By KHUSHBOO RATHORE Capital News Service Stephanie Jovine of Charles County has struggled to get child care for her daughter Lily. (Jess Daninhirsch/Capital News Service). When Stephanie Jovine searched for child care for her nearly 4-year-old daughter LuzMarie in Prince George’s County in 2015, she found two options, both of them bad. Jovine couldn’t […]
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By KATELYNN WINEBRENNER and LAURA SHAUGHNESSY Capital News Service Halfway through her 12-week maternity leave last summer, Sarah Haddaway didn’t expect the trouble that would accompany her search for child care. After unexpected rejections from one fully booked child care facility after another, the lifelong resident of Maryland’s western panhandle began calling every provider she […]
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BY: ELIJAH PITTMAN – JUNE 14, 2024 Republished with permission from Maryland Matters, https://marylandmatters.org/ Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would like to see his longtime antagonist, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, win his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat this fall. The support was quickly welcomed – by state Democrats, who are working hard […]
Read More...North East, MD With the final votes counted, the Cecil County Board of Elections has designated Adam Streight the winner in his bid to be the Republican nominee for County Executive. Mr. Streight received 7,445 votes, exceeding his opponent, County Executive Danielle Hornberger by 907 votes. In her first run for a county political office, […]
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by Mitch Scher Wilmington, DE April 9, 2024 As the line in the movie, ‘Field of Dreams’ goes “People will come” and they did on Friday April 5th in the home opener for the Wilmington Blue Rocks. More than 3,000 folks from Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland were present at Daniiel S. […]
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By TAYLOR NICHOLS and ADRIANA NAVARRO Capital News Service Behind The Blueprint is a series from the Local News Network at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Northern High School had never had a career counselor. Not until Christian Wargo walked through its doors. In September, Wargo became the Calvert County high […]
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By AIDAN HUGHES and DARANEE BALACHANDAR Capital News Service Behind The Blueprint is a series from the Local News Network at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Fifth-grade teacher Melissa Carpenter works a 10-hour day on average during the week, and her job sometimes requires her to put in hours on weekends, […]
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BY MARIJKE FRIEDMAN AND NATALIE WEGER March 7, 2024 Behind The Blueprint is a series from the Local News Network at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Pre-K in Maryland: Participation varies widely by county The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future aims to make pre-K much more widely available to every 3- and 4-year-old in the […]
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ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 11, 2024) – Maryland Department of Agriculture The Maryland Department of Agriculture has taken a significant step in its ongoing efforts to control the invasive spotted lanternfly. The department has announced the expansion of its spotted lanternfly quarantine zone to include two new counties – Charles and Garrett – effective immediately. This […]
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Behind The Blueprint is a series from the Local News Network at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. BY KIERSTEN HACKER, CHRISTINA WALKER AND ELA JALIL, March 4th, 2024 ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s Democratic-led legislature passed the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future in 2021, vowing to pour billions of dollars into the state’s public schools to offer […]
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