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Zoo teams up with state to promote college savings plans
May 29 has been dubbed 529 College Savings Day -- get it 5/29 and 529, as in the part of the tax code that allows the savings plan? -- and the College Savings Plans of Maryland (CSPM) is teaming up with the Maryland Zoo to promote awareness of the plans. ...
Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Tuition Planning Services
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A 'Passport' to the world of Druid Hill Park
A Roland Park resident has created a "passport" to Druid Hill Park. Janet Felsten, founder and director of the nonprofit group Baltimore Green Map, introduced the green-colored passport April 19 at a Baltimore Green Week kickoff party in the...
Tags: Human Interest, LinkedIn Corp., Kickstarter, Tourism and Leisure, Politics
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Camel rides return to Maryland Zoo
Two Arabian camels who spend their summers in Baltimore are taking on passengers for short daytime trips past their penguin and elephant neighbors at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore for the next few months. The one-humped animals, also known as...
Tags: Labor Day
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Billboard companies object to proposed city tax
Area billboard companies are speaking out against a proposed tax introduced this week by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. In a hearing before the City Council's taxation committee Thursday, the global billboard firm Clear Channel Outdoor offered to give...
Tags: Television Industry, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, Mary Pat Clarke
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Samson the elephant improves, is taken off meds
The young male elephant that fell ill with a deadly virus at the Maryland Zoo has been taken off medication and is expected to make a full recovery, zoo officials said Wednesday. "We know from other elephant experts that he will have up and down days, as...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Young elephant continues to recover from deadly virus at Maryland Zoo
Samson, the young male elephant who was diagnosed with a deadly virus at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore late last month, has continued to recover in recent days and has "turned a very positive corner" in his treatment, according to zoo officials. "His...
Tags: Druid Hill, Viral Diseases and Infections, Symptoms, Zoology
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Severna Park Marine dies in Nevada military training accident
He was the teenager who wasn't embarrassed to hug his mom at Severna Park High School while other students looked on, who pitched on the Falcons' 2009 state championship baseball team, and who matured into a Marine with a swallow tattoo on his right arm....
Tags: U.S. Army, University of Maryland, College Park, Air and Space Accidents, United States Naval Academy, Duke Blue Devils
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Zoo bears responsibility for elephant's illness
The Maryland Zoo's 4-year-old elephant Samson's serious illness with herpes is one example of how zoo breeding programs put elephants at risk ("Young elephant recovering from virus," March 14). This frightening disease causes massive internal...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Symptoms
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Young Maryland Zoo elephant Samson recovering from deadly virus
A deadly virus has stricken Samson, the only elephant born at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore in its 137-year history, but zoologists are hopeful that he will recover because the strain is thought to be less serious in his species. Samson also has...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Druid Hill, Physiology, Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses
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Museums, cultural institutions taking a snow day
Schools and government offices aren't the only things closing down in anticipation of today's snowstorm. Here is a partial list, continually being updated, of cultural and commercial institutions shutting down for the day. The American Visionary Art...
Tags: Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Enoch Pratt Free Library, U.S. Coast Guard, USS Constellation, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Erin Fitzgerald to wed Stephen Dombroskie
The engagement of Erin Fitzgerald and Stephen Dombroskie has been announced. Fitzgerald is the daughter of Kevin and Michelle Fitzgerald of Edgewood. She is a 2002 graduate of Edgewood High School and a 2011 graduate of Harford Community College, where...Tags: Edgewood, Gramercy, Harford Community College
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