After 15 years of service to Harford County, Joe Pfaff, the director of parks and recreation, will retire Feb. 1.
“I think the last 15 years of my professional career have been the most satisfying of my life,” Pfaff, 66, said. “The people in Har...
In what is usually a tight high school wrestling dual meet, Harford Tech hosted Rising Sun Wednesday night in an UCBAC Chesapeake Division meet that Rising Sun won, 36-27, on the strength of three straight decisions to end the match.
Through 11 ...
The Aberdeen Eagles girls varsity basketball team will have played eight times entering Thursday night’s game with Bel Air and the results have been a win each time.
The Eagles boosted their record to 8-0 Tuesday night and opened their UCBAC Che...
A drifting boat and dangerous water conditions started the new year on a frightening note for a man who was rescued by a Harford County sheriff’s deputy Saturday at the Conowingo Dam.
The deputy responsible for the daring rescue has been a law e...
An H1N1 vaccination clinic for the general population will be held today (Friday) by appointment only.
Today’s vaccination clinic will be held at the Harford County Health Department’s Edgewood location, 1321 Woodbridge Station Way, from 8:30 a....
Published January 8, 2010 by The Record in News, Crime, Education
A Havre de Grace High School student who is a member of the Warrior swim team, was arrested Tuesday at the school on drug charges during a routine, random drug dog scan at the school.
Thomas William Riley, who turned 18 on Dec. 18, of the 300 bl...
December’s record-breaking snowstorm cost the city of Havre de Grace $17,046.37 in overtime.
Larry Parks, the city’s director of public works, presented a report on the storm during Monday’s city council meeting.
Although the storm occurr...
Published January 8, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Education
Havre de Grace High School’s “Drama Therapy” performance by its students in early December has been drawing fire for its controversial content since.
Several parents have expressed concern over topics covered in the eight vignettes performed by ...
An independent audit of the Town of Perryville found the town is in good economic shape, but also exposed four significant deficiencies, three, of which, were also reported 2008.
William Saddler of Wm. C. Saddler & Co. P.A., a certified publ...
Driving on a lonely stretch of Norrisville Road near Jarrettsville Elementary School late Monday evening, Sam Eichelberger encountered something she’ll never forget.
A large animal, “not a deer, not a dog, not a fox” crossed her path. “It was th...
Havre de Grace High School’s “Drama Therapy” performance in early December was reviewed Thursday night by a handful of angry parents, who criticized the appropriateness of the content.
Some of the 17 adults who viewed a video of the students’ ea...
Published January 8, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Irvine Gary Oelke described the 8-year-old girl he sexually abused as having “advanced sexual development.”
“I have no idea what that means. He’s describing an 8-year-old girl,” Assistant State’s Attorney Bruce Smith told a jury of 12 Wednesday ...
With the holiday season over, the pace of home foreclosures at first glance appears to be accelerating in Harford County.
There were 110 foreclosure sales listed in Wednesday’s edition of The Aegis, significantly higher than normal. Last summer ...
Published January 8, 2010 by The Record in Community
At Port Deposit’s monthly town council meeting Tuesday, Councilman Al Bruno questioned whether the town needs a landlord law, and the town’s planner, Henry Burden, said work on the town’s maintenance facility would take a little longer to complete....
For the first time in its 13-year history, the Harford Ballet Company was forced to cancel a series of performances last month because of a record snowstorm.
Cancellation of "The Nutcracker" left some patrons upset because the show wil...
Published January 11, 2010 by The Record in News, Education
Nearly 20 parents showed up Thursday evening to view a taping of Havre de Grace High School's “Drama Therapy” performance by its students in early December that has been drawing fire ever since for its controversial content.Emotions quickly go...
The Royal Farms store in Edgewood was robbed by two men, one of them with a gun, during the early hours of Monday morning.
The clerk told Maryland State Police that around 1:30 a.m. two men walked into the store in the 600 block of Edgewood Road...
With Verizon providing cable television service to Harford County, County Councilman Dion Guthrie introduced a bill to provide for a change in the membership of the Harford Cable Network Board.The council unanimously passed Bill 09-43 during i...
Jericho Road in Kingsville will be closed to all weekday through traffic on or about Jan. 18, according to a news release from the Harford County Department of Public Works.The road will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays for approxim...
Tournament action, both in and out of Harford County, highlighted the high school wrestling action over the weekend.
Locally, C. Milton Wright hosted its annual Iron Horse Duals with non-area private school teams taking the top two spots, while ...
Published January 13, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Community, Education, Arts
Sixteen people signed up to speak at Monday’s school board meeting about the controversial “Drama Therapy” program at Havre de Grace High School that has recently been drawing fire.
Many of the speakers defended the program that combines heavy d...
Two accidents involving school buses were among three serious crashes Monday and Tuesday that, though bad, weren’t as bad as they looked.
In one of Monday’s crashes, a man drove his car under the back of a stopped school bus on Route 40 in Edgew...
The traffic lights at the intersection of Perry Avenue and Willoughby Beach Avenue in Edgewood may have contributed to an accident Jan. 4, and at least one community member is concerned about the intersection.
Perry Avenue leads to Deerfield Ele...
Published January 13, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Two teenage boys were robbed at gunpoint in the Harford Square Drive area of Edgewood last Wednesday.
Around 5:30 p.m., two 15-year-old boys walked from one boy’s home in the 600 block of Yorkshire Drive to the other boy’s home, according to the...