Animals

Clarksville: New middle school program info session set for May 24

2012-05-20 00:00:00

Parents of sixth- and seventh-graders will be able to attend an information session on the new middle school program and schedule at Clarksville Middle School May 24, from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. If you are unable to attend this presentation, you will find info...

Laurel students are top dogs in annual Be Kind to Animals contest

2012-05-16 05:20:00

Three Laurel-area students took home prizes in the 19th annual Be Kind to Animals poster contest, sponsored by the Prince George's County Department of Environmental Resources. Laurel's top dogs are Ashley Mendez, a third-grader from Scotchtown Hills...

An unpleasant wonder of the natural world

2012-05-16 19:10:25

These days, the seconds no more tick away than the hours slip through the narrow part of an hourglass, but as the weather turns warmer and the days get longer, there's ever more reason to spend more time outside and that time is marked by different...

Saved from bulldozer, UM 'hillock' teems with life

2012-05-11 05:55:00

Harvard University has a research forest.� So does Duke.� Yale has multiple forests.� The University of Maryland has “the wooded hillock." a 24-acre patch of trees at the northern tip of the state's flagship public campus. Though tiny, largely...

At Sheep and Wool Festival, sheepdog demonstrations are a 'psychological standoff'

2012-05-03 00:00:00

While much has been said and written about the artful communication between humans and dogs, the competitive pinnacle of that interaction is handling working sheep dogs, local handlers say. That amazing bond will be on display in six half-hour...

Lucy, the sweet, friendly, lovable pit bull

2012-05-07 09:45:00

In June 2007, a woman named Ruby Pulley was attacked by two pit bulls in East Baltimore. The dogs were owned by a teenager who bred them for sale; neighbors thought he might fight them, though no one wanted to go on the record saying so. An animal control...

Brenda Brewington, church administrator

2012-05-08 15:24:40

Brenda Brewington, an ecclesiastical administrator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Ellicott City who had taught earlier in its preschool, died Thursday in her office in a double shooting that also claimed a pastor's life. She was 59. "Brenda had a...

Review: Sweetlife Music Festival 2012 at Merriweather Post Pavilion

2012-04-30 07:34:00

Avicii, Kid Cudi and the Shins headlined the Sweetlife Music Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday. Reporter Vivienne Machi reviews the event. If the Sweetlife Festival were an actual sweet, I’d vote for a lemon bar: smooth, luscious,...

2012 Maryland Film Fest off to a short, sweet start

2012-05-04 05:57:00

Five short narrative films, on themes ranging from a modern-day urban cowboy to a scamming extraterrestrial, kicked off the 14th annual Maryland Film Festival at MICA's Brown Center Thursday night. Maryland's festival remains the only one of its kind...

Maryland SPCA hosts annual March for the Animals

2012-04-27 05:37:00

The Maryland SPCA will hold its 17th annual March for the Animals on Sunday, April 29, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Druid Hill Park. Tina Regester, Director of Communications and Media Relations for the Maryland SPCA, said this is the organization's...

Sagamore Farm history comes alive with visit from a Vanderbilt

2012-04-27 17:40:00

Alfred G. Vanderbilt III didn't want to see�Sagamore Farm in decay, so he didn't visit his dad's old horse farm for�48 years. Friday,�when he walked around the restored farm made famous by his father's great horses - the most memorable being Native...

Youth theater groups prepare for 'Alice,' 'Romeo and Juliet'

2012-04-08 12:37:00

At rehearsals last weekend, young actors were busy preparing for professional-caliber productions opening next week. Children's Theatre of Annapolis presents Disney's "Alice in Wonderland," featuring a cast ages 8 to 14, on weekends April 13-22 at its...

Pawsitive Park, also known as the Estelle Cohn Memorial Dog Park on behalf a generous donation made by her husband, opened in Norwich in 2005. Here dogs can run and play among its acre of fenced land or walk alongside their owners among the additional 2 acres of scenic trails. 261 Asylum Street

2012-03-28 00:00:00

The Crazy Horse Memorial monument in South Dakota was designed by West Hartford native Korczak Ziolkowski. Ziolkowski was born in Boston in 1908 and moved to West Hartford in his 20s to work as a sculptor. By 1939 Ziolkowsk was in South Dakota working with Gutzon Borglum in carving the Mt.

2012-03-15 08:41:11

This memorial is being carved into Thunderhead Mountain and some within the Native American community view its construction as an attack on the landscape and an affront to Crazy Horse s beliefs.

2012-02-15 16:34:55