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‘The gunshots started firing, and it sounded like it was right next to us’, customer says

Aston Halstead chopped, shaved and trimmed around three barnets a day throughout June for nothing. The 17-year-old from Mount Vernon is based at The Fading Ape in Tollcross.

Workers at the Apple store in Towson, Maryland, won national attention and praise from President Joe Biden after becoming the first of the tech giant’s U.S. employees to unionize. Less than two months earlier, Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood became the first of the coffee chain’s Maryland employees…

Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood voted Monday to unionize, becoming the giant coffee chain’s first Maryland workers to organize amid a fast-growing national movement.

Mount Vernon’s crumbling sewage infrastructure has for years caused unsanitary backups in homes and pollution of local rivers

In the docuseries Wasteland, communities battle institutional neglect and personal and environmental damage

Mount Vernon, New York has a long history of sewage problems, but $10m in grant funding and Biden’s infrastructure package may bring relief