Published June 3, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Community
You spoke, they listened.
On Friday afternoon, the Harford County Council voted unanimously to lower the real property tax rate 1.8 cents after listening to protests about high property taxes from concerned citizens at three preceding meetings....
Cokesbury College in Abingdon, the first Methodist college in the world and the first college in Harford County, was established in 1785 and burned to the ground 10 years later, in what was thought to be an act of arson.
After more than 200 year...
Many Aberdeen Churchville Parks and Recreation gymnasts competed in their final competitions over the last few weekends in their Maryland State Gymnastics Championship meets. ACPR gymnasts Level 6 and Level 7 finished their competition season with four...
Published June 3, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Education
Though they were celebrating in another school’s auditorium, members of Bel Air High’s Class of 2009 — the final graduating class to pass through the school’s landmark building — gathered for the last time Tuesday evening to get their diplomas.
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Published June 3, 2009 by The Record in News, Community, Education
Surrounded by an auditorium filled with proud families and friends, some holding bunches of gold and blue or “Congrats Grad” balloons, Aberdeen High School’s Class of 2009 celebrated the completion of their school careers Monday.
Principal Thoma...
Published June 4, 2009 by The Aegis in Arts, Community, Events, Entertainment
The Susquehanna Symphony , Harford County's all volunteer orchestra in its 32nd season, will open the free summer concert season at the William A. Humbert Amphitheater in Bel Air's Shamrock Park Sunday at 7 p.m.
The program will consist of pops ...
Harford County's rural landscape could soon be changing with the addition of small wind energy systems.
Following a public hearing Tuesday, the Harford County Council passed new wind-energy system legislation.
"I think it's good legi...
Published June 4, 2009 by The Record in News, Events
This weekend marks the anniversary of the tragic death of Brian Anthony Wilson, a 2008 graduate of Havre de Grace High School killed by a drunk driver in a crash on his way home from a post-graduation trip to the beach.
On Saturday, his memory w...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Education
North HarfordNothing was going to stop North Harford’s Class of 2009 Hawks from flying high with pride and enthusiasm on Graduation Day.
Not the trip from Pylesville to Aberdeen, the dreary w...
The McDonald’s LPGA Championship, one of women’s professional golf’s major tournaments, returns to Harford County starting Monday.
Unfortunately, when Bulle Rock Golf Course welcomes the best women golfers in the world for the 2009 tournament, i...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Community
Bel Air will observe Flag Day Saturday at 8 a.m. with a ceremony at the William A. Humbert Amphitheater in Shamrock Park.
Robert Cassilly, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve and former Bel Air town commissioner and mayor and Harford County council...
Area residents will soon be asked to offer comments on the environmental impact of a local hydroelectric operation.
After the Exelon Generation Company announced in March that it plans to apply for a re-licensing of the Conowingo Dam hydroelectr...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
She focused on the hat. All she could read was “Portofino Bay” and “hote.” She didn’t know what it was, but she knew it would be important.
It still haunts her to this day, three years later.
The hat was worn by the man who broke into the...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Business
On May 19, RTR Technologies LLC in Aberdeen was awarded the distinguished Small Business Person of the Year for Maryland by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The award was presented by Karen G. Mills, SBA Administrator, in Washington, D.C....
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Community
Harford County’s rural landscape could soon be changing with the addition of small wind energy systems.
Following a public hearing, the Harford County Council passed new wind-energy system legislation, with amendments, in a 5-2 vote, during Tues...
The Chief of the Perryville Police Department, citing health issues, announced his resignation Wednesday, the day after citizens criticized his professionalism at Tuesday evening’s town meeting.
Police Chief Christopher Daly resigned from his po...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Education
As members of this year’s senior class in Harford County Public Schools pick up their diplomas this week, they achieve a first.
The Class of 2009 is the first required to pass a series of standardized tests, called the Maryland High School Asses...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Community
The Rev. Canon Dr. Mark Gatza, formerly the rector at Christ Church Rock Spring and recently a member of the bishop’s staff in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, will be the new priest-in-charge at Bel Air’s Emmanuel Episcopal Church on the corner of B...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Education
It was gray and rainy outside Aberdeen High School, but inside its auditorium, hundreds of relatives and friends of C. Milton Wright High’s Class of 2009 were gathered in excitement to watch 398 students get their diplomas.
While previous C. Mil...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Record in News, Business, Community
Ike’s Corner Deli, the longtime dream of Havre de Grace residents Tom and Kathy Eikenberg, recently celebrated a grand opening on South Juniata Street in Havre de Grace.
Havre de Grace Mayor Wayne Dougherty, Harford County Council Member Mary An...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
A Baltimore City police officer who lives in Harford County was indicted last month in connection with a road rage incident along Route 924.
Robert G. Cirello, 30, who has a home address in Abingdon, was indicted May 20 in Harford County Circuit...
The Town of Port Deposit’s budget for fiscal year 2010 was approved at Tuesday’s meeting of the mayor and town council, but some town officials felt the action was premature.
The FY10 budget has been through a lengthy evaluation process, but som...
Perryville residents will see a slight decrease in the real estate tax rate for fiscal year 2010.
Perryville’s mayor and commissioners unanimously approved a property tax rate of $0.353 per $100 of assessed property value, which is $0.009 less t...
Restoration of Havre de Grace’s Red Onion building and reconstruction and reuse of the Bel Air Roller Rink were both honored recently by the Harford County Historic Preservation Commission during its 14th annual awards breakfast held at the Harford Cou...
Published June 5, 2009 by The Record in News, Community
More than 120 volunteers from 17 locations of The Home Depot in the Baltimore region will converge on the Aberdeen unit of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Harford County Monday and Tuesday to repaint walls, build shelves, re-carpet floors and do some gener...
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