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Family of Hae Min Lee to appeal Baltimore judge’s decision to free Adnan Syed
September 29, 2022 -

The brother of Hae Min Lee submitted notice to the Maryland courts that he intends to appeal the decision last week to overturn the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit podcast “Serial.” Steven Kelly, the attorney for Young Lee, filed notice Wednesday of his intent to appeal the decision to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. The Baltimore Banner obtained the notice.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Report details alarming levels of toxins being dumped in Md. waterways
September 29, 2022 -

Industrial facilities dumped at least 94,000 pounds of toxic chemicals, including PFAS, into Maryland’s waterways in 2020, according to a report released Wednesday by the Maryland PIRG Foundation. The startling and sobering report, “Wasting Our Waterways,” takes statistics from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory for 2020 and puts the health of Maryland’s waterways in the context of broader national environmental trends. “Our children deserve a safe and healthy future,” said Maryland PIRG State Director Emily Scarr.

Read More: WTOP
New Md. area code ‘227’ may premiere in 2023
September 29, 2022 -

Maryland telephone users may have to grapple with the area code “227” as early as next year because available numbers with familiar area codes such as “301” and “240” are running out, officials said Wednesday. In a statement, the Maryland Public Service Commission said “227” will serve the same geographic area as “301” and “240” after it approved a request from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) last month.

Read More: Washington Post
Baltimore City teachers, prospects say the district’s hiring and certification processes make it difficult to get hired
September 28, 2022 -

Some Baltimore City teachers say the process of getting hired and certified for a teaching job is slow and frustrating, forcing some candidates to turn away from the city system and accept jobs in neighboring counties. While part of the difficulty is the pace of processing applications through the district’s Human Capital Office, teachers say Maryland state certification rules also make getting the necessary credentials too complicated. The complaints come at one of the worst possible times for the school system. This spring and summer the system went on a hiring spree to replace hundreds of teachers who had left and to fill some 600 new positions that were created when tens of millions of dollars in new federal and state funds flowed into school system coffers.

 

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Let’s dish: Wings for the Ravens vs. Bills, vegan eatery moving and changes at Columbia lakefront
September 28, 2022 -

Welcome back to “Let’s dish.” This week, I’ll recommend an Ellicott City spot for soup dumplings and give you the rundown on a Black-owned vegan restaurant planning to merge with a bookstore in Waverly, as well as a new seafood restaurant preparing to fill the hole left by Clyde’s in Columbia. But first, let’s prep for Ravens game day. Chicken wings are required eating for any football game in my book, but especially when the Ravens are playing the Buffalo Bills. Ahead of this Sunday’s matchup, I went on Twitter to ask readers where to eat wings near M&T Bank Stadium.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
BOPA’s leader pledged to ‘dim the lights’ on Baltimore’s outdoor arts festivals. Now the city feels left in the dark.
September 28, 2022 -

The head of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts once pledged publicly to “dim the lights a little” on Baltimore’s beloved outdoor arts festivals. City residents will find out next month what that means for Artscape, a supersized extravaganza that has been the centerpiece of the city’s festival season for four decades. When Donna Drew Sawyer, BOPA’s chief executive director, unveils the details of the 2023 Artscape at an Oct. 20 news conference, it will cap an at-times intense battle over the future of the festivals that has been fought in government offices, at public meetings and behind the scenes for the past six months.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
With new MedStar Health pitching lab, Orioles hoping to find ‘best version’ of organization’s arms
September 28, 2022 -

Austin Voth’s time with the Orioles has taught him a great deal about who he is as a pitcher. Last week, he headed to Bel Air to see if the organization could help to answer another question. “Am I being the best version of myself,” Voth wondered, “or is there another version of me that I can be?” On the third floor of MedStar Health’s Bel Air campus, he took the first steps toward finding out. Instead of performing his between-starts bullpen session at Camden Yards, Voth worked through each of his pitches off the mound at the Orioles’ new pitching lab. Opened this summer in partnership with MedStar Health, the lab will help the team optimize its pitchers’ deliveries, for both performance and injury prevention, through the use of motion capture video and other tools.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
NASA makes deep impact on Baltimore brothers with an invitation to asteroid crash
September 28, 2022 -

In a swift swoop, former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin picked up young Aden, who gazed at the various patches on the man’s collared blue jumpsuit. Noah, Aden’s older brother, watched the encounter as dad and mom snapped a picture. The family joined the elite astronaut, scientists, the European and Italian space agencies and a mob of media for an evening in Laurel to watch a NASA spacecraft collide with a 525-foot asteroid. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, is one of the first missions that attempted to change the path of an asteroid by slamming into it at 14,000 miles per hour. Scientists will use results to develop future protections against asteroids that are potentially harmful to Earth.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
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Baltimore County executive, school superintendent announce pay raise plan
September 28, 2022 -

Baltimore County Public Schools employees will get salary increases this year under a $76 million plan announced Tuesday by county and schools leaders. But the plan will come at a significant cost to the school system, one that has still not been identified. It also commits the school system to cutting its budget by $19 million next school year to continue to pay for the raises. Of the $76 million, about $30 million will come from a school budget surplus from last fiscal year and another $46 million from one-time federal COVID-relief funds.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Talks underway for state to remain at Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant longer than expected, officials say
September 27, 2022 -

Maryland and Baltimore City officials are holding “deliberative conversations” about whether state staffers can remain at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant beyond the expiration of an agreement forged earlier this year, according to a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment. The sewage treatment plant in eastern Baltimore County seemingly complied with limits for how much pollutants it can release under its state discharge permit in June, July and August, said Jay Apperson, spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment, which would trigger the end of the state’s involvement under a consent agreement negotiated with the city. But that is still being reviewed, and the two parties are discussing continuing the arrangement.

Read More: Baltimore Sun

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