A bounty of food. That is what you’ll get at most wedding receptions, banquets and gala dinners. Event planners and caterers tend to buy too many nibbles and cook more than needed, usually by as much as 20%, because the one thing they don’t want is to run out. That is a major no-no. That […]
Young farmers from around the state gathered together to pack 5,000 meals for families in need on the lower shore during an event at Maryland Farm Bureau’s 104th annual convention. The organization’s Young Farmers Committee spearheaded the donation effort as part of Farm Bureau’s Harvest for All program. The program has worked for the past […]
Imagine if sleeping were to get you thrown in jail. Or sitting and lying down in public. Or camping. Or snoozing in your car. In cities across the country, that is exactly what is happening to homeless people who engage in these activities. In an effort to clean up their cities and make residents and […]
California leaders and advocacy groups share federal officials’ alarm over the state’s outsize role in that trend. But there’s significant disagreement over how to tackle the issue as the president singles out cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles as problems, clashing with a liberal state that often fights his policies. The figures are from single-night surveys […]
Candles flickered in the dark outside the Baltimore County courthouse after the sun went down Saturday, the beginning of the longest night of the year. “God, open our eyes to see, and our hearts to care,” the group assembled there prayed aloud. They were there to remember the 42 people who died in the county […]
It is a common sight this time of year—Amazon delivering packages, but this time it’s some of Baltimore’s 4,000 employees of the company helping it deliver 2,000 so-called “boxes of smiles” to those who need them the most in the city. “This includes toys, gifts, items of personal care and so and so forth,” said […]
ANNAPOLIS — Cecil County’s only emergency homeless shelter got a large infusion of programming funds on Monday, Governor Larry Hogan’s office announced. The Hogan administration is awarding $1.4 million total for three counties to assist Maryland’s homelessness prevention efforts, with Cecil County’s Meeting Ground being awarded $376,656 to hire staff to implement a coordinated point […]
Amazon is partnering with the Maryland Food Bank to make sure every child in the state is fed. They donated $30,000 worth of food to Dundalk Middle School Food Pantry and held a special event to teach families how to make delicious and affordable meals. Volunteers from the Baltimore-area Amazon fulfillment centers helped make it […]
