Brookline broadcasts an ethos of inclusivity, but it has become a preserve for the privileged. This is no accident, but the fruit of decades of exclusionary actions. Now facing a state mandate to allow more multifamily housing, Brookline faces a choice: What kind of town does it want to be?
Thelma E. “Yaya” Gundersdorff, whose career with Baltimore County Public Schools spanned nearly half a century and who enjoyed taking cruises and following the Orioles and Ravens, died Oct. 22 of Ogilvie syndrome, a rare intestinal disorder, at her Glen Arm home. She was 86.
Thelma E. “Yaya” Gundersdorff, whose career with Baltimore County Public Schools spanned nearly half a century and who enjoyed taking cruises and following the Orioles and Ravens, died Oct. 22 of Ogilvie syndrome, a rare intestinal disorder, at her Glen Arm home. She was 86.
WILLIAMSTOWN â One of the gifts in my personal retirement package is an agile selective memory.
I find myself easily able to brighten the highlights and burnish the low points of a 28-year career in publishing, time spent mostly as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers, including, for 21 years, The Eagle.
When I joined the ranks of the retired in 2005, my private recollections were in a far different order of importance than they are now. How, for instance, could the horror of hearing an enraged woman threaten over the telephone to stab her husband and then suit action to words, driving a steak knife into his upper thigh, ever fade?