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Making sure you show up in your own story

(From 2017) Tomorrow we have our fourth Annual Storytelling Festival for the AmeriCorps programs of Maryland. Our hosts at Casa Maryland and Pablo Blank always provide a warm welcome in their amazing space. Each year, we try different things and…..

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Governor Moore on Service

“It is also a state where there is no obstacle we cannot address, no challenge we cannot tackle,  if we are intentional, move in partnership, and commit to promoting service as a state ideal. I only realized recently, Service, the…..

Mindfulness exercises can be as effective as anxiety drugs, study shows

Breathing and body exercises helped relieve anxiety as effectively as medications over an eight-week study of 208 people By Amanda Morris  Washington Post January 31st 2023 E5 Practicing mindfulness to relieve anxiety can be just as effective as medication, new research shows. A recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry…..

Facts for Black History Month

(1) E.B. DuBois was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University and Carter G. Woodson was the second to get a PhD from Harvard. DuBois got his in 1895 andWoodson got his in 1912. Woodson is also known as the father of…..

Packed session offers advice and a lifesaving giveaway as local overdoses rise

By Laura Meckler and  Tara Bahrampour Hundreds of parents, students and school staff filled the cafeteria of Clarksburg High School in Montgomery County on Saturday morning to learn about the spiraling fentanyl crisis and receive training on how to administer a lifesaving treatment that can…..

Cyberbullying affects almost half of American teens. Parents may be unaware.

By Elizabeth Chang.    washington post january 19th 2023 A new survey about teens and social media shows that nearly half of teens say they have been cyberbullied. In a separate survey administered to a parent of each teen, the adults ranked cyberbullying as sixth out of eight concerns…..

ChatGPT Turns Lincoln to Poetry

Asking the AI ChatGPT to be creative like turn the Gettysberg address into a Shakespearian sonnet and this is what we got Four score and seven years before this day,Our fathers brought forth on this continentA new nation, born of…..

Wes Moore is serious about service

Opinion by David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst January 26th 2023 Erie News Traveling across the country in recent years, I discovered a sure way to fire up an audience: issue a call to young people for a year of…..

Gov. Wes Moore’s prepared remarks upon his inauguration as the 63rd governor of Maryland

Gov. Wes Moore was sworn in as Maryland’s 63rd governor and first Black executive shortly after noon on Wednesday. These are his remarks, as prepared before the ceremony, though the newly minted governor took liberty to ad-lib during his first…..

Wes Moore to be sworn in as Md. governor on Frederick Douglass’s Bible

By Joe Heim Wes Moore’s left hand will rest on history Wednesday when he takes the oath of office and becomes Maryland’s first Black governor and only the third Black governor elected in the history of the United States. Underneath his…..

Montgomery County youth overdoses increased 77% in 2022

By Nicole Asbury.  Washington Post Jan 22 2023 Officials are warning of the dangers of opioids — specifically fentanyl — after a 15-year-old student recently died of a suspected overdose A 15-year-old Montgomery County Public Schools student is the latest young person to die of…..