Are you a baller? A gamer? If so, Therman Arrington wants to hear from you. Amidst his full-time gig at Southwest Airlines as a ramp agent, Arrington doesn’t mind receiving nearly 30 text messages a day or taking in roughly 50 phone calls. Why? Well, its tourney time. Arrington is a gamer at heart and […]
Archives for May 2008
Harford County People Love Nurturing Trees
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Maryland Forestry Board recently announced the winners of the 2007 PLANT – People Loving And Nurturing Trees – Awards. A dozen Harford County entities received PLANT awards this year, including local governments, schools, community organizations and even military installations. People Loving And Nurturing Trees (PLANT) is a statewide award program to […]
Making a Splash: Without Warning, Aberdeen Removes Diving Equipment From Swim Center
Memorial Day traditionally kicks off the beginning of swimming pool season, but in Aberdeen young swimmers are having a hard time making a splash. The diving boards that had been part of the swim center for years were inexplicably torn out in recent weeks. To make matters worse, this was to be the inaugural year […]
Student Voice: Baltimore City School Student Sees State Setting Youth Up For Failure
By Raven Moniqu’e Coleman (a Junior at Doris M. Johnson High School in Baltimore City) I bet the state is content with many of Baltimore City’s students having a bleak future. In 2000, Judge Joseph H. Kaplan ordered that the state issue adequate funding to the city after he deemed that students would need to […]
A Memorial To My Dad
May 2004, just a week before the WW II Memorial in Washington D.C. was to be dedicated, I took my Dad down to see it. At 85, he was a little unsure on his feet so I borrowed a wheelchair so I could push him around the Mall. My Dad was excited to be going […]
Maryland’s Unheeded Memorial Day Moment of Silence
Several years ago, after asking a group of school children touring our nation’s Capitol what Memorial Day meant to them and getting the response, “That’s the day the pools open,” a distraught Carmella LaSpada knew she needed to do something. She needed to start a mission. So LaSpada, founder of No Greater Love, an organization […]
Where There’s Water, There’s Life
Bob Pappalardo’s drive to work used to take about 20 minutes, and ran along the quiet, winding North Foothills Highway from Boulder, Colorado to the small town of Lyons and the sandstone buildings of the University of Colorado. It was a fine commute, except when it snowed. Today, Pappalardo, a senior research scientist at NASA’s […]
We know they love to tax the rich, how about the newly rich?
Are we sure this isn’t happening in Aberdeen, MD instead of Amelia, OH? From the Cincinnati Enquirer: AMELIA – Mayor Leroy Ellington said he doesn’t know who bought a lottery ticket worth up to $196 million last week at Main Street Wine & Spirits, but several residents have asked him whether this Clermont County village […]