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A Pattern for Success

Eighth-grader Kelsey Cashman’s tops Anne Arundel Library’s makeFashion Showcase

Sandra Olivetti Martin

When Kelsey Cashman walks her dog Declan on a cold dark, winter night, they’ll both be comfortable. Declan wears the long fur coat of a golden retreiver. His 13-year-old mistress is warm as just-popped toast in the heated cape that took the St. Mary’s School eight-grader to the top of the class in STEM fashion Cashman won’t need a flashlight to light their way, for her blue herringbone self-warming cape is trimmed in LED lights.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/5/15

Healing the Wounds of War

Navy Captain Fred foote uses poetry to soothe the battle-scarred

Andrew Wildermuth

Loader and gunner, brothers from boot camp days, they came in one platoon to the shock of war; daily they clung to each other for strength and grace — each promised to bring the other home once more. Now both return: two versions of amputee –from “Bonded,” by Fred Foote

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– by Andrew Wildermuth – 11/5/15

Get to Know the Family

Come, learn and share your history

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Seven hundred were way more guests than Maryland State Archives director of outreach Emily Oland Squires planned for at last year’s innaugural Family History Festival. “I would have been happy if we had more people than staff,” she told Bay Weekly in 11th-hour planning for the second festival. No matter how many people come to the Archives, in Annapolis, Saturday, November 7, she and Archives staff will have room. Especially for you.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/5/15

Thomas Point Reunion

Lighthouse keeper John White returns to his one-time home after four decades

Petty Officer 2nd Class David Marin

In John White’s boyhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, schools and water fountains were separated for whites and colored. Rising from the final years of segregation, he could not imagine his future self, as the first black man in command of Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, ushering in its 100th year of service in 1975. He got a glimpse of his future when his two older brothers were drafted into the Army for the Vietnam War. In 1969, the year he graduated high school, White too was drafted.

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– by Petty Officer 2nd Class David Marin – 10/29/15

The Iron Man of State Employees

Timothy Hyman’s 66 years on the job

Kathy Knotts

If you’re under the age of 50, can you imagine life without the Chesapeake Bay Bridge? Or I-95 connecting us to the rest of the East Coast? Timothy Hyman remembers. He was there as the bridge — originally only one span, now carrying traffic eastward — was built. And as seven decades worth of interstates opened to motorists. Doing his job as state highway administration photographer, he captured now-iconic images of the roads and bridges that take us where we want to go.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 10/8/15

Maryland Special Olympians Climb High

Dreams come true in Los Angeles

Madeline Hughes

Maryland Olympians swelled with power and pride in competition among 6,500 athletes from 165 countries at this summer’s Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles. “I became a leader,” says Chris Dooley of Denton. In competition, the kayaker won a bronze medal in his 200-meter singles race.

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– by Madeline Hughes – 9/24/15

Working for a Living

Bay Weekly’s Labor Day Parade of Success Stories

Labor Day is perfectly placed as an end note to summer. Change is in the air, riding shorter days, clearer air and cooler nights. The rhythms of human time are changing, too, with vacations over and kids back in school. Such synchronicity makes us forgetful that this national holiday celebrates working people and our hard-won rewards — from the weekend to child-labor laws.

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– by – 9/3/15

Evan Metz’s 2,189.2-Mile Journey

Hiking the Appalachian Trail prepared him for his next journey as a Navy SEAL

Selene SanFelice

Evan Metz’s awakening came on the Appalachian Trail. To be exact, 125 awakenings. One each morning as he hiked the trail in the 41⁄2 months after his 2014 graduation from Calvert High School. Each morning and every mile brought the 19-year-old closer to embodying the values he sought to reach his goal of becoming a Navy SEAL. With his Navy ship-out postponed, Metz had chaffed. To pass the months, family friend Steven Vilsack challenged Metz to an Appalachian Trail hike.

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– by Selene SanFelice – 7/30/15

In the Kitchen with Maryland’s First Lady

Yumi Hogan shares her favorite Korean recipes for the Governor’s Buy Local Week Challenge

Sandra Olivetti Martin

When Maryland’s governor and first lady throw a party, it’s not often Mrs. Guv will be doing the cooking. First Lady Yumi Hogan proves the exception to that rule. This week, for the eighth Annual Buy Local Cookout, she prepares and serves her own adaptation of pork bulgogyi, which she calls “a classic household dish for a Korean family.”

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 7/16/15

Our Fat Guy in the Woods

See how nature treats him on the Weather Channel July 19

Selene San Felice

Anne Arundel County cop Ron Gamble, of Arnold, always considered himself a fat guy. Now the Weather Channel has made him a Fat Guy in the Woods. In the reality show episode airing July 19 Gamble and two other fat guys venture into Kentucky cave country guided by survival expert Creek Stewart. Stewart — who is neither a fat guy nor a cop — intends to teach them “the skills that make a man a man.” Here Gamble previews his week-long experience — from ordering room service to hunting crickets for dinner.

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– by Selene San Felice – 7/16/15

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