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2024 Baltimore Running Festival: First-timers Willy Fink, Sara Kenefick win marathon
First time running a marathon? No problem. Willy Fink, 30, of Gaithersburg, and Sara Kenefick, 23, of Charlotte, North Carolina, won the men’s and women’s marathon at the 2024 Baltimore Running Festival on Saturday. The pair finished the race in 2 hours, 21 minutes and 38 seconds and 3:03:42, respectively. Fink opened up a significant lead over the rest of the pack about 90 minutes in and finished eight minutes ahead of the next-closest runner. Alexander Loper of Abingdon (2:29:50) and Louis Levine of Arlington, Virginia, (2:31:14) finished second and third, respectively, in the men’s marathon, while Simiao Li of Princeton, New Jersey, (3:07:10) and Michelle Johnston of Dayton, Ohio, (3:07:50) followed Kenefick in the women’s race. The Baltimore Running Festival marathon, which included slight tweaks this year to the path, such as a new turn at Light and Pratt streets and a detour by Lake Montebello to avoid an ongoing sinkhole repair, is internationally certified allowing runners to use their results to qualify for other races such as the Boston Marathon.
University of Maryland celebrating Homecoming
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (DC News Now) — It is homecoming weekend in the DMV for several schools including the University of Maryland. On Friday morning, homecoming kicked off with a food truck festival on campus. Several trucks were showcasing different kinds of foods. Organizer Emily Berman from Resident Life said it is a great way to […]
Getting literacy instruction right for immigrant students
As the state Board of Education considers a new literacy policy, it needs to make sure it's equitable and culturally responsive for the multilingual students who make up 12% of the student body and are the fastest growing school population.
Flint Hill, Potomac School have catching up to do in Va. private-school football poll
The first statewide Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA) Division I private-school weekly high-school football poll for the 2024 season has been released, with no local teams ranked among the […]
October 2024 TMP: Raise my Taxes Edition
In what has become a sad sort of annual tradition here in Howard County, parents of students attending overcrowded and under-maintained schools testified in front of the Howard County Board of Education last month on why the limited capital funds available for school construction be prioritized to maintain, modernize, improve, and/or expand their own child's school building (inevitably at the expense of another needed school investment). It’s cut-throat competitive over limited capital funding that should not be.
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