A Catholic priest resigned from his position on the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center’s board of directors after The Baltimore Sun revealed his role in helping to cover up child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Monsignor Richard “Rick” Woy, a longtime board member at the Towson hospital, delivered his resignation letter Saturday to St. Joseph Board Chairman Gerard Holthaus after giving word Friday that he planned to do so, Holthaus said.

A promotional video for a new dating show, “The One,” airing later this month on TV One, features a couple Baltimoreans will recognize: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and his wife, first lady Dawn Moore. In the two-minute clip, the couple offers up their take on finding lasting love. “My advice to those who are looking for someone to settle down with: It doesn’t have to be that difficult,” the first lady says, seated beside her husband.

“We have Leisure World, and now we have Leggett World. And that is something to celebrate,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Dist. 8) joked as a crowd of dozens of elected officials and county residents gathered in downtown Silver Spring on Thursday morning. Attendees celebrated the opening of The Leggett, a 267-unit, 16-story affordable senior housing complex named for former Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett.

A Shoppers grocery store located along a busy retail corridor in Baltimore County is set to close this summer, but the space may not be vacant for long.The store at 1955 E. Joppa Road in Parkville in Perring Plaza will close on July 15, affecting 49 workers, according to a notice filed earlier this month with the state’s Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification log

The Sandlot is coming back, but you’d better be booking a private party. Beatty Development Group announced Monday that it is bringing back the popular pop-up bar to Harbor Point, but with a catch: Sandlot will be a private event space managed by Canopy by Hilton Baltimore, the nearby hotel. A few public events are being planned for the space throughout the summer, including Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day.

Just a few days after being sworn in as secretary of the Department of Civic and Service Innovation, Paul Monteiro was working Friday to get the service year program — passed by the Maryland General Assembly as the SERVE Act, and a new vision from the governor — established and operational by this October.

 

Nearly 40 years ago, a series of lawsuits were filed by the U.S. Department of Justice and civil rights advocates against Eastern Shore towns and counties with a history of voter discrimination. All of the towns had deep segregationist roots, and all had failed to elect Black candidates to public office, despite having significant number of African American residents.

The Maryland Chamber of Commerce recently published The 2023 Competitiveness Redbook for Maryland, a data-driven snapshot that compares Maryland’s economic health with the rest of the country across various economic indicators, such as population change, employment growth, taxation and economic, fiscal and regulatory freedom.

I knew him for no more than 15 minutes. Maybe 20, tops. He was a clerk at a Canton cellphone store where a friend was inquiring about changing carriers. I just waited in the corner for her, scrolling the internet on my iPhone, while my kid played with a tablet on display. All I knew about him was that he was friendly, efficient and had gloriously thick black hair swirled high in front, like a stylish modern bouffant.

Fort Detrick is a somewhat problematic neighbor for our community. It’s a huge boon to our economy, a job creator and a partner on civic endeavors, but at the same time, it’s a worrisome home to laboratories handling all kinds of scary materials. This reality was brought home again recently by the publication of a new book that lays out new details about a disturbing incident.