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Uplands wins approval for development plan, Phase I funding

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Fern Shen - Jul. 15 (News) - They demolished old apartments, displaced low-income residents, bought out businesses, spent millions and now, after a decade, they're finally going to build a project city officials say will turn this distressed part of west Baltimore into "a neighborhood of choice and opportunity." We visited the site on the eve of a key vote.

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A block party calling for a stop to senseless violence

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Jessica Cottrell - Jul. 10 (News) - Willie Ray, the street preacher and sometime-thorn in City Hall’s side, brings his message – that local communities must support and protect the young to be rid of violent crime and drive-by shootings – to Rosemont with a party of performance art, music, religion and food.

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Civil War Archaeology at Lafayette Square

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Tim Hill - Jul. 08 (News) - Lafayette Square is a leafy little park in the middle of West Baltimore, surrounded by lovely old churches, some pretty rowhouses and Victorian mansions, and like many formerly tony areas in Baltimore, abject poverty and crumbling buildings.

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Hampden Gets a New Grocery Store

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 07 (News) - If you happened to have a particular fondness for Superfresh, then we've got some sad news for you: all their area grocery stores are closed, and several -- including the one in Hampden -- are about to get a speedy makeover/takeover from a Canadian company that no one seems to know much about.

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Poppleton: A Neighborhood in Waiting

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By Michael Kaplan, Umar Farooq - Jul. 06 (News) - Bulldozers stationed in lots slated for redevelopment in West Baltimore’s Poppelton neighborhood represent the first step forward in a long delayed and underfunded plan to revive the historic area.

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Johns Hopkins Growing Pains

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 05 (News) - If you've spent any time in Charles Village recently, you've probably heard that soothing background hum that can only come from heavy machinery. Yes, that's right, it's summer -- also known as major construction time for Johns Hopkins, which is trying to move ahead on several new buildings before students crowd the campus again in the fall.

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Hampden's Superfresh To Become Fresh & Green's

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mobtown Shank - Jul. 02 (News) - What can Hampden expect to become of their Superfresh? Fresh & Green's is on its way - an organic/traditional market hybrid.

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Olmsted's Shortcuts

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Rebecca Messner - Jul. 01 (News) - Frederick Law Olmsted's parks make use of curvilinear paths. But Roland Park's footpaths are the antidote to windiness.

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Controversy Brewing Over Renaming Franklin Square

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Edward Ericson Jr. - Jul. 01 (News) - If friends and admir ers of the late Del. Ruth M. Kirk have their way, Franklin Square Park, the site for 16 years of a west-end Fam ily Fun Festi val Kirk helped orga nize, could be renamed in her honor. The park could become The Ruth M. Kirk Park at Franklin Square, or some vari ation of that.

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Towson revitalization in works

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Jordan Russell - Jun. 29 (News) - Several projects are underway in Towson that Councilman David Marks said are efforts to revitalize downtown and enliven the commercial core of the area.

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Hon Gets a Restraining Order

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Robert M. O'Brien - Jun. 28 (News) - "Hon" hullabaloo reached new heights (or depths) this week when Denise Whiting, proprietor of Cafe Hon, Hon Bar, and Hontown, and founder of Hampden's Honfest, was granted a restraining order against a vocal and active critic of her trademark-happy behavior, 25-year-old Steven Akers.

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Beans and Bread Delayed Again

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Edward Ericson Jr. - Jun. 23 (News) - A long-planned expansion of a homeless services center in Upper Fells Point was delayed again on June 22 after a zoning appeal. Neighbors of Beans and Bread, who have fought a planned 7,000-square-foot expansion for years, objected to revised plans that added nearly 500 square feet of additional space to the project after city agencies had approved them.

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Bocce Brawl

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Van Smith - Jun. 22 (News) - A ghost of negativity haunts the bocce courts. That’s because Blatterman, her bocce committee, and their lawyer have taken a feud from D’Alesandro Park and moved it into the District Court for Howard County, Civil Division.

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Competing Interests Grapple For the Future of Federal Hill

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Amy McNeal - Jun. 14 (News) - Federal Hill continues to grow as an entertainment destination, and this growth in the nightlife scene has become a primary source of tension. Contention between the residents and bar owners culminated in a series of recent hearings before the Baltimore City Liquor Board.

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Baltimore's Inner Harbor Gears Up for Summer Tourism

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Amy McNeal - Jun. 14 (News) - Tourism is heating up for the summer in Baltimore. As the city enters a summer packed with headline-making events like the Grand Prix and Baltimore Pride, the hospitality sector is looking forward to a busy and profitable season.

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New Fells Point Farmer's Market Offers Opportunity

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Amy McNeal - Jun. 14 (News) - The newly opened Fells Point Farmer's Market offers the neighborhood fresh opportunities for growth. Merchants offering meat, herbs, produce, baked goods and more are setting up shop in the square on Saturdays, providing the neighborhood with both new food choices and a gathering spot.

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Honfest 2011: hot and hair-y, steamy and meme-y

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Fern Shen - Jun. 12 (News Analysis) - At Honfest 2011, boosters and bashers both could have found material: there were gourmet food trucks and gloppy vats of nacho cheese, people speaking with fake Baltimore accents and with real ones, Hon kitsch and corporate sponsor tents aplenty but, on a nearby stoop, three women running a real yard sale selling old clothes and vintage 80s lunchboxes for $2.

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Dust in the wind

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Edward Ericson Jr. - Jun. 08 (News) - When Mary Ernish saw the men scraping paint off the front wall of 5 S. Stricker St., near her own home, she immediately thought: lead. Her husband, Graham Mooney, called 311 to report the apparently illegal activity. There were no building permits pulled for the property; the men began work on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day long weekend. They drove unmarked pickup trucks and wore no uniforms or insignia, she says.

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Rawlings-Blake orders two pools opened early amid record-breaking June heat

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jun. 08 (News) - Summer is officially two weeks away, but the Mid-Atlantic was wilting under yet another powerful late-spring heat-wave today, prompting Baltimore city officials to open two public pools, at Patterson and Druid Hill parks, to help roasting residents beat the heat and “Code Red” conditions.

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Rescued hawk update

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jun. 05 (News) - Wildlife rescuers say the young hawk rescued from whizzing traffic on University Pkwy., Thursday evening is doing fine, but he wasn’t going to last much longer in North Baltimore, dissipated as he was.

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Iconic Bromo Seltzer Tower clocks in at 100

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Nicole Wiggington, Fern Shen - Jun. 05 (News) - It’s not often that you get a chance to be inside a clock. At the centennial celebration for Baltimore’s Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Thursday, visitors had that experience.

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Hawk rescued from traffic on University Pkwy.

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Fern Shen - Jun. 02 (News) - Anyone who walks or lives on Univesity Pkwy. probably knows about the pair of hawks - Red-Shouldered Hawks, we think – raising three offspring in a huge nest, up in a sycamore tree in the wide, verdant median. Tonight, a Hampden couple found one of the young on the road below the nest, flapping around in distress.

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Moveable feasts returning to downtown

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Alexandra Wilding - Jun. 02 (News) - The city yesterday relaxed the rules on food trucks, letting them park at pretty much any legal downtown spot, even setting up special food truck zones. Brick-and-mortar establishments may have to step up their game.

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The Voices of Northeast Market

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Sam Hopkins - May. 24 (News) - As a follow-up to our feature story, Neighborhood Life: The Ups, Downs, and Day-to-Days on East Monument Street, Bmore's Sam Hopkins crafted the following audio feature in partnership with WYPR's The Signal.

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Pimlico race track helps Preakness neighbors get slots revenues

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Barbara Pash - May. 19 (News) - There are no slot machines planned at Pimlico Race Course but the Baltimore City neighborhoods surrounding the storied venue are winners nonetheless. Starting July 1, they will receive the first of the state-wide slots revenue -- $2 million – allocated to them by law.

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