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Van Brooks has received a $50,000 grant to help expand his organization to provide training that can lead to construction jobs.
- As family care coordinator with the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Maryland Chapter, Marlyn Taylor is helping to educate African Americans about the disease, which affects them at twice the amount as white people.
- Bruce Reinke, a chef, is being honored for his work in teaching kitchen skills to adults who have an intellectual or developmental challenge.
- Elsa Aguilar Bustos is a medical interpreter on the frontlines in Baltimore during the pandemic.
- Author Philip Merrill, released his 128-page book, Old West Baltimore, in November, which delves into the history of Black people —specifically in West Baltimore.
- Troy Staton describes himself as more than just a barber. When someone walks through the doors of Vanity Salon in Hollins Market, where he works, they can get a haircut, take part in a reading session or get a quick health check-up.
- Ashley Minner, an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe, is creating an archive of her ancestors' lives in Baltimore for what she calls an urgent project of reclamation of history and the power of collective memory.
- Allysa Dittmar and Aaron Hsu launched ClearMask, a line of transparent masks to improve communication for people who are deaf and hard of hearing communities and now they've sold 12 million of the masks due to COVID-19.
- Ting Tai, a 21-year-old Ellicott City resident, is one of 11 people featured in a new Calvin Klein advertising campaign.
- Attorney Walter Ty is Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service's Volunteer of the Year.
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"The bottom line is this: We’re in a national emergency. We need to act like we’re in a national emergency." - Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump will begin the week of Feb. 8.
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- More than 125 people have been arrested so far on charges related to the violent insurrection at the Capitol.
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- More than 15,000 National Guard members are preparing to leave Washington, D.C., and head home.
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- More than 40 people gathered Sunday by the tree in Douglass Homes to memorialize Dante Barskdale, who was shot to death last week.
- Benson, who spent 14 years with the Blue Jays under then-head coach Dave Pietramala, succeeds J.L. Reppert, who was named the head coach at Holy Cross on Friday.
- More than 40 people gathered Sunday by the tree in Douglass Homes to memorialize Dante Barskdale, who was shot to death last week.
- Charles E. Geyer, a World War II veteran who became superintendent of buildings for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has died of COVID-19 at 96.
- In this sick and scared country, many have retreated to their bubbles, surrounding themselves with people certain the other side is their enemy — inhuman, un-American. Polls show roughly two-thirds of Republicans express doubts about the election.
