Marylanders have an opportunity to see how sap was tapped from trees over time to make maple syrup. Brittany Roger, the manager of school programs at the Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills, gave 11 News a demonstration of how tribes would tap for sap in the Northeast thousands of years ago. “We can only tap in a time of year when the night temperatures are below freezing and the daytime temperatures above 40,” Roger said.
An envelope of loose seeds. A forgotten reel labeled “Thurgood Marshall.” A mysterious locked filing cabinet belonging to an influential publisher. Plenty of such unexpected treasures and time capsules tend to accumulate within a newspaper’s headquarters over the years. The cache amassed by the longest-running Black family-owned newspaper is another matter.
The Biden administration said Thursday it is providing $970 million for improvements at 114 airports around the country — including two in Maryland — with work ranging from wider concourses and new baggage-handling systems to new terminals at some small airfields. Administration officials said the money comes from a $5 billion grant program to modernize airport terminals. Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is slated to receive over $14.5 million to replace up to 14 passenger boarding bridges.
Industry groups and clean-energy advocates have hailed a multimillion-dollar partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy, the states of Maryland and Massachusetts and leading research institutes to establish a center of excellence for offshore wind energy. The announcement comes as multiple states struggle to implement offshore wind projects and ensure that the clean energy transition is reliable and equitable.
Developers of the 235-acre Baltimore Peninsula mixed-use community in South Baltimore said Thursday that they have awarded nearly half of the construction work in the project’s first phase to city-based women- and minority-owned businesses. More than $134 million in contracts have been awarded to firms with those designations, developers said in a new report measuring the project’s economic, environmental and social impact.
For decades, Prince George’s County taxpayers have prioritized children by setting aside revenues to supplement state and county contributions to Prince George’s County Public Schools, including overwhelming support for a casino revenue lockbox for education. Now, two last-minute bills — HB 396 and HB 398 — would ignore the will of Prince Georgians and redirect other revenue currently locked for education, putting more than $60 million in critical funding for PGCPS at risk. Instead of unlocking our students’ potential, politicians want to unlock the funding they need to succeed.
The noon sky above the Chesapeake Bay shoreline in Annapolis was dull gray Thursday. The water was gray, too. Together, they stretched the flat five miles east toward the dreary gray smudge of Kent Island visible on the horizon. A tiny gray house stood behind the eroding shoreline. Maybe it was once white, but it isn’t much to look at now — a ramshackle collection of sagging rooflines, tilting chimneys, peeling paint and torn screens.
Baltimore will make the case for why international businesses should invest in our city during the inaugural Baltimore Region Investment Summit on June 27, the Greater Baltimore Committee announced Thursday. The local event will be a spinoff of the United States Department of Commerce’s SelectUSA Investment Summit, a foreign direct investment conference that aims to attract international businesses to invest in U.S. growth markets.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday that the league is committed to getting the Orioles’ sale to Baltimore native David Rubenstein closed as quickly as possible. “We’re working on the internal processes that need to be completed before the transaction can close,” Manfred said in his annual start-of-spring-training availability. “There’s lots of documents that need to be reviewed and whatnot to make sure they are in accordance with our rules.”
A Baltimore accounting firm is urging cannabis companies to prepare for a change in federal law that could result in millions of dollars in tax refunds. Vadim Ronzhes, tax director at Towson-based Rosen, Sapperstein & Friedlander, is advising cannabis firms across the state to file a protective claim with the IRS because the federal government faces several legal actions and new regulations that could change how the nascent industry is taxed.