Sunday, July 25, 2010

BEST OF BALTIMORE — Investigative Voice named best online news source by Baltimore Magazine

Friday, 23 July 2010 01:49

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I.V. PACKS ‘A HARD-HITTING WALLOP
IN A TOWN THAT’S GONE SOFTER
ON HARD NEWS,’ MAGAZINE SAYS

Baltimore Magazine, in its Special (August 2010) Issue now on newsstands, has named Investigative Voice the city’s best Online News source.

The magazine’s 35th Annual Best of Baltimore list cites I.V. for “packing a hard-hitting wallop in a town that’s gone softer on hard news in recent years, largely as a result of cuts at The Sun.”

Singled out is I.V.’s coverage of the registered Maryland sex offender in the employ of the city’s Department of Public Works who defrauded Baltimore out of $12,700 in sick and vacation pay while he was serving an 8-month jail sentence for molesting a teenage girl.

After a series of stories by Senior Reporter Stephen Janis... http://www.investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5060:best-of-baltimore&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

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DAYHOFF: WMC renovation project marks birthplace of McDaniel College http://tinyurl.com/26zrjll

Dayhoff: renovation project marks birthplace of McDaniel College home of the Raven’s summer training camp http://tinyurl.com/26zrjll

Eagle Archives By Kevin Dayhoff Posted 7/25/10

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The old stone home of Fayette Rufus Buell, 1833-1913, where the humble beginnings of what we now know as McDaniel College, is being renovated.

What? Never heard of Buell?

Never knew that McDaniel College can trace its beginning to the stone building that once was the college golf course clubhouse?

Last March, the old stone house, which McDaniel College officials believe was built around 1830, was adopted by the WMC Heritage Society to become a conference facility and an apartment for visiting scholars and lecturers.

"The house, at 205 Pennsylvania Avenue (Westminster), will also serve as the future home of WMC Heritage Society, and as a setting for alumni gatherings and historical displays," according to an article on the college's website.

The WMC Heritage Society was formed in 2004 as "a way for alumni to honor the college's heritage -- Western Maryland College."

As folks around here certainly know, the college was renamed McDaniel College on July 1, 2002. The purpose of the society is to "educate current and future students and faculty on the traditions and history" of the college.

The $300,000 project to renovate Buell's old home is led by society chairman Don Rembert (Class of 1961), and his wife, Judy Ellis ('60), of Reston, Va.

They also, according to the website, helped lead fundraising that supported the publication of the college's history, "Fearless and Bold," by Dr. Jim Lightner ('59), a professor emeritus of mathematics and college historian.

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The True Nature Of Tawes Crab & Clam Festival

http://www.martinomalley.com/blog/the_true_nature_of_tawes_crab_clam_festival/

Robert Wray on Jul 22, 2010

Yesterday, Martin O’Malley and Anthony Brown joined thousands of Marylanders at the Tawes Crab and Clam festival. The Washington Post noted the extent to which the O'Malley team out-organized the Ehrlich campaign.

The Baltimore Sun was there too and took some great pictures, but we’re not sure the paper captured the true nature of the event: