Drive down most streets in Rodgers Forge, a quaint row house community just north of the city line, and you have to take care not to sideswipe the cars parked bumper to bumper on either side of the street, or the kids darting back and forth, or the adults buckling their infants into car seats. With no driveways and tiny patches of grass that pass as backyards, the neighborhood’s primary, precious open space is located in the center of the neighborhood at the elementary and middle schools that stand side by side on Dumbarton Road: Rodgers Forge Elementary and Dumbarton Middle School. Generations of families have been educated in these buildings, played sports on their fields, sledded down their hills, and enjoyed the shade of their big old trees, some which may date back to the 1700s. Now, the Baltimore County Public School system, or BCPS, plans to bulldoze 35 of these… Read More
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