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West Baltimore neighborhoods

    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.
    For nearly 40 years, generations of kids and families made their way to Mondawmin Mall to see Santa Luke.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore, Monday, October 17, 2022.
    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.
    Cars travel down U.S. Route 40 in Baltimore, Md., on Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
    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 Giant that left Edmondson Square Shopping Center in June is set to be replaced by an LA Mart in February.
    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.
    The families of Cartwell and Ronald Silver joined the protest in a call for change and answers from Baltimore leaders.
    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.
    Police lights
    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.
    City leaders have touted plans for years to redevelop an area of Baltimore west of downtown dubbed the Superblock.
    Officials identify man killed, three officers involved in shooting
    The Independent Investigations Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General said Friday that Robert Phillip Nedd Jr. of Baltimore died Wednesday in the fatal shooting involving police officers.
    A Baltimore Police vehicle is seen in Fells Point on April 14, 2024.
    Three officers on leave after fatal police shooting in West Baltimore
    Baltimore police officers shot and killed a man following a pursuit in the Upton neighborhood Wednesday night, the department said.
    7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
    At new Baltimore community center, Eric Holder says Justice Thurgood Marshall’s work is unfinished
    Eric Holder, the former U.S. Attorney General and renowned civil rights leader, delivered an inaugural speech in a lecture series created to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
    Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said one of the best parts of the event at the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center was talking with young students from area law schools.
    Letters: Ballot measure to cut City Council size will hurt Black participation
    A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.
    Baltimore City Hall.
    Residents want Baltimore City Council to slow down Amtrak’s tunnel project. But can they?
    The railroad company is asking Baltimore’s City Council to sign off on the rights to build under public land. But residents want them to wait.
    People hold a series of signs, including one that reads, 'TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION = NEIGHBORHOOD DESTRUCTION' in front of a brown school building.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Steuart Hill, a now-vacant school, was one of five Baltimore school facilities where fires mysteriously broke out in July.
    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.
    Two Giant grocery stores in Baltimore are implementing a youth supervision policy to combat what the company calls a recent rise in theft.
    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.
    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.
    Young children are dying in Baltimore’s unprecedented overdose crisis
    The smallest and least suspecting victims of Baltimore’s opioid epidemic are young children. Since 2020, 15 young children have died of overdose.
    A commemorative DVD that played during Journey's funeral and reception is displayed on a shelf in Rachell Portilla's home as seen on August 13th, 2024 in Halethorpe, MD.
    Poppleton investor sues for control as West Baltimore project flounders
    La Cité Development was supposed to break ground on an age-restricted apartment complex for older adults this year. Instead, the developer missed a key financing deadline.
    The site of the Poppleton development in West Baltimore.
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