Watch Out Heaven by Jake Hamilton // Marked by Heaven

From Jake Hamilton's album 'Marked By Heaven.' Check out the whole thing on iTunes, it's glorious and worth every cent.

More heat, more storms, more sweat

10.06.11
Over in Queenstown, in Queen Anne's County on the Eastern Shore, they reported more than an inch. A little thunder, a few flashes of lightning, and not a drop of rain on the WeatherDeck in Cockeysville. Even Hamilton, in Northeast Baltimore managed more than a third of an inch. Columbia, Easton and St. Michaels all saw more than a half-inch of rain in storms. BGE crews went to work and restored nearly 45,000 customers who lost power as a major storm crossed the central portion of ithe utility's  service area. All those Severe Thunderstorm Watches late yesterday and your place got zilch. And then repair crews can tackle whatever the next round of storms brings.



Blue Sundays for Valley shoppers till Two Guys arrived

When the discount retail company Two Guys From Harrison said that day it would open a new store in Whitehall Township, it lit the match on a time-delayed fuse that exploded the nation's "blue laws. "Chain Store Will Build 7th St. Pike Shop Center," read the headline on page 5 of The Morning Call that day. Allentown in 1957 was the last place in America that might have been expected to spark a social revolution. In the end, the repeal of these laws would change how America shopped and lived. The article said that for $230,000, "Two Guys From Harrison" bought 94 acres bounded by Route 145 and Mickley Road....