. >> i lived at 49 cumberland st., and i do not have a kid at the school but i want to talk in favor of the school. i think the environmental upside of the rooftop garden, it is a great thing for our neighborhood. great things have been happening with the new part, with cleaning its top up and just a lot of positive things. there are not too many places to put a garden, and it seems like a good thing for the kids going to school and the positive thing for the neighborhood. today in the afternoon there was a drum corps making noise. 22 kids, my understanding, and i have been to a couple of meetings at school, is that these kids will be in class, not having a marching band. i feel like it is blown out of proportion in that we do live in a very[t ((tt]yyykykçyúó p darn÷c <° ++ and proportionately, i do not think there is a significant impact, and i am hoping, i am taking them up their words that if there is going to be a late night graves to raise money for the city or something -- late night rave to raise money for the city or something that they will invite us. i know that is light-he

the backyards of the residence and 19th street and cumberland st. from a canyon where any and all noise carries far and bounces around. many of the neighbors work from home as i do. they need and desire peace full treatment. we feel that the students use of social event would impact our quality of life and general welfare and we are strongly opposed to the roof deck. this shows boxes around the perimeter. this would be completely able to be climbed by students of middle school age. we feel that this is unsay for students. we are unaware of any light studies or the timing department to show what the impact of these new subjects would be on the neighbors. these are likely to be detrimental to the amount of light on a nearby property we object to this and we ask that the light and some study completed before the planning commission makes a ruling. >> good evening, commissioners. i would like to thank you for your attention and i would encourage you to adopt the recommendations. the school has done everything we can to cooperate with the neighbors. we'r

an hour, but there are raindrops to be found and very warm across western maryland. 72 in cumberland, 58 in st. mary's county. temperatures generally in the low 60s here for the next couple hours. showers becoming a little more likely in and around the metro area at 9:00 and midnight tonight. up to frederick, maryland, west virginia, hagerstown, those rain showers are making it to the ground and there's more rain upstream from there. those rain showers are about five hours away. that will put them in here at about 11:00 this evening. the heavy rain is to our north for most of the day. umbrellas at the ready for this evening. a fast-moving hit of rain showers and sprinkles around the area. it will be all gone by the time you get to the door of school and work tomorrow morning. plenty of sunshine tomorrow, but a noticeable little breeze. north winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. clear skies and a chilly start coming up on tuesday morning before bright sunshine put this right back up to 70 degrees. passing showers possible, mainly from about 8:00 this evening to about 3:00 in the morning. again, have

st. louis and supported by the timber clads which it worked with the army on the tennessee and cumberland rivers and moved into the mississippi where they helped capture island number ten and had destroyed the confederate river defense fleet at memphis and captured that city in early june 1862. foot had been wounded in the ankle at fort donaldson and by may 1862, his wound was giving him so much trouble that he took a leave and was replaced by charles davis. at the end of june and beginning of july the two fleets met in vicksburg. davis coming down river from above and farragut from below trying to capture the fortress which had then become the principal bastion on the mississippi. deciding to test vicksburg's defenses farragut repeated by tactics by steaming up with broad sides ablazing. porter's schooner standed behind to pound the enemy positions. the river was too difficult to navigate at night at that stage of the water. the river was now dropping so they had to begin this maneuver at dawn on june 28. all but three of farragut's ships made it past the battery at the cost of about ten