On a four block stretch in Catonsville, salons make the cut

After a decade as a hairdresser, Amanda Hancock didn't think she would open her own salon.

For a long time, what she had — freedom, a great job and a steady clientele at a salon in Locust Point — was "good enough," she said.

Then came the day in August, when Hancock, a 30-year-old who lives one...