The Fallston boys lacrosse squad, playing its third game in four days, suffered a 15-14, double-overtime loss to the visiting Hereford squad on Monday. The Cougars were one of several teams to check in with wins since the season opened Friday.
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The Harford County Council has won the turf war over the site of the new elementary school.
Plans are in motion to build the new elementary school at the Red Pump site north of Bel Air rather than at the Campus Hills site off Schucks Road.
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Published March 25, 2009 by The Aegis in Entertainment
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I want to honor and thank the women who have had a positive impact on my life. Some are celebrities, some are not, but all of them are influential and worthy of being recognized.
Rosa Parks. My obsessio...
With advancements in technology and social networking web sites readily available to their students, teachers posting themselves on MySpace, Facebook and other popular sites could be asking for trouble.
“Well, it is not something we recommend ou...
After several weeks of show cause hearings and issuing fines to establishments which violated liquor laws, the Harford County Liquor Control Board spent a fairly sedate meeting Wednesday approving liquor license changes.
The board approved one n...
Despite the sinking economy, many small local businesses in Harford County are managing to stay afloat.
Some are even thriving.
Family owned Smith Hardware in Jarrettsville is seeing business as usual.
“We are doing fine so far,” B...
Aberdeen police arrested a man who allegedly robbed a Burger King and assaulted an employee Tuesday night.
Kevin R. Booker, 25, of the 600 block of Sugar Hill Road in Joppa, was charged with armed robbery, assault, theft and several handgun viol...
Just when county legislators thought the House version of the partially-elected school board might not see any movement for the rest of the session, a full committee vote was called Thursday — and it passed.
Earlier Thursday, a Ways and Means su...
The 2009 high school softball season went into UCBAC conference play Wednesday with action in both divisions.
C. Milton Wright and Harford Tech picked up Chesapeake Division wins, while Havre de Grace and Bel Air did the same in Susquehanna play...
Those turkeys spied in Forest Hill earlier this month and photographed for the front page of The Aegis may not have been so wild after all.
As it turns out, the turkey gang caused quite a stir, bringing police and representatives from the Maryla...
Port Deposit will hand off the operation of its wastewater treatment plant to the Cecil County government starting Wednesday.
Since the December resignation of Port Deposit’s director on the water and sewer authority, the town has been seeking o...
This week in Harford County lacrosse action, Fallston, Bel Air, C. Milton Wright, John Carroll, North Harford, Joppatowne and Aberdeen all fought their way to victories.
The Fallston defense had a near shutout on Wednesday night, holding the vis...
As a rule, a sinking economy goes hand in hand with rising criminal activity, but in Edgewood, the trend could be described as the exception that proves the rule.
“It’s better in Edgewood now,” Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane said.
Call...
Confusion remains about a school bus running over a state trooper’s lawn near Bel Air on March 16, but no further action is being taken by police.
A traffic report was completed and the bus driver, Paul Cranston Truitt, 74, has not been charged,...
Aberdeen police arrested an Aberdeen High School student last Friday during school hours.
A 16-year-old student was charged with assault, school disruption and carrying a weapon on school property.
“It happened during school,” Sgt. Fred B...
With local elections in two Cecil County towns less than eight weeks away on May 12, no one has filed to run for the two open commissioner seats in Perryville.
The terms of Commissioners James Hansen and Gary Tennis will expire this year.
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The death of Harford County Councilwoman Veronica “Roni” Chenowith March 24 leaves a rare in-term vacancy on the council and not much time to fill it.
“Bottom line, no one can replace Roni,” Kim Wagner, chairwoman of the Harford County Republica...
Police are investigating several armed robberies and a robbery that took place in Bel Air this week, with one of the incidents leaving a Bel Air resident in need of medical attention.
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The John Carroll girls lacrosse team, which turned out a perfect season in 2008, started off 2009 with a win Tuesday, edging visiting St. Paul’s, 13-12.
Jen Etzel led the Patriots in scoring with four goals, while Jen Zoltoski and Brittany Dashi...
It seems the weather may be finally taking a turn for the better (or is it just wishful thinking), and we humans are not the only ones emerging from the winter doldrums.
Springtime brings with it a renewal of the ongoing battle between the deer ...
It was a year for youth, relatively speaking, in the Hinte-Anderson Trail Run at Susquehanna State Park on Saturday.
Twenty-five-old Tasha Clearman of Howard County and 29-year-old Matt Woods of Woodbridge, Va., took the top honors in the 31-mil...
The first of four public information hearings on the countywide Comprehensive Zoning Review will be Wednesday, April 1, at North Harford High School beginning at 6 p.m.
The sessions are an opportunity to look at maps of the more than 300 individ...
The following are zoning requests filed by property owners for the 2009 Comprehensive Zoning Review.
Listed are the issue number, property owner, address, acreage to be rezoned, current zoning classification and requested classification. The let...
Fewer Harford County Public Schools students are ineligible to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities, and school officials say the No “E’s” eligibility program is slowly gaining acceptance.
The number of students ineligible ...
In recent local baseball action, C. Milton Wright earned a win over a powerful opponent and Bel Air battled Harford Tech in a pitchers’ duel, while North Harford and Aberdeen knocked off county opponents.
The C. Milton Wright boys continued thei...
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