by Meredith Devereux | Sep 2, 2022
Two cabins on the historic Elkridge Furnace site in Howard County likely housed enslaved workers in the 1850s. That’s the conclusion of Dr. Julie Schablitsky, Chief of Cultural Resources at the Maryland Department of Transportation. In a partnership with the Maryland...
by Meredith Devereux | Jul 8, 2022
James Wolf saw grassy patches at his son’s school “begging for some trees.” So, the community group he’s a member of, Friends of Hampden, applied for a grant to do something about it. This spring, volunteers planted Redbud, Black Gum and White Oak trees at...
by Christopher Imms | Jan 13, 2022
The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Board has named William Pines, PE, PMP, CCM as Acting Executive Director of the 1,800-employee agency that oversees the state’s eight toll facilities and the DriveEzMD Maryland system, effective immediately. Mr. Pines has...
by MDOT Communications Team | Jan 12, 2022
James F. Ports, Jr., was sworn in Tuesday, January 11, as the 17th Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), the latest achievement in a public service career spanning more than 30 years, including two decades in transportation at the local, state...
by Tim Pratt | Apr 22, 2021
As Sandy Hertz walked the perimeter of a small pond in Wicomico County one recent afternoon, a deer startled and bounded into the woods. Geese protected large eggs at the water’s edge. Frogs croaked and ribbited. And down a hill by the pond’s spillway, a tiny turtle...
by Tim Pratt | Feb 25, 2021
With Engineers Week upon us, Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Deputy Secretary R. Earl Lewis Jr. sat down to discuss the importance of engineering in transportation. Deputy Secretary Lewis holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of...
