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    This year's Annapolis Restaurant Week includes options for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
    7 things to do in Annapolis: It’s Restaurant Week. Should you dig in?
    Every year, Annapolis Restaurant Week rolls around and the message is clear. Eat out. But is it worth your time and money? It’s one of seven things to do in the coming week.
    The Old Treasury Building lights up and early winter evening in Annapolis with the State House dome illuminated behind it. The state is restoring the colonial building.
    It’s the Maryland tax hell argument again. This time, it might be different.
    Is Maryland a tax hell? This question has defined the conversation about taxes and spending in Maryland for decades.
    The Naval Academy in Annapolis.
    Naval Academy faculty told to avoid ‘divisive concepts’ like ‘systemic racism’
    After President Trump's recent DEI-focused executive order, Naval Academy faculty were told to stop teaching about systematic racism and sexism.
    Raymond Hill III and Sheila Petree hug after their wedding ceremony at the Glen Burnie Library.
    A novel way to say ‘I do’
    This Valentine’s Day is the first time the Glen Burnie library has hosted weddings within its walls.
    Rooster, our little rescue dog, was officially born on Valentine's Day, 2011.
    Happy Valentine’s Day to my furry little friend, before it’s too late
    Time waits for no dog and, in my heart, love for each of the 14 I've had has merged as I look back. Atop that big stash of emotions, for many reasons, is Rooster.
    Candlelight Concerts, a growing musical venture by Fever Events, plans four performances at Maryland Hall through May.  The first, "Cold Play & Imagine Dragons," is Feb. 14, 2024.
    7 things to do in Annapolis: Candlelight, crystals and comics for Valentine’s Day weekend
    Hundreds of candles surrounding a string quartet sounds nice for Valentine’s Day, and — depending on your taste in music — it might be better if they’re playing Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida.”
    School administrators work hard to ensure that the thousands of means consumed by students across the district comply with the strict nutrional guidelines imposed by the federal government to establish healthy eating habits at a young age.
    Letter: All Maryland students should have access to no-cost meals
    Providing access to healthy meals for all students tears down the stigma and barriers that come with food scarcity and need, writes Mary Kay Connerton, the Anne Arundel County Public Schools coordinator of wellness.
    Marando Warthen looks down the row at his lawyers and others who accompanied him to Wednesday's Board of Public Works Meeting.
    State apologizes, awards $3 million to man wrongly imprisoned for murder
    Marando Warthen won an official apology and $3 million in compensation from the state of Maryland on Wednesday, after serving decades in prison for wrongful murder convictions in 1984.
    Contractors ready the Francis Scott Key Bridge site for demolition and, ultimately, for the construction of a replacement span. Crews began preconstruction activities in early January, and the new structure is expected to be finished in 2028.
    How CCBC plans to train workers to help build the Key Bridge
    The Community College of Baltimore County is launching an initiative to address a shortage of welders needed to replace the Key Bridge.
    President Donald Trump stands on the Navy side of the field to start the second half of the Army-Navy game at Lincoln Financial Field on Dec. 14, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    Citing ‘wokeness,’ Trump says he’s firing boards at Naval Academy, other military colleges
    President Trump says he firing the boards of the nation’s military academies, including the Naval Academy. He claims they have been “infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues.”
    U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen speaks during a rally held by Maryland Delegation Members outside of the Social Security Administration Headquarters, in Woodlawn, Monday February 10, 2025. The rally held was for protecting the Integrity of Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid Amid Reports of DOGE Interference.
    In a constitutional crisis, are Chris Van Hollen’s words enough?
    At every opportunity, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen has been blunt in talking about the Trump administration’s assault on federal agencies, using descriptions such as “corrupt bargain,” “power grab,” and “coup.”
    Annapolis housing authority CEO and executive director Melissa Maddox Evans, flanked by state housing officials, lawmakers and elected leaderes, said she hoped to re-open shuttered public housing units within 12 months. Photographed on Monday, February 10, 2025.
    Annapolis housing authority to receive $3 million bailout to confront ‘financial crisis’
    Leaders of the agency and across the state said they hoped the money would help set the housing authority on the right course.
    The 2023 shooting sparked an outpouring of grief in the Annapolis Latino community.
    Jury selection begins in Annapolis mass shooting case
    Jury selection began Friday for the trial of an Annapolis man charged in an allegedly hate-driven shooting that killed three men and wounded three other people in 2023.
    Del. Dana Jones, left, and Del. Shaneka Henson share a few words after Henson was selected by the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee to fill a vacancy in the state Senate. The meeting was held at the Busch Annapolis Library on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.
    Calls from the governor and a fake elector — inside Anne Arundel Democrats’ four wild weeks
    January ended with the first member of the Annapolis LGBTQIA+ community named to the General Assembly, the first Black woman state senator, accusations of racism, a member removed for faking credentials, and hard feelings all around.
    Families got to enjoy snow days in early January. But students will have to make up the lost time in other ways.
    School’s out: What recent snow days mean for school calendars
    Parents should expect a delayed start to summer or virtual learning makeup days.
    Jabari Jefferson's community tapestry, an a18-foot tall "library" composed of donated materials, forms the centerpiece of Sacred Spaces at The Banneker Douglass Tubman Museum in Annapolis. It opens Feb. 8, 2025.
    7 things to do in Annapolis: Community tapestry forms centerpiece of Black culture exhibit
    The new exhibit at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum features the work of Jabari Jefferson, a D.C.-based artist who collaborated with Annapolis residents for the 18-foot-tall tapestry that forms the centerpiece.
    An Anne Arundel County Police vehicle.
    ‘Targeted’ shooting leaves 24-year-old man dead in Anne Arundel County, cops say
    Anne Arundel County Police are investigating a “targeted” shooting that left a 24-year-old man dead Monday night in Severn.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House after returning from a weekend trip on January 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Over the weekend, Trump traveled to North Carolina and California to survey storm and fire damage, to Nevada for a rally and to Florida to address a Congressional Republican conference.
    Donald Trump and his closed society come for the minds of the Naval Academy
    This is a contest to define America‘s character, how we balance between an open and closed society.
    Brian Ellis was a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he played quarterback for the midshipmen.
    Brian Ellis, Naval Academy grad who died in DC plane crash, ‘would do anything to help people’
    Brian Ellis, a 1993 Naval Academy graduate and former football player, was among the victims of Wednesday night’s plane crash in D.C.
    Dylan Behler, center, is applauded by fellow candidates after being nominated by the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates, during a meeting at Annapolis Middle School on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2025. To the left is Abigail Diehl and to the right is Chrissy Holt.
    Anne Arundel Democrats nominate 26-year-old Dylan Behler to House of Delegates
    Anne Arundel County Democrats on Saturday selected Dylan Behler, a party activist and former General Assembly staffer, as their choice to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates.
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