Category: Baltimore News

The holiday season is quickly approaching, and the Baltimore Farmers’ Market & Bazaar is an often overlooked place to shop for festive meals, unique gifts and holiday decorations. Beginning Nov. 24, farmers are invited to sell items beyond what they produce to give market-goers additional options for Thanksgiving and other holiday meals. During this time […]

The Mayor’s Office of Human Services is establishing a Journey Home Board and is seeking applications for two at-large member positions to join the Board in January 2014. The purpose of the Journey Home Board is to increase community-wide commitment, collaboration, planning and capacity to make homelessness rare and brief in Baltimore. The Board will […]

The Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System is hosting a VA Health Care Enrollment, Eligibility, and Veterans Benefits Seminar, 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Dec. 9, at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. This free program is designed to provide an overview of VA programs and services for community health care providers, social workers and […]

The owners of the Edmondson Village Shopping Center, Baltimore planning officials and local legislators are the targets of protests from local residents who are fed up with the state of what once was one of Baltimore’s premiere shopping centers. Opened in 1947, the Edmondson Village Shopping Center was designed for the suburban community—once a predominately […]

If you ask business owners in the Baltimore Metropolitan area if they have heard of Calmi Electrical Company, you are like to hear a resounding “Yes!” Serving the community—both commercial and industrial—since 1985, President and CEO Calvin Mims, 62, has built his company on the strength of offering the best service to his customers. His […]

(Updated December 1, 2013) A veritable feast of ornaments, lights and delights is how some might have described the Kennedy Krieger annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees. Something resembling a Santa’s workshop – a one stop shop, that is, filled with the wonderment of the holidays for anyone brave enough to be a kid again. […]

Days after winning the first annual Miss Baltimore United States pageant Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Amanda Ross sat down with the AFRO for a chat about life in the spotlight. AFRO: Where are you from? Ross: I am originally from Columbia, Md. AFRO: So how does a girl from Columbia up being Miss Baltimore? Ross: It […]

Imagine a Baltimore waterfront where people swim and fish. That’s part of the vision for the next generation Inner Harbor. City officials and the Waterfront Partnership have revealed their plan for the next generation of the Inner Harbor—Baltimore’s most visited tourist attraction—a prominent area where they said is beginning to show signs of aging. During […]

In the four months since Tyrone West was pronounced dead following what Baltimore police say started as a routine traffic stop in Northeast Baltimore, there have been more questions than answers about the death of the 44-year-old man while in police custody. At the core is a central question: How did West die? Although an […]

In the spirit of the upcoming Thanksgiving Day holiday, the women’s ministry at the Garden of Prayer Christian Church in East Baltimore recently donated more than $1,000 in baby shower gifts to a group of current mothers and mothers-to-be who reside at a west Baltimore transitional house in an alternative program for troubled women. On […]

As the crowd of fans, students, educators and alumni began to swirl into M&T Bank Stadium on Nov. 9, it was clear that more was at stake in this football game than a win-loss record and a berth in the Baltimore city championship playoff. When Baltimore City College and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute meet on the […]

The KPMG Foundation has awarded Genese Rogers a $10,000 KPMG Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarship to pursue her doctorate at Morgan State University. The scholarship, renewed for the 2013-2014 academic year, is renewable for the first five years of each recipient’s program. Since 1994, the KPMG Foundation has awarded over $15 million to 320 African-American, Hispanic-American, […]