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Dorchester ends alternative education contract in middle, elementary schools
CAMBRIDGE — Four months since the Dorchester County Board of Education voted to terminate its more than three-year contract with an alternative education program for high schoolers, the board has decided to terminate its one-year contract with an alternative education program for elementary and middle school students. At a Board of Education meeting Thursday, the board unanimously voted to terminate it’s contract with Transforming Lives for convenience. The service provided alternative education for up to 48 Dorchester County Public Schools elementary and middle school students...
Talbot Board of Ed approves funding for capital projects, discusses turf field status
EASTON — Following a lengthy discussion last month on the conditions of athletic fields in the district, the Talbot Board of Education moved forward Wednesday in deciding how to allocate available funds toward capital projects, including field improvements. Talbot County Public Schools has $1.5 million in fiscal year 2025 funding from the county meant to put toward capital projects, leaving the decision up to board members on which projects receive that money. ...
Talbot not alone facing criticism on elections
ANNAPOLIS — As local election boards work around the clock to recruit and train workers before early voting starts next week, some Maryland counties are facing pressure to hire more Republican election judges. Elections officials across the state told Capital News Service they are still working through the challenge of hiring an equal number of Republican and Democratic election judges, who administer the vote and then count ballots. “Parity is...
Property owners learn about potential compensation for Rails to Trails
HURLOCK — Landowners with property adjacent to future Rails to Trails projects may be entitled to compensation, according to attorneys from Missouri-based law firm Lewis Rice. The law firm is representing about a dozen Mid-Shore residents who have signed onto a lawsuit seeking compensation from the federal government for potential trail projects. A handful of people sat in the Unity-Washington United Methodist Church on the evening of Oct. 14 to...
Queen Anne's County High School gets school security grant
CENTREVILLE — Queen Anne’s County High School has recently been awarded $70,000 to pursue the hiring of the district’s first School Security Employee (SSE), according to Joe Saboury, coordinator of school safety and security. As of August, the district received funding from the Maryland Center for School Safety School Resource Officer (SRO) Adequate Coverage Grant under the 2018 Maryland Safe to Learn Act, Saboury said. This funding allows school districts...
Baltimore’s case against Anne Arundel gun shop that sold thousands of ‘ghost gun’ kits to head to trial
Baltimore’s civil case against an Anne Arundel County gun shop that sold thousands of ghost gun kits just a few miles from the city limits will head to trial, a judge ruled this week. Baltimore Circuit Judge Shannon E. Avery rejected a request from Hanover Armory’s attorneys to resolve the lawsuit in its favor without a trial, ruling that Baltimore’s lawyers would get to present their case to ...
New rural health initiative by University of Maryland seeks to fill medical gap on Eastern Shore
EASTON — Medical student Tahreem Riaz said her interest in rural healthcare was established due to the rural community she grew up in Punjab, Pakistan. Riaz is one of six students who has been chosen for the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s new rural health initiative to address the physician shortage on the Eastern Shore. Rural areas in Maryland have notoriously been medically underserved, according to the federal Health...
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