Each year, Baltimore County offers curbside pick up of Christmas trees for residents, and takes them to be recycled. Tree pick up will begin the week of January 10, 2011, and to ensure your tree is taken, it must be placed out at the curb by January 15. They will not be collecting from alleys, [...]
There are many ground rent houses in Baltimore. What does this mean? Guest blogger, T Jeremy Loomis, Sales Manager for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, explains more about Baltimore ground rent homes: What is ground rent (also known as a leasehold estate) and why would I have it? Ground rent is when a fee is paid [...]
Beginning June 13, 2010, the FHA appraisal guidelines for leasehold properties (also known as houses with ground rent) will be changing. Guest blogger, T Jeremy Loomis, Sales Manager for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, explains what this means for Baltimore ground rent homeowners: Confused on the recent news about new FHA ground rent appraisal requirements? Simply [...]
On March 10, the Baltimore County Board of Education had a final meeting before their March 23 vote on the boundaries of the new West Towson Elementary School. This meeting, unlike the one in January, which had hundreds of attendees with many speaking about the boundary options, this one had very few, and only four [...]
Over 300 people attended the meeting at Loch Raven High School last night about where the boundaries may be drawn, and which children in Towson may be redistricted to the new West Towson Elementary School. The Towson Families United group, which is "A coalition of parents and residents seeking a long-term solution to Towson's overcrowded schools", reports [...]
The West Towson Elementary School is under construction, and the plans for boundaries are being revealed at a public meeting on January 6, 2010. The Baltimore County School Board would like input on the boundary drawing possibilities from the Towson neighborhoods affected by the possible change in redistricting. The open meeting being held January 6 [...]
Proposed Phase One of the Robert E. Lee Park 's improvement plan will be presented in the third community meeting held by the Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7 pm at Dumbarton Middle School. The proposed improvements include replacing the bridge going into the park, the development of an official dog park, [...]
The Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore Examiner report that Towson University and the Rodgers Forge Community Association have reached an agreement about the location of the new arena to be built near the Forge. I wrote about this issue on January 22, as the fear was the design and location of the new arena would [...]