Patterson Mill hurler Brianna James threw a one-hit shutout on Wednesday night, propelling the Huskies to a 2-0 victory over the visiting Bo Manor softball squad.
In seven innings of work, James struck out nine Bo Manor hitters.
Tajae Har...
In my almost 38 years of covering news in Harford County, there’s been one constant: Every first week in May there will be an election in Havre de Grace.
Back in the summer of 1972 when I arrived from Ocean City, the Havre de Grace elections wer...
Sitting in the spacious mayor’s office filled with sleek, black furniture and a wall covered with a marble-like, aerial photo of Aberdeen, it seems like Michael Bennett has come a long way since his childhood in a tiny town on the outskirts of Madison,...
Published April 30, 2010 by The Aegis in Events, Entertainment
A Havre de Grace museum dedicated to preserving the rural arts and crafts of late 19th- and early 20th-century in Harford County hopes to attract more people when it opens for the season this weekend.
The Steppingstone Museum, at 461 Quaker Bott...
Published April 30, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Events
If you want to take full advantage of the nice weather this weekend and get a little sweaty in the process, then the second annual Fallston Duathlon may be just the event.
The duathlon, hosted by Conte’s Bicycles and Fitness in Bel Air, starts a...
Bel Air’s Board of Town Commissioners will attempt to reintroduce a new version of the stormwater management ordinance at the next town meeting Monday.
The town is under a state mandate to update its stormwater regulations.
At the last to...
Homestead Publishing received 21 awards in the 2009 Editorial Contest hosted by the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association.
The awards were presented by the MDDC Press Association during its annual editorial awards luncheon last Friday, wher...
Published April 30, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office are trying to identify two people wanted for questioning in connection with taking a deputy’s handgun left in a Joppa convenience store.
The gun was left in the bathroom of the Royal Farms stor...
The crowd was out in force Thursday as Gov. Martin O’Malley’s campaign for re-election rolled into Aberdeen, where sandwiches were handed out and songs like “Takin’ It To the Streets” filled Festival Park.
Two concepts were the focal points of t...
In a little more than a week, Perryville residents will head to the polls and cast their votes, deciding the future of the town board.
Perryville’s election will be May 11, and Mayor Jim Eberhardt is running uncontested, while four candidates, i...
Published April 30, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Crime
A Bel Air woman was in court Monday in connection with two separate drunk driving cases.
The same woman has a third pending driving under the influence case and after her appearance Monday, the judge sent her off to jail on no bail to await her ...
Published April 30, 2010 by The Aegis in Education
High school students from across Harford County gathered to pit their knowledge against each other in a variety of environmental fields for the county’s annual Envirothon, held this year at Camp Frederick A. Saffran at the Broad Creek Memorial Scout Re...
Throughout May, Harford County residents will be encouraged to try a clean commute alternative for at least one day in observance of Clean Commute Month.
According to the county government, when more people choose bicycling, transit, carpooling ...
Published April 30, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Education
Students in Harford County Public Schools will be graded on the mastery of a course and not their behavior or ability to show up to class on time, if the system-wide grading and reporting policy is approved as presented Monday.
Teachers who dock...
Rabies vaccination clinics will be held Sunday by the Harford County Health Department at the following locations:
o Aberdeen Fire Department – corner of Roger and Franklin streets, Aberdeen;
o Jarrettsville Volunteer Fire Company – 3825 ...
The Havre de Grace City Council can’t seem to decide whether city employees should receive step increases or cost-of-living adjustments in fiscal year 2011.
Council members debated the issue Wednesday during the fifth budget work session. Most c...
Published April 30, 2010 by The Record in News, Community, Events
Things are going to get a little quacky in Havre de Grace this weekend.
Beginning today (Friday), collectors and spectators alike are invited to attend the 29th Annual Decoy and Wildlife Art Festival in the self-proclaimed Decoy Capital of the W...
Examples of government doing badly that which need not be done at all are legion, but one came to light last week in Havre de Grace.
As it stands, the Havre de Grace Tourism Office charges businesses a fee of $175 to be included on the city’s to...
Over the next two years, the City of Havre de Grace will spend roughly $2,400 per resident in money that comes from the city’s taxpayers and water service customers.
The decisions about how that money — about $12 million each year — will be spen...
Over the next two years, the City of Havre de Grace will spend roughly $2,400 per resident in money that comes from the city’s taxpayers and water service customers.
The decisions about how that money — about $12 million each year — will be spen...
After failing to go anywhere two years ago, charter amendments that allow city elected officials to serve for four years instead of two and clarify that the mayor is the city’s chief executive were passed by Aberdeen’s city council Monday by a 4-1 vote...
The Harford Tech Cobras girls lacrosse team needed triple overtime Tuesday night to beat visiting North East and win the UCBAC Susquehanna Division title.
Sarah Chetelat’s second goal of the contest came in the sudden death third overtime, lifti...
Harford County residents can expect a massive generator to join them on the roads next week.
Beginning Tuesday at 8 p.m. until Wednesday at 5 a.m., a 1-million-pound generator will make its way from Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pa., to nea...
It’s hard to imagine how it happens, but every time liquor inspectors in Harford County conduct undercover operations, someone serves booze to their underage person.
It’s a rote procedure: an underage person enters a licensed beverage business a...
C. Milton Wright hurler Brad Markey came one bunt single away from tossing a no-hitter on Wednesday night, but he had to settle for a complete-game, one-hit shutout in the Mustangs 7-0 victory over Chesapeake (upper) Division rival Fallston (9-3 overal...
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