Meade High School Chinese language teacher Jing Dai was named the Anne Arundel County Public Schools 2021 Teacher of the Year Thursday evening.

The celebration will span July 2 through July 5 and will include a parade on July 3 down West and Main streets, music and concerts hosted by the Art in Public Places Commission at venues including Chambers Park and City Dock, fireworks on July 4 and other business and social offerings.

Artist Andrei Trach will have eight new drawings featured in the upcoming Resident Visual Artists Exhibit , opening April 24 and running through May 29, at the Howard County Arts Council in Ellicott City.

This year’s general assembly session, notable for COVID precautions that did away with lobbyist brunches and hallway gaggles, has produced a number of landscape shifting bills from the Anne Arundel County delegation.

Juniors from Arundel, Severna Park and Broadneck high schools will debate virtually later this month in hopes of being elected the student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education.

County Executive Steuart Pittman said the county Office of Law told him Detective Daniel Reynolds’ hearing board would be postponed after Pittman wrote about it on Facebook. Pittman mentioned Reynolds’ alleged misconduct and the ongoing criminal trial for Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was charged with murder for George Floyd’s death in his custody.

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the Baltimore-area housing market continues to thrive. The trends reflect the public health crisis’ continued hold on the economy, fueling demand for property and opening the consumer floodgates with record-low mortgage interest rates.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman acknowledged Tuesday that the county health department program that stopped handing out crack pipes to Annapolis residents last week made the right move but said he was open to hearing justification for the program.