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Gary Lambrecht

Before becoming a freelance writer and broadcaster in 2007, Gary Lambrecht spent 26 years in the newspaper business, including 21 years as a sports reporter with the Baltimore Sun. He also has written for the Baltimore Examiner, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, U.S. Naval Academy Athletic Association, USA Lacrosse Magazine, and for publications at Johns Hopkins University and Loyola University Maryland, where he has been a public address announcer since 2011 and basketball announcer since 2007. A native of Baltimore, Gary is a graduate of Archbishop Curley High School and Towson University. He currently resides in Monkton.

Ss. Philip and James parishioner warns of deadliness of social isolation

November 13, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, Local News, News, Seniors

During his formative years as a medical student, Dr. Thomas Cudjoe, an assistant professor in the division of geriatric medicine and gerontology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, was inspired in part to study aging closely after observing how his older landlord was living her life.

Accident damages property at Edgewater parish; Marian statue spared

August 27, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

Soon after a single-car crash occurred late on the night of Aug. 4 on the grounds of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Edgewater, it was clear to Father Zack Crowley and Eileen Thaden that the damage was extensive. And that the hand of the Lord might have been at work.

High school students give a week to giving back

July 25, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, Schools

A group of 20 local high school students donated a week of their summer vacation to help brighten the days for strangers in need.

‘Unflappable’ pastor who shepherded major parish projects ready to retire

July 2, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations, Western Vicariate

If you listen to people who work at Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City and interact with Monsignor John A. Dietzenbach, its pastor since 2009, you hear of a dedicated Catholic who is the picture of work ethic, selflessness, humility, positivity and deep love for his parish and the Holy Trinity.

Govans parish has 175-year history of ‘valuing differences’

June 25, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Parish Anniversary 2024

Not even the anger and sadness that have hit the congregation since the archdiocese finalized the Seek the City to Come plan that includes the merger of St. Mary with the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Dec. 1 – during St. Mary’s 175th year – can keep the parish family from appreciating what it has had together.

Resurrection parish has new worship space, same 50-year spirit of welcome

June 19, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Parish Anniversary 2024

Church of the Resurrection, with 2,400 registered families, is linked to history that dates to 1838, when St. Paul (Resurrection’s “mother church”) was founded in Old Ellicott City, where it remains today. St. Paul and Church of the Resurrection became a pastorate in 2019.

Resurrection finds it was worth wait as parish celebrates renewed church

May 20, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

The culmination of a long wait for a new worship space finally happened for patient parishioners May 17 in Ellicott City, where 700 filled the fully renovated and reconstructed Church of the Resurrection to celebrate a new beginning.

At Notre Dame of Maryland, men and women navigate historic change at formerly all-women’s university

May 9, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News

Men were welcomed at the historically all-women university for the first time 1975 in the school’s Weekend College for adult undergraduate students and they were welcomed into graduate programs beginning in 1984, but the university did not go fully co-ed until this academic year.

Notre Dame Prep mural brings 150-year history, spirit alive

March 19, 2024
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

Notre Dame Prep’s community mural project, which has attracted the participation of current NDP students and parents, faculty, staff and alumni, officially was announced to the Towson school’s community in November.

Archdiocese of Baltimore’s gun buyback effort takes 362 firearms off the streets, promotes peace and hope

August 7, 2023
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, Local News, News

The archdiocese raised more than $50,000 to finance the buyback event. Police officers exchanged cash and gift cards for weapons retrieved from the trunks of vehicles that formed a continuous, long line for several hours, wrapped around Edmondson Village Shopping Center.

Baltimore food support programs feel pinch after federal assistance benefits end

June 5, 2023
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, St. Vincent de Paul Baltimore

Over the past two months, Kenisha Jenkins-Lee, a program manager with Catholic Charities, has seen growing evidence that the number of people running low on food is on the rise.

Men urged to be on fire for faith at Catholic Men’s Fellowship of Maryland conference

March 28, 2023
By Gary Lambrecht
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Men, News

More than 600 men filled most of the pews and spent March 25 reaffirming their faith at the Catholic Men’s Fellowship of Maryland’s 2023 annual conference.

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