Category: Baltimore News

Gov. Martin O’Malley extends an invitation to all Marylanders involved in volunteer service to spend a fun-filled Sunday at the Maryland State Fair on August 24. The Governor’s Volunteer Appreciation Day is presented by the Governor’s office on Service and Volunteerism and the Maryland State Fair. “Each year Maryland’s volunteers give over 190 million hours […]

Residents of the Sandtown Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore have heard rumblings that an important supermarket serving their community, the Stop, Shop, and Save Food Market at North Monroe and Pressman streets, may close. The physical appearances of empty store shelves seem to suggest that the belief in such rumors held by some may be […]

Geraldine Morgan Gunn Geraldine Morgan Gunn, a Baltimore native who was a health care industry professional for more than 30 years, died June 19. She was 74. A graduate of Frederick Douglass High School, she attended nursing school. She joined Bon Secours Hospital after nursing school as a nursing assistant and was part of the […]

Roy Ayers Roy Ayers will be in concert, 4 and 8 p.m., July 6 at Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Heights Avenue, 410-466-2124, in Baltimore. Produced by Unique Ventures Unlimited, the show will also feature Total Eclipse and Victoria and Joe Keyes (The Late Bloomer). Doors open at 3 p.m. There will be a […]

Look Forward My Brother (LFMB) will provide 40 disadvantaged Baltimore African-American youth, 12-18, free horseback riding lessons at the Liberty Elementary School #64, 3901 Maine Ave., 9 a.m. to noon, June 28. As part of this initiative, they will take part in presentations given by African American men of character.  Presentations will be given by […]

After unionizing in 2004, employees for the Hudson News stands in BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport gained employer sponsored healthcare and a pension. The Hudson employees union, which has been without a new contract since October 2013, are now in negotiations with Hudson, fighting to preserve the benefits won against the company’s efforts to roll them […]

Chief Gregory Lawrence is suing the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Fire Department for the second time. He alleges he was wrongfully terminated by the department in March. In March, acting Fire Chief Gregory Lawrence was fired from the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Fire Department. The termination came after a state audit found irregularities with items […]

My Sister’s Circle interacts with girls year round with an afterschool program, 1-on-1 mentoring, cultural activities on the weekends, and educational camps during the summer. Heather Harvison has a background in public relations, marketing, and education. Her previous career path fit her skill set, but wasn’t as rewarding as she hoped. Her mother, involved in […]

Marilyn Mosby and supporters after winning the Democratic Primary election. One of the biggest upsets of the June 24 Maryland Gubernatorial Primary, a total shock for some, was the victory of relative newcomer, Marilyn Mosby, over one-term City State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein. Mosby was ahead with 54.7 percent of the vote at press time. Not […]

A little after five o’clock Tuesday afternoon it was clear to me former Baltimore City assistant prosecutor Marilyn Mosby was going to defeat incumbent state’s attorney Gregg Bernstein, her old boss. Because it was right around that time I descended the steps of Mosby’s humid basement election headquarters at the corner of North and Eutaw […]