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Another Baltimore County post office is slated to close. The Glen Arm Post Office in northeast Baltimore County will suspend service at the close of business on Oct. 4 due to the lease expiring the next day, the U.S. Postal Service told 11 News in a statement. On Oct. 5, retail and post office box service will transfer to the Baldwin Post Office located 3.2 miles away at 13516 Long Green Pike.

A historic marker was put up in Montgomery County, Maryland, to tell the story of a Black neighborhood that was shut down before it was ever built. In 1906, four men bought dozens of acres of land off Wisconsin Avenue. It was going to be an upscale Black neighborhood called Belmont, rivaling Chevy Chase. The planned Belmont neighborhood would have stretched from Wisconsin Avenue at the Friendship Heights Metro Station to Oliver Street.

Montgomery County Public Schools is providing new guidance over how administrators should respond to hateful acts involving its students, reserving contacting police for only the most serious incidents. The school system — Maryland’s largest with over 160,000 students — will now have a “tiered” response system, with the most egregious or violent acts designated as a “level red,” according to the district’s website.

Mayor Brandon Scott’s office called Thursday for an “independent forensic audit” of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, and pledged to withhold for now a requested cash infusion of $1.8 million — casting doubt on the future of the besieged event-planning agency. “The picture presented by BOPA at this afternoon’s board meeting is deeply troubling and raises more questions than it answers,” a spokesman for the mayor wrote in a prepared statement.

Baltimore’s lawsuit against opioid distributors is “the biggest and most important case in the history of this city,” offering a chance to hold drug companies accountable for the hundreds of millions of painkillers they shipped into the metro area and the addiction and overdose crisis that followed, a city attorney told jurors Wednesday.

As Towson prepares for Saturday’s game at 2 p.m. at No. 2 and nine-time Football Championship Subdivision champion North Dakota State (2-1), two members of the 2013 team that lost to the Bison in the FCS championship game on Jan. 4, 2014, said they are encouraged by what they have seen in the current squad.

As pleased as he was by Towson’s performances thus far, coach Pete Shinnick is taking a pragmatic view of his team’s development.

“I think we’re close, but we’re still far away,” he said. “You’ve got to find ways to come out ahead in games like that. Winning close games is what propels a team to the next level.”

Towson at No. 2 North Dakota State

Saturday, 2 p.m.

Dozens of immigrant families who have been resettled in Montgomery County, Maryland, face eviction and may soon be homeless, according to advocates that are working to stop that from happening. The families are from several nations including Syria, Ethiopia, Central and South America, but most are from Afghanistan. Resettlement organizations paid their rent for six months, but the money has run out.

When Dorchester County Public Schools Superintendent Jymil Thompson stepped into a third grade classroom at Sandy Hill Elementary during one of the first weeks of the school year, he saw sheer energy.

Nothing brings out Ryan Arist’s sentimental side like a story that meshes lacrosse and family.While visiting Kenya this summer on a two-week expedition designed to introduce lacrosse to schools around the East African country, he connect particularly with one young man. Vincent Onyongi, a member of the Kenyan national team, was both a counselor for daily camps and a benefactor of Arist’s teachings.