Allan Vought

With the 2018 state and county election results in the book, the Harford County Board of Education membership will take on a mostly lame duck status for the next seven months, with a majority of its members due to leave next June.

All things being equal, Harford County Public Schools would need almost $35 million in additional funding to operate during the next school year in 2019-20 — an increase almost certain not to happen — Superintendent Dr. Sean Bulson said.

Bel Air residents are being asked to give their input on potential upgrades to the town’s police headquarters.

Three Harford County election races that went down to the wire appear to have been decided with Friday’s final canvass of absentee and provisional ballots.

Harford County Public Schools Chief of Administration Joseph Licata is retiring after 42 years with the school system during which he had a direct hand in building 20 new school buildings and renovating countless others.

Six months after a majority of the members of the Harford County Board of Education voted against allowing its student representative to participate in selecting the board’s president and vice president, it appears that decision will be reversed.

Bel Air Mayor Susan Burdette was happy to be able to attend Women Mayors of America White House Conference last month, where she got to hear from Vice President Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway, Betsy Devos and Linda McMahon.

Redevelopment is planned for a busy corner in the Fallston/Benson area of Harford County known for its high volumes of daily traffic and frequent congestion.

The start of the trial of a man accused of allegedly stealing money he helped raise for families of two Harford County Sheriff’s Office Deputies killed in the line of duty in 2016 was delayed Wednesday afternoon after the defense moved to dismiss the charges.

Early voting for the Nov. 6 general election in Harford and Cecil counties and across Maryland will begin on Thursday, Oct. 25 and run through the following Thursday, Nov. 1.

Customers of Maryland American Water Company, the supplier of drinking water to the Town of Bel Air and some nearby areas, will have an opportunity to comment next week on the company’s request for a major rate increase.

Early on the morning of Saturday, May 14, 1960, a crowd gathered around the small front lawn of Havre de Grace's brick city hall on Union Avenue to be part of what really did turn out to be history in the making.

The corporate owner of Mountain Branch Golf Course in Joppa has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

A plan by a prominent Harford County family to place a solar power plant on their Churchville area farm has run afoul of the county’s zoning code which officials say doesn’t permit such activities on local farmland.

Three mass shooting incidents in three years has led to the usual media driven question, what is happening in Harford County?

A new round of legal salvos has been filed in lawsuit over a failed rubble landfill venture near Havre de Grace that resulted in a $45 million-plus judgment against Harford County government earlier this year.

Mobile ordering and paying for retail purchases of beer, wine and liquor hasn’t taken off in Harford County, according to local alcoholic beverage regulators and dealers, but it’s likely coming.

The former Bel Air Auto Auction property along Route 1 could become a residential community with a small mix of office and retail under a concept plan scheduled for a community input meeting next month.

The already spacious surface parking area around Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air is being expanded by another 600 spaces over the next several months.

One-day event licenses to serve alcohol at a fundraiser for a family with young children whose mother and father are battling cancer and for a gala Bel Air High School reunion were recently approved by the Harford County Liquor Control Board.

A major road project affecting motorists in the greater Bel Air area is due to get underway next week on a section of South Tollgate Road between West Ring Factory and Plumtree roads.

The regional power grid operator serving Maryland adjoining states in the region said Thursday it will continue with its controversial project to construct new overhead electric transmission lines in northwestern Harford County and neighboring York County, Pa.

Harford County plans to begin work soon to build a roundabout at a key intersection leading to the Perryman Peninsula and one of the region’s major manufacturing and distribution centers.

More residential development is coming off Gateway Drive in Bel Air adjacent to Heavenly Waters Park and a heavily used section of the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail.

Plans for what would be Harford County’s third on-farm microbrewery, where beer would be produced for both consumption on and off he farm, were reviewed Wednesday by the county Development Advisory Committee.

Site clearing and excavation work is underway at the site of Bel Air’s new Chick fil A restaurant at Route 1 and Kelly Avenue and Monday evening, the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners approved a right-of-way deed for potential future road access.

Work will get underway later this month on three renovation projects in the newer section of the Harford County Circuit Courthouse in Bel Air.

The Fallston Branch of the Harford County Public Library will be getting a new roof surface in the coming weeks.

Placing additional classrooms tailored for students with autism in more schools continues to be the top capital budget priority of Harford County Public Schools.

A community fight against a proposed controversial tire pyrolysis recycling operation in Joppa is headed to the Harford County Council, after a zoning hearing examiner ruled recently the use is not permitted under the county zoning code.

Harford County government is getting ready to rehabilitate, widen and repave the stretch of Moores Mill Road on Bel Air’s north side between Route 1/Hickory Avenue and Route 924/Rock Spring Road.

Amid all the rainy weather the past two weeks, construction has continued to move forward on the new water storage reservoir on the outskirts of Bel Air.

An 860,000 square foot warehouse is planned for an Aberdeen area site that was one of the battleground issues of Harford County’s 2017 comprehensive zoning review.

The Harford County Board of Education recently agreed to move ahead with the second year of computer purchases for students, as the Harford system continues with its effort to equip every student in elementary and middle school with a laptop.

Seven portable classrooms are being installed on the rear athletic field at Bel Air Elementary School to be used this fall until a wholesale renovation of the school’s interior is completed.

Joshua Oltarzewski, a senior at Harford Technical High School in the Cyber Security/Computer and Networking Technology program, was sworn in Monday evening as the 30th student member of the Harford County Board of Education.

The Town of Bel Air is going to expand the ways people can pay to park in the downtown area by signing up for a mobile phone app.

Preliminary studies are in the works that could eventually lead to building another Interstate 95 interchange in Cecil County to serve the growing business and industrial community between Perryville and North East.

Harford County government has complied with a judge’s order and secured a bond to continue its appeal of a $45.4 million court judgment in the lawsuit brought by the owner of the Gravel Hill rubble landfill property near Havre de Grace.

The Town of Bel Air is the latest local government in Maryland to join a nationwide movement to sue opioid manufacturers and distributors amid the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.

After nearly 25 years leading the board that manages Harford County's two hospitals, Dr. Roger Schneider has stepped aside to concentrate on his "first love," medicine, and to make way for new blood in the leadership ranks.

Harford County government suffered another legal setback Wednesday in its battle to overturn a $45.4 million judgment against the county in the Gravel Hill rubble landfill lawsuit, when a judge Wednesday denied a motion to waive posting a bond while it appeals the judgment.

The Town of Bel Air was recently honored as a “Banner City” and recognized as a platinum member for its participation in the HEAL Cities and Towns Campaign for the Mid-Atlantic by the Maryland Municipal League.

The leader of Harford County’s most influential public employees union will be stepping down at the end of this month.

Concern that some residents of Bel Air may be upset by a proposed water rate increase, town officials are taking a proactive approach.

The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences has announced plans to establish a new manufacturing center in Aberdeen at the former University Center near the Interstate 95/Route 22 interchange.

Eric D. Price pleaded guilty earlier this week to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit wire fraud, related to payments to him for what prosecutors said was a “no show" job on a sub-contract under contracts awarded by the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Maryland American Water Company announced Thursday it has filed a petition with the Maryland Public Service Commission for a rate increase, as the company’s new reservoir just outside of Bel Air nears completion.

Bel Air town officials had some special honors to give out this week, as they recognized the achievements of Harford County’s Teacher of the Year and two local Police Explorer Scouts who are joining the U.S. Marine Corps.

The downtown public parking garage in Bel Air will be getting new striping and signage this summer, and the Armory will be getting additional security cameras, under contracts approved by town officials.