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Several federal housing officials were in Hagerstown on Wednesday for the "unveiling" of Kilpatrick Woods, a development in the city's West End being created with manufactured housing and touted as a new concept for affordable workforce housing. What's new about the concept for Kilpatrick Woods is creating a community with manufactured housing in which the homebuyer also will own the land underneath the home and have access to affordable mortgage programs, developer and EquityPlus LLC Partner Tom Heinemann said in an interview after the ceremony.

Lifeguards in Ocean City, Maryland, will begin an intensive eight-day training academy this week to prepare for big crowds on Memorial Day weekend. Before swimmers hit the shore, the beach patrol is reminding them of a rule that’s posted on all of the lifeguard stands: don’t dig deep holes. “You could be digging and suddenly without warning, it can all just give way and pile in,” said Ocean City Beach Patrol Captain Butch Arbin.

Historic Annapolis considers itself a guardian of the city. The nonprofit preserves the physical remnants of history, but also something less tangible: the way one of the oldest towns in America looks. So when the mayor proposed a $10 million, glass-walled maritime welcome center at City Dock — placing it right atop an $88 million public works project to protect downtown from climate-driven flooding — it got their attention.

The ship that caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge to collapse in March, killing six construction workers, is expected to move soon, with officials setting a target of early next week for the refloat. Moving the ship out of its current position is a critical step in Key Bridge Response Unified Command’s current efforts to reopen the Patapsco River’s main 50-foot-deep, 700-foot-wide shipping channel, which has been closed since March 26.

Maryland drivers have felt the impact on traffic in the weeks following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. There's new federal data that supports that feeling. "The rush hour now starts at, I would say 2:30 p.m., instead of the 3 o' clock hour," a driver named Kris said. "I do notice a lot more traffic on I-695," driver Edward Brunson said.

On the opening day of striped bass fishing in Maryland, recreational anglers and charter boats ventured out onto the Chesapeake Bay, but not all were enthusiastic about the start of the season. New regulations set by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) aimed at bolstering the struggling rockfish population in the Chesapeake have left some captains and guests apprehensive.