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    The 262-unit apartment complex is the only project La Cité completed in its plan to revitalize Poppleton. It is struggling to find renters.
    Poppleton apartment complex for sale as investor wants its money back
    Following a lawsuit filed this summer, an investor is forcing La Cite Development to sell a troubled apartment complex in West Baltimore, court records show.
    Person of interest identified following West Baltimore shooting, police say
    Police found a 29-year-old man dead from gunshot wounds in the 200 block of North Payson Street.
    Planners are hoping to install “smart” systems at intersections along North Avenue, including this one at Bloomingdale Road.
    5 intersections in West Baltimore are about to get ‘smarter’
    Planners will install LiDAR systems at five intersections along West North Avenue to understand how cars and pedestrians interact.
    Southwest Baltimore Charter School was recommended for closure next summer, which would displace more than 300 students.
    A Baltimore community stands to lose its second school in two years
    Despite the charter's low test scores, parents say the school and its community is so much more than its academic reputation.
    BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 8, 2024: Melinda Mele welcomes visitors in her home during the Annual Union Square Cookie Tour in Baltimore, Maryland on December 8, 2024.
    Union Square Cookie Tour of Historic Homes is baked into community tradition
    Union Square’s Cookie Tour of Historic Homes has taken place for 39 years. It’s a chance not only to bite into a treat but also to hear the backstories of homes and the people who chose to live in them.

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    Mass is held on December 1st, 2024 at St. Bernardine Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore, MD following the combination of parishes around the city.
    As Catholic churches merge, pews are full, but a sense of loss remains
    This mass was six months in the making, marking the merger of five parishes into one congregation.
    JoAnn Dowery walks the final mail route of her 32-year career, around the Ten Hills neighborhood on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
    She delivered mail to Baltimore for decades. Upon her retirement, a heartfelt surprise.
    A heartfelt surprise by neighbors in West Baltimore to their longtime mail carrier.
    For nearly 40 years, generations of kids and families made their way to Mondawmin Mall to see Santa Luke.
    Mondawmin Mall’s beloved Santa Luke will miss Christmas this year
    Santa Luke suffered an injury at the North Pole, says the Mondawmin Mall manager.
    At a community meeting to discuss a potential school closure, Edgewood Elementary parents and grandparents questioned why their small school may be shuttered despite their students performing well.
    Parents are ready to defend Baltimore’s smallest elementary school from closure
    Edgewood Elementary’s small size has landed it on the chopping block despite students performing relatively well on state testing.
    Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore, Monday, October 17, 2022.
    Edmondson Village Shopping Center bags a major grocer
    ALDI, a discount grocery chain, will take over a space at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center that was damaged in a fire.

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    Cars travel down U.S. Route 40 in Baltimore, Md., on Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
    Baltimore requests $100M to start reforming the ‘Highway to Nowhere’
    The U.S. 40 Highway to Nowhere has scarred West Baltimore for decades. Baltimore’s new plan won’t remove it, but will try to transform the area around it.
    The Giant that left Edmondson Square Shopping Center in June is set to be replaced by an LA Mart in February.
    With new grocery store, Edmondson Village will no longer be a food desert
    LA Mart will fill the space the former Giant Food left in Edmondson Village.
    The families of Cartwell and Ronald Silver joined the protest in a call for change and answers from Baltimore leaders.
    Family of DPW worker crushed by trash truck demands answers
    Timothy Cartwell, a waste collector with the Reedbird Sanitation Yard, died after being trapped between a utility pole and a trash truck in an alley in West Baltimore.
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    Crash between a Jeep and a moped kills one teenager in West Baltimore
    A 16-year-old boy is dead and a 17-year-old boy is injured after a crash between the moped they were riding and a Jeep in Upton, Baltimore Police confirmed Thursday morning.
    City leaders have touted plans for years to redevelop an area of Baltimore west of downtown dubbed the Superblock.
    Baltimore’s latest plans for the Superblock go super-bust
    The Baltimore Development Corp. canceled its contract with Westside Partners after the group couldn’t show it had obtained financing for a mixed-use development.

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    Children’s books are on display at an event kicking off the expansion of ParentChild+ into Baltimore. The organization boosts educational opportunities for low-income children by deploying early education experts to the home twice a week for nearly a year.
    Baltimore toddlers are about to get a lifelong jump on reading
    ParentChild+ will send early learning specialists into 30 toddlers’ homes and day care locations twice a week, bearing educational gifts and guidance for caregivers.
    A close up photo of a bicycle symbol in a red-painted lane of a two lane roadway. Cars are parked along the road in the distance.
    Letters: West Baltimore residents are right. Parts of proposed bike trail are dangerous.
    The proposed bike trail from Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park to Druid Hill Park would be dangerous, a reader says, but an alternate route would make sense.
    Steuart Hill, a now-vacant school, was one of five Baltimore school facilities where fires mysteriously broke out in July.
    How did five Baltimore school facilities mysteriously catch fire in July?
    The five fires, which all broke out in the afternoons or evenings in late July, exclusively erupted at elementary/middle school facilities, according to incident reports.
    Two Giant grocery stores in Baltimore are implementing a youth supervision policy to combat what the company calls a recent rise in theft.
    Letters: Giant Food grocery curfew unfairly blames youths for crime
    Grocery stores targeting youths with curfews sends the harmful and inaccurate message that young people are primarily responsible for crime and shoplifting, says Hannah Stommel, a Zubrow fellow at the Juvenile Law Center.
    A close up photo of a bicycle symbol in a red-painted lane of a two lane roadway. Cars are parked along the road in the distance.
    The city wants to build a trail to link 2 West Baltimore parks. No one seems happy with the plan.
    A proposal to link The Greenway Trails Network between Druid Hill and Leakin parks has left some trail advocates scratching their heads.
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