Published April 1, 2011 by The Record in News, Politics
With 10 days left in the filing period for Perryville candidates, the possibility still exists there won’t be enough candidates for two seats on the board of town commissioners
As of Wednesday afternoon, only one person had filed to run for the ...
Someone in Havre de Grace seems bent on getting change — literally.
Six vending and change machines around the city were broken into over the weekend, Saturday through Monday.
Officer Jeff Gilpin of the Havre de Grace Police Department sa...
A fire in the Frito Lay snack food plant in Aberdeen Wednesday afternoon drew firefighters and equipment from several fire companies in Harford County.
Around 3:15 p.m. personnel inside the Frito Lay plant in the 800 block of Hickory Drive calle...
Published April 1, 2011 by The Aegis in Entertainment
Quite often there were times when it was highly inadvisable for certain members of the gang to go home. Every adult in town knew us and wouldn't hesitate to call our parents if they saw us doing something particularly unnecessary. On warm, spring days ...
Published April 1, 2011 by The Aegis in Entertainment
East of our town is a small stream that we visited many times because of the great variety of challenges it presented. Its name, I learned years after we fished in it, is Bynum Run. To the Heavenly Waters Gang it always sounded like "Bottom Run.&q...
Published April 1, 2011 by The Aegis in Entertainment
On any given day as I have mentioned in earlier chapters, loyalties would change for a variety of reasons or for no reason at all. The day of the millstone, however, gave us all ample reason to perform the act we did.
That particular day Ned and...
The North Harford Hawks earned an extra-inning win Wednesday night, dropping the Elkton softball squad 14-9 in eight innings.
With the victory, the Hawks improved to 3-0 on the year and 2-0 in Chesapeake (upper) Division play.
Host-team N...
A Jarrettsville woman could be facing charges after police broke up a party at her home Saturday that allegedly involved underage drinking.It was the third underage drinking party Harford County police have busted in the last four months and t...
Published April 1, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in Entertainment
Mary Wilson is more than a pretty voice. The founding member of the ’60s and ’70s recording group The Supremes is also an author, cultural ambassador and humanitarian.Wilson was keynote speaker Thursday at a Women’s History Month celebration a...
Published April 1, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in News
Starting Tuesday, anyone with a computer will be able to watch Harford County Council meetings live and online.The council announced earlier this week that it will begin live, online streaming of its public council meetings that residents can ...
Harford County’s public works department wants to replace the 50-year-old Carrs Mill Road bridge over Bear Cabin Creek, but does not want to start the project until the nearby Watervale bridge is completed to avoid traffic issues that could affect thousan...
A Harford County judge denied a peace order Thursday for a 16-year-old girl who says she has been harassed and stalked by a fellow church member since 2007.The Aegis is not releasing the names of the girl or the defendant for their protection,...
Most readers, I’m sure, would prefer not to read too many columns about the good old days, as in, way back when we...Still, I hope you will indulge me a little, because I couldn’t help but being amused over the lead story in March 25 edition o...
To some of us of a certain age who were around Harford County in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tom Barranger was Bill Clinton before most of us had ever heard of the future president of the United States.Mr. Barranger, who died suddenly last...
Charges against an Aberdeen child care provider accused of hitting a 3-year-old girl were dismissed in Harford County last week, but the Cecil County State's Attorney's office is reviewing the case as part of an ongoing investigation, officials said....
Havre de Grace Mayor Wayne Dougherty is requesting a budget increase of almost 12 percent over last year, to $14.7 million, but with a 1-cent reduction in the city property tax rate.That cut would put the city’s tax rate at 59 cents per $100 o...
The business of policing Aberdeen is doing just fine, so fine under the interim leadership of one of its longtime officers, Capt. Henry Trabert, that the city’s leaders are taking their time in finding a permanent chief.In the interim, Aberdee...
Published April 1, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in Business, Politics
It’s safe to say Aberdeen’s mayor and city council and the Presbyterian Home of Maryland will not be best of friends.Two weeks after Presbyterian Home announced it was no longer building the Village at Carsins Run retirement community, the cou...
Published April 2, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in News
Updated at 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 6.Harford County Executive David Craig has unveiled his proposed $605 million operating budget for 2012, with a 4.3 percent increase in opera...
A fire caused more than $1 million damage to a home in the exclusive Glenangus development near Bel Air Sunday afternoon.Around 4:07 p.m., Timothy and Suzanne Fox discovered a fire on the deck behind their home in the 1400 block of North Berwi...
Bel Air town residents will see the same property tax rate of $0.50 per $100 of assessed property value in the $14.8 million budget the town administrator is proposing for 2012.A stable tax rate will probably mean slightly lower tax bills for ...
Bel Air's Board of Town Commissioners reclarified its position on who can speak at town meetings and when Monday, a retrenchments of sorts that blunted a brewing Tea Party protest.At the suggestion of mayor and board chairman Dave Carey, the f...
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