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Orioles fans cheered Thursday night when the club announced in a videoboard message that the team had agreed with the State of Maryland on a deal to keep the club O’s in Baltimore for the long term. The current stadium lease extension is set to expire Dec. 31. No details were provided at the game. On Friday, representatives of the club and Gov. Wes Moore said they had signed a “memorandum of understanding,” containing a series of agreed-upon terms as a precursor to a lease.

You've heard about putting money away for retirement, but there's another key financial milestone for many of us. By the time it happens, we're left with nothing in the bank. It's having a child, and when that baby arrives, if you haven't already started setting money aside, you are behind. Raising a child is a marathon, not a sprint, as any parent knows.

When she was a kid, Bianca Collins was shy and flew under the radar. She was bullied about her appearance in elementary and middle school, which damaged her self-esteem in ways that persisted into her adult life. She was “too afraid to open up” at the time, Collins said, and teachers and other school staff mostly failed to pick up on her internal struggle.

The first cheer from those gathered Monday morning at Camden Yards for Brooks Robinson’s public memorial came when, during a replaying of the legendary third baseman’s Hall of Fame speech, he thanked the city of Baltimore. Robinson once said that the greatest highlight of his career was not any of his individual accolades — of which there were plenty, including his famed 16 straight Gold Glove awards — but having played for one team, Baltimore, each year of his career.

Baltimore City officials expect an update in the next 24 hours after a tiny concentration of a microscopic parasite was discovered in the Druid Lake Reservoir. The city anticipates getting results by sometime Tuesday from the latest round of sampling at Druid Lake, which will show whether the measurement of cryptosporidium in the open-air drinking water reservoir has changed since an initial sample from Sept. 19 flagged the presence of the parasite.

For more than 80 years, Bi-Rite, a family-owned grocery store on Bel Air Road, gave residents of Northeast Baltimore a place to buy affordable produce, send money and cash checks. But by the time a community health worker snapped a photo of the site where the store once stood for a report published Monday in the health policy journal, Health Affairs, all that remained of it was a towering red, white and blue sign.

The City of Annapolis revealed its highly anticipated design for a new City Dock Welcome Center Sept. 20, a project aimed at protecting the downtown area from frequent flooding. nThe proposed design was presented to the City Dock Action Committee to get feedback on the plans. The Welcome Center — which will cost about $59 million — would replace the current harbormaster’s office with a new two-story building that will consolidate many of the existing properties including the recently acquired Burtis House near the waterfront on Prince George’s Street.

October not only means leaves falling and cooler temperatures, it’s also time for fall immunizations, and drive-thru flu shot clinics are opening for Carroll County residents this week. Maggie Kunz, health planner with the Carroll County Health Department, noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends as many people as possible to get the flu shot this year, to reduce the number of hospitalizations from influenza infections.