Fort-Howard News

Events canceled or rescheduled due to the stormy weather Thursday: Green Bay "If Tombstones Could Talk" at Fort Howard Memorial Park is rescheduled for Tuesday, June 17, at 6:30 P.M. Sherwood 2nd Annual ...

The Fort Howard Family Resource Center supports families by providing a safe environment for children to grow happy and healthy.

Updated: De Pere police are still investigating a deadly crash between a car and a train.

An fire that started Tuesday night caused minor damage at U.S. Paper Mills, 800 Fort Howard Ave.. The fire occurred around 11:30 p.m. and was contained shortly afterward. via Green Bay Press-Gazette

“When you have foreclosures in a neighborhood, especially if they are combined on to one block, you're always worried about property values going down”

The Brown County Sheriff's Department says 61 properties in foreclosure went up for auction in April -- the highest number so far in 2008 and more than double the number of foreclosures in March . via WBAY

“It was something we were not aware of that's part of the DNR management of erosion”

As more information surfaces about the history and exact location of the old Fort Howard, development plans for the former Larsen Canning Co. via WisInfo

“Then we might be able to proactively suggest programs to students and their families.”

In a city where leaders have for years tried and failed to curtail one of the nation's highest crime rates, a University of Maryland law professor has turned his classroom into a crime-fighting think tank. via The Baltimore Sun

“Some of the space was not properly accounted for.”

The state is assessing airlines operating at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport $25 million in new charges, including $13 million it says is owed by dominant carrier Southwest Airlines.

Airport officials said the additional charges were being imposed to cover increased expenses, including higher security and utility costs. In Southwest's case, the state said it found that it had been undercharging the airline for its new terminal space.

Southwest Chief Financial Officer Laura H. Wright disclosed the 'surprise audit settlement charge' that it is negotiating with the Maryland Aviation Administration during the airline's first-quarter earnings conference call yesterday. The charge is in addition to the $32 million in rent and fees Southwest paid the airport in fiscal 2007, an amount BWI officials expect the airline to also owe this year. Read more

“What the court is saying is that every act of sexual intercourse in Maryland is potentially a rape, and if a man doesn't stop on a dime, he's going to jail.”

The state's highest court ruled yesterday that a man can be charged with rape if he ignores a woman's calls to stop - even if she had previously consented to sex. via Baltimoresun.com

Coverage of rising gas prices in Maryland and across the U.S. The painful price to keep on truckin' For most Maryland drivers, the $4-a-gallon fill-up is still a dire prediction. via The Baltimore Sun

The University of Maryland at College Park has decided to create a minor in U.S. Latino studies -- the first such program at a major university in the Washington area.

A University Senate committee approved the creation of the minor on Friday. The program will become official in the fall, though two graduating seniors who have fulfilled the requirements will graduate this spring with the minor.

The decision prompted applause from activists who have been working to establish a formal program for a decade. Read more

Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States reopens the wound of the child sexual abuse scandal that has left many victims angry and dispirited over the church's mishandling of pedophile priests and its lax ... via The Baltimore Sun

“The building represents strength, longevity, solidity and power.”

At the turn of the 20th century, citizens of Brown County made a statement with the Brown County Courthouse rotunda. via WisInfo

The school system's proposed operating budget hasn't even been presented to the school board or the Charles County commissioners for consideration and already there is doubt from the superintendent and the ... via The Independent

“While we must continue to explore and make progress on creating a more sustainable and independent energy future for Maryland, we will not do so at the expense of the special lands we hold in the public trust”

BITTINGER, Md. - Gov. Martin O'Malley said Saturday that his administration will not allow commercial wind turbines on state forest land, ending a heated four-month debate. via The Daily Times

Baltimore Business Journal - by Rachel Sams Staff More than 40 percent of Maryland business owners are pessimistic about their local economy, up sharply from 15 percent just six months ago. via Baltimore Business Journal

SCA Tissue North America said that Don Lewis has been named president of company, effective April 1. Lewis was formerly SCA Tissue senior vice president, sales & marketing - a position he held since joining the ... via Paper Age

“Paradise") and a lot of new and nice material (Strenski's comically sad "Storm Clouds Blow Away) and Sladek's nimble "Butterflies on My Banjo”

The four guys of the local Bent Grass bluegrass band picked and sang their way through a bunch of quick notes Saturday in a unique set-up at the Weidner Center. via WisInfo

“Who says being educated means you can't make stupid decisions?”

Jennifer B. Bodine was in her last semester at Roland Park Country School, struggling academically as graduation loomed. She realized that she probably should have kept her mouth shut.

This was the 1960s, when seniors there had a little-known tradition. Every spring, they chose a day to strip their school uniforms, set them ablaze in a trash can, and romp around, at times in their underwear, to celebrate impending freedom.

'Why I mentioned this [at home], I'll never know,' she said last week, shaking her head. Read more

Laurence Hall Fowler was one of Maryland's most admired and influential residential architects during the first half of the 20th century. This spring, a landmark on which Fowler worked for more than 20 years, the building now known as Evergreen Museum & Library at 4545 N. Charles St., is being modified to pay homage to Fowler and his architectural legacy even more than it does today.

James Archer Abbott, curator of the Evergreen Museum & Library, is leading an effort to turn a space there that was formerly occupied by a gift shop into the Laurence Hall Fowler Study Room. When it opens later this spring, it will be a dedicated research area where architects, scholars and preservationists can study the drawings and papers that Fowler produced over the course of his career, from 1905 to the 1940s. Read more