Stirring up News and Views in Baltimore Maryland
A student at Commodore John Rogers Elementary School was shot in the face with a BB gun while waiting for the bus yesterday afternoon, Investigative Voice is reporting.
This is the second incident involving a BB gun at the school, as a teacher was also shot in the arm there two weeks ago, The Voice said.
The principal at Commodore John Rogers Elementary School declined to comment. The student was taken to Johns-Hopkins and was treated for a non-life threatening injury to the eye and forehead
People involved in the Mount Royal Avenue bike lane issue have asked for the full text of the statements issued by Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore Department of Transportation so here’s a link to a page where we’ve pasted up both. In addition, MICA has put Lazarus’ statement up on its website [...]
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
Catching up on a slew of interesting things to do and read this weekend that we almost lost track of in the Kickstarter hub-bub. Here are just a few: SATURDAY (1/28/12) New Mercury Non-fiction Reading – Check out tell-it-like-it-is education blogger Edit Barry (see below) and a pack of other feisty non-fictional characters from the [...]
