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washingtonpost.com/local/lotteryLOTTERIESwell and didn’t have a large leaf
set one year, the cicadas feeding
on those roots might not count
that as a year,” he said.
Could climate change
contribute to their scrambled
internal calendars? Possibly, he
said. We know global warming
affects tree growth, so it could
play a role. But the overwhelming
majority of Brood X cicadas got it
right. By last week, Kritsky had
received only 85 reports of
stragglers, an infinitesimal speck
compared with the billions of
bugs that swarmed us last year,
right on schedule.
Said Kritsky: “This is like
finding a four-leaf clover. It’s not
going to be a common thing.”
What is life like for a straggler
cicada? Alas, unless that cicada is
antisocial, celibate and nursing a
death wish, not too good, I’m
afraid. I asked Kritsky if these
latecomers will get to do the
thing they were put on this earth
to do: mate.
“It's very unlikely,” he said.
There’s safety in numbers, and
that’s one thing these cicadas
don’t have.
“Once they emerge, they go up
into trees for like five days before
the skeleton hardens,” Kritsky
said. “That’s when a male starts
singing. Once he starts singing,
he draws attention. Birds notice
pretty quickly. Is it possible [the
cicadas will] mate? Yes, but it’s
more likely they will die in
frustration.”
And that sounds like me at a
lot of the parties I went to when I
was their age.Kritsky said a cicada counts
the passage of time by noting the
increase and decrease in the fluid
flow of the tree root it feeds on
during its nymphal stage.
“If for some reason, because of
the local weather, a tree didn’t doand Ohio. Most are Brood X
latecomers, but some may be
emerging early from other
broods.
What explains the
miscalculations, either a year late
to the party or a year early?— Magicicada — that made all
the headlines last year.
Samantha Mina is delighted
to see them. The 34-year-old
author has filed straggler reports
to Cicada Safari from Reston,
where she lives.
Mina followed Kritsky’s cicada
coverage last year and knew
there might be some outliers this
year. She started combing her
Chestnut Grove neighborhood in
late April and saw her first
evidence — a nymph skin — on
May 11.
“First I found the nymph shell
that he had shed. I took a picture
of that and posted it. I got really
excited,” Mina said.
She later found a couple of
adult cicadas in an azalea near
her condo.
“I'm really, really into the
cicadas,” she said. “I deliberately
go out every day looking for
them.”
Mina’s affection stems from
the insects’ 2004 emergence. She
was about to turn 17 that year, the
same age as the cicadas, and felt a
connection. An author of science-
fiction novels, Mina is working
on a book about 17-year-olds in
Reston who experience the 2038
emergence. The tentative title:
“Cicada Serenade.”
The Cicada Safari app — and
an iNaturalist project
coordinated by Jessee Smith,
Kritsky’s wife — has logged
stragglers in Virginia, Maryland
(in Glen Echo and Pasadena),
Tennessee, Kentucky, North and
South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, MissouriHave you ever
been late to a
party? I mean
really late, so late
that by the time
you arrived, the
party was over
and the guests
were long gone?
If so, then you
have something in common with
the periodical cicadas that have
been popping up in the last few
weeks from Maryland to
Tennessee. They’re a year late to
the raucous party billions of their
fellow Brood X cicadas threw last
summer.
Gene Kritsky calls them
“stragglers.” Kritsky is a biologist
and the dean of the School of
Behavioral and Natural Sciences
at Mount St. Joseph University in
Cincinnati. He’s also the creator
of the Cicada Safari app. More
than half a million photos were
uploaded by citizen scientists to
the app during the 2021
emergence of Brood X. So far this
spring, Kritsky has had straggler
cicada sightings from 11 states.
Late cicadas have been noted
in other years, but the app —
something that wasn’t around in
2004 — makes it easy to track
and report sightings of tardy
bugs in all their manifestations.
“We’re counting nymph skins
found on leaves from deciduous
trees,” Kritsky said. “We’re also
looking for immature cicadas
with red eyes and black spots.”
In other words, these aren’t
the annual cicadas that we get
every summer. This is the insect
Straggler cicadas arrive a year late with no chance to mate
John
Kelly's
Washington
ROBERT CELENTANO
Reston author Samantha Mina, seen wearing her c icada costume
for Halloween 20 21, has long been fascinated with the insects.Douglas Gansler, a lawyer for
Cintra and a Democratic candi-
date for governor, declined to
comment Saturday, saying he was
not allowed to under the bid
solicitation rules.
However, Gansler said during a
previous Circuit Court hearing
that he expected MDOT would
again uphold its awarding of the
contract even on the merits — a
decision that his client probably
would appeal again in court.
Both the Cintra team and the
state also have appealed different
parts of the February Circuit
Court ruling to Maryland’s Court
of Special Appeals, which has yet
to issue a decision.
The Cintra team, known as
Capital Express Mobility Part-
ners, has said MDOT should dis-
qualify the Transurban proposal
or reopen the bid competition.
MDOT plans to add two toll
lanes in each direction to the
Beltway between the Virginia
side of the American Legion
Bridge and the I-270 spur and
then on I-270 up to Frederick.
One of the toll lanes on lower
I-270 would come from a convert-
ed carpool lane, while the lane
configuration on the northern
section hasn’t been determined.
The aging American Legion
Bridge would be replaced and
expanded. The highways’ regular
lanes would be rebuilt and re-
main free.BY KATHERINE SHAVER
Maryland transportation offi-
cials have again rejected a bid
protest from a losing proposer on
a contract to design billions of
dollars worth of toll lanes for
Interstate 270 and part of the
Capital Beltway.
The decision by the Maryland
Department of Transportation
(MDOT) is expected to be ap-
pealed again in Montgomery
County Circuit Court, where the
losing team previously appealed
the contract award. MDOT issued
its latest decision April 29 but
released a redacted version Satur-
day in response to a public rec-
ords request by The Washington
Post. The redacted information
included a “trade secret and con-
fidential commercial informa-
tion,” MDOT said.
MDOT had to reconsider the
protest after a Montgomery
County Circuit Court judge ruled
in February that the agency had
wrongly dismissed three of the
four allegations for being filed too
late. The judge required MDOT to
reconsider the claims on their
merits, including whether the
winning bid had assumed unreal-
istically low construction costs
that could result in massive
building delays and cost over-
runs.
A protracted legal battle would
complicate Republican Maryland
Gov. Larry Hogan’s signature traf-
fic relief project in the months
before he leaves office.
In its latest decision, MDOT
again said it had properly award-
ed the contract, known as a pre-
development agreement, last
year to a team led by Australian
toll road operator Transurban
and Australian investment bank
Macquarie.
Deputy Transportation Secre-
tary R. Earl Lewis Jr. wrote that
the state properly selected the
proposal with the best overall
value. The losing-bid team, led by
Spanish firm Cintra, had not
proved that the bid selection
process was biased, “arbitrary,”
“capricious” or “unreasonable,” as
required, Lewis wrote.
Lewis said the state permittedMARYLAND
MDOT again rejects bid
protest on toll-lane deal
the bid teams to decide how
much to allow for construction
companies’ markups for profits
and overhead costs based on how
much financial risk they wanted
to assume.
“The fact that [the Cintra bid
team] made a different choice,
had a different risk tolerance, or
even understood the [bid require-
ments] differently than [the win-
ning proposer] does not render
[the winning team’s] proposal
improper,” Lewis wrote.
Under the predevelopment
agreement, the Transurban team
is designing the lanes at up to$54 million of its own expense.
However, the deal is most signifi-
cant because it also gave Transur-
ban the right of first refusal on a
50-year contract to build the
lanes, valued at up to $9 billion,
and operate them in exchange for
keeping most of the toll revenue.
Maryland officials have said the
lanes will come at no net cost to
the state.
The 50-year contract is expect-
ed to be one of the largest ever in
Maryland and among the biggest
for U.S. highway projects gov-
erned by public-private partner-
ships.RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST
Maryland plans to add two toll lanes in both directions on parts of
the Capital Beltway, and on I-270 from the Beltway t o Frederick.asked to complete each day.
In Maryland, Anne Arundel
County Public Schools — the first
Maryland school system to re-
move a mask requirement early
this year — has decided to recom-
mend that schools with a corona-
virus positivity rate of 5 percent or
higher declare a schoolwide out-
break and ask, but not require,
students and staff to wear a mask
for 10 days.
Hannah Donart, a mother of
two elementary students in Mont-
gomery County, said she has re-
ceived three letters alerting her of
a coronavirus exposure in the past
week — the most she has ever
received in a short period.
She said she wished the school
system had kept its mask mandate
in place, instead of requiring
masks only when cases are al-
ready detected.
“They’re not using one of the
most basic tools that we have in
our arsenal to combat transmis-
sion,” Donart said.
Schools in Prince George’s have
also experienced a steady rise in
cases this month. The pandemic
hit the county harder than any
other in Maryland, causing the
school system to take a more strin-
gent masking approach, spokes-
woman Meghan Gebreselassie
said. The school system is not
expected to lift its masking re-
quirement until the entire county
reaches an 80 percent full vaccina-
tion rate. The vaccination rate in
the county is just over 75 percent,
according to state Health Depart-
ment data.
“We could not ignore the dis-
proportionate impact of the pan-
demic on our Black and Brown
students and their families,”
G ebreselassie said.step.”
The school also postponed or
canceled some after-school activi-
ties, including a concert, which
upset some parents, Adams said.
She added that most people she
knows seem ready to move on
from the pandemic.
“Me personally, we actually
pulled our kid out for three days
the week there were outbreaks
happening in his classroom,” she
said. “I think we’re still going to
see the virus continue to do what
it’s going to do, that’s its job, to
spread... everyone seems to be
back to normal and no one seems
to care.”
In Arlington Public Schools,
spokesman Frank Bellavia said
cases in the district of 27,000 have
been rising s ince mid-March. The
system’s coronavirus database
shows there have been more than
460 staff and student cases in the
past week.
“We are asking families and
staff to continue to be vigilant,
wear a mask, participate in testing
if exposed or symptomatic, and
get vaccinated,” Bellavia said.
“Even if symptoms may be due to
allergies or other causes, we ask
that students get tested to rule out
COVID-19 before coming to
school.”
And in Alexandria City Public
Schools, which enrolls 16,000,
c ases are also rising slightly. There
were 63 cases in March, 104 in
April and 201 so far in May, said
Julie Crawford, chief of student
services and equity. Crawford said
the school is not planning to alter
its mitigation measures, which in-
clude temperature screenings
upon entry to school and a “self-
check” health questionnaire that
students, families and staff areits coronavirus infection data-
base, posted online. There were
about 7 50 cases in March, more
than 2,000 in April and, so far in
May above 4,000, per the data-
base. More than 800 cases were
reported on May 16 alone.
When a school campus experi-
ences four outbreaks — each out-
break comprising three or more
cases — the school will send “af-
fected” children home with coro-
navirus test kits, Moult said. If a
school experiences more than
four outbreaks and positive cases
are between 5 and 10 percent of
the student body, officials will
hold a “school wide testing event,”
Moult said.Kimberly Adams, a Fairfax par-
ent and the head of the Fairfax
Education Association, said there
was an outbreak in her son’s class-
room about two weeks ago — and
ultimately more than 50 positive
cases emerged at his school. She
said the school sent at-home tests
to every family with a child in the
classrooms that had outbreaks,
asking — but not requiring — that
parents test their children over
the weekend, report the results
and keep their children home
from school if the results were
positive. She called that “a goodthe virus in the past 90 days, are
not required to isolate, but are
supposed to wear a mask for 10
days following the exposure. Un-
vaccinated students must isolate,
though they can return to school
after five days if they receive a
negative coronavirus test.
The city does not track which
students are vaccinated and
which are not, but according to
city data, Black and Hispanic resi-
dents living in low-income neigh-
borhoods are the least likely to be
vaccinated, suggesting that stu-
dents who live in those areas
could be spending more time at
home.
With more students and staff at
home, at least one D.C. public
school informed families this past
week that its high-stakes stan-
dardized exam would be consoli-
dated into one week instead of two
so the school can use the second
week to administer a makeup test
for students who are out. Another
elementary principal emailed
parents reminding families of iso-
lation procedures and to get vacci-
nated.
“I’m certain that every grade
level and most homerooms have
experienced a case in the last two
weeks,” the principal wrote.
In Virginia, the state H ealth
Department no longer requires
schools to contact trace individual
virus cases. Fairfax County Public
Schools, a district of about
180,000 students, has stopped col-
lecting and monitoring data on
the number of students and staff-
ers forced to quarantine because
of exposure, s pokeswoman Julie
Moult said.
But Fairfax has experienced a
steep rise in reported cases over
the past four weeks, according toacross the country warn that cases
are probably underreported due
to the widespread use of at-home
rapid tests. Still, it reflects the
difficult reality for schools more
than two years into the pandemic:
Covid is still here, even as they
seek a return to normalcy.
“I don’t think [covid] is going
away; I think we have to continu-
ally manage it,” said Brenda Wolff,
president of the Montgomery
County Board of Education, which
oversees the Maryland county’s
159,000-student school system.
The Montgomery school board
announced this month that it will
require students in classrooms
that have three or more positive
coronavirus cases to wear masks,
though the board is not consider-
ing a systemwide shift in masking.
In D.C., like many other juris-
dictions, the mid-May case num-
bers brought the city’s covid com-
munity level — a Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention label
that reflects the virus’s current
impact on the health-care system
— from “low” to “medium” for the
first time in a month.
Children’s National Hospital in
D.C. said it is experiencing a slight
uptick in covid hospitalizations,
with nine children in the hospital
with covid on Thursday. During
the omicron surge, Children’s Na-
tional peaked with 67 children in
the hospital with covid at one
time, according to a hospital
spokeswoman.
As of Thursday, 4,698 D.C. Pub-
lic Schools students had been
identified as a close contact of
someone who tested positive
within the past 10 days. Students
who are vaccinated, or contracted
SCHOOLS FROM B1
D.C.-area schools not restoring strict covid rules
“I don’t think [covid] isgoing away; I think wehave to continuallymanage it.”
Brenda Wolff, Montgomery County
Board of Education presidentTHE DISTRICTSecurity officer
fatally shot in SEA 33-year-old man working
as a uniformed special police
officer in Southeast
Washington was fatally shot
shortly after midnight Sunday,
D.C. police said.
The victim was identified as
Shawn Minor of Forestville.
Officers from the Seventh
District went to the 2500 block
of Elvans Road SE about
12:25 a.m. to investigate the
sound of gunshots, police said.
When they got there the
officers found Minor suffering
from gunshot wounds and
showing no signs of life. He was
taken to the Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner.
Special police are private
security guards who are
authorized by the District to
exercise some police powers on
property that they are
contracted to protect.
The block of Elvans Road
where the shooting took place
has been the site of violence
several times in recent months.
Police said in January they
were looking for three men
suspected of being involved in a
shooting there. In late
December, a 25-year-old man
was killed.
— Ian DuncanMARYLAND15 sent to hospital
after bus rolloverA Megabus rolled over near
Baltimore as it was heading
south Sunday morning on
Interstate 95, sending 15 people
to the hospital, the Baltimore
County Fire Department said.
Photos shared by the
department showed the bus,
painted in the company’s
distinctive blue, lying on its
side in a ditch by the highway
with a smashed windshield.
Fire crews from Baltimore
and Harford counties were
called to the crash scene near
Kingsville, northeast of
Baltimore, at 6:55 a.m. Sunday,
officials said.
The bus was carrying 47
people, and 27 were hurt.
Twelve of those injured didn’t
go to the hospital.
Dan Rodriguez, a spokesman
for Megabus, said the driver
was among those who went to
the hospital. He said the
company was providing
passengers transportation to
their final destinations.
“Our top priority is the safety
of customers and employees,”
Rodriguez said. “As is
customary with these events we
will be doing a thorough review
— but at this time do not have
comment on the
circumstances.”
Footage from television
station WBAL showed two large
cranes that had been driven
alongside the bus to haul it
upright later Sunday.
Maryland State Police are
investigating the cause of the
crash.
— Ian DuncanLOCAL DIGEST