In Baltimore City
Charles Street resurfacing set to start Monday
The going may be slower than usual on Charles Street during the next two weeks as road crews resurface the downtown thoroughfare. Some lanes will be closed at times.
Starting at 5 a.m. Monday, workers will begin slicing off two inches of old pavement so a new surface can be applied from Lombard to Fayette streets. The work is expected to last all week.
Crews will repave up to Saratoga Street, another weeklong process, assuming good weather. The work is part of a multimillion-dollar effort to spruce up Charles Street between Lombard and Centre streets. Other changes include brick sidewalks, granite curbs and decorations such as new streetlights.
Free seminar to explore ways to pay for college
U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings will hold his sixth annual free seminar on how to pay for college Monday evening at the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Representatives of colleges and universities, financial institutions and government agencies will provide information about the college application process, and financial aid and scholarship opportunities.
The seminar is from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the public health school's East Wing Auditorium, 615 N. Wolfe St. in East Baltimore.
In Talbot County
Oxford-Bellevue ferry closing early this year
OXFORD -- The Oxford-Bellevue ferry, thought to be the oldest privately owned ferry service in the nation, will shut down for the season tomorrow, two weeks ahead of schedule.
Owners Tom and Judy Bixler, who operate the flat-bottomed, 65-foot boat that hauls pedestrians, bicyclists and cars across the Tred Avon River from early March to Dec. 1, are closing early this year so Talbot County can begin construction of a new ferry pier in the village of Bellevue.
Reopening the ferry service, which is popular with tourists who make the 30-mile loop from Easton to Oxford to St. Michaels and back, might also be delayed for a few weeks next spring, said Judy Bixler. The project is set for completion in April.