One of Greater Baltimore’s fastest-growing public companies is partnering with the firm behind the popular gunshot detection software ShotSpotter to continue its expansion into law enforcement. Columbia-based Rekor Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: REKR) is blending its license plate recognition technology with SoundThinking Inc.’s ShotSpotter gunshot detection product.

Looming shortfalls to pay for transportation projects and education reforms will again be top of mind for state and local officials as they — along with much of the state’s government and politics ecosystem — descend on Ocean City for the annual Maryland Association of Counties summer conference. “A lot of people are scratching their heads wondering, ‘Is the state budget really in crisis or is this something we can wade through?’ ” Michael Sanderson, MACo’s executive director, said in a phone interview Tuesday.

The next phase of a long-struggling development in West Baltimore is imperiled yet again. La Cité Development was supposed to break ground on an age-restricted apartment complex for older adults this year. Instead, the developer missed a key financing deadline. Now, a Boston-based firm is suing to claw back its $13.1 million investment — and take control of the project.

For years, communities around the D.C. region that struggle with too much airplane noise overhead have been working to reduce those stubborn sounds that annoy residents. Now, there’s been a breakthrough. A new flight path just took effect last month, reducing plane noise in neighborhoods along the Potomac River, north of Reagan National Airport in D.C. and up into Montgomery County, Maryland. The change was first reported by Axios.

T. Rowe Price Group Inc. definitely shed its quiet company image with the new scoreboard sign at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The interactive sign screams “Look at me” with thousands of mini LED lights, an energy bar that can measure crowd noise and a color-changing border that allows the Orioles to display anything from a sonic boom to flaming mountains. Gable Signs, the company behind Baltimore’s iconic Domino Sugar sign, isn’t exactly known for being subtle.

An entrepreneur’s journey can be lonely, but Brittany Veney doesn’t believe it has to be. In fact, Veney, 34, started B. Real Creative Studio with the intention of working with other business owners. She creates unique brand identities, providing anything from logos and style guides to social media templates and websites. “I recognize the challenge of the everyday nine-to-fiver who has a dream or a passion but feels like they simply don’t have the time or the resources,” she said. “I am that resource to do the task they don’t have time for so they can see their dreams come true.”

Blue Water Baltimore and Ascension St. Agnes Hospital unveiled the construction of two watershed restoration practices July 30 that they hope will reduce the pollution and flooding from the hospital’s property. The area affected includes nearly three-quarters of an acre of the property, and more than a half-acre of pavement from the Ascension St. Agnes Hospital into the Violetville neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore.

It’s been a long, hot summer in many respects for Hagerstown. But on the last day temperatures broke 90, a storm was brewing — and not just from the remnants of Hurricane Debby. For weeks, tensions had been growing over a rash of shootings — two of them fatal — and continuing struggles with behaviors associated with opioid addiction within the city.

Former county police Chief Marcus Jones, now the newly minted chief of security and compliance for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), released a letter Monday to the school district’s families that clarifies his role and goals, and shares that he looks forward to “supporting our new superintendent’s vision for a safer MCPS.”

The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved $11 million in Bay Restoration Funding for qualifying wastewater treatment plants across the state, including more than $545,000 for facilities in Frederick County and its municipalities. Under the Bay Restoration Fund law of 2004, a portion of the funds collected by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) from wastewater treatment plant users can be allocated to local facilities that meet the state’s threshold for removal of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from treated effluent.