10 quick tips for updating your kitchen or bathroom
Kitchens and baths are the two areas of a house that can have the most impact on resale value. Why? These rooms are used often and typically cost the most to update. How do you stage your...Read More »
MARYLAND SELLING SUCCESS STORY:
Ten days to a sale
It may have been 90 degrees outside when Nat and Celia Giacobbi moved to Charlestown in June, but the 16 inches of snow that blanketed their Arlington, Va., home this past winter was in the back of...Read More »
22 December 2009
When Howard and Renee Dintzis started toying with the idea of moving from their three-bedroom Guilford house of 48 years to a maintenance-free community like Oak Crest, they instantly knew it was the perfect...
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22 December 2009
You could say that John and Mary Oxenham’s hobby is for the birds, but the truth is, the unique birdhouses they create bring just as much joy to the people who receive them as the birds who...
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Redefining retirement
While her retired Oak Crest neighbors are drinking their morning coffee and working out in the fitness center, Renee Dintzis is heading to work at the Johns Hopkins University School of...Read More »
Oak Crest Handbell Choir rings in fifth year
Five months after Joan and Brooks Hubbert traded in their Towson home and moved to Oak Crest in Parkville, it was clear as a bell something was...Read More »
Making spirits bright
Jimmy Mullis and nine of his neighbors are helping to make this a holiday to remember for local youth. For the last four months, the Charlestown volunteers have been hard at work sawing, sanding, assembling, and painting wooden toys they will donate to Toys for Tots, a program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve that offers toys to children in need at...Read More »
Down under for the holidays
This Christmas, while the rest of us are lacing up our snow boots, Sheila Eberhardt, a 77-year-old grandmother of 13, will be slipping on her sandals and enjoying shrimp on the barbie. Eberhardt is spending the holidays down under in Brisbane,...Read More »
Charlestown authors discover their words get sweeter with age
American writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin once said, “When a writer talks about his work, he’s talking about a love affair.” For accomplished writer Eugena Collier, that love affair is a lifetime of short stories, essays, and poems in a collection titled Breeder and Other Stories, which was featured at the second annual Charlestown Writers...Read More »
Learning is a two-way street
What could a retired Catholic schoolteacher stand to learn from a high school student? A heck of a lot, if you ask Joan Klug. Klug was part of a technology workshop that took place between Oak Crest, a 60-plus community in Parkville, and the Institute of Notre Dame, a high school in Baltimore City. The workshop...Read More »
One week, five offers
This Thanksgiving, Harold and Dorothy Moors have a lot to be thankful for. With the help of Erickson Realty & Moving Services, they were able to sell their Glen Burnie home of 59 years in less than a week—for more than they asked. “We knew we were getting to a point where we couldn’t take care...Read More »
Maryland communities’ mission: keep costs low
In a year riddled with foreclosures, layoffs, and stock market losses, you may think it would be difficult to find reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. But if you’re one of the 3,000-plus men and women living at Charlestown or Oak Crest, you’ve got at least one good reason to count your blessings: predictable monthly...Read More »
