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Columbia working on plan to improve network of pathways
Columbia will develop by June a vision for a network of interconnected pathways that will allow residents to ditch their vehicles and use nearly 100 miles of trails to walk, bike or run to their destinations. Some 130 community members turned out this...Tags: Howard County, Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Wednesday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and a chance of morning showers with a high temperature around 67 degrees. It is expected to be cloudy tonight, with a chance of rain after midnight and a low temperature around 43 degrees.
FROM...Tags: Facebook, Youth Organizations, Cecil County, Accidental Death, Accidental Death
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Columbia Association to drop 'People Tree' from logo
For nearly half a century, Columbia residents have looked to the "People Tree" sculpture as a symbol of founder James Rouse's vision of an inclusive, connected community.
Now, the organization that runs the planned town says it will drop images of the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Howard County, Symbols and Symbolism, Arts, Symbols and Symbolism
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What's in a name?
Stray Camel Way. Sealed Message Road. Misty Rise. Fragile Sail Way.
All of these are actual street names in an actual Maryland county. Can you name it? Hint: There's plenty more where those came from.
This can, of course, be none other than Howard...Tags: Howard County, Patapsco
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Frank Taliaferro, RTKL founder
Frank Taliaferro, a founder and former chairman of the RTKL architects recalled as the "soul" of that firm, died of lung cancer Saturday at his Santa Monica, Calif., home. The former resident of Harwood in Anne Arundel County was 89.
Remembered as a...Tags: Glen Burnie, Health, Baltimore County, World War II (1939-1945), RTKL Associates, Inc.
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African Art Museum of Maryland moves to new home
The walls are freshly painted.
New carpet was just installed.
The glass shelves have been filled with intricate sculptures and carvings.
After spending the past 22 years in Columbia, the African Art Museum of Maryland is settling into its new home in...Tags: West Virginia, Howard County, Fine Arts, Minority Groups, Haile Selassie
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Surrounded by Columbia, graves date back more than 160 years
In a shady clearing in Stevens Forest, not far from a paved pathway off Thunder Hill Road, a cluster of granite headstones marks the graves of six members of the family of George Cooke, a wealthy antebellum farmer.
The two largest markers, which are...Tags: Howard County, Fine Arts, Libraries, Agricultural Research and Technology, Human Interest
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Former Howard County farm envisioned for children's garden
Former farmland near the heart of Columbia would become a children's garden and "early childhood education nature center" if a citizens group is successful in persuading Howard County officials to carry out the project. The land is part of a 300-acre...Tags: Howard County, Martin O'Malley, Facebook, Ken Ulman, Social Media
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Columbia's nature center is a front door to suburban landscape
Where do bats live? What do spiders eat? How old is the forest?
The answers to those and many other questions can be found at the James and Anne Robinson Nature Center, a $17.6 million educational facility that opened this month in Columbia.
With two...Tags: Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Howard County, Biology, Ken Ulman, Travel
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Columbia's Historic Oakland manor house turns 200
Whether to development or disaster, Howard County has lost many of its impressive early farmhouses and manors.
But at least one remnant of the landed gentry has not only survived but found new life by changing from a private home to public use.
Historic...Tags: Howard County, Fine Arts, Government, Health, Renovation
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It's not for everyone, but Columbia's always been for anyone
Way back when Columbia was just being weaned from a bottle, a woman from Seattle told me how much she hated living in the then-New Town. "I thought I was moving to a city," she complained, "but there is absolutely nothing to do here. I hate it, and I'm...Tags: Oregon, Florida, Washington, DC, Maryland, Human Interest
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Cross Keys condo sparkles with personality
Just inside the front door of Jeri Goodman's 10th-floor condominium unit, a highly polished silver sculpture of a pug rests on a hall table, frozen in puppy playfulness. Across the room, a bright red ceramic Buddha on a desk smiles a broad welcome....Tags: Fine Arts, Arts and Culture, Manhattan (New York City), Building Material, Jones Falls
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