Rona Kobell
Regional Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
Covering Baltimore County for The Baltimore Banner. Filmmaker, professor, longtime Chesapeake Bay chronicler. Mom to two girls and two bunnies. Got a story?
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Rona Kobell
6 hours agoTractor-trailers crash on eastbound I-70A crash closed both directions of Interstate 70 in Howard County for hours Wednesday morning. The Maryland State Highway Administration said I-70 was blocked at Maryland Route 32 in West Friendship. Traffic was detoured around the incident via Maryland Routes 97, 144 and 32.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
Looking for something to do with your mom this weekend? We have options. For musical moms, nostalgic moms, or moms who just want a home-cooked potato dumpling, here are seven things to do this week. Open Mic Night6:30 p.m. ThursdayShare your talents at Stages Music Arts in Cockeysville. Open Mic night has a dynamic new host, Tom Starr. If your mom doesn’t want to take the stage, she can just watch others. Free. TU Symphony concert8 p.m. ThursdayThe Baltimore Banner thanks its sponsors. Become one.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
Dr. Ben Carson — the pioneering neurosurgeon who ran unsuccessfully for president and later served as President Donald Trump‘s housing secretary — faces opposition from neighbors of a northern Baltimore County property he owns over efforts to turn it into a solar farm. Carson and his wife, Lacena, entered into a contract in 2023 to turn 33 of the 47 acres around their $2.4 million home in UpperCo into a solar farm.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
When John met Fritzie, it was not love at first sight. She didn’t like him much at all. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president then; war was raging in Europe. And Fritzie was a 17-year-old safety patrol officer faced with a younger teen who refused to listen when she told him not to cross the street outside of Patterson High School. They fell in love anyway. Much has changed since then. The Civil Rights Act passed. The microwave was invented. Men walked on the moon.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
A Harford County trash hauler “likely committed fraud” by playing fast and loose with landfill dumping rules andfees, costing Baltimore County at least $25,000 between 2022 and 2024, according to a report released today. Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan said she is uncertain how much the hauler pocketed in the tipping fee scheme because the company has refused to comply with a June subpoena to produce records that include customer invoices.
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This was a huge team effort and I am so proud of all of us. The #keybridge collapsed my second week on the job, so it was an early indication for me of how the newsroom could collaborate and work well together.
Super proud of the @BaltimoreBanner for winning an IRE award for our Key Bridge collapse coverage. Judges called it "a colossal effort." At the time, we didn't even have a live blog, but we did have great journalists who know this community and what the bridge meant to it.
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