Chilly water didn’t discourage many on a recent Sunday evening at the Druid Hill Park swimming pool. Kids launched off the diving board, taking swan dives into the deep end. A group raced one another back and forth along the grass nearby. As temperatures cooled near closing time, families climbed into minivans while straggling teenagers searched for what to do next.

Medifast Inc. is laying off 83 people at its longtime distribution center in Caroline County as part of larger operations cuts brought about by a continued slowdown in demand for its products. The Baltimore-based dieting and wellness company filed a notice with Maryland’s Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) log this week saying it will lay off 83 people at the facility at 601 Sunrise Ave. in Ridgely, effective Aug. 13.

“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.” That’s what Hal Holbrook, who portrays the shadowy informant Deep Throat in “All The President’s Men,” says about the botched burglary and subsequent coverup that culminated in Richard Nixon’s resignation. Fast-forward 50 years, and the same could be said of the hide-and-seek hijinks of former President Donald Trump and his “body man” Walt Natua as they scrambled, Benny Hill style, to stay one step ahead of the federal agents searching for the alleged national security secrets stashed willy-nilly around Mar-a-Lago.

Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman toured various businesses in Frederick on Tuesday, then answered questions from the Frederick County Council. Frederick is Lierman’s ninth stop on her “Branching Out” tour, in which she is visiting comptroller branch offices across the state. Lierman is the state’s first female comptroller, and first woman to be elected to an independent state government office in the state.

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states seizing and selling property to collect unpaid taxes were in violation of the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment if they kept more than what taxpayers owed. In Tyler v. Hennepin County, a 94-year-old woman in Minnesota had stopped paying property taxes on her condominium after moving into an assisted living facility. By the time Hennepin County seized the property, the woman, Geraldine Tyler, owed about $2,000 in taxes and another $13,000 in penalties and interest.

In the coming decade, Frederick County will need to replace one aging high school and add a new high school, as well as build more elementary and middle schools as the system copes with the exploding numbers of students. Many millions of dollars will go into new construction for the school system. Then we will have to hire staff members for all of those new schools — administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, coaches, secretaries and janitors. That means many, many millions more every year for education, just to stay in place.

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin thinks it’s time to expand the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional law scholar and Montgomery County Democrat who is considering joining the race for U.S. Senate in Maryland, Raskin said Tuesday he believes the court has lost its legitimacy through a series of conservative appointments, decisions and scandals — and that the only way to fix it is by adding more members to its ranks.

After a nearly yearlong service disruption that reduced the frequency of its trains, the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration restored regular weekday light rail service earlier this spring and brought on more operators. Yet state data shows that while on-time performance metrics have begun to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, the number of light rail riders dropped off earlier this year, the most recent MTA data shows. Meanwhile, ridership on most other forms of public transit has increased over the same period.

Romy Pittman’s last day at Annapolis High School was Wednesday. She packed up after four years of teaching U.S. history and headed for the door one final time. While teaching at one of Maryland’s most diverse, complicated schools, Pittman proved herself a mentor for teachers and students. But that last drive from the school parking lot onto Riva Road wasn’t the end of her 30 years in education.