Category: Around the County
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The Cloudy and Controversial Reopening Plan for Anne Arundel County Public Schools During Covid
UNCERTAINTY, DIVISION, AND CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAGUE PLANS TO REOPEN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY SCHOOLS Less than a month before students are set to return to classrooms, Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS) and its stakeholders remain divided over the hybrid education plan and timeline to reopen schools. Concerns abound regarding the transparency of…
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Reimagining Public Education in Anne Arundel County
We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate, and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all…
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Deale Community to March
A peaceful protest supporting Black lives [Deale, MD, October 24] – Community members of all kinds will gather on Saturday, October 24th at 12-2 pm to march in support of Black lives in South County and all across the United States. This peaceful event follows a successful event held in August in Shady Side, as…
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Chesapeake Life Center Offers Outdoor Workshops for the Fall
Chesapeake Life Center offers outdoor workshops for the fall (PASADENA, MD, Sept. 15, 2020) — Chesapeake Life Center has found new ways to offer its popular community programs, helping people cope with loss by taking them to the great outdoors. The center is adapting to changing COVID-19 restrictions by planning outdoor activities that allow people to…
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DC Teens Action is Reinventing Youth Activism in the DMV, with Gabrielle Zwi Leading the Charge
Millennials and Gen-Z have given themselves a reputation for progressive values and powerful activism. However, the various changemakers often forget one very crucial step: talking to each other. At least, Gabrielle Zwi believed that to be the case. DC Teens Action was founded by the twenty-year-old Rockville native to unite the DMV’s abundance of student…
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Doris vs. The Pandemic
Frequently confronted by these four contenders, the prey has been able to choose, through deceit, her own sparring partner. This time she is forced to give careful consideration to each one. Her first contender, the Sword, pierces with truths of “Judge not, that you may not be judged. Do not be wise in…
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Board of Ed Candidates on How They Would Handle Education in the Time of Coronavirus
In Anne Arundel County, voters in Council districts 2, 3 and 6 will have many important choices to make on Election Day. Among these choices will be new races, for seats on the County Board of Education, as it transitions fully from an appointed to an elected body. In a continued effort to help voters…
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An Interview with William Rowel about Annapolis’s proposed Civilian Review Board
William: This is William. Andrew: Hey, William. How are you? It’s Andrew from The Patriot. William: Oh, how are you? Oh, Andrew, that’s right. Andrew: Yeah, yeah. How’s it going? William: I am so crazily on the grind that I really … That’s so funny. Good morning. Andrew: Yeah. How are you? Hope I’m not…
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Breonna Taylor/Black Lives Matter Ground Mural Coming to Annapolis
Large scale mural project honoring the life of Breonna Taylor to bring awareness of the Black Lives Matter Civil Rights Movement to end Police Brutality and Systemic Racism WHAT: Future History Now (FHN) in partnership with Banneker-Douglass Museum and The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture are collaborating with local youth on a…
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Arundel Profile: Gerald Winegrad
If information were water, Gerald Winegrad would be a tidal wave. The shear amount of data and passion he has would baffle those who say they are announcing they are “going green.” A sampling of his quotes would include… “The bay area forest has gone from 95% of land cover to about 48%.”…