. . . a noontime bento box of tidbits, from and about The Baltimore Sun and local media.

* Bemoaning the loss of the colorful tradition of puking-drunk debauchery in the Preakness infield, now that you can’t bring your own booze to the event? Then you didn’t make it to the 13th paragraph of the Sun’s story today about the first BYOB-less Preakness. It says the price of a beer tomorrow will be: “$3.50 — except for a special from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., when the price drops to $1.” Party on!   

* Add to the roster of distinguished reporters leaving The Baltimore Sun education reporter Sara Neufeld.  She bid a bittersweet farewell in the Sun‘s excellent InsideEd blog yesterday and explained that she volunteered to be laid off, to help a colleague with low seniority who was about to be “bumped.”

* UPDATE: Also yesterday, the newsroom bid farewell to another terrific and prolific reporter, Nick Madigan, one more victim of the “bumping process.”