Week in Review: Cranes, Al Roker, Summer Arrives

The week of June 17 started with Father's Day and ended with the 7th annual Edgestock Music Festival.

Marge Neal, Patch Staff

Posted Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:49 am ET|Updated Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:55 am ET

The week of June 17 began with Father's Day, recognized on Dundalk Patch with a series of essays written by Grange Elementary School kindergarten students.

In other news, tragedy struck a Baltimore City home on the city/county line near Dundalk when Bruce Wagner, 51, died in a house fire on Eastbourne Avenue.

Seagirt Marine Terminal welcomed four 14-story, state-of-the-art cranes that took two months to ship from China to Baltimore; the first day of summer arrived Tuesday and was ushered in by a two-day mini-heat wave with temperatures close to 100; and NBC weatherman Al Roker, in Baltimore to cover Star-Spangled Sailabration activities, visited Costas Inn to sample some of the restaurant's crabs.