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Former Howard County farm envisioned for children's garden
Former farmland near the heart of Columbia would become a children's garden and "early childhood education nature center" if a citizens group is successful in persuading Howard County officials to carry out the project. The land is part of a 300-acre...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Martin O'Malley, Facebook, Chesapeake Bay
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Columbia's nature center is a front door to suburban landscape
Where do bats live? What do spiders eat? How old is the forest?
The answers to those and many other questions can be found at the James and Anne Robinson Nature Center, a $17.6 million educational facility that opened this month in Columbia.
With two...Tags: Everglades, Chesapeake Bay, Homestead, Travel, Howard County
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Columbia's Historic Oakland manor house turns 200
Whether to development or disaster, Howard County has lost many of its impressive early farmhouses and manors.
But at least one remnant of the landed gentry has not only survived but found new life by changing from a private home to public use.
Historic...Tags: Health, Government, Nursing, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
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It's not for everyone, but Columbia's always been for anyone
Way back when Columbia was just being weaned from a bottle, a woman from Seattle told me how much she hated living in the then-New Town. "I thought I was moving to a city," she complained, "but there is absolutely nothing to do here. I hate it, and I'm...Tags: Washington, DC, Maryland, California, Florida, Human Interest
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Cross Keys condo sparkles with personality
Just inside the front door of Jeri Goodman's 10th-floor condominium unit, a highly polished silver sculpture of a pug rests on a hall table, frozen in puppy playfulness. Across the room, a bright red ceramic Buddha on a desk smiles a broad welcome....Tags: New York City, Manhattan (New York City), Jones Falls, Arts and Culture, Metal and Mineral
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This old Columbia house
They had names like Banner, Roanoke, Revere and Grenoble, traditional-sounding names that belied the avant-garde designs of the early architects of Columbia. Ryland, Ryan, Page, Jett, Techbuilt, Artery, Amberley, Alcan and Lifestyle Homes were just a...Tags: Arts and Culture, Metal and Mineral, Architecture, Building Material
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Architect turned watercolor artist has display in Glenwood
Somewhere along the way, Warren G. Sargent decided to stop giving away his watercolor paintings.
"As more and more of the old folks were gone and there were fewer new acquaintances to be had, it seemed like a good idea to keep them," the 93-year-old...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Business Enterprises, Transportation, Chesapeake Bay, Artists
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Welcome
Set squarely between the nation’s capital and Baltimore, Howard County is a well-blended mix of the bucolic, the urban and the suburban.
Spread out over 160,640 acres are sights as diverse as a quaint historic district in Ellicott City, high-tech...Tags: Charles Carroll, Population and Census, Demographics, Transportation, Washington (U.S. state)
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Where to live
Howard County boasts a distinct and thriving collection of communities, old and new, stable and growing. In Columbia, one-third of the land is designated as open space. Woods, parkland, playgrounds and other public spaces are required by covenant to...Tags: Golf, Real Estate Buyers, Homes, Dining and Drinking, Rentals
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Oakland's 200th: Family feuds, militias, racehorses fill plantation's past
The grand dame of Howard County plantation homes turns 200 this year, and her caretaker, the Columbia Association, is throwing a party in her honor. Oakland, the stately white house on the highest hill in Columbia’s Town Center, was a showpiece when...Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Homes, Human Interest, Minority Groups, U.S. Army
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After spectacular fall, Struever reappears on the radar
Two years after C. William Struever's real estate empire collapsed and the once-ubiquitous developer dropped off Baltimore's radar, the urban visionary has reappeared as a managing director of a new company, working on the same kinds of projects that...Tags: Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Brewers Hill, Career and Workplace, Johns Hopkins University, Bankruptcy
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