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Vaccine hunters: DC region's residents helping others sign up for COVID-19 appointments 02/04/2021 04:51am • COVID-19 vaccines are hard to come by, and some D.C.-area locals are helping to connect supply with demand. The coronavirus pandemic has created a new type of social network: They call themselves the vaccine hunters. Sometimes they work alone, other times in groups. They���re online for hou Md. lawmakers push to replace school police with counselors 02/03/2021 11:38am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. When a child is arrested by a police officer stationed in a Baltimore City public school, they are handcuffed, placed in cages, photograph Loudoun Co. students to return to in-person learning, some by mid-February 02/03/2021 09:39am • Virginia's Loudoun County School Board��approved a plan that will bring kindergarten through fifth grade students ��� whose parents chose hybrid learning ��� back to school buildings no later than Feb. 16. In addition, middle and high schoolers whose parents previously opted-in to the hybrid mode DC teachers want school safety walk-throughs, threaten strike 02/02/2021 05:55pm • On the first day back to school for about 9,000 D.C. Public Schools students, the Washington Teachers' Union said some buildings did not meet the safety fixes the District agreed to make ��� and now teachers are threatening to strike. Union President Elizabeth Davis said that because teachers fou Thousands of DC Public Schools students return to some classrooms 02/02/2021 03:15pm • Tuesday marked D.C. Public Schools' most significant return to in-person learning since the COVID-19 pandemic first disrupted learning nearly a year ago, with about 9,000 of the District's 52,000 students back in a classroom. And one of those students, 10th-grader Katherine Bonilla, welcomed the MEDCO Exec. Director to retire as COVID-related student housing disputes persist 02/02/2021 10:24am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. Robert Brennan, the executive director of Maryland Economic Development Corporation, a quasi-governmental economic development agency, wil Mr. Peanut donates $130K to DC���s Hook Hall Helps 02/02/2021 10:06am •   Hook Hall Helps received a $130,000 donation from Planters Peanuts. (Courtesy Hook Hall) Hook Hall Helps, a partnership between D.C. beer hall and events space Hook Hall and the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington that has been feeding struggling restaurant workers, has r 'Dadication' tips for dads to help kids feel closer to them 02/01/2021 05:05pm • Dads, have you told your kids today that you love them? Parenting in a pandemic can be challenging, but a campaign now underway has tips to help encourage ���Dadication��� from fathers, even when it���s difficult. ���We���re just asking them to make that 'Dadication' to their child: to stay invol Sundance flicks to stream this week from the comfort of your home 02/01/2021 02:46pm • toggle audio on and off change volume Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on making and shaping Black history 02/01/2021 12:17am • This is Part 1 of our Black History Month series saluting D.C. difference makers. She made double history as the first woman to head the Library of Congress and the first Black person to lead the institution since its founding 221 years ago in 1800. And yet, Carla Hayden isn't content with Capitol Police to keep grounds closed for sledding despite Del. Norton's request 01/31/2021 03:03am • Two children go over a ramp as they sled on Capitol Hill as a winter storm arrives in the region, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Despite D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's call to allow sledding on the U.S. Capitol grounds, the hills on the complex will remain close New report urges parent-teen cooperation to reduce speed-related road crashes 01/30/2021 11:59pm • A new report by the Governor's Highway Safety Association and the Ford Motor Company Fund shows that teenagers are more likely to die in speed-related car crashes than the rest of the population. The results come from an analysis of statistics during a five-year period ending in 2019. The report Md. legislators receiving COVID vaccine under ���Continuity of Government��� provision 01/30/2021 01:58am • Sen. Arthur Ellis (D-Charles) receives a vaccine in the Miller Office Building in Annapolis. (Photo submitted to Maryland Matters) Maryland lawmakers who wanted a COVID-19 vaccine were able to get one beginning this week. They are eligible because Phase 1B of the��state���s vaccination protoc Vaccine appointments to open for DC child care providers, independent schools staff 01/29/2021 11:22pm • Starting in February, staff of licensed child care providers and independent schools in D.C. will be eligible to make appointments for the coronavirus vaccine. DC Health and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education have partnered with One Medical, which will administer the vaccines. El Ahead of Monday reopening, arbiter will rule on breach-of-contract claim against DC schools 01/29/2021 03:45pm • D.C. Public Schools expects 8,000 kids to return to in-person learning on Monday, and is challenging concerns from the Washington Teachers' Union that the buildings haven't met safety metrics. Washington Teachers' Union President Elizabeth Davis said she's frustrated for parents and staff who don