Top 21 Baltimore Snowstorms, 1891-2009

Top 20 snowfalls in Baltimore, Maryland, 1891-2009

A December Snowfall for the Maryland History Records

December 2009 snow is December record for Baltimore and Maryland. Top 20 snow storms since 1891.

Heavy Snow Shutting Down Maryland, Update 3:15 p.m., 12-19-2009

A windy snowstorm is shutting down the middle of Maryland on Saturday from the Chesapeake Bay through Montgomery and Frederick Counties. The heaviest snow is not in the Western Maryland mountains, as is usually the case, but in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Lighter snow on the Eastern Shore.
The massive snowstorm is roaring north along the Interstate-95 [...]

Schaefer Statue Unveiled on Governor’s Birthday

Gov. William Donald Schaefer turned 88 yesterday. In addition to being governor of Maryland, Mr. Schaefer  was also Baltimore mayor, City Council president, Maryland comptroller. It’s not that the man couldn’t hold a job. It’s more like no one job was big enough to hold the man. The occasion was [...]

Blob’s Park Has Reopened

Blob’s Park, the venerable and beloved Bavarian bier garten and polka-waltz dancehall south of Baltimore, is open again on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The Rhinelanders band is back, along with the “Beer Barrel Polka” and the Chicken dance. And everything else, from fast, turning Viennese Waltzes to country ballads and swing.
Talk about [...]

Boys in Danger: The End of Civilization in Maryland?

Item: A funeral was held this morning (Wednesday) for Christopher David Jones, age 14, who died after an attack by five to seven youths on a tree-lined street of townhouses in Crofton, Anne Arundel County. Two minors have been charged in the incident. A community meeting will be held at 7 this evening in Crofton.
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MPT’s “Citizen Schaefer”

The Maryland Public Television biographical documentary on Gov. William Donald Schaefer has tapped a deep well of emotion and respect for the man whose vocation was service to the people of Baltimore and Maryland. My April 2008 blog post about Mr. Schaefer at home in retirement has been the top post on Maryland On My [...]

Slots In Maryland: Winners Are Cordish Cos. and Arundel Mills Mall

UPDATE — Statewide, bidders offer to put in 6,550 slot machines out of 15,000 possible. Cordish at Arundel Mills would be the largest — 4,750 slots at a $1 billion slots palace, in an adults-only building separate from the mall.  Second largest number of slot machines would be 800 at Ocean Downs racetrack near [...]

End Of The Daily Newspaper Era?

The Detroit Free Press will become the first major metro daily newspaper in the U.S. to reduce home delivery from seven-days-a-week to three days.
The Free Press and the Detroit News will cut back home delivery to only the three most lucrative days of the week: Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The historic change will take [...]

The Baltimore Sun Dragged Into Bankruptcy With Tribune Chain

One year ago this month, Sam Zell piled $8.2 billion in new debt on The Tribune Co. and took the newspaper chain private. That back-breaking debt has now forced Tribune to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Tribune owns eight major daily newspapers (including The Baltimore Sun and its suburban weeklies), 23 TV stations, WGN Radio, [...]