Around Maryland

“flows. flip. daring.” The Frederick County Division of Fire & Rescue Services used just three words to pinpoint an injured person’s location and rescue them by the Monocacy River about a week ago. Fire and Rescue and the Department of Emergency Management have used a word-based location tool called what3words for the past few years to find people who call for help.

A soon-to-open museum in downtown Salisbury is set to receive a financial boost. The Maryland Heritage Area Authority has awarded a $35,800 grant to the Museum of Eastern Shore Culture at Salisbury University to help with interpretation and accessibility. The award is earmarked for audio guide software, iPads and adjustable stands, material for sensory-friendly exhibits, interpretive signage in gallery spaces, a braille labeler and materials for a community art project, and to design and build an accessible reception desk.

Charm City wants to know if Artscape is cursed. The superstitious among us are secretly wondering if some festival organizer stepped on a crack in the pavement or walked under an errant ladder. All we know is it’s just been one thing after another with Artscape these last few years. A witch’s coven could not be summoned and requests for comment went unreturned.

Hagerstown officials are hoping to open the new Hub City Garage for business on Tuesday, with a grand opening scheduled for Wednesday. Some minor work was still being done at the parking deck, including artwork scrims being installed on the windows in the stair towers, City Engineer Jim Bender said in an email last week.

In the aftermath of intense weekend storms, Baltimore City crews on Monday were still clearing out more than 150 trees that fell on roadways. Utility crews were also responding to power outages, many of which were caused by downed trees and branches. As of 3:20 p.m., more than 4,800 customers were still affected, according to Baltimore Gas and Electric Company.

A Baltimore resident tried to save the life of a city public works employee who knocked on her door for help before dying from overheating. A Baltimore City Department of Public Works employee dropped off a co-worker, Ronald Silver II, at his car before Silver sought help from a resident who lived in a house just steps away.

This football season, all La Plata Blue Knights flag football players and cheerleaders will wear a patch with the No. 9, but that jersey will not be on the field. The youth team will wear the patches to honor their former player, Declan Hicks, a 5-year-old who died Friday night while playing in a moon bounce at a Southern Maryland Blue Crabs baseball game.

Nothing mattered to Janice Sallis-Mustafa after they pulled the naked body of her 16-year-old daughter from the river. She quit her career as a home nurse. She sold the rancher outside Charlotte, North Carolina, to stay with family. Thirteen years went by; a mother doesn’t get over the anguish, not ever. The brutal attack on another young woman has now shaken the fragile life that she rebuilt.