Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and Baltimore City officials unveiled strategies to keep young people occupied and out of trouble once school is out, which includes enforcement of the curfew law. This year’s summer youth engagement strategy looks much like last year’s. “Our approach this year is informed by lessons learned from last summer,” said Stefanie Mavronis, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement.
Heading into the summer travel months, during which nearly half of Maryland roadway deaths last year occurred, Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller on Wednesday called for responsible driving and reiterated that drivers speeding or being reckless near work zones will soon face steeper fines. More work zones across the state, of which there are about 300 on any given day, are also expected to soon have automated speed cameras.
Memorial Day weekend kicks off the summer tourist season in Ocean City each year, and businesses and property owners have spent weeks getting ready for 2024’s onslaught. The Eastern Shore town, with a year-round population of 7,000, expects as many as a quarter-million visitors on peak summer days ahead. There’s a plan to widen Route 90, and a proposal for a new sports complex as well as expanded downtown bus service.
Gaithersburg’s Adventist HealthCare could wrap up its deal to acquire D.C.’s Howard University Hospital in 2024. That’s what Adventist’s outgoing CEO, Terry Forde, told me Wednesday, confirming the Gaithersburg nonprofit’s intention to buy the academic teaching hospital it’s been running since early 2020, which he called “a very valuable institution.”
Towson-based Sylvan Learning is laying off dozens of workers just months after being acquired by a Texas franchise portfolio company. Sylvan Learning notified 48 workers on Tuesday that they will be laid off after 60 days, according to a Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) log filing and a company spokesperson.
A Montgomery County wine company is raising money to expand its retail footprint and eventually open a tasting room in Greater Baltimore. Boyd Cru Wines wants to raise $124,000 through community investors to help its various growth efforts throughout the region. The 1-year-old company hopes to establish a brick-and-mortar space and a community marketplace in Greater Baltimore and expand its distribution.
People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major American city. In the past six years, nearly 6,000 lives have been lost. The death rate from 2018 to 2022 was nearly double that of any other large city, and higher than nearly all of Appalachia during the prescription pill crisis, the Midwest during the height of rural meth labs or New York during the crack epidemic.
A solemn holiday to honor those who died fighting for the U.S. armed forces, Memorial Day weekend brings events and celebrations across the D.C. area. Here’s what you need to know. Memorial Day is also the unofficial start of summer, which means many area swimming pools are starting to open.
A $30 million Security Square Mall revitalization project in Baltimore County is now in its design phase. Community leaders are working with a design team to reimagine the mall and bring more foot traffic to the area. Haki Ammi told WJZ that he’s lived across from Security Square Mall for more than three decades and he held his first job there while in high school.
Ports America Chesapeake President Mark Schmidt is ready for the next chapter. He showed WJZ projects that have been underway since the collapse of the Key Bridge largely shut down port access—including electrifying diesel equipment to operate the cranes and extensive repaving. They are silver linings to the tragedy. (Photo: CBS Baltimore)