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Board approves $697 million budget request
The Howard County Board of Education Tuesday unanimously approved a $697 million operating request for fiscal year 2013. The amount approved — an increase of 1.9 percent from the 2012 budget — is almost the same as the amount initially...Tags: Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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Cousin proposes 1.9 percent increase in school spending
Fiscal year 2013 is shaping up to be another tight one for Howard County schools. Superintendent Sydney Cousin Thursday presented his proposed $697 million budget for next year to the county board of education. The budget is an increase of $13.3 million,...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Finance, Students, Budgets and Budgeting
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State alcohol tax funds slated for turf fields at Hammond and Atholton
Schools, sports and politics rarely mix, but they are all intertwined in a brewing debate about turf fields in Howard County.
When the General Assembly passed legislation last spring increasing the state alcohol tax by 50 percent -- from 6 percent to 9...Tags: Government, Teaching and Learning, Annapolis, Martin O'Malley, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Proposed use of alcohol tax money questioned
When looking at how to spend the $4 million it was slated to get from state alcohol tax revenues, the county school system picked projects for five schools, all of which are in Columbia and in the districts where legislators voted for the 50 percent...Tags: Teaching and Learning, House Building, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Martin O'Malley
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School board defers decision on turf fields, wants 'revised list of projects'
The county school board's reluctance to use alcohol tax money from the state to install artificial turf fields at two high schools puts the nonpartisan body at odds with the Democratic county executive, and also puts the future of turf fields at county...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Martin O'Malley, Ken Ulman, Schools, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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School board establishes world language pilot program
Students in two Howard County elementary schools will have two new classes when they return to school in the fall: Mandarin and Spanish. The Howard County Board of Education approved a two-year pilot Elementary World Language Program at its meeting...Tags: Language, Teaching and Learning, Students, Juvenile Delinquency, Gang Activity
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'Greatest' came from NFL's best
On Dec.28, 1958, the NFL's best offense and defense, its finest quarterback, its best possession receiver and big-play threat, its most dominant defensive lineman and prototype offensive tackles, its best-rounded linebacker and its most promising...Tags: Football, Chicago Bears, Baltimore Colts, Weeb Ewbank, Vince Lombardi
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Tradition on tap
Sun ReporterThe words just tumbled out of Tony Della Rose's mouth. He was trying to say something inspirational about the Ravens at his family's bar in White Marsh. But he had just watched some special on the Nature Channel, and he found himself talking about apes....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Football, Baltimore Colts, Bars and Clubs, Eyewear
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The K2 Climbing Team
Henry Todd is the Expedition Leader and owner of Himalayan Guides. Henry, from Scotland, has been climbing in the Himalaya for 3 decades. He regularly organizes commercial expeditions to Everest and Lhotse in the Spring and Cho Oyu in the Fall. Henry...Tags: Climbing
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Missing money noted in probe
Sun StaffAs investigators try to solve the slaying of a Baltimore federal prosecutor, they are taking a second look at another mystery: the disappearance of about $36,000 in cash introduced as evidence in a bank robbery trial the lawyer prosecuted last year....Tags: FBI, Bank Robbery, Hospitals and Clinics, Trials, Lynn Anderson
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'A crazy kind of mishmash'
Carmine Sardo leads a double life much akin to that of a comic book superhero. By day, he's a mild-mannered merchant, tending to his La Crescenta auto and boat upholstery business. After dark, Sardo is transmogrified into a musical crusader, a player of...
Tags: Barney Kessel, Music, Johnnie Ray, Bars and Clubs, Mickey Rooney
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Charles R. Brown Sr., 82
Charles “Ace” R. Brown Sr., 82, of Chambersburg, Pa., went to be with his Lord peacefully on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Born Oct. 1, 1929, in York Springs, Pa., Ace was the son of the late Ray Brown and Clara Hockenberry Brown. He was...Tags: American Legion, U.S. Air Force, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Paul Brown
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