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The Green Towson Alliance concluded its inaugural 2021 Native Garden Contest by announcing winners. The contest included 23 participants with entries consisting of a single garden bed, an entire yard, or a community plot. Anyone who lives in Towson was eligible to be in the contest, according to GTA’s website.

The Wisdom Court Summer Jam, featuring JayMoney Hackett and other artists, at the Howard County Fairgrounds on Saturday, July 24, 2021.

Picturing Maryland is a visual feature that showcases faces, places and events happening around us.

Bonnie Hockstein, Baltimore's Best Hon 2020, visits JeannieBird Baking Company, where a painted screen bears her likeness at the Westminster bakery, on Friday, July 23, 2021.

Faces are part of art and architecture all around Baltimore. Can you guess where based on a small detail?

Firefighters mount an external attack on a fire in the 3200 Block of Sams Creek Road in Marston Wednesday, July 21, 2021. According to New Windsor fire company Chief Byron Welker, arriving units found a house well involved in fire and assumed a defensive operation to contain the fire. Responders from Carroll and Frederick Counties responded to the fire which was right at the county line.

"Porch Talk" at the Gate House Museum of History in Sykesville with the authors of "In Carrie's Footprints, The Long Walk of Warren Dorsey" Jack McBride White and Warren Dorsey, Sunday July 18, 2021.

Three years after the mass shooting, an Anne Arundel County jury ruled Thursday the man who killed Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters, was sane, and therefore criminally responsible.

Courtroom sketches from the trial for Jarrod Ramos who killed five Capital Gazette employees in 2018.

Baltimore police say a grocery store armed security guard shot two people — killing one — after an altercation Tuesday afternoon.

Westminster High School graduates, Thomas Folderauer and Jacob Oswald, co-write a musical called Niagara focusing on the stories of the 13 daredevils who jumped down the waterfall.

A variety of home styles are represented in this West Baltimore neighborhood

Graduate students in McDaniel's reading specialist: literacy leadership program team up with Carroll County Public Schools every summer to provide reading and writing assistance to elementary school-aged students during the McDaniel College Reading Clinic - a comprehensive four week experience. Founded in 1973, the program is run by the McDaniel College graduate students as a required component of their reading specialist master's degree program. The theme of this year's program is "Under the Sea," with 12 students who are entering grades one through five, reading and writing about ocean creatures and habitats.