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All stations on the Baltimore City Metro Subway system will temporarily close for an entire weekend. The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration will close all stations on the Metro Subway system beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, May 5, and will reopen them at 5 a.m. Monday, May 8.

Montgomery Parks, part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, received $5.495 million in capital funding for 13 projects from the state of Maryland during the 2023 legislative session. The funding will be used towards park projects in six legislative districts in Montgomery County that include trail and bridge projects, playground and athletic field improvements, sports court and skatepark amenities, community garden and picnic facilities, environmental restoration, and ADA enhancements.

When Prince George’s County Schools CEO Monica Goldson announced back in January that she was tired of a dysfunctional school board and retiring, it touched off a search process laid out by state law. It includes public input, says Erica Berry Wilson the county executive’s point person on the CEO search. “We’re listening to the public, we’re listening to the community. And we’re hearing what they want,” said Wilson, chief of staff to the County Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Education.

Growing up in West Baltimore, Lamar Richards remembers childhood summers playing football on the streets of Sandtown-Winchester and using the $5 his parents gave him — while scrounging for some extra change — to buy a chicken box. Life was simple then, he said. He knew he wanted to leave the city as an adult when it felt like crime was everywhere; when people he knew went to jail or got shot and killed; when gunshots became background noise.

Frederick will receive $80,000 from a regional planning organization to help improve interactions between businesses and pedestrians in the city’s East Street corridor as the area redevelops. The money from the Transportation Planning Board of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments will fund 30% of the design of plans for new sidewalks, bike lanes, and pedestrian crossing improvements where the city is trying to improve walkability and pedestrian access.

The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Monday announced it will host its Educating Leaders 2023 Conference Wednesday through Friday at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Gov. Wes Moore will open the conference Wednesday morning. Osteopathic medicine is the fastest growing sector of medical education with two new proposed medical schools in Maryland, including the proposed Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine at Morgan State University.

The Westminster-based nonprofit Together We Own It has terminated all youth programs and begun laying off staff as of April 6, after Carroll County Public Schools, the county commissioners and the county’s Department of Citizen Services canceled contracts with the group late last month. The organization’s founder and former executive director, Katie Speert, 26, was the subject of a police investigation in February involving alleged sexual solicitation of a 17-year-old minor, according to Carroll County State’s Attorney Haven Shoemaker, but no charges were filed.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a jurisdictional question from oil companies fighting a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by the city of Baltimore over climate change. The Supreme Court’s denial is a victory for Baltimore and for other state and local governments that have repeatedly asked to keep their climate change lawsuits in state courts, where both sides agree the governments stand a better chance of winning large damages than in federal court.