Simon Messing, a Friends of Patterson Park volunteer, hoists a shovel full of bottom muck from the Patterson Park boat lake during Saturday’s cleanup. Organizers and volunteers were pleased to find that there was not much trash in the lake.
Photo by Anna Santana
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
The city greets the warmer season (or what is hoped will soon become the warmer season) with brooms, dustpans and garbage bags. Those who are participating in Saturday’s Super Spring Sweep Thing have numerous options. Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
Photo by Anna Santana
The backup starts here.
As work begins on the Eastern Avenue underpass, drivers have been experiencing delays as they pass through the saddle area between Greektown and Highlandtown. Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
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It’s really all about the vino, hon.
Not that that stops non-drinkers from enjoying the Highlandtown Wine Festival. This weekend, the fest returns, and with it, all those traditions so unique to HiTown. There’s the judging of home-made wines, the ability to taste other wines, the petting zoo, the bocce tourney and the ability to mix, mingle and socialize at one of the first outdoor community events of the spring. Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
It’s My Job is an occasional feature in The Baltimore Guide, highlighting residents with unusual and interesting jobs. Have a suggestion for an It’s My Job feature? E-mail newsroom@baltimoreguide.com.
There’s something Tim McFadden wants to make clear at the outset. Martini glasses? They’re hard work. Not to mix, not to fill, certainly not to drain—but to create.
“Stemware is the hardest, most technical thing to make,” said McFadden. “It’s something that takes a lot of practice.”
McFadden should know. As the owner of McFadden Art Glass on Eastern Avenue, he has created everything from Christmas ornaments to modernistic lamps, from vases to tumblers, and everything in between including, yes, stemware. And he has created it the old-fashioned way—with a furnace, blowpipe and a number of other tools of his trade. And these days, he makes a living not just selling pieces of his art, but teaching others how to master it.
Pretty good for a guy right out of college—particularly one whose initial higher education goals didn’t really include fine art. Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
The checks are in the mail.
The Southside Marketplace grants for 2007 have been announced, and the recipients—and the projects they intend to fund—are as diverse as the community itself.
The grant provides $10,000 in funds a year to organizations that offer services to the South Baltimore Peninsula. The grant’s history goes back to 1992, when the developers of the Southside Marketplace agreed that the shopping center would make payments to benefit the community Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
For some people, according to the State’s Attorney’s Office, recovering from being the victim of a crime is harder than others.
After all, some have little money to spare and no homeowner’s insurance— and the losses incurred during a robbery or burglary might be overhelming. Even repairing broken locks or replacing smashed windows, not to mention trying to recuperate losses in personal property, can be difficult on a fixed income.
For those individuals, according Read the rest of this article...
Baltimore’s Super Spring Sweep Thing, the city’s annual day of seasonal outdoor cleaning, is approaching, and officials are reminding residents to get involved with their community efforts.
The event, which takes place on Saturday, April 21, runs from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and will concentrate on city gateways and city facilities. City workers will be cleaning storm drains, painting fire hydrants and traffic poles, replacing traffic signs, pruning trees, fixing street lights, mulching vacant lots and removing graffiti.
Previous clean-up efforts Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
Following a dog attack last Wednesday night that left a juvenile hospitalized with severe face and neck injuries, Health Department officials have issued a citywide alert asking residents to report dogs running loose.
The attack, which took place on Quantico Street, involved two pit bulls which according to health department officials, appeared to have escaped from an enclosed yard. The dogs were impounded and euthanized. The owner was located by police as well.
Because Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
There’s one thing Amy Cooney wants people to know about Thames Street Park. It’s not that old. Comparatively speaking, anyway.
“It was designed in 1978 and built in 1980,” said Cooney. “It has a historic look, but it isn’t really historic.”
That should allow preservationists to heave a sigh of relief next Saturday, April 14 when they see volunteers descend on the park and begin doing restoration work. Work begins at 9 a.m. and Read the rest of this article...
“It’s My Job” is an occasional feature highlighting local individuals in the area with interesting or unique jobs. Have a suggestion for a future It’s My Job feature? E-mail newsroom@baltimoreguide.com.
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
Every budding entrepreneur remembers his or her a-ha moment – that exact point when the light bulb clicks on and he or she realizes that the perfect opportunity has presented itself. For Zoey Robinson, though, the a-ha moment was less of a light Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
mhsprecher@baltimoreguide.com
If the first harbinger of spring is the robin’s red breast, the second might be the bluegill’s blue gills, or maybe the largemouth bass and its large mouth.
At least that’s what Bob Wall is hoping as the Patterson Park Boat Lake gears up for its Spring Kids’ Fishing Rodeo, to be held on Saturday, March 31, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Read the rest of this article...
Enoch Pratt Free Library hosts children’s Fairy Tale Festival
by Jenny Wierschem
In a land not far away at all, in a city sometimes called the Monumental City, and at a library called the Enoch Pratt, something magical is about to happen. The city’s children will become princes or princesses for a weekend.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is holding its fifth annual Fairy Tale Festival at the Central Library this weekend, March 31-April 1. Enoch Pratt staff expect roughly Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
If you want to read the plain old black and white facts about Baltimore photographer A. Aubrey Bodine, you can find them in the biography on his website.
If you want a color portrait, talk to his daughter. Jennifer Bodine, who as biographer and custodian of her dad’s complete works, can add dimension and background to just about every photo in the collection. She’ll be sharing some of those insights when Read the rest of this article...
Organization committee seeks alumni and mementos of Dundalk parochial school
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
When the car carrying St. Rita School’s two students of the year disappeared around the last corner of the of the Fourth of July parade route in Dundalk, it wasn’t just the final time the float would be seen in the 2006 parade. It was the end of an era. The preK-grade 8 school had closed in June, marking the final chapter in Read the rest of this article...
Vote will determine height limit for Marketplace at Fells Point development
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
What a difference a few months—and a few floors— can make.
Back in late summer of 2006, the neighbors around the Broadway Market were worried about a proposed development. The Marketplace at Fells Point, according to local developers Dan Winner and David Holmes, would revitalize the Broadway Market area by rehabbing and adding a second story to the old North market building, Read the rest of this article...
by Mary Helen Sprecher
mhsprecher@baltimoreguide.com
With the awarding of special event funding, four community-based organizations have moved a step closer to activities that they believe will enrich the neighborhood.
The Comcast Believe In Your Neighborhood program grants, offered to neighborhood associaitons and community-based non-profit groups, are used to fund activities such as festivals, street fairs, concerts and parades. The program, which provides grants in amounts ranging from $200 to $1,000, is offered by the mayor’s office and Baltimore Office Read the rest of this article...
Graceland Park-O’Donnell Heights Elementary receives recognition for high standardized test scores
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
The best-kept secret in the area is out. Finally.
When principal Wayne Law first learned that Graceland Park O’Donnell Heights School had been named a Nationally Distinguished Title 1 School, the good news came with a caveat: don’t tell anyone.
“We weren’t allowed to say anything,” said Law. “We were sitting on the news.”
That was early October. In late January, Law attended the Read the rest of this article...
The May 7, 2008
Baltimore Guide
