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Mayor Brandon Scott threatened Monday to end the city’s relationship with the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts after its CEO suggested Scott’s office was partly responsible for the nonprofit’s current financial peril. The dispute centers on a $1.5 million state grant given to the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture to help stage Artscape in 2023.

A Montgomery County, Maryland, woman received a first-of-its-kind surgery to repair her ankle — and it was done using only plastic components. Dr. Paul Cooper, an orthopedic surgeon at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in D.C., performed the all-plastic ankle replacement surgery on the 71-year-old woman a week ago.

In the month since Baltimore County Public Schools buses installed cameras to catch drivers who don’t stop when they should, police have issued 3,468 warning citations. The citations have been issued to drivers who don’t stop for a school bus when its red lights are flashing. The Baltimore County Police Department said 3,468 citations had been issued between the first day of school on Aug. 26 and Sept. 23.

Gov. Wes Moore approved the deployment of the Maryland Army National Guard to North Carolina to aid communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. Twelve National Guard soldiers from Maryland are assisting, along with two helicopters and three civilian firefighters, according to a Friday news release from the state’s National Guard.

More Maryland teachers are working this year to attain national board certification and secure the $10,000 salary increase guaranteed by the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future. But teachers say the national process is confusing and time-consuming. Hood College in Frederick is trying to change that. The school has been offering a national board certification course to guide teachers through the process for the past four years.

Tyree Davis IV is a recent arrival to Rockville from the Midwest. He moved to the city in 2022, but he already calls it home. “We are one of the most diverse cities in America,” he says. “The county has some good opportunities, the city has some good opportunities, so I don’t foresee moving, and I’ve enjoyed it thus far.”

Maryland could lose up to $450 million in federal education funds meant to combat learning loss and other difficulties stemming from the coronavirus pandemic if the state fails to designate the funds for use by Monday’s deadline. State-level school officials said Friday that they and local school districts had committed $1.5 billion of the total $1.95 billion Maryland was set to receive from the third round of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund allocations.

Do you remember a cooler end to summer and September? Well, this year was still the second-hottest summer since 1995, according to a Banner analysis of temperatures at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport. The only hotter summer was 2010. This year, the Greater Baltimore area recorded the second-warmest July as the average temperature reached 82.2 and the heat index went over 100 several times.