Residents on the eastern side of Frederick County can weigh in on possible plans for a bicycle and pedestrian trail to connect Frederick, New Market, and Mount Airy. Officials from the county’s Division of Planning & Permitting will host a meeting on Nov. 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. at New Market Middle School to hear from the public about the plan.
With two quarters of campaign finance reports in the books, it’s time to take stock of fundraising in the Congressional District 6 race. This series will explore where the candidates’ money is coming from as of 9/30/23. The data source of this series is the campaign finance information collected by the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC). The chart below shows total fundraising for each candidate from the FEC’s CD6 profile. Democrats appear in blue bars and Republicans appear in red ones.
While the Montgomery County Board of Elections voted Oct. 16 to approve the addition of mail-in ballot dropboxes at Montgomery College campuses for the 2024 presidential election, one member opposed the decision, citing college students’ political activity. “College campuses have historically been hotbeds of unrest,” Diane Nash Dillon, a Republican member of the body, said during the Oct. 16 board meeting. “Everybody knows the demographics or as in the political makeup of college campuses are heavily skewed in favor of one party … I’m categorically opposed to placing dropboxes on college campuses.”
Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is headed to trial next week, and the judge overseeing the case agreed to limit some of the prosecution’s arguments at a pre-trial hearing Monday. But the defense didn’t get everything it was seeking, and other issues remain unsettled. Mosby was originally charged with perjury and making false statements on a mortgage application, with prosecutors alleging she lied about suffering an “adverse financial consequence” related to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to gain early access to retirement funds, then used that money to purchase vacation homes in Florida, and, in doing so, lied in related paperwork.
A Mount Vernon Marketplace vendor will give up its stall at the end of the month but will soon have a space of its own. Fishnet owners Keyia and Ferhat Yalcin are in the final stages of purchasing a building in Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood and plan to open their full-scale restaurant and a new food truck by next summer. The seafood eatery, which started as a restaurant in College Park, used the Mount Vernon market to test out business in Baltimore, Keyia Yalcin said. After around four years in Mount Vernon, Fishnet will own its next spot instead of leasing space for various locations.
The Worcester County Sheriff’s Office will soon be moving to encrypted radio communications. Like a growing number of police departments nationwide, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office will be transitioning in January to encrypted radio communications. Sheriff Matt Crisafulli says the change is meant to keep law enforcement officers safe. “I understand that this is not a popular decision, however; it is a necessity for the preventative safety of our law enforcement officers,” Crisafulli said.
Officials from the Baltimore Orioles and the state government unveiled the outlines of a future lease for the team at Camden Yards with great fanfare this fall. We know the two sides have agreed in principle on a number of terms for the ballclub to remain at the state-owned Oriole Park at Camden Yards: The term would be for 30 years, the team would pay no rent but take over routine operations and maintenance costs, and the team would be allowed to redevelop areas including the B&O Warehouse, the Camden Station building and a strip of parking lots between the warehouse and train tracks.
Carroll County public schools officials have made final decisions on 10 of the 58 books that Superintendent Cynthia McCabe ordered removed from library shelves last month amid challenges from the Carroll County chapter of Moms for Liberty. “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” by Sarah Maas, and “Water for Elephants,” by Sara Gruen, were both banned from school shelves by the decision of the superintendent-appointed Reconsideration Committee on Sept. 15.
Candace Dodson-Reed joins Center Maryland’s The Lobby podcast to discuss her work with heralded UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby, life in Downtown Columbia, Maryland, and serving as the chair of Merriweather Arts and Culture Center (MACC owns Merriweather Post Pavilion).
Months after six construction workers died as the result of a high-speed collision on the Baltimore Beltway, work is ramping up again on the congested road’s median as the state highway department issues changes designed to make the work zones safer. Criminal and safety investigations of the March 22 crash remain ongoing as the new phase begins on the northern section of I-695. Meanwhile, another probe of the Woodlawn work zone recently concluded the job site failed to give motorists proper notice of gaps in the barriers.