A new riff from Hard Rock
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Little is permanent here, but much is reused.
That point will be made - with a loud ka-raaaang - this month with the launching of Hard Rock Park. The Southeast’s first new amusement park in nine years opened Tuesday on the long-dormant Fantasy Harbor entertainment complex and partly on the rubble of [...]
Business Notes
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Humane Society to hold benefitThe Humane Society of Harford County will hold its fourth annual charity benefit, the Bow Wow Boogie, from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday at the Richlin Ballroom, 1700 Van Bibber Road, Edgewood.
The Bow Wow Boogie is a bull and oyster roast with open buffet featuring oysters shucked while you wait [...]
A curtain falls at N. Harford
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A stagehand could not get a rusty spotlight to focus. One actor forgot where he was to exit and another lost his prop.
The few last-minute glitches that beset the production of Our Town at North Harford Middle School last week did not dismay the seasoned directors who have guided eighth-grade students for the past 30 [...]
As Pa. primary heats up more in the media invest in race
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Despite concerns that downsizing has left the news media diminished in their ability to report big stories, news outlets have rarely been more ambitious than they are today covering one of the biggest in decades — the race for the White House.
Much has been written this year about 24/7 cable news channels and their wall-to-wall [...]
Lurking in soap opera hints for good health
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MARION, Ala. - The doctors had been after Loretta Ragland for years to keep her diabetes in check. Eat right. Exercise. Lose weight. She had heard it all time and again.
And ignored it all - until she heard about Rosalyn.
Roz put off dealing with her diabetes so long, her kidneys gave out. While she was [...]
Civic Agenda
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TomorrowSocial Services Executive Board // will meet at 4 p.m. at the Department of Social Services, 7121 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia.
Board of Appeals // The hearing examiner will hear cases BA 631-D (Old Home Rock, LLC %26amp; Nostalgia Rock, LLC) at 2 p.m.; BA 06-015C (Pentecostal Church of God Int’l Movement for Spanish) at 5 [...]
Letters to the Editor
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LettersSports project misses the markIn the Harford section of this Sunday’s Sun was an article concerning the stadium project under way at Harford Technical High School in Harford County.
Work has started on a $3.5 million project to build a stadium with a turf field, install a baseball field and two practice fields and convert a [...]
Renovated library a real treasure
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I was stunned to see the restored and renovated Roland Park branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library treated as the poster child for “inferior architecture” in Rene Muller’s column “Inferior architecture for culture in decline” (Commentary, April 14).As someone who frequented that library as a child in the early 1950s, I am absolutely in [...]
St. Pierre beats Serra in secondround TKO
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MONTREAL - Georges St. Pierre reclaimed his welterweight title Saturday night, dominating Matt Serra in a second-round TKO before a hometown crowd at UFC 83.
The 26-year-old St. Pierre was greeted by a deafening roar from the crowd of 21,390 at Bell Centre, filled with Canadian flags, fervour and more than a little testosterone. He wore [...]
Its Democrat vs. Democrat in latest slots fight
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And so it begins, the 2008 version of preparing to elect a Republican governor in a liberal, Democratic state.The dispute this time? Comptroller Peter Franchot takes up the anti-slots cudgels against Gov. Martin O’Malley. The public struggle could weaken the Democrats and embolden Republicans, who historically have fared best in Maryland when the Democrats are [...]
