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The Roland Park Web Site, Baltimore, Maryland: The Crown of the Gravelly Hill Since 1891 |
To contact state and city elected officials, click the "officials" link, right above. |
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Web-site Table of Contents at Foot of Page. Scroll Down or Click Here. |
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Letters to the____
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Kittredge Letter about Demise of Coffee Shop Proposal (6/20)
Community Opposition Grinds Down Coffee Shop Proposal (6/18) _____
City One Plus One Trash & Recycling Program in Effect July 14:
Finalized One Plus One Description Here (6/25)
New City Press Release Here (6/25)
City Press Release Here (6/15)
Pick-up Schedule Map Here (6/15) _____
Summer 2009 issue? Click here. _____
Donate On-line to RP Firehouse Fund (12/17) _____
Wyndhurst Coffee Shop Update (6/9) _____
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aa Neighborhood Fourth of July Parade!!!!!!!!!!
Don't miss the annual Roland Park July 4th Parade, kicking off at 10:00 a.m. in front of the Roland Park Library and culminating at Roland Ave. and Upland. Our own Roland Park firefighters will once again lead the procession, this year accompanied by a 1922 Ahrens-Fox pumping engine courtesy of the Fire Museum of Maryland (www.firemuseummd.org). _____
Thanks, Roland Park Week Participants! Roland Park Week may officially be over, but let's thank our wonderful donors and participating restaurants and stores.
Business and Organizational Donors These fine local businesses, along with local residents, have already helped us raise $36,000 of the needed $46,000! • Tuxedo Pharmacy. • Eddie Dopkin of Crazy Man Restaurant Group. • Nancy Cohen of Eddie's of Roland Park. • Wireless Home, Inc. • Deer Ridge Terrace Condominium Association. • Mille Fleurs. • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (corporate match). • T. Rowe Price (corporate match). • Chow Mein Charlie. • Mangini Associates. • Wyndhurst Community Association. • Evergreen Café, The. • Thomson Remodeling Company, Inc. • Barstons, Inc. • Gundy's Gifts.
Personal and Family Donors • Philip & Melissa Spevak Family. Platinum Donors ($1,000-1,999): • Ken Stuzin & Anne Chorske Family. Johnson Foundation). • David & Elizabeth Dunn. Gold Donors ($500-999): • Bill Sharpe Family. • Bryn Mawr Lower School Students and Faculty. • Mike Morrill & Mary Page Michel. • Worth & Jane Daniels. Silver Donors ($200-499): • David & Ellie Blumberg. • Webb Family. • Patrick & Deborah Hudson. • Elaine Ravich. • Jef & Marcia Palkovitz. • Thomas Inglesby. • Rick Kramer & Ilene Asner. • Robert Belknap Green. • Carl & Margaret Soderstrom. • William & Ann McCloskey. • Gary & Michelle Pasternak. • Kathryn Lorraine. • Lucy Robins & Kevin Larrowe. • Donald P. McPherson III Please support your community with a generous donation. Donations may be made on line here. Or a check may be mailed to Roland Park Community Foundation, PO Box 16214, Baltimore, MD 21210. (please state "firehouse fund" on the memo line.) For more information drop a line to the campaign organizers at: firehousefund@rolandpark.org (4/9). _____
RP Office Manager Retires In February 2009, long-serving Roland Park office manager Pat Eckenrode retired. Pat diligently served the RP community for many years and will be missed. A replacement will be picked in spring 2009 and announced as soon thereafter as possible. Meanwhile, the Roland Park office is at last local, having moved in March from Riderwood to (almost) Roland Park. The office is now situated at 5115B Roland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21210. That is right above Tuxedo Pharmacy (which is actually in Tuxedo Park, not Roland Park, but what's a few yards between friends?). The new phone number is (410) 464-2525. The e-mail address is still rporg@verizon.net, though this is right now only checked once in a while by volunteers, so please be patient. For updates, please see the contacts page of this web site. Last, the Roland Park Roads and Maintenance Corp. has hired a new contractor for organic debris collection and mowing services. Again, please be patient as the contractor is learning his route for each plat (4/9).
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Marianist/Harvey Media Hit of the Day For full Marianist/Harvey "media hits" list, click here. The Messenger's Adam Bednar reports, April 8, that the Roland Park Civic League appears supportive of developer Frank M. Harvey's plans to demolish 4301 Roland Avenue, the old Marianist center, built in 1926. However, he continues, a number of community residents are upset, fearing noise and disruption, and also hoping for the preservation of the historic building. The story is here (4/9). The Baltimore Messenger's Adam Bednar reports, Feb. 11, on the RP Civic League's Feb. 5 hosting of the development team of the would-be memory-care facility planned for 4301 Roland Ave. The development team presented various elements of the plan to an audience of about 50 area residents. The team was politely received, but the community made it clear that it was concerned about (a) the fiscal feasibility of the project and (b) its proposed footprint on the 1.6-acre lot. (The intended two-story building would have a larger footprint than the current three-story Marianist building.) Bednar's article is here (2/14). Also writing Feb. 11 in the Messenger, Kathy Hudson considers that the proposed, smallish assisted-living facility intended for 4301 Roland Ave. would not be a bad usage, but that appropriate architecture and green-space preservation are vital. She also notes that the not dissimilar 1927 Academy of the Visitation building, further up Roland Ave., was preserved, not razed, and reused as condos. Read Hudson here (2/14). RP resident Kathy Hudson opines in the November 25 Messenger that the Marianist-site development would push the neighborhood down an already very developed road. Whatever the end result at the site, says Hudson, the product must be "architecturally compatible with the neighborhood." The op-ed is here (11/25). The Baltimore Messenger's Adam Bednar reports on developer Frank M. Harvey's plan to build a facility for Alzheimer's patients instead of the townhouses he had originally planned for the Marianist site, 4301 Roland Avenue. The article is here (11/18). _____
Roland Park Video
"Roland Park: The Keswick Issue": the must-watch movie of the year (10/14) |
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Roland Park General Media Hit of the Day For full "Roland Park in the media" list, click here.
Larry Perl, writing in the June 24, 2009, Baltimore Messenger, has a pleasing article about this summer's Cross Keys Village MovieFest, in part organized by RP resident Blake Goldsmith. The article is here (6/24). The Messenger's Kathy Hudson muses on the benefits to RP of improved public transportation, perhaps an RP shuttle, as in Hampden. Read it here (6/17). The coffee shop's loss is Re Deux's gain, writes the Messenger's Larry Perl of the consignment shop that has taken the place of the nixed café at Wyndhurst Station. The full story is here (6/17). The proposed Wyndhurst Station café and coffee shop has been at least temporarily derailed by community opposition, primarily in Wyndhurst (Tuxedo and Embla parks) and Blythewood, says Larry Perl in the June 17 Baltimore Messenger. Read Perl's article here (6/18). Tying in with Kathy Hudson's June 4 piece (below), the June 6 Messenger carried an article by Adam Bednar about, on the micro level, RP's raising of $36,000 for repairs to the firehouse on Upland Road but, on the macro level, about Roland Park's astonishing level of civic engagement and charitable activity over the past few months. It's here (6/7). Kathy Hudson's June 4 Messenger opinion piece ruminates on the stimulation to be had from living in a "responsive, engaged community." Read Hudson's views here (6/7). May 28's Baltimore Messenger carried an article on the revival of the "Rolden" Association, the neighborhood association for the 4000-4100 block of Roland Ave. The association is opposing Roland Park Place's plans to demolish a house it owns on Roland Ave., next to a nursery school, to make way for a parking lot. RPP is reconsidering its options in the face of local opposition to the plan. Here is the article (5/28). On May 27, the Messenger printed a report by Larry Perl about May 21's Roland Park Civic League annual meeting. Perl reports that RP has made a new offer (sum undisclosed) to the Baltimore Country Club for its unwanted 17-acre tract, continuing that the "ill will has dissipated" between RP and the BCC. The article is here (5/28). The Messenger's Larry Perl reports that Kittredge Properties' plan to open a coffee shop and café at Wyndhurst Station is causing divisions among Wyndhurst Improvement Association members. WIA is one of the three local associations that must agree to the project before it can move forward. The story is here (5/21). Kittredge Properties, which would like to install a gourmet café at Wyndhurst Station, says, "If there is opposition from the neighborhoods, we will not proceed," according to Larry Perl, writing in the May 13 Baltimore Messenger. The would-be café is currently blocked by a still standing 1976 covenant-like agreement between the then owner of the building and the three area associations (Roland Park, Wyndhurst and Blythewood). The article is here (5/13). The City Council has cut back the unleashed-dog fine to $200, as Councilman James B. Kraft tells dog lovers that it was only raised (from $100) accidentally. The fine for failing to scoop your dog's poop will also be lowered from $1,000 to $200. At a council meeting on May 12, Roland Parkers on both sides of the issue testified, according to the May 13 Baltimore Sun. Find the story here (5/13). Kathy Hudson recommends native plants for Roland Park yards, in the May 10 Baltimore Messenger, and suggests the RP Beautification Committee's May 16 sale as the place to get them. The article is here (5/12). "Baltimore Messenger staff writer Adam Bednar has won three awards in the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association's annual journalism contest," April 24, writes Larry Perl for the Baltimore Messenger, April 29. In various categories, Bednar won two first-place awards and one second-place award, the latter for his reporting on the BCC/Keswick matter. The article is here (5/1). After protests from outraged city dog lovers, writes the Sun's Brent Jones, Councilman Ed Reisinger has agreed to introduce a bill to lower the new and astonishing $1,000 dog fine to $250 for first-time citations. This is still $150 higher than the older $100 fine. Residents socked with one of the fines, at whatever rate, can appeal it at the Environmental Court. The story is here (4/17).
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• Letters • Media Hits • Meeting, Special, October 14 • Movie, "Roland Park: The Keswick Issue" • Tennis Clubhouse, BCC Demolition of Charities, On-line Donations to Civic League, Roland Park (RPCL) • RPCL Crime and Public Safety Committee • RPCL Traffic and Transportation Committee |
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Writing in the Baltimore Messenger, June 29, Kathy Hudson muses that, with the rollout of the new One Plus One domestic trash-and-recycling program, the city should do more to make public recycling receptacles available. Read Hudson