Mother's Day

Fathers celebrate their day by stepping out for NICU

2013-06-16 12:27:00

For Sean Hearn, there was no better way to spend Father's Day than sweating through a hilly 5K road race in Towson, pushing sons Shane and Wyatt in a double-wide stroller. A little more than four years ago, Shane spent 10 days in the neonatal...

Westowne Elementary School principal to retire

2013-06-13 10:14:00

After 11 years at Westowne Elementary School, Principal Patricia Vogel will retire at the end of this school year. Vogel has been a teacher and administrator for 25 years, with previous experience at Arbutus Elementary School and Ascension Catholic...

Restaurants are filling glasses with Maryland wine

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Maryland Wine Week is back. The 11-day celebration of the state's wine industry begins Friday and runs through June 24. Organized by the Maryland Wineries Association, the third annual promotional event has restaurants and wine shops throughout the state...

City of Laurel Community Garden celebrates growth

2013-06-06 00:00:00

There is a whole world growing behind Laurel Presbyterian Church these days. In the lot about the size of a football field, local residents are growing together as they tend their plots in the City of Laurel Community Garden. On Saturday, June 1, the...

Taking a look back at some predictions to see if I was right [Commentary]

2013-05-16 08:47:00

To paraphrase early Beat Generation fringe member and longtime UPI editor Lucien Carr, a good news story should "turn the reader on, or make them cry." Well, I'm not going to touch the first of those two, but, apparently, my last column did make some...

Anti-snitching mentality is alarming

2013-05-14 06:00:00

There was a terrible incident on Mothers Day in New Orleans, where many people were injured at a parade by an addle-headed gunman ("19, including 2 kids, shot at New Orleans parade," May 13). As usual, many people witnessed the incident, but no one came...

Mother knew best for daughter, and now they'll graduate together at HCC

2013-05-12 07:09:00

As a mother, Howard Community College student Sonia Halboni believes she always has her children's best interests at heart, yet she can remember once when her peers didn't concur. When her daughter, Daliah, graduated from Marriotts Ridge High School two...

A new day for Maryland moms

2013-05-12 05:00:00

Mothers are very important people. They give us hugs and kisses; they put Band-Aids on our wounds; they hide special notes in our lunch boxes. They're so special and important that they even get their own day. Today, my two brothers — Matthew and...

Condolences, quick recovery wishes sent to Port-ites [Port Deposit]

2013-05-15 10:55:00

Much sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Jeannette Hillyer, Jackson Park Road, as she passed away on May 1. Happy birthday to David Fasterling, son of Roxanne and Chuck Fasterling, Colora, as he celebrated on May 10 The weather certainly...

Steve Johnson struggles in first start of 2013 as Orioles fall to Twins, 8-5

2013-05-11 20:46:00

MINNEAPOLIS — Steve Johnson might have been the best feel-good story in an Orioles season filled with them last year. The local boy, St. Paul's graduate and son of a former Oriole stormed onto the big league stage and won all four of his decisions,...

New moms connect on local Internet forums

2013-05-11 14:17:00

When first-time mom Sarah Dorman has a parenting question, she often turns to a Facebook group of Baltimore women before her own mother. Her mother's probably not available at 3 a.m., and not familiar with the latest rules regarding infants and...

Color Run to draw 25,000 to Camden Yards

2013-05-09 16:22:00

Kate Joyce detests running. She has since she was in high school. But the prospect of trotting through vibrant clouds of yellow, blue, orange and pink has prompted her to make an exception this weekend. Joyce will be among 25,000 people participating in...

Father's Day Trending on: Google Plus, National Twitter, Baltimore Twitter Why: When it comes to their respective days of honor, why do dads get funny ties and moms get diamond-heart necklaces? Why do we spend 40% more on Mother's Day than Father's Day? Some seemingly ungrateful children (and a

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton was executed by his own rebel movement on Mother's Day in 1975.

2013-05-29 11:21:42

Five generations of a local family are pictured on Mother's Day. From left, great-grandmother Bonnie Cline; father Jonathan Clemson; grandmother Cathie Clemson; and seated, great-grandmother Eleanor Kline holding Travis Clemson.

2013-05-17 07:51:00