Concerns the Harford County Board of Education will eliminate boundary exceptions for child care when it approves the comprehensive elementary redistricting plan at the end of this month were the focus of Monday’s public hearing at Havre de Grace High ...
The City of Havre de Grace, which is having financial problems with its water and sewer system, issued a formal statement Tuesday explaining that the city’s general fund made a $1.1 million short-term loan last fiscal year to cover a deficit in the sep...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Aegis in News, Events
Folks should be trotting out their best red today (Friday).
It’s National Wear Red Day, an initiative sponsored by the American Heart Association and Go Red For Women geared toward raising awareness about heart disease in women.
National ...
Establishing a hotel room tax in the city of Aberdeen — and possibly throughout Harford County — is still a live issue in the 2011 Maryland General Assembly, supporters say.
No bill authorizing the tax has been introduced yet, but behind the sce...
None of the local municipalities reported any major incidents from last week’s snow or from the most recent attack of ice Monday and Tuesday.
There were reports of power outages on both sides of the Susquehanna resulting from the 12 to 15 inches...
The city of Aberdeen plans to start officially promoting itself as the “Home of Opportunity,” and unveiled a comprehensive marketing campaign at Monday’s city council meeting.
Mayor Mike Bennett announced the city’s logo and motto, “Home of Oppo...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Record in Sports
On Wednesday, the Havre de Grace boys swim team wrapped up a perfect regular season, topping the C. Milton Wright Mustangs 54-40, while knocking off the Aberdeen squad 77-17.
The combined boys and girls results had the CMW squad beating Havre de...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Record in News, Crime
An Aberdeen man was charged two weeks ago in connection with the sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl.
In November 2010, the girl told investigators with the Harford County Child Advocacy Center Joshua Anthony Jones allegedly touched her inapprop...
The thorny issue of whether to allow fortune-telling, which has been popping up in all three Harford County municipalities, drew a small gathering of protesters to Aberdeen’s city council meeting Monday night.
The city had a public hearing on it...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Record in Opinion
There’s a group of people in Havre de Grace who just need to move on. That’s the folks who don’t appreciate the city’s Fourth of July celebration, particularly the carnival in Tydings Park that pays for much of the celebration.
Thankfully, there...
Aberdeen’s Laurena Bell, 27, was crowned America’s Mrs. Maryland 2011 before a large audience Jan. 8 at Montgomery College-Rockville.
She joined delegates from across Maryland in competing for the state title, which began Friday evening with ori...
At a tri-meet on Wednesday night, the C. Milton Wright swim squad earned two combined victories, knocking off Havre de Grace 118-70, and beating Aberdeen 147-71. Havre de Grace topped Aberdeen 134-53 overall.
Danielle King earned the CMW girls a...
In recent boys basketball action, the Fallston Cougars improved to 9-3 overall, and 4-2 in Chesapeake (upper) Division play, with a 63-35, road-game victory over the Elkton Golden Elks.
The Cougars nearly doubled their hosts’ offensive output th...
The Havre de Grace girls basketball team recorded its first win of the season Wednesday night with a come-from-behind, 47-46 win over visiting Perryville (2-6, 4-9) in UCBAC Susquehanna Division play.
The Warriors (1-7, 1-11) trailed by two at t...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Aegis in Sports, Opinion
First things first, I’m going to address some things I said in last Friday’s column which, with the advantage of time and perspective, now seem very off-the-mark.
In an attempt to convey how impressive the John Carroll boys basketball team has b...
The Bel Air Bobcats knocked off host Harford Tech 35-30 Wednesday in a wrestling dual meet that gives the winners the UCBAC Chesapeake Division title, while keeping them alive for a regional dual meet championship berth.
The Bobcats were the 201...
The Town of Bel Air is proposing to lower its base sewer rate to the 14 residents, mostly along Moores Mill Road, who use wells and are connected to the town sewer system.
If approved, Ordinance No. 740-11, scheduled to be introduced at Bel Air’...
Harford County’s plan to build a $1.2 million athletic fields complex off of Darlington’s Conowingo Road was largely given the green light by the development advisory committee, but a request from State Highway Administration could make the project eve...
It’s been an eventful four years for Scott Gibson, the Harford County government’s director of human resources, who presided over a drastic restructuring of retiree health benefits eligibility, a round of layoffs, a year of furloughs, a year of buyouts...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Aegis in Opinion
One of the most worthwhile programs ever conceived by Harford County government is the Harford Living Treasure Program, created in 1979 through the efforts of then-county council President John W. Hardwicke, to honor the accomplishments of the county’s...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Aegis in Opinion
Sometimes, government is mysterious in the ways it works.
Two recent cases come to mind, the matter of how many snow days are built into the school system calendars, and the issue of the state skimming off federal money that was slated to go to ...
Published February 4, 2011 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Two pedestrians were hospitalized last Friday after a Fallston man hit them with his car in Kingsville.
Around 9:11 p.m., Kristofer Ryan Folck, 23, of Parkville, and Brandy Lynn Younger, 28, of the 7800 block Bradshaw Road in Upper Falls, were w...
Police are investigating an accident on the Route 1 Bypass Thursday that sent one man to shock trauma and closed a ramp onto the bypass.
Around 11:34 a.m. Thomas Wingrove, 56, of Landsdowne, was driving a 2003 Freightliner tractor trailer south ...
Hoping the process goes as seamlessly as it did seven years ago, Harford County officials Thursday kicked off the years-long process that will shape the county for the next 10 to 20 years.
A formal kickoff for the most significant component of t...
Legislation to permit fortune-tellers to legally ply their trade in Harford County was introduced at Tuesday’s legislative session of the Harford County Council.
Under the existing county zoning code, fortune-telling is not a permitted use in an...