Family and parenting

A gift guide to experiences around Baltimore for the holiday season.

How the 19 of them got there started with the family learning of Peggy’s cancer diagnosis. Distance and time had kept them from being ingrained in each other’s lives as they once were, but when Peggy needed her family, it was like no time had passed.

The Baltimore and Chesapeake chapter of Blue Star Families continues to address needs of the region’s military, veterans and their families despite challenging times for nonprofits, Yolanda T. Rayford, the chapter’s director says.

Halloween is a day to celebrate what scares you. Dress it up, give it some candy and hope it leaves you alone for the rest of the year in return. Here’s my list of personal frights.

Maryland must uphold recently enacted legal protections for children who are subject to interrogation by police, say Jessica Feierman, an attorney and senior managing director at the Juvenile Law Center, and Emily Virgin, an attorney and director of advocacy and government affairs at Human Rights for Kids.

While court-ordered child support can address financial needs, it carries considerations that can complicate the lives of parents and children, writer and single parent Alanah Nichole Davis says.

The summers he and his cousins spent duckpin bowling at Southway lanes were the best, Mel Tansill says.

For the Jewish community, the Hamas attack on Israel felt like the history of atrocities against Jewish people repeating itself, Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

The attacks on Israel have left many in Baltimore's Jewish community fearing for the safety of loved ones and friends living there, Marc Terrill, president of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, says.

Baltimoreans came together on Saturday for the Great Halloween Lantern Parade and Festival in Patterson Park.

Baltimore community leaders on Saturday rallied against gun violence in the city.

Any effort to use political arguments to rationalize the indiscriminate slaughter of Israelis must be rejected, says Rona Kobell, a Baltimore journalist and former reporter at The Jerusalem Post.

Meghan Marsh has been the executive director since September at Disability Rights Maryland.

Many Maryland families can’t afford a multiyear rate increase proposed by Baltimore Gas and Electric, Marceline White, executive director of Economic Action Maryland, says.

Members of the Venetoulis family passed love and admiration for Brooks Robinson down through generations, and Lynn Venetoulis knew she had to name a loved one after him.

Federal student loan payments are due to resume Oct. 1, and an additional burden confronts some borrowers, including some Marylanders, because of inequities in student loan programs, says Ian Williams, a consumer protection paralegal at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service.

Fall is here, but we don’t have to let go of what we love about summer quite yet, filmmaker and writer Charles Cohen says.

A community wealth fund would provide a financial lifeline for Baltimore’s working poor, says a union leader for this region’s service workers.

High schoolers in Howard County will get a bit less sleep after Sept. 20.

Improved public health policies and individual actions by loved ones can help prevent suicides, Anthony Woods, Maryland’s secretary of veterans affairs, says.