In the thick of it: Workers with DC Concrete, from left, Jose Zalaya, Nelson Vega, Juan Pena and Walter Cruz create a concrete walkway on S. Fremont Avenue at the construction site of a Wexford Science & Technology biomedical research building under construction on W. Baltimore Street. Amy Davis/Staff)Principal Ashanti Porter, right, of Leith Walk Elementary Middle School in Baltimore exuberantly welcomes her students and their families back on the first day of the new school year Monday. The returning “Legends” were greeted by upbeat staffers, with dance music to add to the positive mood. (Amy Davis/Staff)
Xavier Squarrell, 11, receives a haircut from barber Charles Boykin, one of the stylists from Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation who set up a hair salon at Hamilton Elementary Middle School for free haircuts and styling the day before city students return to the classroom. The back-to-school event, sponsored by the Fund for Education Excellence in partnership with the Ravens, included a visit from ILB Roquan Smith, Ravens cheerleaders and mascot Poe, and free school supplies.Victoria Zapata of Odenton dances with her daughter Ruby, 7. Baltimore band Funktopia performed kid-friendly music by Beyonce at the Chesapeake Arts Center this morning as part of WTMD’s Saturday Morning Tunes. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)Mi’Laisha Crawley, 5, of Baltimore enjoys an afternoon at the Belair-Edison Community Health and Wellness back to school event at Herring Run Park. The event was sponsored by Safe Streets Belair-Edison. (Lloyd Fox/Staff photo)
Nala Hammond, 7, left, with her brothers, Jayden Obeng, 9, and Ethan Hammond, 2, tumble down a moon bounce slide at Poppleton’s Back to School Bash held near Excel Academy in West Baltimore. The event, with games, free school supplies and information about family resources, is sponsored by United Way of Central Maryland and their community partners. (Amy Davis/Staff)Kaleenah Walton, 7, got a twisted balloon heart during the rescheduled ResFest 2024 held at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Reservoir Hill. (Kenneth K. Lam/Staff)Boaters on Otter Point Creek passes by a fisherman at Flying Point Park in Edgewood on Tuesday. (Brian Krista/staff photo)
Gene Willis, a manager with GEHA places swim wear on a display table during the launch of the Baltimore Ravens/GEHA Learn to Swim program at The Y in Druid Hill. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)Morgan University President David Kwabena Wilson greets students, including Chikuyu Ajanku, a junior majoring in mechatronics engineering, on the first day of classes. Morgan’s burgeoning enrollment is projected to be at least 10,400 students, according to President Wilson. Maryland’s largest HBCU received 24,000 applications during the last enrollment, an extraordinarily high number, resulting in more than 2,300 first year students this semester.Karma Francis, left, of Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm, chats with Linda Loew of Mount Washington at the third annual Taste of Northwest Baltimore festival. The family-friendly festival, held this year at the Pikesville Armory and sponsored by the Northwest Baltimore Partnership, showcases the area as a vibrant place to live, work, eat and play.
Volunteer Kennedi Riley gives a package of pencils to Faith Williams, 8, to use at Edmondson Heights Elementary School where she will be a third-grader this fall. More than a thousand backpacks with school supplies were recently given to families at the Robert C. Marshall Rec Center on Pennsylvania Avenue. The second annual backpack giveaway was funded by GTD Cares Foundation, started by boxer Gervonta “Tank” Davis, in partnership with DTLR. Davis, the World Boxing Association lightweight champion, is from West Baltimore. (Amy Davis/Staff)Nedine Edwards, left, takes a picture of her daughter Elon Edwards, right, a junior at Woodlawn High School, in the stands at M & T Bank Stadium. Elon is participating in the Kickoff Experience of the Baltimore Ravens Leadership Institute, presented by T. Rowe Price and the Ravens. This is the 6th year of the program which encourages and empowers local high school students to become collaborative leaders. Elon and her mom Nedine were excited to be part of the program and to be visiting the stadium for the first time. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)Local resident Neon Miller dances with Ariel Pierce, community engagement coordinator during the 41st Annual National Night Out which had been postponed for a week due to weather. (Karl Merton Ferron/staff)
Mayor Brandon Scott offered some helpful Jenga coaching to Parker Fore, 9, which worked until it didn’t. Looking on at right, during the opening of the newly renovated Carroll Park Rec Center, is Reginald Moore, Director of Recreation & Parks. Mayor Scott and other city officials joined community leaders to celebrate the new $2 million facility, made possible through a grant from the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership. The center will be an asset to the adjacent Southwest Baltimore Charter School and Carroll Park. (Amy Davis/Staff)Zahra Gordon of Baltimore shoots soap bubbles for her 2-year-old son Zafar Gordon-Jack to chase after at the 4th Annual Haitian Caribbean Festival at Patterson Park.Lilli Gensler paddles on Thames Street near her apartment building as the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby move through Fells Point. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)
Gregory May performs a juggling and balancing routine, part of his Circus Science act at North Carroll Branch library on Thursday. May, a resident of Columbia, brings together science lessons and circus tricks to educate and entertain his audiences with a background as a former Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus performer, science teacher in Baltimore City and instructor at Port Discovery. (Brian Krista/staff photo)Arianna Mendoza, 10, of Houston TX, runs through a drill as she and 200 other underserved kids from around the country attend an all-expense paid camp through the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation. They are learning baseball and softball skills and team-building experiences, building character and practicing sportsmanship. 75 mentors from area law enforcement worked with campers. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)Teens with YouthWorks paint a mural with artist Iandry Randriamamdroso in the 3200 block of Old York Road. The mural includes stylized images of native birds including an American Robin, Chickadee, Catbird and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. (Jerry Jackson/Staff)
July 24, 2024: The National Aquarium Harbor Wetland is nearing completion. The 10,000 square foot floating exhibit, located between Piers 3 and 4, is designed to evoke the natural salt marsh that once provided habitat and filtered runoff into the Patapsco River. The Harbor Wetland will open August 9. (Kim Hairston/Staff)Jordyn McMillion, 6 of Pasadena, reacts with a smile when she sees the finished product of her unicorn face painting done by artist Micki Campbell, at the 10th annual Peach and Blackberry Festival at Weber’s Cider Mill Farm in Parkville. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)Zavion Timmons, 13, left, Washington Capitals mascot Slapshot, center, and Carter Coston, 13, right, start a game between Robert C. Marshall and Cecil Kirk recreation centers at the 12th annual street hockey tournament at Madison Square Recreation Center in East Baltimore. The event was hosted by the Washington Capitals and Baltimore City Recreation and Parks. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)
Bob Bucher and his wife, Cheryl, enjoy a morning with their grandchildren, Elise Lyons, 3, and Jeffrey Lyons, 4, at Bynum Run Park in Bel Air. (Lloyd Fox/Staff photo)Niesha Carr, left, leads a group of students in the “Patient Piranhas” group on a gallery tour in the Summer Arts for Learning Academy Wednesday at the Henderson-Hopkins School in East Baltimore. Students from around the city attended the six-week program, which was organized by Arts for Learning Maryland at eight sites this summer. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)Shared Stories Home & Remodeling, a veteran and minority-owned contracting business, are replacing the roof on a house on Pentwood Road in northeast Baltimore. Workers from subcontractor Leonel Remodeling are helping with the job.
José Guzman, left portrays Oberon, the fairy King and Stephen Kime plays Puck, the king’s servant during their entrance in the Shakespeare & Beyond’s free interpretation of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” at Wyman Park Dell. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)Chef Carlos Jose of D’Abruzzo cooks lamb, beef and chicken skewers in his company’s booth at the Asia In A Bite food fest at Rash Field. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)Ray Nelson attaches chicken wire to a hoop house frame to make a chicken coop at TALMAR, Therapeutic Alternatives of Maryland, in Cromwell Valley Park. Nelson, a Vietnam veteran, is in the Veterans Affairs Farming and Recovery Mental Health Services, VA FARMS, program that provides therapy for those experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Nelson says it helps to “relieve stress and anxiety and get away from PTSD” by getting his “mind off of traumas from Vietnam in service.” He says it provides “a spiritual connection and a mental connection with nature” and “a lot of peace.” (Kim Hairston/Staff)
From left, Sumaylla Llivichuzhca-Loja, from Marriotts Ridge High School, Reghan Fleisher, from Glenelg High School and Alyssa Carey, from Western School of Technology, all rising juniors, build parallel circuits as part of a unit on climate change and the electric power infrastructure. Nearly 60 female high school students across BGE’s service territory are participating this week in the seventh annual STEM Academy funded by Exelon Foundation. Working in teams, students are researching and designing solutions to problems derived from climate change in a specific neighborhood. (Amy Davis/Staff)In the Driver’s Seat: Zailynn Harper, 11, tries out the feel of the controls in one of the large snow-clearing vehicles used to clear the runways at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Fifty Baltimore City students are learning about career opportunities in aviation during the eighth-annual BWI-Marshall Airport Summer Youth Initiative, a full-week program exploring all airport operations. (Amy Davis/Staff)Scarlett Mayo DeLeon, 4, of College Park, cools off with a misting fan at Clark’s Elioak Farm in Ellicott City during a family outing with her parents.
Matthew Benedict, right, a herpetologist with the National Aquarium, gives a presentation about snakes, “The Great Snake Hunt” to a group at Rash Field Park. The event is part of the Waterfront Parnership’s Wildlife Gardening Workshop. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)Shane Eckman one of the sailing instructors at the Havre de Grace Youth Sailing Program helps one of the students back in from an afternoon sail. The program offers summer camps to kids between 7 and 17 years of age. Since the 2016 pilot program, the annual camps have seen over 750 kids take part in the sailing camps. The students are taught all facets of sailing along the Susquehanna River and the program also helps the students develop confidence and character. The program runs through the second week. in August. (Lloyd Fox/Staff photo)Schuyler Jackson, left, demonstrates his bassoon before he and two other Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians, Michael Lisicky, center, and William Jenken, right, perform a woodwinds concert at the Brooklyn branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library for patrons and students from the Washburn Avenue Catholic Charities HeadStart program. The educational concert is one of five concerts funded by the Baltimore Symphony Musicians Foundation at Pratt libraries for their Summer Break Baltimore program. (Amy Davis/Staff)
Larry Barnes of Baltimore shoots hoops at the basketball court at Patterson Park on a hot morning. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)
Kania Taylor, right, and Lillian Malette, behind her, both of West Baltimore, agree that cotton candy-flavored Italian ices help them cope with Baltimore’s unrelenting heat wave. The excessive heat warning issued on Monday will likely extend into Tuesday when temperatures are expected to top three digits. The North Grocery in the 1900 block of E. North Avenue is doing a brisk business in ices and cold drinks. (Amy Davis/Staff)The Howard Street bridge rises behind Saba Hamidi, a local muralist living in Hampden and artist Blue Robin of the Middle East neighborhood who use indelible markers to tag the selected colors that painters will us to add different paints to the mural entitled, “Corridor of Colors,” made by Saba, on the retaining walls of the Jones Falls Expressway overpass of Maryland Avenue. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)
Kaitlyn Salas, one of 16 rising high school juniors and seniors from Baltimore City and surrounding counties, dusts a can for latent fingerprints. The students are attending a free week-long forensic science camp hosted by the Baltimore Police Department and Loyola University Maryland. This is the first year of the Forensics Science Summer Academy founded by Teri Labbe, a forensic scientist with BPD and Loyola to help students understand forensics before college. Labbe estimates this type of training could cost $2000-$5000. They are exploring crime scene processing, DNA typing, death investigation and other related topics. (Kim Hairston/Staff)Dennis Reyes, 16, practices trimming hair on a mannequin under the watchful eye of mentor T.J. Adams Jr. at Kendrick’s Barbershop in Odenton. This summer several Anne Arundel County Public School students have been given the opportunity to train to receive their Maryland State Barber License with the help of Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation. These students had a barrier to entering the public school system’s formal barbering program and were placed on a waiting list. (Jerry Jackson/Staff)Kyliee Jones, of White Marsh, is hit with a cup of water as she cools off in the Eager Park fountain. (Kim Hairston/Staff)
Wytesa Cooper of Parkville reacts after receiving her new car keys during a ceremony for Vehicles for Change in which recipients are awarded their own vehicles, donated by Heritage MileOne Auto Group. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)Jacob Viscarra, an electrician sits at a table in the foreground while Travis Birdsong, an electrician’s assistant relaxes during their lunch break as workers construct the building which will become the headquarters of T. Rowe Price.Kate Gieron of Hamilton likes to take her two English Cream Golden Retrievers to cool off in Minebank Run at Cromwell Valley Park on hot days. Resting in the stream at left is four-year-old Brooks, who is named after Brooks Robinson, and his sister, six-month-old Grace. The heat wave in the Baltimore region is expected to continue through Thursday. (Amy Davis/Staff)
Heather Hartman, of Odenton, and Rachelle Smith, of Baltimore, get some relief during a heat advisory as they tube on the Gunpowder River on Saturday. Hartman says the hours-long trip on the river was “refreshing, nice and shady.” (Kim Hairston/Staff)Drones form an image of an eagle as fireworks are launched during the Independence Day celebration at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. (Jerry Jackson/Staff)Piper Geiger, 11 of Hampstead creates bubbles during the Star-Spangled Spectacular, a concert with fireworks hosted by the BSO, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Oregon Ridge. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)
Workers finish hanging a large American flag for Independence Day on the raw sugar warehouse under construction at Domino Sugars. The warehouse, expected to be put into use early next year, replaces the shed destroyed by fire in April 2021. (Jerry Jackson/Staff)A family of mannequins sit along Frederick Road Wednesday holding a spot for the annual Catonsville 4th of July parade. (Jerry Jackson/Staff)Arturo Sandoval, left, Esperanza de Sandoval from El Salvador and Fidelina López from Honduras pose for photos at the Sunflowers of Lisbon attraction in Howard County while visiting family. (Jerry Jackson/Staff)
A trio of bucks graze in a soybean field along Greenspring Valley Road in Baltimore County.(Jerry Jackson/Staff)Foxy Polka Lady: Mary Nickoles, who turns 74 on July 1, dances in her chair to the rhythms of the TKO Polka Band at the Dundalk Heritage Fair. Nickoles, a longtime Dundalk resident with Ukrainian and Polish roots, loves polka music because it reminds her of the big Polish wedding she had 52 years ago. (Amy Davis/Staff photo)
