Three new neighborhood residents were elected to the 22-member BHCA Board of Directors at the association’s annual meeting on May 7: Roosevelt V. Boone, Rochelle Carpenter and Maurice Corbett. They were part of a slate of officers and incumbent board members chosen to lead BHCA this year and next.
BHCA President Lee Tawney named Beth Brenner, Jeff Thompson, Charlie Duff, Davin Hong and Sallye Perrin to a neighborhood State Center Working Group to keep tabs on the sometimes confusing and conflicting plans for the soon-empty campus of public buildings just south of Bolton Hill.
When I was a kid growing up in Austin and the Texas Legislature assembled for its biennial meeting, neighbors used to joke about “locking up our women, children and pets” to fend off the depredations of the hard-partying parttime legislators.
Sen. Antonio Hayes (D-40) told BHCA’s annual meeting on May 2 that he considered the just-ended 445th Maryland General Assembly “particularly historic” and productive.
