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    The oldest snowball stand in the U.S. got a makeover. Not everyone was happy.
    Out with the crushed ice and Koldkiss, in with the shaved ice and French syrups: The Peggy at Walther Gardens, the oldest snowball stand in the country, looks to redefine the sweet treat.
    The Peggy snowball stand carries all the classics, including egg custard with marshmallow topping.
    Maryland pickleball equipment serves legal volley at sport’s governing body over paddle ban
    Sport Squad, Inc., which does business as JOOLA, is seeking $100 million in damages. JOOLA, based in Rockville, is also seeking an injunction requiring the USA Pickleball Association to approve the nine pickleball paddles it rejected and make them eligible for use in competition.
    A Maryland-based pickleball equipment maker is suing USA Pickleball, seeking to force the governing body to approve its paddles for use in competition in the fast-growing sport.
    Strangers making small talk bonded over connection to overdose victim
    One of the last people to see Devon Wellington alive, before he overdosed in 2021, has developed a relationship with the man’s mother. She taught him how to use Narcan, and they recently attended a street renaming event together.
    Donna Bruce waves her praise flags through the newly renamed street, Devon Wellington’s Way after the ceremonial street signing, in Baltimore, June 5, 2024.
    Baltimore’s once-thriving Polish community takes another hit in Catholic Church reorganization
    Baltimore's Holy Rosary Catholic Church was long a beacon for Polish families. Its parish will soon merge with a Latino one.
    Holy Rosary church hosts the Polish festival every fall.
    Maryland-based pickleball paddle maker facing proposed class-action lawsuit
    The case was filed June 6 in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gregory Matus, a Fort Lauderdale resident, said Sport Squad, Inc., which does business as JOOLA, marketed and sold pickleball paddles as if USA Pickleball had approved them.
    Pickleball has grown popular in the past few years, and is one of the fastest growing sports in the US.
    Summer heat has arrived. Here are the hours and rules for Baltimore’s pools.
    There are rules and procedures, including setting up an account with Recreation and Parks, you need to keep in mind before heading out.
    Roosevelt Park Pool and most of the other city pools are opening, some with extended hours, after a lifeguard shortage caused closures over the last few years since the pandemic. Pool goers don't need to worry about that this year!
    Moore pushes cleaner home and water heating options to combat climate change
    An executive order from the governor requires new standards for using low-emission electric options for new and replacement heating equipment in homes, such as furnaces and water heaters.
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks with students on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School in East Baltimore. He visited the school to sign an executive order on climate change.
    ACLU says a Howard County school is trying to silence students over Israel-Hamas war
    The letter, which focuses on River Hill High School, said Principal Robert Motley and Assistant Principal Allison Volinsky are violating district policy and the First Amendment rights of the students.
    The exterior of River Hill High School in Howard County on Feb. 7, 2024.
    4 suspended, 1 injured after brawl at BWI; fight caught on video
    Four employees of a Spirit Airlines vendor have been suspended after they fought with a fifth person at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
    A fight between vendors working for a Spirit Airlines and a fifth person at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport was caught on video. The four contractors working for the vendor have been suspended.
    A man accused his ex of a campaign of online attacks. The FBI says he was the stalker.
    The FBI affidavit unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Maryland lays out a series of allegations of stalking, using spoofed phone numbers and text messages aimed at the targeted woman.
    Richard Michael Roe is charged with cyberstalking and is currently free on $100,000 bond. He pleaded not guilty at an initial appearance.
    They bonded over the Grateful Dead. Now friends of a slain trans woman honor her at a festival
    The festival — they are calling it MegFest — was supposed to pair up with the day of the trial of the man who fatally shot her. It is supposed to bring closure to a community that is still piecing together what happened that night in December.
    Meghan Lewis' life is honored with a candle lit memorial in Bel Air, MD on Jan 2, 2024.
    City Council candidates keep narrow leads after additional batch of mail ballots
    About 25,000 outstanding votes were expected to help decide at least three closely contested City Council races that have not yet declared winners.
    Baltimore City Hall
    Mark Parker declares victory in Baltimore’s 1st District City Council race
    The pastor at Breath of God Lutheran Church and a familiar face in Highlandtown would take over the seat of Zeke Cohen, who endorsed Parker earlier this year and declared victory in his bid for City Council president.
    Mark Parker, Joseph Koehler and Liam Davis are running for Baltimore City Council in District 1.
    Jones hopes union support will overcome Stokes’ deep roots in 12th District
    The East Baltimore district has been reshaped, adding Little Italy and Harbor East to neighborhoods including Greenmount West, Oldtown and Remington.
    Councilman Robert Stokes gives brief remarks about his optimism in the community cleaning program called Clean Core, on E 20th and Kennedy St., in East Baltimore on February 6, 2023.
    They shared a name — but not a future. How 2 kids fought to escape poverty in Baltimore.
    Two kids named Antonio grew up together in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence. But only one would make it out alive.
    Antonio Lee’s mother is comforted while mourning her son at a vigil, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, in Baltimore. Lee, 19, was shot and killed while squeegeeing in Baltimore. Lee and childhood friend Antonio Moore grew up together in the streets of east Baltimore, surrounded by poverty and gun violence. But only one would make it out alive. Moore is a successful real estate investor and marketing consultant. Lee was shot and killed last summer, four months before his 20th birthday.
    Volunteers don’t take the Kinetic Sculpture Race seriously. They’re not supposed to.
    An annual festival dating to 1999, the spring Baltimore event invites racers — or, as they are called, pilots — to show off their human-powered sculptures in a 15-mile course.
    Scenes from the Kinetic Sculpture race on May 6, 2023.
    Vegan crab cakes are coming to East Baltimore as Land of Kush expands
    After years of delays, vegan favorite The Land of Kush is close to opening a second location near Johns Hopkins hospital.
    The soy-based "crab cakes" from Land of Kush were named one of the nation's best vegan seafood dishes by PETA.
    She was on Broadway. Now she’s following her ice cream dreams in Belair-Edison.
    Sydney Newton, a former Broadway actress, has found success in Baltimore with the opening of Sydney’s Ice Cream in Belair-Edison.
    Sydney Newton, owner of Sydney’s Ice Creams, poses for a portrait behind the counter of her shop.
    Baltimore Catholics reeling after archdiocese proposes closing 40 of 61 parishes
    Baltimore Catholics, reeling from the archdiocese's proposal to close 40 churches, spent Monday mourning and preparing to battle to keep their beloved parishes open.
    St. Vincent de Paul Church is one of dozens of Catholic churches at risk of closure as the Archdiocese of Baltimore moves forward with a consolidation plan.
    City moves forward with efforts to make immigrant affairs office permanent
    The decade-old Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs was created more than 10 years ago as a division of the mayor’s office that could be cut at any time. Under a bill being considered by the City Council, it would be added to the city code as a permanent office.
    Catalina Rodriguez Lima poses for a portrait in the City Hall rotunda with her left hand on the rail.
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