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    How a 73-year-old rec center became South Baltimore’s latest environmental battle line
    The city is planning to replace Curtis Bay’s current recreational center with a new facility, raising concerns among some residents.
    Photo collage showing two Curtis Bay residents with crossed arms speaking at community meeting, section of design for new recreation center, and coal silos towering above piles of coal.
    Reimagining of Middle Branch seeks to connect communities — but at what cost?
    Reimagine Middle Branch, an outgrowth of the city’s 2015 South Baltimore Gateway Master Plan, is a $175 million effort to redevelop 19 neighborhoods along one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most neglected shorelines, the 11-mile Middle Branch of the Patapsco River.
    Brad Rogers and Rev. Richard Partlow, the interim executive director of the Cherry Hill Development Corp., on their way to a meeting at the Cherry Hill Strong offices in the nearby town center building on June 15, 2023.
    Photos: Pigtown celebrates its history with Squeakness races
    Pigtown’s name dates to the late 1800s, when pigs were herded through the streets on the way to the slaughterhouse.
    A group of pigs race during the Pigtown Festival in Baltimore, MD on September 30, 2023.
    Photos: Brooklyn neighbors gather for healing
    Community volunteers gathered to create flower beds and plant flowers and two memorial trees for the victims of the July 2 Brooklyn Homes mass shooting.
    Tameka Lynbrith, mother of Kylis Fagbemi, who was killed in the Brooklyn Homes shooting in July, digs the hole for her son's memorial tree at the Brooklyn Healing Day event on Saturday
    Baltimore’s best coffee shops offer more than a good morning cup of Joe
    Independent coffee shops with with their own flavor and flair offer people something beyond the big chains.
    Zeke’s Coffee on Harford Road, Baltimore’s renowned family-owned coffee shop, always stands out with its commitment to small-batch brewing.
    Off-duty Howard County deputy fatally shot in Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood; arrest made
    A bargoer as well as an official briefed on the investigation said the incident started with an altercation inside of Wayward Bar & Kitchen, and that the participants were thrown out.
    Howard County sheriff’s deputy Ryan Demby.
    Domino Sugar plant, survivor of Baltimore’s industrial past, doubles down on local production
    Plant spokesman Peter O’Malley said the new silos, which each can store 3.5 million pounds of refined sugar, have quadrupled the plant’s total capacity.
    The Domino Sugar plant has four new silos that have increased the capacity of refined sugar the plant is able to store.
    Little Amal brings joy, hopeful message during stop in Baltimore
    The puppet brings people together through cultural celebrations in neighborhoods where refugees have built communities.
    Little Amal, a twelve-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, visits City Hall to meet Mayor Brandon Scott and the children of Baltimore on September 15, 2023.
    Pivotal footage of the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting may have been blocked by a tree
    Days after the shooting, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City cut the tree down, but the camera now faces a different direction.
    Footage from a Baltimore Police CitiWatch camera shows that a 45-foot elm tree obstructed the camera's view of the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting. This screenshot was taken from footage recorded the day before the block party. It was obtained by The Banner through a public records request. (CitiWatch footage from the Baltimore Police Department)
    Views of Brooklyn Homes courtyard from CitiWatch Cameras
    These photos show the different viewpoints BPD's CitiWatch cameras had into the main courtyard of Brooklyn Homes, where the mass shooting occurred.
    Footage from a Baltimore Police CitiWatch camera shows that a 45-foot Elm tree obstructed the camera's view of the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting. This screenshot was taken from footage recorded the day before the mass shooting. It was obtained by The Banner through a public records request. (CitiWatch footage from the Baltimore Police Department)
    Pierogi and patriots at Baltimore’s Ukrainian Festival
    Vendors in stalls on Montford sold blintzes, jewelry, trinkets and shots of a honey liqueur called medivka. Cooks served stuffed cabbage, pierogis, potato pancakes and borscht. Although the overtone was quaint and festive, thoughts of the war in Ukraine were present.
    Anna Barron performs the national anthems of the U.S. and Ukraine at the Baltimore Ukrainian Festival.
    BPD defends cleanup of Brooklyn Homes crime scene. Experts think it was flawed.
    The Baltimore Police Department defended its cleanup of the Brooklyn Homes crime scene. Experts have said it was flawed.
    A cleaning crew member rakes garbage at the crime scene on Elarton Court in Brooklyn following a shooting on Sunday, July 2, 2023.
    Baltimore Police supervisors failed to act on warnings before Brooklyn mass shooting, report finds
    A 100-page report by the Baltimore Police Department on its response reveals an agency disconnected from the community it serves.
    Bullet casings are marked off near Glade Court in Brooklyn following a shooting early Sunday morning, July 2.
    Harris Teeter in Locust Point still closed after infestation
    A Harris Teeter employee said that while the pest issue had been addressed, the grocery store was undergoing a deep cleaning and other maintenance that caused it to remain closed five days after its initial shuttering.
    Harris Teeter at Locust Point in Baltimore, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
    What happens when a day care center abruptly closes? Some Baltimore parents found out.
    The emergency suspension at Baltimore Montessori may be a harbinger of a growing crisis in the child care industry that often struggles to pay the bills and doesn’t have enough willing and qualified workers.
    The Baltimore Montessori school in South Baltimore pictured on August 10, 2023. (Meredith Cohn/The Baltimore Banner)
    Telling the story of Baltimore’s water infrastructure system through … water ballet?
    Fluid Movement, the aquatic-based performing arts group, used sinkholes, the Stool Fairy, Mr. Bottle, Mr. Trash Wheel and more in their performance explaining how the water in our city works.
    Anne Beck, 33, performs a platform lift in the "Sad and Lonely Tale of Mr. Bottle" scene..
    Brooklyn Homes mass shooting victim faces charges in separate gunfire incident
    Investigators have filed multiple gun-related charges against 18-year-old Aaron Brown, who is accused of trying to shoot another person in Northeast Baltimore on May 19.
    A Baltimore Police detective’s handcuffs are secured on his belt as he observes the crowd in between innings during a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics held at Camden Yards on Wednesday, April 12. The Orioles beat the Athletics, 8-7, to win the series.
    Harm City: On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay, academics and activists see a hidden part of Baltimore
    Curtis Bay may be Baltimore’s most polluted community, surrounded by industrial facilities strangling the rowhouse neighborhood. The city wants to close a local recreation center to make way for even more industry, continuing what activists say have been decades of environmental racism.
    Shashawnda Campbell poses for a portrait behind Curtis Bay Recreation Center, in Baltimore.
    Charges dropped for women arrested protesting BGE external regulators in Federal Hill
    Bates said the charges against the three women would have been dropped after they completed five hours of community service through Baltimore’s citation docket program. They spent "approximately 19 hours" in Central Booking, he said.
    Claudia Towles, just left of center, is arrested by a Baltimore Police officer during a protest on Warren Avenue next to Federal Hill on Thursday, June 22.
    Why did police call for cleaners before processing mass shooting scene?
    Baltimore Police said they allowed the cleaning of "debris" before they finished processing the scene of the city's largest mass shooting in recent memory. Experts say valuable DNA evidence could have been lost in the process.
    9:01 a.m.: A cleaning crew member rakes garbage at the crime scene on Elarton Court in Brooklyn after the mass shooting July 2.
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