Last fall, Hagerstown officials asked the Washington County Community Lobbying Coalition for help in securing state money for a needed study of water system needs. The coalition is a group spearheaded by the Greater Hagerstown Committee and the Washington County Chamber of Commerce to support local interests with the state government. And the water study was an issue with broader implications than just for the city, as more than half of Hagerstown’s water customers are outside the city limits.

A beloved Baltimore beer will be sold at Oriole Park at Camden Yards this year for the first time in seven seasons. National Bohemian will be back on tap at the ballpark for the upcoming season, the Orioles announced Monday. The beer, which left the stadium in 2016 much to the dismay of O’s fans, will return in a special baseball-themed orange can that can only be found at Camden Yards. The ballpark will also have some other changes for the upcoming season, including new food offerings from local partners.

Mayor Brandon Scott delivered an election-year last State of the City on Monday night, spending more time touting victories within the past three years and pitching residents on political stability in City Hall than announcing new policies. Before a crowd of officials and supporters at Baltimore Center Stage in Mount Vernon, Scott used his last State of the City address of this current term to tell residents to stay the course with his administration, which has overseen a reduction in homicides and nonfatal gun violence, “while maintaining integrity.”

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.Dist. 8) announced his long-awaited endorsement of Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) in the race for U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-Md.) seat, ending months of speculation about who he would support. Raskin announced his endorsement in a video posted to Alsobrooks’ campaign social media pages on Monday. “She’s going to deliver for the people of Maryland every day … at the same time as she’s defending democracy and freedom from Donald Trump and the MAGA right,” Raskin said in the video.

 

Harmer’s Town Art Center, Inc., is one step closer to its goal of becoming a first-of-its-kind regional art facility and art incubator in Havre de Grace after receiving $3.35 million in federal funding to begin rehabbing a vacated Market Street space. The nonprofit arts center aims to renovate a 34,000-square-foot space at 119 and 123 Market St., which will become its new home.

I have spent my entire career with Peter Angelos and I’m now about to retire after 58 years of law practice. I have been fortunate enough to be at his side throughout the entirety of the wild ride our careers experienced. While I’ve been with him for the legal and business achievements, including the acquisition of the Baltimore Orioles, I’ve also been with him for his myriad contributions to the lives of Baltimoreans and Marylanders that few people will ever know about. He wanted it that way.

Fifth-grade teacher Melissa Carpenter works a 10-hour day on average during the week, and her job sometimes requires her to put in hours on weekends, too. “I feel like teaching is one of those jobs where we go to work to do more work — to do work after work,” said Carpenter, who teaches at William B. Wade Elementary School in Waldorf, in Charles County. Carpenter’s long hours are far from unique among Maryland’s educators, as the state and nation grapple with a teacher shortage.

 

Every Tuesday evening, Hannah Choi jumps online to join two-dozen high school students for lessons in advocacy. They are all interns with BIPOC [biracial, indigenous, people of color] Montgomery County Green New Deal, a program created by the nonprofit National Institute for Peer Support, which organizes the weekly training workshops. It’s here where Choi and her peers learn to strategize to advance the environmental and social change they want to see.

In June 2022, a month after human monkeypox cases began spreading around the world, Baltimore City Health Department workers looked to scale up their inventory of test kits, informational handouts and vaccine supplies to prevent the infectious disease from gaining a foothold in the city. Within a month, the World Health Organization would declare the spread of the disease a global public-health emergency, and President Joe Biden’s administration followed suit a month later.

At 6 feet, 7 inches tall, Harry Dunn towers over most people. So it’s fascinating to watch this retired U.S. Capitol Police officer talk to prospective voters at the opening of his congressional campaign headquarters in Ellicott City. “Hello, how are you?” he says, leaning down to shake hands and smile. “So nice to see you.”