TOWSON, MD—The Baltimore County Department of Planning’s new Community Planning Institute (CPI) has received a 2024 Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo). The award was announced on Tuesday, June 18, for the innovative and effective county government program that was created to strengthen services for residents. The inaugural cohort of the CPI began in May 2022, and […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A NASA rocket launch will be visible in Maryland on Thursday morning. A RockOn sounding rocket and RockSat-C launch will launch from Wallops on June 18, 2024. The launch window opens at 5:30 a.m. EDT. The project will carry student experiments to suborbital space. These missions provide students with real-world, hands-on opportunities building and launching an experiment. Portions of […]
BALTIMORE, MD—After weeks of steady decline, gas prices have begun to rise again. This trend is particularly evident in Great Lakes states, where prices have spiked in recent weeks. According to data from GasBuddy, the national average price of gasoline rose by 1.0 cents in the last week to $3.41 per gallon. The price of diesel, meanwhile, has fallen by […]
MIDDLE RIVER, MD—The Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability plans to conduct the next round of helicopter application of midge treatment along the Back River next week, Councilman David Marks announced on Thursday. The application is scheduled to occur on Monday, June 17 and Tuesday, June 18. As is often the case, timing will be dependent on changing […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A new phone scam is circulating with the caller claiming to be from the Maryland Lottery is circulating, and the agency is warning people not to answer it. The scam, now reported in Maryland, is causing people to receive a call from 208-334-2600, where the caller says the person has won Powerball, but needs to take action to claim […]
BALTIMORE, MD—With Father’s Day approaching and around 94.1% of married dads working compared to 72.7% of married moms, the personal-finance website WalletHub this week released its report on Best & Worst States for Working Dads in 2024. In order to help dads balance their dual roles as parent and provider, WalletHub compared the 50 U.S. states and the District of […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The FDA has issued a recall of Classic Delight sandwiches over concerns of Listeria contamination. The recall affects individually wrapped sandwiches shipped to distributors in Arkansas, California, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. According to the FDA, the recall was initiated after environmental samples tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious an sometimes fatal infections […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The Fort McHenry Federal Channel has been fully restored to its original size and depth of 700 feet and 50 feet, according to a statement released on Monday evening by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The restoration project was part of a joint effort to reopen the waterways in the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse […]