BALTIMORE – The memories pour out with bittersweet smiles when you talk to some Baltimoreans about Memorial Stadium, which is being reduced to a pile of rubble

BALTIMORE – A wrecking ball is scheduled to reduce Memorial Stadium to rubble by September to make way for a retirement community

COLLEGE PARK – A month-and-a-half after University of Maryland students and others set about 60 fires that caused thousands of dollars of damage to the City of College Park, the city and the university seem to have chalked up the episode as a learning experience

CATONSVILLE – Louis Diggs was teaching students at Catonsville High School how to research their roots when he realized they weren’t coming up with anything, because nothing relevant was written where they could find it

SPARROWS POINT – The last two residents of Sparrows Point have been flushed out

GRANTSVILLE – It’s early May, and the tulips are out, but spring has yet to arrive in full bloom in Garrett County

CROFTON – Lisa Eliot watched last summer as three neighbors without children sold their homes to families with children

BALTIMORE – Raymond Johnson, who spends 10 to 12 hours a day working as the assistant manager of the Stop, Shop & Save, had to stop and search his memory when asked about the race of customers

ABERDEEN – To the Census Bureau, the section of Aberdeen sandwiched between Route 40 and the Aberdeen Proving Ground is an almost-perfect demographic reflection of the state of Maryland

LANGLEY PARK – It’s 10:30 a