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With opening of Mill No. 1, the Jones Falls Valley's makeover is nearly complete
Standing amid his $44 million refurbished textile mill, now nearing completion, developer and one-time mayoral candidate David Tufaro observed a bird wading in the Jones Falls nearby. "That's our great blue heron," Tufaro said. Water birds fly up...
Tags: Human Interest, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Whitehall, Hampden, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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With a morning boom, BGE's landmark gas holder became a local memory
As the clock ticked down Sunday, the morning clouds disappeared, as if they were in on the months-long planning that went into the destruction of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s final natural-gas holding silo. Then, as if someone were turning on...
Tags: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Physiology, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Roland Park, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
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BGE prepares for gas tower implosion
For about eight decades, the 258-foot Melvale Gas Holder has towered above northern Baltimore. In seven seconds Sunday morning, the storage tank will be brought to the ground. BGE plans to implode the steel structure, which hasn't been used since 1997....
Tags: Physiology, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Jones Falls Expressway
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Unlocking the mysteries of the Jones Falls Valley
A few years ago I raised my hand at an auction and bought a box of 19th-century sepia-toned landscape photographs. After hours of looking at them, I detected that they had been taken not far away, in the heart of the Jones Falls Valley in Baltimore City,...
Tags: Whitehall, Roland Park, Mount Vernon, Clipper Mill, Highway Transportation
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Going, going: Last of city's giant gas holders coming down
The giant gray cylinder has loomed over the North Baltimore landscape for decades, providing heating gas for city homes and a familiar landmark for drivers on the Jones Falls Expressway. Soon it will disappear from the skyline, and with it will go an...
Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Business, Maryland Stadium Authority, Arts and Culture, Memorial Stadium
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Overnight JFX closures to continue
The city Department of Transportation has revised this week's overnight closures of the Jones Falls Expressway at 29th Street as crews replace collapsed drainage pipes and repair erosion that threatened to undermine the road. During the closures, traffic...Tags: Jones Falls Expressway
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Jones Falls Expressway fully open; repairs completed early
After more than a month of congestion on the Jones Falls Expressway, officials announced Saturday that emergency repair work on Baltimore's busiest road was finished ahead of schedule and all lanes were open in time for the unofficial start of summer....Tags: Traffic, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Jones Falls Expressway, Science and Technology, College Baseball
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Source of Baltimore Harbor woes remains unclear
The source of the sewer smell many noticed in Baltimore harbor this week remains a mystery, as city officials say an extensive search has found no evidence of a sewage spill or overflow, despite high bacteria levels in water samples taken by an...
Tags: Harbor, Inner Harbor
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Hampden ATF sting latest in series of ruse operations
The suspects had gathered under the Jones Falls Expressway in Hampden around lunchtime with the intention of committing a robbery, authorities said. But as federal agents closed in, one suspect attempted to run down an officer and was shot as a quick-...
Tags: Brian Barnes, Hampden, Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure, Jones Falls Expressway
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Tropical Storm Agnes flooded Maryland 40 years ago
Forty years later, records from Tropical Storm Agnes still stand. But the records barely tell the story. As measured at BWI Marshall Airport, June 1972 saw a record 9.95 inches of rain. June 21 and 22, meteorologists measured 2.19 inches of rain and 3.84...
Tags: Catonsville, Disasters and Accidents, Weather Reports, Ellicott City, William Donald Schaefer
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City building bike trail to connect Penn Station and Inner Harbor
About 16 months from now, bicyclists will be able to ride from the Inner Harbor to Pennsylvania Station on a smooth path all their own.
Little by little, crews working in the shadow of the Jones Falls Expressway are inching their way north, building a...Tags: Commuting, Druid Hill, Travel, B-cycle, LLC, Inner Harbor
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City police officer shoots, kills man in Reservoir Hill
A Baltimore police officer investigating a domestic disturbance on Saturday morning in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood shot and killed a man armed with a knife, according to authorities. A police spokesman identified the man who was killed as George...Tags: Shootings, Injuries and Wounds, Health, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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