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Spend enough time chatting with someone who’s been around for a while, and the conversation can quickly turn to how much less expensive everything used to be. Penny candy used to actually cost a penny, the five-and-dime actually used to sell items that cost 5 and 10 cents. It’s fascinating to see just how far $1 was once able to take you. Here’s what food a dollar could buy from 1937 until 2000. (By Dan Myers and Jordi Lippe-McGraw, The Daily Meal)

After a year of delays, the $4 million Baltimore Water Taxi terminal and USS Constellation Museum under construction on Pier I in the Inner Harbor should be finished by the end of the year, officials say.

The lives taken by the virus itself made for the country’s deadliest year in history, but contributing to the unfortunate milestone were deaths from what have become some of the most chronic, yet preventable, diseases. It’s a disgrace and embarrassment that one of the wealthiest countries in the world is filled with so many sick people.

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a male on Gwynn Oak Avenue in the Howard Park neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore on Sunday afternoon.

Lori Underwood, a Baltimore City Fire Department firefighter, paramedic and union official, died June 27 in a Carroll County motorcycle accident. She was 43 and lived in Rising Sun.

Eric W. Snyder, who founded an independent insurance agency in Parkton and was an avid farmer, died from a coronary thrombosis June 26 at his Hunt Valley home. He was 61.

About 24 hours after about 30 shots were fired in Eastport Terrace, more gunshots rending the Annapolis air along Pleasant Street. Again none of the bullets found their intended target but this time at least one soared over a brick wall and struck Michelle Cummings, a 57-year-old mother of a Naval Academy plebe.

Rural Somerset County has struggled to reach — and then persuade — its fewer than 26,000 residents to get the coronavirus vaccine, county health officials say. As a result, the vaccination rate in Maryland’s second-least-populated county has stubbornly remained the state’s lowest. The issues are manifold.