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Laurel Connections: October 2014
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A small journal from a small town. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Over on Facebook, I've been posting little sketches that I draw of architectural details seen on Oldtown's buildings. It's a visual quiz idea I've wanted to try for a couple of years. I call it LookUpLaurel because these sketches are of the details that are found up high, on roofs and gables. I thought that local folks might enjoy trying to figure out where these details are located. Sketch 1 - Exotic Chimney. Sketch 3 - Wonderful old tower.
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Laurel Connections: I just can't believe my eyes ...
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A small journal from a small town. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. I just can't believe my eyes . Darwin (l) and Jay Bear (r) eye each other carefully at Fidos For Freedom. Goodness, this old internet hangout is a bit dusty. It smells pretty bad in here too. Lots of moldering ideas, dangling participles and a few toxic typos are still hiding in the corners. Lots of things have changed since I last stopped in here for a visit with you. We lost good friends. We made new friends. SWMBO retired. I ...But this old ...
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Laurel Connections: December 2010
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A small journal from a small town. Monday, December 13, 2010. A New News Source for Laurel. An online local news source is now available on the web at laurel.patch.com. AOL’s hyper-local news network called "Patch" now has over 500 community web sites. Laurel's Patch is one of the latest to go live today. Editor Melanie Dzwonchyk and her plucky band of journos at the venerable Laurel Leader. Cover our fair city quite well. Unfortunately, they are saddled with a web site from their publisher that is s...
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Laurel Connections: Lost Laurel
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A small journal from a small town. Thursday, January 19, 2012. Check out this website called Lost Laurel. The writer says he is, "a graphic designer currently obsessed with documenting the history of the modest neighborhood where I lived from 1978 to 1987, Steward Manor Apartments. As an ancillary project, I’ve started Lost Laurel as a way of also documenting and sharing the numerous stores, restaurants, and other businesses of Laurel past. Hat Tip to Andy Hoglund. Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:40:00 PM.
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Laurel Connections: Government: For the People or For the Person?
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A small journal from a small town. Thursday, June 19, 2014. Government: For the People or For the Person? There is a huge debate going on in our country that’s described in many ways; red v. blue, left v. right, liberal v. conservative, tax v. spend, big v. small government. Thankfully, a city like ours avoids most of the insane partisan silliness. However, every community needs rules so that people can live together better. How do we choose the rules? Who should get a tax break? Which pothole gets fixed?
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Laurel Connections: February 2011
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A small journal from a small town. Saturday, February 26, 2011. It looks like someone was upset over a $40 speed camera ticket in Oldtown Laurel. A vandal recently painted the lens cover on both speed cameras installed on 7th Street between Main and Montgomery. I hope the vandal is caught. I believe that these cameras are always taking pictures on a loop. Maybe we will get lucky and the vandal's picture was taken holding the spray can. By the way, even police officers are not exempted. Links to this post.
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Laurel Connections: LookUpLaurel
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A small journal from a small town. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Over on Facebook, I've been posting little sketches that I draw of architectural details seen on Oldtown's buildings. It's a visual quiz idea I've wanted to try for a couple of years. I call it LookUpLaurel because these sketches are of the details that are found up high, on roofs and gables. I thought that local folks might enjoy trying to figure out where these details are located. Sketch 1 - Exotic Chimney. Sketch 3 - Wonderful old tower.
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Laurel Connections: June 2014
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A small journal from a small town. Thursday, June 19, 2014. Government: For the People or For the Person? There is a huge debate going on in our country that’s described in many ways; red v. blue, left v. right, liberal v. conservative, tax v. spend, big v. small government. Thankfully, a city like ours avoids most of the insane partisan silliness. However, every community needs rules so that people can live together better. How do we choose the rules? Who should get a tax break? Which pothole gets fixed?
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Laurel Connections: November 2011
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A small journal from a small town. Saturday, November 12, 2011. Twitter: News or Not? I apologize for only sending a tweet last night during the police search activity in OldTown Laurel. My smartphone lets me forward tweets to the email lists but the formatting gets corrupted. This caused a lot of confusion for people on the email lists. Kudos to Joshua Garner at laurel.patch.com for getting some information out to the community last night 30 minutes after the helicopters were in the air. Breaking news a...
