's budget may seem far removed from visits to foreign and exotic places, but several local elected officials traveled overseas this spring, visiting places as diverse as Israel, Turkey, northern Europe and Asia. County Executive Ken Ulman, a Democrat, spent a week in Israel, and Del. Gail Bates, a Republican, made a similar trip to Turkey, both invited and financed, at least in part, by local groups with ties to those countries interested in building good relations with American officials.

If you're looking for ice cream and iced tea to cool the heat of a summer day, you could go to the refrigerator. Or you could take a sweet trip to the newly opened Turkey Hill Experience in Lancaster County. The attraction from the Turkey Hill Dairy not only highlights what goes into making ice cream and iced tea but also brings the learning experience to visitors in a lively, hands-on approach. "People are fascinated by ice cream," said Quintin Frey, president of Turkey Hill and grandson of Armor Frey, who founded the dairy in 1931.

The Turkey Bowl, the annual Thanksgiving football tradition in Baltimore that pits Calvert Hall against Loyola, is in a state of flux this year. The game, played at M&T Bank Stadium on every Thanksgiving since it opened in 1998, will give way to the Ravens. The team learned Tuesday it will host the San Francisco 49ers at 8:20 p.m. for its first Thanksgiving game in franchise history. With no school this week because of the Easter holiday, Loyola and Calvert Hall officials have spoken to each other and the Ravens, but have yet to make alternative plans.

Jay Cohen's Turkey-Black Bean Chili Makes: 20 servings 6 pounds ground turkey 2 yellow onions, diced 1 red pepper, diced 2 tablespoons minced garlic 2 cans crushed or diced tomatoes, 28 ounces each 2 cans plum tomatoes, 28 ounces each 1 can black beans, 16.5 ounces, drained 2 tablespoons ground cumin 1 tablespoon chipotle chili powder 4 bay leaves Salt and pepper to taste...

A decision was rendered by the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Governors on Thursday that allows for the implementation of an A Conference football playoff system without adversely affecting the Turkey Bowl — the annual Thanksgiving Day game between Calvert Hall and Loyola. As was the MIAA's original plan, the A Conference will have playoffs for the first time next season. The top four teams in the league — as determined by a point system — will qualify for the postseason.

A joint statement from the presidents of Calvert Hall and Loyola created a firestorm of protests on message boards and social media websites Friday from the schools' alumni, who had reached the conclusion that the 91-year tradition of their football teams meeting on Thanksgiving Day was in jeopardy. However, there are no plans to move the game, known as the Turkey Bowl, from Thanksgiving Day, Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association executive director Rick Diggs told The Baltimore Sun on Friday.

The door to the black pickup opened, a 5-year-old girl leaped out, and for the Prestons — a White Marsh family whose cheeks were already rosy with the morning chill — the Christmas season was officially under way. "I hope there's a billion times two thousand [trees] here," Mackenzi Preston cried as she charged into the frame garage that forms the headquarters of the Mount Carmel Tree Farm in Parkton. On a day when thousands rise before dawn to play their part in the post- Thanksgiving frenzy known as Black Friday, many Marylanders mark the start of a new holiday season with a more pastoral tradition: traveling to a tree farm, taking up a saw and cutting down the Douglas fir, Scotch pine or blue spruce that will serve as centerpiece for their Christmas decor and celebration.

It took less than 10 minutes in Thursday's 91st Turkey Bowl for top-ranked Calvert Hall to cement its place in Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference history. Down by a touchdown early, the Cardinals reeled off 34 straight points over a span of just 9:50, taking command of their annual Thanksgiving matchup with archrival Loyola and securing their first-ever MIAA title with a 41-13 win before an announced 10,967 at M&T Bank Stadium. "We've been down a lot before, so we knew we could come back," Cardinals quarterback Thomas Stuart said.

It's the enlightened farmer's dilemma: After saving heritage turkeys from extinction and giving them a fabulous free-range lifestyle that their too-fat-to-walk feedlot cousins can only dream of, how do you convince the birds it's time to give it all up for Thanksgiving? Robin Way of Rumbleway Farm in Conawingo resorts to the "sneak attack. " She springs it just as the birds settle down for the night. "As soon as the sun goes down, we get our trailer ready and go out in the field and snatch them off their roost," she said.