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Annual survey finds 203 homeless in Howard
Howard County's homeless population decreased this year to 203, according to a Point-In-Time survey conducted in January by the county government. However, Andrea Ingram, executive director of the Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center in Columbia,...
Tags: Homelessness, Mental Health, House Building
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Howard named healthiest county in Maryland in annual survey
Howard County has been named the healthiest in Maryland for the fourth straight year by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, according to rankings released Wednesday. Howard topped the 2013...
Tags: Howard County, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Diet, Health and Safety at School, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Immediacy and safety in Howard schools at center of report
When visitors come to Thunder Hill Elementary School in Columbia, they are first greeted not by teachers, students or receptionists, but by a locked door and an intercom. A vestibule separates the outside from the inside, and people are navigated directly...
Tags: PTA, Emergency Planning, Teaching and Learning, Renee Foose, Health and Safety at School
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Howard task force issues school safety report; work to start immediately
When the Joint Task Force on School Safety was established in Howard County days after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., members of the school system, government and police were charged with reviewing school safety and to find ways to improve it It...
Tags: Emergency Planning, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Teaching and Learning, Renee Foose, Behavioral Conditions
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Gun buyback event draws hundreds in Howard County
A line of cars snaked around the government office parking lot, down Bendix Road and for up to half a mile along Route 108 in the late morning and the afternoon, as people waited for hours to trade in guns to Howard County police for crisp $100 bills....
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Criminals, Firearms, Interior Policy
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Howard County's gun buyback set for Saturday
Keeping the community safe is a government's most important responsibility, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman said Friday, and the county's gun safety event, which includes a gun buyback program, is "just one way" to do that. Ulman joined Howard...
Tags: Safety of Citizens, Government, Ellicott City
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Sounds of Beethoven at Glenelg United Methodist [Lisbon/Woodbine]
The Glenelg United Methodist Church will hold a community concert on March 16 at 4 p.m. This concert will feature pianists, Stephanie Kai-Win and Saar Ahuvia. The program will include music and readings from letters from Beethoven. The church will...Tags: Howard County
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HCEDA confirms Twele as CEO
The Howard County Economic Development Authority's Board of Directors have unanimously approved County Executive Ken Ulman's appointment of Lawrence Twele to CEO of the Economic Development Authority. Twele had been serving in an acting capacity since...
Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Howard County, Economic Policy, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Board of Directors
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Lisbon lobbies to keep contingent firefighter program
Lisbon volunteer firefighters and their supporters made their case to Howard County Executive Ken Ulman earlier this week, saying that the contingent firefighter program needs to stay. "I'm not begging you for my job," Albert Snelson, a retired Prince...
Tags: Lobbying, Lisbon (Portugal), Equestrian, Ellicott City
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GOP fumbles Arundel choice
I have never been as disappointed in my political party, the Republican Party, as I am today. We are definitely the Stupid Party. Over the last 12 years, I have worked tirelessly to get Republicans elected to political office, and they continue to...
Tags: Elections, Annapolis
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Ulman voices support for initiatives to criminalize cyberbullying
Howard County Executive Ken Ulman lent his support this week to a pair of bills in Annapolis that would make cyberbullying a crime in Maryland. "The insults and accusations that rush through the cyber-sphere can be beyond anything with which we adults...Tags: Howard County, Electronics, Allan H. Kittleman, Suicide, Bullying
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Howard County anti-bullying forums have a student focus
The Howard County Public School System is hosting four student forums this month focusing on bullying prevention efforts in schools. The first forum was held at Elkridge Landing Middle School March 7. The remaining forums will be held March 14 at...
Tags: Howard County, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Mental Health, University of Maryland, College Park
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