(Left to right) Shoppers peruse vinyl records at a VinylCon! event; Howard County Executive Calvin Ball; Demonstrators gather for the second No Kings day of protest.
(Left to right) Shoppers peruse vinyl records at a VinylCon! event; Howard County Executive Calvin Ball; Demonstrators gather for the second No Kings day of protest.

Last week, we shared an update about Columbia’s Lakefront Library plans, efforts to keep Baltimore’s Top of the World Observation Deck open, the second No Kings day of protest.

Revisit the stories here:

Officials and community members gather for the SAIL250 Maryland and Airshow Baltimore announcement that took place in June at the Top of the World Observation Deck in the Baltimore World Trade Center. Photo credit: Ed Gunts.
Officials and community members gather for the SAIL250 Maryland and Airshow Baltimore announcement that took place in June at the Top of the World Observation Deck in the Baltimore World Trade Center. Photo credit: Ed Gunts.

BOPA rebrands as Create Baltimore, aims to collaborate with the Living Classrooms Foundation to keep the Top of the World Observation Deck open past November“: BOPA/Create Baltimore and Living Classrooms Foundation representatives confirm that theyโ€™re working together on a plan to keep the observation deck open past this fall but caution that itโ€™s not yet a done deal.

Man in dark gray suit jacket speaks outdoors behind a podium.
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball speaks to crowd about plans for the Lakefront Library Central Branch and affordable housing units. Photo via Ball’s official Facebook page.

Columbiaโ€™s Lakefront Library and affordable housing plans back on track“: Since the 2023 plans were unveiled, the Lakefront Library project’s future was shaky, but it is back on track, along with affordable housing.

A locomotive was once used on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. Photo credit: James St. John/Flickr Creative Commons.
A locomotive was once used on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. Photo credit: James St. John/Flickr Creative Commons.

Bad Day at Woodbrook“: On a warm Saturday afternoon in 1920, a freight and passenger train traveling on the old “Ma & Pa” railroad collided head-on, leaving two trainmen dead.

Vinyl enthusiasts peruse records at a VinylCon! event. Photo courtesy VinylCon!
Vinyl enthusiasts peruse records at a VinylCon! event. Photo courtesy VinylCon!

VinylCon! record fair coming to Baltimore this weekend“: VinylCon! will make its Baltimore debut on Oct. 25 and 26 at UNION Craft Brewing. Organizers expect it to be Maryland’s largest record fair this year.

People protesting the Trump administration lined Baltimore National Pike for No Kings day in Catonsville on Saturday.
People protesting the Trump administration lined Baltimore National Pike for No Kings day in Catonsville on Saturday. Credit: Dan Rodricks

Dan Rodricks: Along the national pike in Catonsville, No Kings demonstrators shared the โ€˜music of democracyโ€™“: No Kings demonstrators this weekend were reminiscent of anti-draft and anti-war protestors of the Sixties and Seventies, writes Dan Rodricks.