Peace Corps

Peace Corps opens door for same-sex couples to serve together

2013-05-21 10:20:00

The U.S. Peace Corps�will begin accepting applications from same-sex couples who wish to serve overseas together for the first time next month, the agency announced Tuesday. The move follows a broader shift by the Obama administration toward publicly...

Nibbling, sipping part of Gramercy Mansion's 'Spring Has Sprung' tour

2013-04-23 09:03:00

They came. They sniffed. They smiled. They sipped. They left — still smiling. That pretty much describes the behavior of guests at last weekend's Spring Has Sprung Tea and Garden Tour at Gramercy Mansion in Stevenson. The nearly 50...

Roland Park Country School students walk to raise money

2013-04-18 12:55:00

Roland Park Country School graduate Jocelyn Young-Hyman, who is now a Peace Corps volunteer, has big plans for the money raised Thursday by her alma mater in its annual All-School Walk. Young-Hyman, a 2007graduate of the all-girls school on Roland...

Joseph A. Miklasz, attorney

2013-04-18 14:48:00

Joseph A. Miklasz, a trial attorney who practiced in Glen Burnie and was a wine collector, died of cancer Sunday at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 71 and lived in Crownsville. Born in Baltimore, he was raised in Severn and in East Baltimore, where he...

Living on the bay and loving it

2013-03-21 09:26:00

Driving the back roads that hug the periphery of Maryland's shoreline, there is no singular characteristic that defines the homes. The ones that date back to summer-only retreats are usually one-story clapboard structures with the give-away air...

Peace Corps Week a time of reflection for former volunteers

2013-02-19 17:50:00

Sally Foster worked in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a health educator in the early 1960s. Mike McQuestion was stationed in the Philippines in the mid-1970s, trying to teach basic preventive medicine to mountain villagers. Chris Carneal...

Young adults on a mission to improve lives of others

2012-11-25 13:21:00

As a volunteer with Notre Dame Mission Volunteers, Sarah Kennedy, 23, works full-time for Alternative Directions, a Baltimore nonprofit that helps people who are in prison or leaving prison. She runs a program called CHIP, which mentors children of...

CIA deception threatens global effort to eradicate polio

2013-01-07 03:00:00

The news that the Central Intelligence Agency had been running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan first surfaced in 2011 and quickly ignited fears that the covert operation could compromise the global campaign to eradicate polio. Late last month, a...

AmeriCorps branch to set up home base in East Baltimore

2012-12-18 12:38:36

As many as 240 AmeriCorps members will relocate to East Baltimore's Graceland Park neighborhood in the coming months, as the domestic version of the Peace Corps establishes an urban campus, the first of its kind. The classrooms at the former Sacred...

Back in Baltimore, Wes Moore has big plans for his hometown

2012-12-11 14:45:00

When Wes Moore swings a sledgehammer, he does it with his whole body, with the easy confidence of someone who's used to manual labor. It's early on a Saturday morning, and Wes is one of a couple dozen volunteers who have gathered in the Oliver...

O'Malley sharply critical of GOP at convention

2012-09-04 19:49:00

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley offered pointed criticism of Republicans in an address to the Democratic convention on Tuesday, arguing that President Barack Obama is best suited to right the U.S. economy while GOP nominee Mitt Romney's policies would...

Three with local ties among 2013 Rhodes Scholars

2012-11-18 18:48:00

Sheridan National Peace Corps Assoc.

2013-05-14 17:54:04

Peace Corps volunteers Jordan and Sarah Wein talk to a group at Bethlehem Lutheran Church about Ghana on Wednesday night. American News Photo by John Davis

2012-12-22 20:34:00

President Johnson congratulates Jack Hood Vaughn at the White House after naming him director of the Peace Corps in 1966. At right is Sargent Shriver, who preceded Vaughn.

2012-11-06 18:27:42