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Katie Caljean has assumed the position of president and CEO of the Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), replacing Mark Letzer, who stepped down. Letzer now becomes executive chairman of the organization after spending seven years as president and CEO and being affiliated with the organization for 28 years. Approved by the MCHC board of directors, Caljean ...

Katie Caljean has assumed the position of president and CEO of the Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), replacing Mark Letzer, who stepped down. Letzer now becomes executive chairman of the organization after spending seven years as president and CEO and being affiliated with the organization for 28 years. Approved by the MCHC board ...

Edmund Allen Nelson, a retired Steeltin Can executive and a veteran Marine Corps World War II pilot who flew the Pacific, died of COVID complications May 13 at Tidewater Medical Center in Salisbury. The former Timonium resident was 101.

Romaine Stec Somerville, an art historian and leader in historic preservation circles who later directed the former Maryland Historical Society, died of complications of a hip fracture Tuesday. She was a patient at the Gilchrist Center in Towson.

Romaine Stec Somerville, an art historian and leader in historic preservation circles who later directed the former Maryland Historical Society, died of complications of a hip fracture Tuesday. She was a patient at the Gilchrist Center in Towson.

Barbara P. Katz, a local philanthropist and the first woman to serve as president of what was then the Maryland Historical Society, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 1 at her Pikesville home. She was 88.

Print Mindy Basara, WBAL-TV 11 A repeal of the Maryland state song is on the agenda this legislative session, and this may be the last year "Maryland, My Maryland" represents the state. You may have heard it at Preakness in the past and not thought much of it. The song was written during the Civil War, and if you listen to all the verses, you realize the official song of the Free State is an ode to the Confederacy. "It doesnt sit well with me at all," House Speaker Adrienne Jones sa...