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Family and parenting

    Baltimore natives make Christmas tree delivery a Pork ’N Pine treat
    Pork ‘N Pine is the business of Todd Coleman and Mike Santoro, two Baltimore natives who dress up as Santa Claus and deliver slow-cooked pulled pork sandwiches from HarborQue to neighbors within city limits.
    Every weekend from Thanksgiving to Christmas, Todd Coleman and Mike Santoro dress as Santa, strap Christmas Trees on their bikes, fill their backpacks with pulled pork sandwiches and deliver them to various neighborhoods.
    A guide to the best holiday light displays around Maryland
    Readers share their favorite festive holiday light locations around the state.
    A house is for sale on Baltimore's famous 34th Street, home to the Christmas lights tradition where the entire block is lit up. Longtime resident Patsy Dailey passed away and a memorial sits on her porch of the home which is now for sale.
    What losing my brother taught me about grief: Take the advice that works, leave the rest
    Advice on how to cope with grief is rampant during the holiday season. Do what’s best for you.
    Illustration of sad woman separated from others by dark fog
    How Maryland failed families and children with complex needs
    Caring for children with highly complex emotional and behavioral needs is a challenge that exists across the country. But in Maryland, the problem has worsened over the last decade — and many blame outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.
    Danielle Leclair is mom to Patience, a 14-year-old girl she adopted from Delaware. Patience has PTSD and other mood disorders likely as a result of fetal alcohol syndrome and childhood abuse and neglect. Leclair has sought help for Patience since adopting her in 2017 but has been failed by the state's child services system.
    What happens when a house on Baltimore’s “Miracle” 34th Street goes for sale?
    There’s no formal agreement when somebody moves onto the block that they have to decorate in the winter. It’s just something that people come together to do.
    A house is for sale on Baltimore's famous 34th Street, home to the Christmas lights tradition where the entire block is lit up. Longtime resident Patsy Dailey passed away and a memorial sits on her porch of the home which is now for sale.
    Commentary: The Great Migration re-created Baltimore as migrants’ traditions endured
    Individual stories and a Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition reflect how Black Americans who moved to places such as Baltimore during the Great Migration valued and held on to their Southern traditions and memories.
    Jack Delano, 1940, Library of Congress LC-USF34- 040841-D

Great Migration:
In the early 20th century, black southerners fled racial violence and sharecropping for steady work in northern cities like New York and Chicago. But these migrants still faced challenges once they arrived.
    Inside the ER: Staffers overwhelmed as struggling youths languish with no solutions in sight
    On any given day this past summer, about 50 children in Maryland found themselves in hospital emergency departments waiting weeks — or even months ― for a spot in a residential treatment center, psychiatric facility, or therapeutic foster home.
    A teenager peers out of the door of a locked unit for people with behavioral issues in the emergency department where he has been living for about a month. The unit has rooms stripped of all but a bed, a television and a chair.
    A Puerto Rican experience: An artist transforms her home in Baltimore into a museum
    Christina Delgado is “Nuyorican,” or a New York Puerto Rican, and recently opened in her first Baltimore home the Puerto Rican Home Museum, a mixed-media collective exhibit that celebrates Puerto Rican families and culture.
    Cristina Delgado stands for a portrait on 9/7/22 in front of a lit up Puerto Rican flag inside of the museum and cultural hub she curated inside her home.
    Some of our readers’ best pet Halloween costumes
    Banner readers shared their tricked-out Halloween pet get-ups, including superheros, witches and ... toast.
    Winston as Winifred Sanderson
    Baltimore trio stresses value of yoga, meditation in new book
    The trio launched their company Holistic Life Foundation in 2001 after meeting at College Park. Since then, they have taught the benefits of yoga and meditation to more than 50,000 people.
    Atman Smith, left, and his brother Ali Smith, two of the authors of Let Your Light Shine, stand in front of their Baltimore office. The book comes out Tuesday, October 18.
    WWII veteran believed to be oldest man in the country remembered as prominent shoe store owner, loving friend
    Ezra Edward Hill, Sr. a Baltimore native, died Oct. 4 at the age of 111 and is believed to be the oldest living World War II veteran in the country.
    Ezra Hill Sr., a Baltimore native, died at the age of 111 on Oct. 4. He was believed to be the oldest living World War II veteran at the time of his death.
    Young Baltimore parents feel immediate effects from guaranteed income
    Baltimore's experiment in universal basic income is two months in, and initial payments have meant newfound stability for at least some participants.
    Ariana Williams is a participant in Baltimore’s guranteed income pilot program, which pays 200 young parents $1,000 per month in no-strings-attached financial support.
    A safe space: Seniors discuss embracing LGBTQ+ loved ones
    About 60 residents of Catonsville’s Charlestown Senior Living community spent yesterday morning listening to a discussion about LGBTQ+ issues.
    UMBC professor Kate Drabinksi teaches a session on nonbinary people to residents at Charlestown Senior Living Community, in Catonsville, MD, Tuesday, October 11, 2022.
    Homecoming at Morgan State University, other HBCUs is a cultural phenomenon
    Homecoming at an HBCU represents an opportunity to see familiar faces and new ones and experience the promise of a safe space where Blackness is celebrated.
    Azikiwe Deveaux, 47, is founder of Events 4 Good People (E4GP), an event coordinator and event productions company.  This year, his event at Rye Street Tavern is expected to attract 1,000 people. In all, this weekend, he will throw five Morgan State homecoming related events. (Paul Newson for The Baltimore Banner)
    COVID exacerbated childhood trauma. Here’s what to look for — and how to help
    A Baltimore ACE (adverse childhood experiences) trainer, and a survivor or childhood trauma himself, explains why — and how to help.
    Ulysses Archie, Jr. seen here in his Irvington yard surrounded by his chickens, is a survivor of childhood trauma and a trainer in recognizing such trauma in communities.
    NASA makes deep impact on Baltimore brothers as lab invites them to crash party
    Baltimore brothers follow their out-of-this-world dreams from a cardboard spaceship to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
    From left: Sade Newson, 32, Noah Newson, 6, Leland Melvin, 58, Aden Newson, 3, pose for a quick photo after opening remarks at the DART Impact Event held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, in Laurel, MD. Noah, an aspiring scientist, is shy meeting Leland Melvin the engineer, and retired NASA astronaut.
    Opinion: Inadequate housing for foster children is only part of the problem
    We should be horrified not simply by where children are being housed, but also because they are being unnecessarily removed from their families in the first place.
    The Baltimore City department of Social Services building.
    As books are banned around the country, I will make sure my son learns Black history
    To paraphrase George Santayana, those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. I refuse.
    Photo of a child with the Alex Haley statue in Annapolis.
    Big ships and mermaids: Fleet Week in pictures
    Baltimore’s Fleet Week is a part of a U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard tradition that brings recently-deployed active military ships to several major cities for one week.
    Baltimore’s Fleet Week is a part of a United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard tradition in where active military ships recently deployed in overseas operations dock in several major cities for one week.
    Rosie the Bunny’s journey home: Strangers team up to bring lost lovey back to Baltimore County girl
    A 5-year-old's heartbreak at losing her stuffed bunny on a family trip prompts strangers to spring into action.
    Grace Moon, 5, with her beloved stuffed bunny, Rosie.
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