Druid Hill Park is turning into a holiday wonderland. Baltimore City Recreation and Parks will soon have a new attraction to get you in the holiday spirit. More than 250,000 lights on more than 200 displays will illuminate the mile-long path in Druid Hill Park to form Charm City Lights. The lights will be displayed from December 5 through January 1 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. WJZ is a proud media sponsor of Charm City Lights.
A steady stream of sick babies and worried parents started flowing into Dr. Monique Soileau-Burke’s exam room in late October. Many were infected with respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, a common contagion that spreads in colder months and infects the lungs and can be dangerous for the very young and for older adults. While RSV has gotten off to a slower start this fall than last year, when hospitalizations from the virus in Maryland spiked by 200 in just one month, overwhelming health care centers and leaving parents frantic, the virus is still spreading faster and infecting more children than it did in a typical winter before the pandemic.
Baltimore’s Planning Commission is set to hear the first public debate Thursday over legislation to allow a massive overhaul of Harborplace. The panel has scheduled a 2 p.m. hearing to air feedback on three proposed bills before the City Council that would allow the large-scale redo of the Inner Harbor landmark to move forward by MCB Real Estate under a $500 million private investment. MCB, led by co-founder P. David Bramble, acquired the landmark property that sits on public land in July for an undisclosed price.
A deadline is looming at the end of the year for Maryland to decide whether to keep or replace the troubled, for-profit company that provides medical care in state prisons and the Baltimore City jail complex. For the past five years, a company formerly known as Corizon Health has been responsible for treating more than 15,000 people incarcerated in state prisons and about 2,000 people being held in the city jails and other pretrial facilities in Baltimore.
As Tesla prepares to start shipping out its new Cybertruck to customers this week, the electric car company has been making the vehicles available to see in person at showrooms across the country, including at the Tesla store at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Maryland. The truck looks like a tank from the future with a massive windshield, huge tires, shatter-resistant glass and a stainless steel exterior.
Downtown Annapolis, Maryland, floods a lot. Sometimes the flooding, classified as nuisance flooding, is just that, a nuisance that might get your shoes wet. But there are times when the waters can rise several feet, surpassing sandbags set up in front of doorways on Dock Street, where business owners have to pump the water back out of their stores. “I’ve been in my kayak and I paddled up to those businesses where we’ve had these big floods and looked in the window to see how many inches of water are the on the floors of Storm Brothers or Armadillos or Dock Street,” Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said
Sheetz is planning two new stores with gas stations in the Hagerstown area, including one at the site of an old Sears store being demolished. It’s too early to provide specific details about the Sheetz planned at the Longmeadow Shopping Center, according to Sheetz Public Relations Manager Nick Ruffner. Construction is underway at the former Sharrett auto dealer site at Dual Highway and Mount Aetna Road for another new Sheetz, according to Ruffner.
For the sixth straight year, more women than men are pursuing juris doctor degrees, a trend that is even more pronounced at Maryland’s two law schools. An American Bar Association report released today that profiles the legal profession nationally finds that men still outnumber women in the legal profession — but that the gap is closing because of the strong tilt toward women enrollment in the nation’s law schools.
Ocean City officials voted this week to transfer $6.9 million from its unassigned fund balance. On Tuesday, the Ocean City Council voted unanimously to transfer $6,943,000 from its unassigned fund balance to three reserve funds, a risk retention fund and a vehicle trust fund. City Manager Terry McGean said the transfers would put Ocean City in a better financial position in the coming years.
The Frederick County Council is considering legislation that would allow people who are not registered to vote in Frederick County to serve on certain boards and commissions. Since 2012, an ordinance passed by the Board of County Commissioners — the precursor to the County Council — required that members of all boards and commissions be residents of Frederick County who are registered voters.