An information night for high school juniors designed to kick off the process of selecting the next student member of the Board of Education was postponed last week.

Anne Arundel County's student member on the Board of Education is the only one in the nation on a local board who has full voting rights.

The nomination process will open on the date of the rescheduled information night — it had not been set as of midweek — and end Feb. 24. Applications from candidates are due by 4 p.m. March 4.

Other key dates in the process include applicant interviews and selection of three finalists on March 8, a Meet the Candidates Night on March 30 and the April 15 election of the new student board member.

The candidate elected by the Chesapeake Regional Association of Student Councils will have his or her name forwarded to Gov. Larry Hogan, who must make the appointment.

New chairman of trustees selected for Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Harry Lester has been elected the chairman of the board of trustees at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the organization announced Tuesday.

Lester, of Virginia Beach, Va., is the president of the Slover Library Foundation and a former president of Eastern Virginia Medical School. He served on the foundation's board from 2004 to 2009 and again from 2013 to the present, the organization said.

Lester said his priorities include implementing the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, restoring clean water to the bay's watershed and mitigating the effects of climate change.

“There are many challenges facing the Chesapeake Bay,” Lester said.

“I look forward to working with the board and staff to implement bold actions that will move bay restoration forward.”

— Christina Jedra, Baltimore Sun Media Group

19 ‘blizzard babies' born at medical center in Annapolis

Tori Mason wasn't interested in making a “big fuss” about going into labor; she just wanted to get to the hospital. Because of the blizzard that brought record-setting snowfall to Annapolis, she had to ride to the hospital in a firetruck.

She made it. Mason's daughter, Amberly, was one of the 19 babies born during the winter storm at Anne Arundel Medical Center.

Fifteen babies were born there between 3 p.m. Jan. 22 and 11:59 p.m. Jan. 23. Four more arrived between 12:01 and 7 a.m. last Sunday, according to hospital spokeswoman Patricia Ruschaupt.

Since Mason and her husband, Ted, 25, live in Chesapeake Beach, about 40 minutes from the hospital, they planned on staying at a hotel 2 miles away. About 8:30 p.m. Jan. 23, Mason started feeling a contraction. Soon after, her husband began to dig out their car.

“But when the man clearing the hotel parking lot told us that roads weren't clear, we knew we had to call for an ambulance,” Tori Mason said.

A firetruck and ambulance were sent to the hotel. When the ambulance got stuck in the snow, Mason was forced to ride in the firetruck.

Jillian Hofsetter, 29, of Churchton, had a feeling her baby boy, Jonah, was going to be born when it was snowing.

“I always had this feeling of ‘Oh my God, he's totally going to be born during a snowstorm in January,'?” she said. “Our 2-year-old daughter was born in December during a snowstorm, too.”

Hofsetter's son was born at the medical center at 7:19 a.m. Jan. 23. She and her husband, Michael, 30, were able to make it to the hospital about 7 p.m., just before the roads became dangerous.

— Meredith Newman, Baltimore Sun Media Group