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Dads at the Door welcome North East Elementary School students with smiles and encouragement
NORTH EAST — North East Elementary School implemented Dads at the Door Wednesday morning, a new initiative where police officers, fathers, uncles, and brothers welcomed students out of their cars and buses with high fives and encouraging smiles. “We’re at an elementary school level, we’re kind of limited on the males that we have. We are lucky to have a few males here on our staff, but it’s majorly women,” said NEES Community School Advisor Meghan Handy. ...
Parkville teen to serve as Md. Kidney Walk youth ambassador
Being a dialysis patient has not prevented Alexis “Lexi” Snyder from living life to the fullest. The 13-year-old from Parkville has endured far more hardship than many of her peers. Living with kidney failure since she was an infant has practically kept Snyder in and out of hospitals her entire life. She’s had two heart transplants and is in line to soon get another organ transplant. Through the ups and...
Lowest number of fatal overdoses in seven years reported in Harford
Last year there were 74 fatal drug overdoses in Harford County — the lowest overdose fatality number the county has seen in seven years. Data from the Maryland Department of Health shows that both Harford County and the state had a lower number of fatal overdoses in 2023, when compared with 2022. In 2022, there were 2,576 fatal overdoses across the state. In 2023, that number dropped to 2,511. ...
Inaugural Chesapeake Global Folk Festival begins Friday in Bel Air
The Maryland Center for the Arts will host the Chesapeake Global Folk Festival in Harford County Friday and Saturday. The festival will feature concerts in Bel Air Friday night and a free cultural festival in Aberdeen on Saturday. The inaugural event kicks off Friday at 6 p.m. with concerts at the Maryland Center for the Arts Campus located at 2503 S. Tollgate Road. Featured artists include ...
In light of budget cuts, Marylanders support slight tax hikes for transportation, poll finds
Almost half of Marylanders say they would support a tax increase if the state would invest in projects to ease traffic congestion and enhance safety on the road, a poll released in September found. According to a Gonzales poll of 820 registered voters conducted between Aug. 24 and Aug. 30, 49% of residents said they would be willing to pay a little more in taxes for projects that would ...
Dan Rodricks: Bookstores are making a comeback. Here’s one with 50,000 titles. | STAFF COMMENTARY
There’s hope that the era of American idiocy will end soon, and while a lot of that rides on the outcome of the presidential election, you can feel some real optimism from this trend: Bookstores have been making a comeback. Amazon put a bunch of them out of business, of course, but while e-commerce exploded, new stores opened, survived and even grew. In Baltimore, the Ivy Bookshop and Greedy ...
Chickens hatched in Harford classrooms donated to local recovery foundation
Chickens hatched in classrooms across Harford County were donated by Magnolia Middle School science teacher James Rickey to the Char Hope Foundation, a local organization that incorporates agriculture into its 12-step recovery program. Since 2019, when the project was written into the curriculum, seventh-grade students in Harford County have learned about embryology by incubating and hatching ...
Schillinger farm family honored as QA 'Cooperator of the Year'
CENTREVILLE — On Sept. 26, the annual Queen Anne’s Soil Conservation District hosted their banquet to honor the top farm in the county being recognized as the “Cooperator of the Year” for 2023. This year’s honoree was the James D. Schillinger family, owners of Schillinger Farm, Inc., located in the northeastern portion of Centreville. The award goes to the Queen Anne’s County farm that is not only very successful in producing a profitable agriculture venture, but also practices a variety of sound environmental methods that...
After four year hiatus, new deal may bring back annual Fair Hill Races
CECIL COUNTY — The fan-favorite Fair Hill Races may be making a return after a last minute resolution to approve a five year agreement between the Cecil County government and Sport & Entertainment Corporation of Maryland to extend the Maryland 5 Star and reinstate the races was discussed in the Cecil County Council legislative session on Tuesday. Formerly a Memorial and Labor Day staple for almost 85 years, the Fair Hill Races were last held in the spring of 2019. ...
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