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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore County Public Schools is looking to recruit new teachers, bus drivers, bus attendants, and school nurses, according to school staff. The school system has created a short list of recruitment events at various times and locations throughout the county area for the month of July. READ MORE: Firefighters Battle Two-Alarm Fire Amid Thunderstorm In Baltimore's Riverside Neighborhood There is a virtual teacher job fair at the end of the month. Cafeteria Worker Recruitment Session Wednesday, July 6, at 2 p.m. BCPS is hosting an in-person recruitment session to include an information session, interview, and pre-employment scheduling. Interested applicants should submit an application and will be invited to the next session, and any thereafter, if they cannot attend the first. Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts, 8100 Wise Ave., Baltimore 21222 Bus Driver & Attendant Recruitment Event Friday, July 8. … [Read more...] about Baltimore County Schools Looks To Recruit New Staff At July Job Fairs

TRENTON, N.J. (CBS/AP) — Gas prices continued to fall in New Jersey and around the nation amid lower crude oil prices and an increase in total domestic gasoline stocks. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $4.85, down nine cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.14 a gallon on average a year ago at this time. READ MORE: Fourth Of July Weekend Weather: Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued For Most Of Philadelphia Region The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in Southeast Pennsylvania is $4.91 and in Delaware, the average is $4.74. READ MORE: Fire In West Philadelphia Sends 1 Person To Hospital The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $4.84, down eight cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.12 a gallon on average a year ago at this time. Analysts say demand is currently lower than it was last year at this time, and an increase in total domestic gasoline stocks and decreasing oil … [Read more...] about Gas Prices Continue To Fall In New Jersey, Pennsylvania And Delaware

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore’s Light Rail trains have been halted due to a tree that has fallen on both tracks north of the Cold Spring Lane Light Rail Station stop, according to the Maryland Transit Authority. The tree fell as a storm caused flooding and other damage across the city. MTA officials say that shuttle buses will be used to transport passengers while trains are unavailable in that area. Light RailLink Weather Related Service Advisory — Effective immediately and until further notice and due to a fallen tree blocking both tracks north of Coldspring station, shuttle bus service will be in place to accommodate pass… https://t.co/vfDNlXGeu7 — MTA Maryland (@mtamaryland) July 3, 2022 … [Read more...] about Baltimore’s Light Rail Trains Waylaid By Fallen Tree On Tracks

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 BALTIMORE (AP) — Doctors learned early in the pandemic that COVID-19 was more than a respiratory disease. It was attacking bodily organs, including the heart — even in healthy, young athletes. Enough athletes with COVID were experiencing heart inflammation, called myocarditis, that doctors at the University of Maryland and other Big Ten schools didn’t want to take any chances. Myocarditis already was seen as one of the leading causes of sudden death in elite athletes, so doctors across the conference immediately imposed official protocols that kept some players off the fields for up to six months. Some grumbled, but everyone recovered. “They could be walking time bomb and we’d only find out retrospectively,” said Dr. Yvette Rooks, who oversees care for more than 530 athletes on 19 teams as head team physician at the University of Maryland, College Park. “Some had symptoms and many … [Read more...] about Doctors look to athletes for clues to COVID’s heart impacts

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 11 LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — As American citizens celebrated freedom and liberty in their nation on Independence Day, 1961, a government founded on notions of the inalienable human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness took action at a local level to deny those rights to their fellow citizens whose skin was not white. This little-taught chapter of local history is being brought to life in an original play, “Buried Deep,” produced through Endstation Theatre Company, affiliated with Randolph College. On that sweltering July day in Lynchburg, as many residents sought the relief offered by public pools, the city closed those pools down because some Black residents went to swim in the whites-only pools at Miller and Riverside parks. They were exercising their civil rights and making intentional strides toward integration and … [Read more...] about Play tells story of filling in pools rather than integrating

0 Pets This week's batch of adoptable pets in the South Cobb area are looking for their forever homes. Will you take one home? Pet News , Patch Staff Posted Reply Want to add a furry friend to your family? Look no further than these South Cobb animal shelters for a pet available for adoption. Shelters in South Cobb and environs have dogs, cats and other animals ready and waiting for someone to take them home. Over 6 million pets and other companion animals are taken in each year by rescue organizations nationwide, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. However, only half of all shelter animals — about 3.2 million — are adopted each year, according to ASPCA data. This means millions of animals — some right here in the South Cobb area — are still waiting for their forever homes. With help from our friends at Petfinder, Patch has compiled this week’s list of animals available for adoption … [Read more...] about South Cobb Area Pets Up For Adoption: Dogs, Cats, More