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News
Five Kitchen Must-Haves: Linens
She shuts the water off and reaches, fingers dripping, for the what isn't there. She thinks it will be wherever hers is -- above, to the right, on the wall, vertical, horizontal. She gla...
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Food
UME Master Gardeners to Offer Free Vegetable Gardening Classes
On Saturday, Feb. 25, Howard County Master Gardeners (MG) will be holding a series of one hour vegetable gardening classes at University of Maryland Extension offices located at 3300 Nort...
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News
Home Composting: Five Easy Steps
For the average, mainstream Marylander, starting a home compost pile may sound ridiculously West Coast (or -- dare I utter the words today -- New England!) But once you get started, you'l...
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Opinion
Five Kitchen Must-Haves: Knives
My friend Rod, blogger extraordinaire, remembers opening a gift from his wife a few Christmases ago and "tearing up at the thoughtfulness of that present." Was it an engraved pocketwatch?...
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Living
Dutch College Kids Love Their Shipping Container Dorms
My recent posts on plastic bottle houses, Morgan State’s Light Box shipping container project and Dickinson University’s Treehouse dorm motivated one reader to tell me I was all wet. ...
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Patch's House & Home
Looking for Luxury in Ellicott City?
Looking for a place to stretch out? Or to park your 10 cars? The Washington Post today featured this 20,000 square-foot home, for sale in Ellicott City. According to the listing, th...
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Patch's House & Home
Neighborhood Feature: Mount Hebron
Click on each picture to get information about each home.
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Business
Future of Ellicott City Sears is Uncertain
Sears Holdings Corp. announced today that it expects to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores after low holiday sales, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to t...