Parkville

Greater Loch Raven: All-star night planned for Pleasant Plains Elementary

2012-05-22 12:34:00

Pleasant Plains Elementary School students are seeing stars as the school prepares to host a "space night" on May 31. During the event, students and their families will have the opportunity to perform hands-on experiments, visit the Baltimore County...

Maryland Deathfest celebrates 10 years

2012-05-22 14:05:00

Evan Harting can't pinpoint the exact time he realized Maryland Deathfest — the annual four-day celebration of metal and its many subgenres he created with his friend Ryan Taylor — was bigger than he imagined. Those brief, surreal moments tend...

Harford County Police Blotter

2012-05-22 13:21:00

Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Frank Earl Jackson, 48, of the 600 block of South Stepney Road, was arrested on a bench warrant Thursday in a case in which he was charged with trespassing. Christopher John...

A bond forged in a Towson orphanage

2012-05-22 00:00:00

Relaxing in an easy chair in her Parkville apartment, Maybelle Burns Boone, 81, recalled the lessons she learned growing up in an orphanage. "It taught me how to cope with life. You never knew what was going to happen to you," she said. Seated nearby on...

Carney: May is the time to play at Parkville Senior Center

2012-05-21 14:42:00

Since it is Older Americans Month and the theme is "Never Too Old to Play" here are some the fun events coming up at the Parkville Senior Center: On May 31 at 1 p.m., a Caribbean calypso party will take you to the Islands of Trinidad and Tobago to...

Towson students expect a world of difference in summer trip to China

2012-05-20 19:50:00

Four Towson High School students were among a contingent from Baltimore County leaving Sunday afternoon, May 20, for a two-month exchange at the Tie Yi School in Xi'an, China. There, the Baltimore County Public Schools students will put their knowledge...

Schaller views government through rose-tinted glasses

2012-05-19 12:30:00

I take exception to Thomas Schaller's assertion that "Overhead in federal insurance programs like Medicare and Social Security is minimal. By some estimates, only 2 percent of expenditures go to administrative overhead" ("Sure, government is flawed...

Giant Food to open store in Perry Hall

2012-05-16 11:58:00

Maryland-based Giant Food says it will be moving into a�Perry Hall shopping center at Belair Road and Hannon Court. Construction workers are now turning a 57,000-square-foot retail site, formerly occupied by Super Fresh, into a Giant Food store. The new...

Dream home: Parkville condo is couple's perfect retirement plan

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Robert Larkin's association with Oak Crest retirement community in Parkville began long before he and his wife purchased a condo there in 2001. The 86-year-old retired Baltimore City police major had contacts with Oak Crest before it even opened its...

Families must speak up about suicide

2012-05-14 07:30:00

Just in time for Mother's Day, your article on the mother of the young man who inexplicably committed suicide ("Dulaney graduate's mother will accept his college diploma from Temple," May 9) was a clear and strong wake up call to all mothers, fathers,...

43rd Towsontown Spring Festival brings success by the thousands

2012-05-05 12:59:00

The organizers of the 43rd annual Towsontown Spring Festival did everything they could to ensure this weekend's celebration went well. Mother Nature did the rest. The streets of downtown Towson were lined with vendors and refreshments of all kinds...

Balto. Co. bill would require license for BYOB establishments

2012-05-07 18:09:00

Baltimore County businesses that let customers bring their own alcohol would need a "BYOB" license under legislation spurred by complaints about hookah lounges that are raucous late into the night. The bill, introduced Monday by Lutherville Republican...

Buttons were handed out at the groundbreaking in Hartford's Parkville on Tuesday for the New Britain-Hartford busway.

2012-05-22 16:42:00

Adriana Durastanti, 20, easily got into the Caribbean spirit of the Women's Housing Coalition's "Celebration 2012" fundraiser with a personal style that's "trendy with an edge.

2012-05-14 00:00:00

Jamie Wagner, 23, did a good job with a day-to-night look the Himmelrich PR account coordinator wore from work to the Women's Housing Coalition's "Celebration 2012" at Nick's Fish House.

2012-05-14 00:00:00