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Maryland Zoo mourns death of snowy owl
Sophie, the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore's resident snowy owl, died Saturday during surgery, zoo officials announced Thursday.
In death, Sophie, 4, joins her companion at the zoo, a 13-year-old male snowy owl named Wesley, who died in November.
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Presidents Day schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday: Government offices Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard and Frederick counties, and in Baltimore City and Annapolis. Courts Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Howard County, Museums, Arts
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Attractions opening late, some events canceled
The Baltimore SunThe wintry mix that continues to fall around Baltimore has caused cancellations and delays in some planned Saturday activities. -Baltimore's finance department has cancelled a budget workshop scheduled by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake at the Cylburn...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Weather
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday: Government offices Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard and Frederick counties, and in Baltimore City and Annapolis. Courts Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Howard County, Museums, Arts
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Maryland Zoo leopard predicts spring is on the way
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Thursday, a sure sign that winter will continue for six more weeks.
Amari, the Maryland Zoo's spotted leopard, disagreed.
And the law of the jungle says leopard trumps groundhog every time.
For the second year in a row,...Tags: Punxsutawney Phil (groundhog), Meatballs
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State, localities prepared for first storm of year
The Baltimore Sun
As state and local highway crews braced for the first storm of the new year, they took comfort in the fact that their budgets have plenty of money to handle it — and more.
Mild weather has kept the region's plows idle, salt sheds...Tags: Franklin Square Medical Center, Harford County, Weather Reports, Hospitals and Clinics, Tropical Storm Lee (2011)
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Millionaire's mansion now shelters homeless
The Mount Vernon house spent decades as one of several 19th-century millionaires' mansions. But in the last 25 years, the Patrick Allison House has found another mission.
Once a church office, it is now a sanctuary for the homeless where a neighboring...Tags: Religion and Belief, Mount Vernon, Roland Park, Substance Abuse, Prisons
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Christmas schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday, Dec. 26: County offices Government offices, courts and libraries: Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford and Howard counties. (Offices in Howard closed Dec. 26-Jan. 2). Parking meters...Tags: National Aquarium Baltimore, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Howard County, Museums
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Retired lab chimps deserve better
The recommendations from the Institute of Medicine to largely end chimpanzee research are a huge step forward ("End chimp research, panel urges," Dec. 16). However, these recommendations do not have any teeth as they are not enforceable. It is necessary... -
Earthquake in Virginia rattles Baltimore and the East Coast
A frightening earthquake jolted Baltimore and much of the East Coast on Tuesday, shaking buildings and rattling nerves. Thousands of people streamed from offices and homes into the afternoon sunshine, stunned by a phenomenon more commonly associated...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Harford County, Air and Space Accidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baltimore County
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SARC to hold second annual Balloon Festival
Hot air balloons will be the center of a two-day festival over Labor Day Weekend in Bel Air. The second Annual Rising Above It Balloon Festival is a fundraiser for SARC, a Harford County nonprofit that provides hope and resources to victims of domestic...Tags: Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Harford County, Lifestyle and Leisure, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior
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Volunteers try to restore Maryland's vanishing butterfly
Don't look now, but Maryland's state insect is fluttering away.
The Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly, named for the state's founding Calvert family, has dwindled to just a handful of places, mostly in Western Maryland. Experts worry that the butterfly,...Tags: Ecosystems, Harford County, Conservation, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Garrett County
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