The Dagger doesn’t have regular sports coverage, but we know some of you want it. And since all baseball games are basically the same, we randomly chose one game to attend. The choice: an epic Thursday battle between the Aberdeen IronBirds and the Hudson Valley Renegades. The two low-rung minor-league teams played nine innings and […]
Two Years Later: Wetlands Annexation And Its Color-Coordinated Opposition Return To Aberdeen
Nearly two years to the day since the original annexation was defeated in a special citywide election, the Wetlands annexation proposal (revamped and renamed Glengarry) will return to Aberdeen City Hall Monday night during a 7 p.m. city council meeting. Forget visions of sugar plums, whenever ‘annexations’ and ‘Aberdeen’ are mentioned in the same breath […]
Director of Operations Robbed and Kidnapped At Ripken Stadium In Aberdeen Thursday Morning
Police investigate reported kidnapping and robbery (Aberdeen, Maryland) August 28, 2008 – At about 02:25 hrs the Baltimore County Police received a call of an injured subject in the area of Ebenezer Road and Pulaski Highway. Arriving officers found 30 year old Brian Baynes suffering from a serious arm injury. Baynes is an employee for […]
Into the Home of the Evil Empire: Don’t You Hate That You Have To Love Yankee Stadium?
Yankee Stadium is among the oldest of ballparks, pre-dated only by Chicago’s Wrigley Field (1914) and Boston’s Fenway Park (1912), and it’s going down after this season. My husband Neil and I decided to take an impromptu day trip there. Every baseball fan should. And like Ol’ Blue Eyes advises: we did it our way. […]