Cheryl's Place

There’s been a lot of talk lately about additions to schools vs. building a new high school.

Talk will continue this week at the Northeast Educational Advisory Council meeting (May 16 at 7 p.m. at Harford Hills Elementary, 8902 Old Harford Rd.).

Also coming up May 21 at 1:30 p.m. is a Development Review Committee meeting (Room 123 of the County Office Building, 111 W. Chesapeake Ave. in Towson) to discuss adding:
**Four single mobile classrooms at Overlea High School
**One single mobile classroom at Towson High School
**One duplex mobile classroom at Rodgers Forge Elementary, and
**One single mobile classroom at Carroll Manor Elementary.

Alright. It’s time to check my calendar.

Not to see what week it is in general, but to see what’s being celebrated this week — you know, it’s probably National Check Your Calendar Week! Sure, there are some very important causes (my opinion, not the T-H’s) that get their own week or even month, but some are downright silly.

Over the past few weeks, I missed celebrating World Penguin Day (April 25), Richter Scale Day (April 26), Alfred Butts’ Birthday

So Fridays are my “down” days — as if there were such a thing in this biz. Last Friday I took the whole day off and ventured to the Eastern Shore (prompting my last post), but the previous Friday I intended to sleep late, then work a little.

My husband left for work around 9am like he usually does. But a few minutes later the phone rang. He had just driven by a downed pole on Henry Avenue. (Yes, he

Anyone who’s met me knows that I only moved here about a year ago. I’m a “come-here.” From the Eastern Shore, no less — so the Baltimore suburbs are a whole new world for me. (Let’s set aside for a minute what H.L. Mencken or even Willie Don Schaefer have said about the Shore.)

There are plenty of things that I miss about the other side of the big ditch (the bay, not the ocean), but then again, I’ve

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