Stung by the beauty of beekeeping
In reading Jerry Hagstrom's report on a 3-day conference, Agriculture Investment Summit for the Americas, we were struck by the witty insight of Jason Henderson when he said, I have never met a farmer...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor - Jan. 9
Former Sears store would make great senior center To the editor: Now is the time to purchase the Sears store for a senior center. This building is located on Potomac and Northern, which meets city and...
View ArticleUnsure footing
hat's strange is that it no longer seems strange, this spectacle. The empty loafers cruising down the conveyer belt. The flip-flops dumped in the plastic bin. The booties of a tiny boy, whipped off by...
View ArticleRobert James Mitchell, retired building contractor
Robert James Mitchell, a retired Baltimore County building contractor and a one-time trainer for the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, died Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home, "Dogwoods," in...
View ArticleGet your fill of autumn apples
A nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center regularly provides a guest post. This week, Mindy Athas weighs in on apples. Finding fresh, local and tasty ripe apples in the fall is...
View ArticleA LOOK BACK
Dec. 16, 1773: The Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes. Dec. 17, 1992: President...
View ArticlePasco students learning to integrate subjects
Lesly Santos and Monserrat Gutierrez were trying to figure out why their car wouldn't move. The 11-year-olds, along with their fifth-grade classmates at Virgie Robinson Elementary School in Pasco, had...
View ArticleHistoric Bethlehem visitors get a sip of chocolate's history in the American...
Imagine having to consume chocolate because it's your patriotic duty! That's what happened to American colonists in the turbulent times leading up to the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution,...
View ArticleUninvited squatters find empty East Memphis mansion to their liking
Some strange things are happening at 600 S. Shady Grove Road in East Memphis where a vacant home worth more than $3 million sits on nearly four acres behind 15-foot-high brick walls. A bank that...
View ArticleEarth Day celebrated at Brehm
Students visiting Brehm Memorial Library Monday celebrated Earth Day by learning about worms."Worms are very important to the soil," said Linda Clevenger, who presented the program and showed off her...
View ArticleFarmers have consistently produced themselves out of prosperity
In reading Jerry Hagstrom's report on a 3-day conference, Agriculture Investment Summit for the Americas, we were struck by the witty insight of Jason Henderson when he said, I have never met a farmer...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor - Jan. 9
Former Sears store would make great senior center To the editor: Now is the time to purchase the Sears store for a senior center. This building is located on Potomac and Northern, which meets city and...
View ArticleCompleted on Nov. 1, 1834, historic Fort Monroe became much more than a...
Robert E. Lee was many years removed from fame when -- as a young officer in the Army Corps of Engineers --he packed up and left his quarters at Fort Monroe in late October 1834. But the report he gave...
View ArticleGet your fill of autumn apples
A nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center regularly provides a guest post. This week, Mindy Athas weighs in on apples. Finding fresh, local and tasty ripe apples in the fall is...
View ArticleRobert James Mitchell, retired building contractor
Robert James Mitchell, a retired Baltimore County building contractor and a one-time trainer for the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, died Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home, "Dogwoods," in...
View ArticleFarmers have consistently produced themselves out of prosperity
In reading Jerry Hagstrom's report on a 3-day conference, Agriculture Investment Summit for the Americas, we were struck by the witty insight of Jason Henderson when he said, I have never met a farmer...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor - Jan. 9
Former Sears store would make great senior center To the editor: Now is the time to purchase the Sears store for a senior center. This building is located on Potomac and Northern, which meets city and...
View ArticleCompleted on Nov. 1, 1834, historic Fort Monroe became much more than a...
Robert E. Lee was many years removed from fame when -- as a young officer in the Army Corps of Engineers --he packed up and left his quarters at Fort Monroe in late October 1834. But the report he gave...
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