Around Maryland

The legal tug of war over vacant waterfront land in Westport between a developer planning a community and the operator of proposed high-speed rail will likely go to trial later this summer, after a postponement Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court. A Baltimore jury had been scheduled to begin hearing arguments Monday about the value of the 43-acre tract that Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail LLC seeks to take through eminent domain.

The Parking Authority of Baltimore City announced Monday that it is relocating its office. The office at 200 W. Lombard St. will be closed Friday, July 14, and Monday, July 17. It will reopen to the public at its new location at 211 N. Paca St. on Tuesday, July 18. Free parking for the new location will be available at the Market Center Garage at 221 N. Paca St., next to the new location. Visitors should request validation during their visit.

When Amtrak’s new generation of high speed Acela trains arrive, Baltimore and Penn Station will be ready. Construction crews are completing a new platform, with an overhead canopy, stairs, elevator and enclosed pedestrian bridge on the Lanvale Street side of Baltimore’s main passenger rail terminal. Amtrak is testing the new locomotives and coaches of its latest generation of premium, high speed equipment due to arrive late this year.

Most Baltimore teens look forward to summer’s warm days after the school year ends. But the season can bring a sense of anxiety and even dread as the city’s violence often ticks up — with it comes increased scrutiny on how teenagers and young adults spend their time. And after a mass shooting at a block party in South Baltimore’s Brooklyn neighborhood last weekend where the majority of the victims were teenagers, the need to create safe, welcoming spaces for young adults in the city has only become more urgent.

Large commercial vehicles will be banned from residential streets in Frederick, after a vote by the city’s aldermen Thursday night. The vote revises a city ordinance to eliminate weight restrictions as a standard for prohibiting vehicles and instead use definitions for commercial vehicles from the Maryland Code.

Safe Streets returned to Baltimore’s Brooklyn neighborhood on Friday to provide outreach in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting. The violence-interruption group was at Brooklyn Homes for the Brooklyn Day block party on Sunday, but its members were not there at the time of the shootings that killed two people and injured 28 others.

Starting this fall, first and second graders in Frederick County Public Schools can no longer attend class online. The Frederick County Board of Education voted to remove those grades from the district’s Remote Virtual Program last month. The move saved the system $903,427, as the board struggled to balance its budget for fiscal year 2024.

The calls came in over the Baltimore Police radio suddenly and all together. ”All units be advised,” a male voice broadcasted early last Sunday morning, ”there’s a shooting call.” It was just after 12:30 a.m. and people had been shot — it was impossible to tell how many — all over the Brooklyn Homes public housing complex. Within three minutes of the first calls, another came in for the same area, the 800 block of Gretna Court.