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J. Claver Richardson, teacher
Joseph Claver Richardson, a retired teacher and World War II veteran who was the patriarch of a family of nearly 60 children and grandchildren, died of cardiac arrest related to asthma Jan. 8 at Sinai...
View ArticleThe Rev. Mary-Patricia N. Ashby
The Rev. Mary-Patricia N. Ashby, a retired Episcopal priest who had been rector of a Frederick County church, died Wednesday of a cardiac arrest at Frederick Memorial Hospital. The Mount Airy resident...
View ArticleMonsignor James Vincent Hobbs
Monsignor James Vincent Hobbs, former rector of the Basilica of the Assumption who during his tenure oversaw a two-year, $32 million restoration of the 200-year-old structure, died Monday of cardiac...
View ArticleRev. John Wesley Bowen, church historian
The Rev. John Wesley Bowen, a Roman Catholic priest and church historian who advocated sainthood for a 19th-century Baltimore woman, died of pneumonia Sunday at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 87 and lived...
View ArticleOpen the windows again
The polio vaccine was not my idea. Nor was the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church. The first idea protected my physical health. The second idea continues to protect and preserve my Catholic...
View ArticleThe Rev. Gerald V. Lardner, Sulpician priest
The Rev. Gerald "Gerry" Vincent Lardner, a Sulpician priest who taught preaching and later served as a missionary in Africa, died of cancer June 18 at Mercy Medical Center. He was 70 and lived in North...
View ArticleHistory Matters: Remembering Charles Carroll 75 years ago
100 Years Ago Family sassafras In the news briefs: "Meat prices have taken another jump, making higher than ever known before. In a short time Sassafras tea will have to take the place of meat in the...
View ArticleCouple resurrecting Scaregrounds attraction as home-based fundraiser
This week, as in Halloween seasons of yore, a sinister, supernatural and mysteriously menacing traveling carnival — run by a character known as the Timoniac — is preparing to haunt the hills, hollows...
View ArticleEagle Archive: Rev. John Paul Buchheister Sr., former pastor at Westminster UM
Former pastor of the Westminster United Methodist Church, the Rev. John Paul Buchheister Sr.; died last Saturday of cardiac failure at age 87. He was the pastor here in Westminster at the historic...
View ArticleAfter taking a break, Mount Mat Madness wrestling tournament returns
Mount Mat Madness, regarded as one of the top wrestling tournaments in the country until going on a one-year hiatus, is returning this weekend at UMBC with 28 teams from Maryland, Delaware,...
View ArticleThe Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, 81, noted Lutheran theologian, author
The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, a prominent Lutheran theologian, educator and author whose teaching career at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., spanned more than three decades, died Dec....
View ArticleMcDonogh wrestling loses to Wyoming Seminary in Gilman Duals
If opposing coaches had something to say to McDonogh’s Pete Welch before his team faced Wyoming Seminary (Pa.) in the final of the 30th annual Haswell M. Franklin Gilman Duals on Saturday afternoon in...
View ArticleMsgr. Richard E. Parks, pastor of Dundalk congregation
Monsignor Richard E. Parks, pastor of Sacred Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Graceland Park for 25 years who was also a city Fire Department chaplain, died of cancer Feb. 19 at Stella Maris...
View ArticleBattle Monument and its architect inspire Essex student
Chloe A. Gudmundsson is a senior at Eastern Technical High School in Essex, and at the suggestion of her English teacher, she decided to research a paper on Maximilian Godefroy, the quirky architect...
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Train crossing work in Lutherville to disrupt traffic, light rail service
Seminary Avenue at the light rail crossing in Lutherville is scheduled to be closed for five days beginning 10 a.m. Friday for track and road improvement work, the Maryland Transit Administration...
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