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Fran Blowitz Fran Blowitz, who with her husband John owned and operated the Gazette Newspapers from 1981 to 2004, died in November. After purchasing the paper, Fran and John developed Gazette Newspapers into a two-paper, 66,000 combined-circulation business employing 20 people. Fran and John were co-publishers, with Fran handling the business end of the operation. She worked tirelessly to keep the business in the black. John said many times that he might be the public face of the Grunion, but that Fran was the brains behind the operation. During that time, Fran came up with something she cal...

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Photo by Samuel Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Coming out of Baltimore’s Poly High School, Tyrese Chambers was one of only two wide receivers to make all USA Today’s Maryland first-team all-state list, hauling in 54 receptions for 1,200 yards and 21 touchdowns in only 10 games. The other, Daniel George, was rated a four-star recruit and signed with Penn State. However, Chambers was overlooked by many programs and landed at Fort Scott Junior College in Kansas, where he excelled in the classroom as a student, earning a 3.6 GPA. That success brought the 6-1, 185-pound wideout an off...

- ADVERTISEMENT - Fundraising for his annual toy drive, Diamond Christmas, a beloved local event where thousands of toys are given out to children in underserved communities, tends to take up the better part of his month. But, given the strange, doozy of a year it’s been, Rodriguez thought, why not do something he’s never done before? “The pandemic sucks. People don’t have money for Christmas trees, so I thought let’s try and buy some families some trees and do something cool for them,” he said. “Trees, they make your house smell good, kind of get you happy when you walk in.”