The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) announced on Feb. 12 that all the days students are missing from school shouldn’t have to be a complete wash—it’s trying to turn the snowstorm into a “service learning” opportunity for the state’s schoolkids by encouraging local school districts to offer service-learning credits to students who participated...
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Snow Shoveling = Service Learning for Maryland Kids
No Trash Pickup Through Monday, Feb. 15
According to press releases from the Baltimore Department of Public Works, Bureau of Solid Waste, there will be no trash, recycling, or bulk-trash pickup for the rest of this week due to our “extreme” (i.e., infuriatingly disruptive) snowstorms. There will also be no trash pickup Monday, Feb. 15, because it’s a holiday—President’s Day—and pickups...
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BPD: Just Stay Home
This just in from the Baltimore Police Department: Don’t drive anywhere today. Not that you were planning to, right? Seriously, public transportation isn’t even running today. The city has also implemented “Phase III” of its snow-emergency plans, which means no vehicles on city roads, except for authorized emergency vehicles. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake is...
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