Category: Baltimore News

Renaissance Academy principal, Nikkia Rowe, and staff walked the Marble Hill community around the school greeting neighbors and generally sending positive vibes for the beginning of what is hoped to be a successful school year. The walk was also to familiarize the school’s leadership with the streets through which their students travel daily to come […]

KidsPeace Foster Care is hosting its 5th Annual KidsPeace Trick-or-Trot 5K/1-Mile Walk presented by One Main Financial, Nov. 1, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Angela and Buck Showalter, and the Oriole Bird are hosts of the race, and with sponsorship of area businesses, the non profit hopes to raise awareness and funds for foster […]

Survivors Against Violence Everywhere “S.A.V.E.” will sponsor a crab feast/silent auction, 2 – 6 p.m., Sept. 13 at Heritage Parkville Gardens, 7631 Harford Road.   All proceeds will go directly to the S.A.V.E. Scholarship Fund. Each year a graduating high school senior who has lost a loved one to homicide in Baltimore City receives a college […]

Horseshoe Casino Opening Reception Crowd. “The baby has been born,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said at the Aug. 26 opening celebration of Baltimore’s brand new Horseshoe Casino. “We can pass around the cigars.” Mayor Rawlings-Blake, Gov. Martin O’Malley, Rep. Elijah Cummings, State Senate President Mike Miller, and even celebrity food chef Guy Fieri were among hundreds […]

Dr. Gregory Thornton helps a middle school student with a math problem at Afya Public Charter School.

Russell A. Neverdon, Sr. According to the director of the Baltimore City Board of Elections, the first draft of the 2014 general election ballot (Nov. 4) was due Aug. 22, and Russell A. Neverdon Sr. is still fighting to have his name included on it as a candidate for Baltimore City State’s Attorney. On Aug. […]

The weekend beginning Friday, Aug. 22 included four homicides and five non-fatal shootings. During the early hours of Friday morning, Nathaniel Quarterman was beaten to death on the 4200 block of Shamrock Avenue, taken outside and set on fire. Baltimore City Police have arrested and charged 43-year-old Lawrence Coverdale with first-degree murder, weapon, and assault […]

Morgan State University freshman defensive lineman Marquese Meadow. Morgan State University freshman defensive lineman Marquese Meadow, a native of Washington, D.C., died Sunday morning, Aug. 24 at Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to Morgan State Athletics Media Relations Office. Morgan State Athletics released a statement Sunday via its athletics website, MorganStateBears.com, stating that Meadow fell ill […]

Adrenis Carter Reid Adrenis Carter Reid, a prominent figure of Baltimore’s Bethel AME Church and mother of head pastor the Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid III, died Aug. 21 at age 90 after a three-year battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Reid was a surrogate mother to the Bethel congregation for the past 26 years, and though […]

The Simms-Miller Family. The Simms-Miller family reunion, celebrated Aug. 16, marked 106 years at Druid Hill Park, and is now branching into their sixth generation. As on every third Saturday in August, there was face painting, soccer and football, table games, raffle, line dancing and music by DJ Zack. A procla mation from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake hailed […]