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Baltimore City sued for allegedly unconstitutional tax sales
Maryland Legal Aid filed a federal lawsuit against Baltimore City on Tuesday in an attempt to reform policy on tax lien certificate sales, which the legal organization claims is unconstitutional. to recoup unpaid property taxes. The highest bidder pays, at minimum, the amount of the lien in exchange for a tax sale certificate, which provides them the ability to own the property upon filing a ...
Phoenix Upper Main owner aims to sell 300 memorial bricks from 2018 flood
In 2018, the historic red brick wall inside the Phoenix Emporium‘s dining room collapsed, devastating the restaurant that had yet to fully recover from another Ellicott City flood two years earlier. Now, owner Mark Hemmis is offering up some of the bricks from the former restaurant space as souvenirs for a $40 donation. All funds raised will go to community charities. Hemmis remembers the ...
Carroll schools spent millions more than budgeted on health insurance, as they saved on salaries due to teacher shortages
Carroll County’s public school system spent $5.6 million more than anticipated on employee medical insurance last fiscal year, which was counterbalanced by less-than-budgeted spending on teacher salaries due to a staffing shortage. Superintendent Cynthia McCabe said last month that cost-saving solutions would be considered to reduce the amount spent on employee health benefits in the future. ...
Hopkins study: Regular vaccine boosts may help immunocompromised people fight COVID
For people who are the most susceptible to the damaging effects of the coronavirus, regular booster doses of a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine can help them fight the virus, according to a new Johns Hopkins Medicine study. In the study, published Tuesday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, Hopkins researchers worked with 76 people who had received solid organ transplants and take ...
Rye Street Tavern in Baltimore Peninsula set to reopen July 15
Rye Street Tavern, the waterfront restaurant at Baltimore Peninsula, will reopen later this month after an extensive renovation. Clyde’s Restaurant Group, a Washington, D.C.-based operator that took over Rye Street Tavern in May 2023, signing a long-term lease on the 12,000-square-foot space, said the updated and overhauled restaurant will reopen July 15. The “reimagined” Rye Street Tavern ...
Orioles catching prospect Samuel Basallo to play in MLB All-Star Futures Game
For the second straight year, the Orioles will have a teenager in the Futures Game. Samuel Basallo, the No. 2 catching prospect in baseball, was named to the American League’s roster in the MLB All-Star Futures Game later this month — a showcase of the sport’s top minor league talent. Basallo, 19, follows Jackson Holliday, baseball’s top prospect, after the middle infielder participated in ...
3-year-old boy shot and killed in Columbia, Howard County Police say
Howard County Police are investigating the shooting of a 3-year-old who was found with a fatal gunshot wound Monday inside a home in Columbia. The shooting is believed to be accidental, police said in a news release Tuesday. The 3-year-old boy was with his 5-year-old brother and his parents at their home on Harpers Farm Road at the time of the shooting. Police said a handgun was unsecured in ...
After 2 fireworks-related deaths last year in Maryland, fire marshal warns about unpredictability
Debra Robinson has heard parents express regret many times about allowing their children to play with fireworks around the Independence Day holiday. “‘Wow, I turned away for a second, two seconds,'” Robinson recalled some parents saying as they brought a child to the emergency room for care. “The guilt that’s there and that you will never be able to take that back, that is such a devastating ...
Baltimore recognizes one-year mark of Brooklyn Day mass shooting that left ‘scars and trauma’
The smiling face of Aaliyah Gonzalez, surrounded by balloons, beamed at her friends and family in a Glen Burnie Park as they commemorated the one-year anniversary of her death in Baltimore’s largest mass shooting. Employees from the Starbucks where the 18-year-old had worked passed out cold drinks and a few young men stripped off their shirts to compete in a basketball tournament staged for ...
Baltimore region fails to win $70 million federal tech hub funding
The Baltimore region’s designation as a federal tech hub was dealt a blow as it missed out on up to $70 million in funding that business leaders hoped would spur additional investment and help create tens of thousands of jobs. Baltimore and seven surrounding counties were chosen in October along with 30 other cities or regions for the federal Tech Hubs Program. That enabled the area to compete ...
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