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Tour shows significant historic sites
Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky.Parrish Pennington remembers as a child carrying a chair four blocks from her school on State Street to what would become High Street School. "Everybody had to pack them like this," said Pennington, picking up a chair and holding it front of her to...Tags: Interior Policy, Social Issues, Travel, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Human Rights
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Percy Nicholson, owned dry cleaners
Percy Nicholson, a retired co-owner of two West Baltimore cleaning establishments where he cared for the clothing of African-American performers who played the fabled Royal Theatre, died Monday of heart failure at Manor Care Falls Road.
The Ashburton...Tags: Billie Holiday, Heart Failure, Manor Care Incorporated, Frank Robinson, John Mackey
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Lights, cameras, dolphins for local teen in MPT production
Fourteen-year-old Caitlyn Fernandes of Dayton has dreams of one day being an actress, but when she landed a role in a television special that will air this week on Maryland Public Television, it wasn't the bright lights that attracted her attention. It...
Tags: Baltimore School for the Arts, National Aquarium Baltimore, Teaching and Learning, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Students
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KY3 Archives: Black History Month-George Washington Carver
DIAMOND, Mo. -- Southwest Missouri is home to a giant of American history, George Washington Carver. February's designation as "Black History Month" provides an ideal time to recognize the profound and permanent mark made by Carver on American life....
Tags: African-American History Month, Black History
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Speaker for Ellicott City MLK Day event taps her own learning experience
The Rev. Gertie T. Williams feels very much at home when she volunteers at the restored Ellicott City Colored School on Frederick Road. The Howard County native's ease in her surroundings is for good reason: From grades one through seven, she attended a...
Tags: Human Interest, Teaching and Learning, Students, Education, Patapsco
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Youman Fullard Sr., Yellow Bowl Restaurant owner
Youman Fullard Sr., who fulfilled a lifelong dream when he and his wife took over ownership of the Yellow Bowl Restaurant and turned it into one of the city's most sought-after soul food destinations, died Sunday of complications from Alzheimer's...
Tags: LL Cool J, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Northwest Hospital, Family, Soul Foods
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Scientist filled the 'empty dinner pail'
George Washington Carver was a scientist who did more to raise the peanut's public profile than any other figure in American life, with the possible exception of former farmer-turned-president Jimmy Carter and Planters' Mr. Peanut.
Carver's work with...Tags: Peanuts, Justice and Rights, Jimmy Carter, Bill Daley, Potatoes
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Carver School officially dedicated in Towson
The George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology showed off its sophisticated building, stellar amenities and talented students during its official dedication Tuesday. The $88 million green building opened this school year in Towson for...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Culture, Ceremonies, Students
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Stoneleigh celebrates start of $18.8 million addition
A year of advocacy was punctuated with celebration Wednesday morning, June 6, as construction of a 200-seat addition to Stoneleigh Elementary School began with a ceremonial groundbreaking. "Less than a year ago, we were saying, 'What are we going to do?'...Tags: Joe A. Hairston, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Kevin Kamenetz, Students
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Superintendent to be guest of Newsmaker Forum at Carver, Sept. 13
Baltimore County Public Schools' Superintendent S. Dallas Dance will be the featured guest of a Newsmaker Forum sponsored by the Baltimore Sun on Thursday, Sept. 13, beginning at 7 p.m. at the new George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology,...Tags: Baltimore County, Schools, Public Schools, S. Dallas Dance
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Stoneleigh Elementary families get first look at life on the road
The parking lot was overflowing and the halls were bustling, yet there was still room. Lots of it. In the halls and classrooms of the former George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, on York Road, in Towson, there was room to move and...Tags: Lobbying, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Students, Music
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A challenging day for new school superintendent
Dallas Dance knew a little of what the Perry Hall High School students were going through Monday after a student was critically wounded in the cafeteria by another student.
His senior year at Armstrong High School in Richmond, Va., a 14-year-old...Tags: Lobbying, Baltimore County, Injuries and Wounds, Teaching and Learning, Students
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