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Amid the ever-changing cannabis industry landscape, MariMed, a seed-to-store operation in Maryland, has received top honors in multiple categories at the 2024 Maryland Cannabis Awards. MariMed’s product, Betty’s Eddies, an all-natural cannabis fruit chew, was named Favorite Edible, and Nature’s Heritage, a flower brand, received top accolades for their Rick Simpson Oil. MariMed celebrated its 10th anniversary, a monumental achievement for a cannabis company.

A popular Rockville-based diner chain is moving up the Interstate 95 corridor with a new location in Baltimore County. Silver Diner will open its newest restaurant at 8123 Honeygo Blvd. at the Avenue at White Marsh on May 1. The diner will be the third Greater Baltimore location for the company, which hopes to expand further throughout the area and into Pennsylvania.

Did you see what happened? Are you ok? Were you on the bridge? After taking his first night off in 40 days, Mandel Brown awoke March 26 to a flurry of texts and missed calls. A Maryland native and newly licensed trucker, Brown’s GPS showed that he had been on track to arrive at the Key Bridge at what turned out to be roughly the same time it collapsed. Exhaustion led to a lucky turn of fate: He had decided to rest that night in Virginia and resume his next leg in the morning.

A Maryland-based gym that offers accessible fitness classes and facilities to people of all abilities, is expanding into Northern Virginia. SPIRIT Club founder Jared Ciner said many gyms aren’t designed in a way that allow people of varying levels of physical or mental ability to participate comfortably. “It could be anything from the environment itself — the culture of the gym might not be one that is welcoming,” Ciner said.

Baltimore Public Media is bringing back and expanding the New/Next Film Festival, an event originally conceived as a stopgap measure until the troubled Maryland Film Festival could figure out its plans. Now, with the Maryland Film Festival returning next month, Baltimore film fans will have another chance to celebrate movies this fall as the New/Next festival sets up Oct. 3-6 at the Charles Theatre.

PickleRage, an indoor pickleball club franchisor, Thursday announced its expansion into Maryland with the upcoming opening of a new corporate-operated club in Glen Burnie. The soon-to-be-constructed 26,550-square-foot club will have 10 CushionX courts designed to be joint friendly and be equipped with advanced video recording and livestreaming capabilities.

President Joe Biden’s top economic advisor said Thursday the White House will “make sure gas prices remain affordable” when asked whether the administration would consider tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. “There are of course things that have been done in the past and we’ll continue to very closely monitor, make sure that gas prices remain affordable for so many American families going into the summer driving season,” National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard said at Semafor’s World Economy Summit.

The title of Realtor once meant trust and expertise. But America’s largest trade association has an image problem today — and local members are dealing with the fallout. Greater Baltimore’s roughly 4,700 Realtors are now facing a more suspicious client base, thanks to a $418 million settlement by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in cases that alleged widespread collaboration to keep agent commissions high.