Ted Hendricks
56 stories by Ted Hendricks
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Two Harford businesses accused of serving alcoholic beverage to underage person. - The Havre de Grace Youth Commission, created by law in June, is getting up and running after its first four members were appointed at the Nov. 5 City Council meeting.
- While some in Havre de Grace were in the midst of Veterans Day observances Sunday morning, Havre de Grace police were investigating a shooting in the downtown business district.
- Republicans swept all the key races in Harford County Tuesday, winning the county executive, county council president, the county council, the sheriff and state’s attorney’s races.
- Soured relations between the Ripken Family, operating as Tufton Professional Baseball LLC, and the City of Aberdeen over the operation and maintenance of Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium has led Tufton to demand Aberdeen fulfill its obligations under a 2000 agreement.
- Soured relations between the Ripken Family, operating as Tufton Professional Baseball LLC, and the City of Aberdeen over the operation and maintenance of Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium has led Tufton to demand Aberdeen fulfill its obligations under a 2000 agreement.
- The Havre de Grace City Council gave its permission for Mayor William Martin to reach an agreement with the Susquehanna Hose Co. that will allow the Opera House to use the second floor of the adjoining firehouse.
- A 23-year-old man was Tasered and shot late Friday morning in east Aberdeen after he allegedly made a lethal threat and lunged at police with a comb officers believed to be a knife, police said.
- Merry Tuba Christmas returns to Bel Air High School on Sunday, Dec. 17.
- For the first time in seven years, Harford County Public Schools enrollment increases.
- Steve Gamatoria, the new Chief of Staff for Havre de Grace Mayor William Martin will be paid $85,000 annually, but no benefits.
- Havre de Grace officials are looking at ways to get its citizens to recycle more, which will reduce the amount of trash dumped in landfills and save money. Some residents, however, are wary of potential changes to the system.
- The group trying to buy the former Havre de Grace Colored School at 555 Alliance St. made a presentation to the Havre de Grace City Council Monday night,
- havre de grace city council steve gamatoria
- That stove, which cost about $300, was the impetus behind the Griffith Never Give Up Foundation, which he is hoping to promote awareness of by participating in the Ironman Maryland on Saturday.
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- Harford Community College celebrates 60th anniversary
- Harford Community College has been commended by the state for improving the number of its students earning a degree before transferring.
- Some Aberdeen High School graduates are keeping the glory days and the music of their younger days alive in a band they've been a part of since the 1960s.
- It's summer in Bel Air and that means, among many other things, it's time to "trim" sidewalks.
- Famed singer Johnny Mathis will mention Havre de Grace in a CBS Sunday Morning interview, as the place where he recovered from alcohol abuse.
- Plans for a weekly concert series that was to begin Saturday at Mountain Branch Golf Course in Joppa, alongside one of Harford County's busiest roads, have
- Havre de Grace and Fallston won while Joppatowne and John Carroll lost in girls lacrosse in the past week.
- Members of Joppatowne Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5838 on Pulaski Highway say they were unknowingly renting their hall once a year to a white supremacist group.
- Aberdeen Mayor Patrick McGrady has announced a new economic development initiative that not only has many of the same goals as previous efforts, but also confronts many of the same issues that city leaders have long felt holds the town back.
- Havre de Grace is on its way to annexing more than 200 acres, most of it water, in two separate actions involving two separate parcels.
- As 2016 nears its end, it's time to note the news of Harford County that readers of The Aegis have followed in print and online.
- Harford County will never be the same after two deputies were murdered on Feb. 10
- The number of heroin overdoses and deaths kept getting worse and worse
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The biggest sports stories of 2016 were also some of the biggest news stories of the year.
And almost all of them involved
- UConn travels to the University of Maryland Thursday, Dec. 29, for perhaps the biggest women's basketball game outside of March Madness. Harford is represented in the game by Brionna Jones, Maryland's top player.
- In 2016, Harford County's highly rated school system extended a tradition of having its students do well, its faculty honored and its schools receive awards.
- Two days after Christmas, Havre de Grace voters will be asked to approve or reject the purchase of properties along Water Street for future use as parkland.
- It was a year of championships, near misses, changes in the Ripken Baseball presence in Harford County and an Olympic medalist, as we look back on 2016 and the year in Harford County sports.
- Last Christmas, Marine Corps Captain Kyle McHugh was stationed in Bahrain as part of the Attack Squadron 223, also known at the Great American Bulldogs. This Christmas, he will be in Havre de Grace enjoying the holidays with his family.
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Havre de Grace is moving closer to a special election Tuesday, Dec. 27, that will seek permission from voters for the city to buy properties along Water Stre
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Another chapter in the long and storied history of Fourth of July celebrations in Havre de Grace ended Monday night.
The outgoing committee of voluntee
- Aberdeen is a step closer to adopting runoff elections as the mandated way to decide between two candidates who are tied after all the votes are counted.
- Havre de Grace is holding a special election Tuesday, Dec. 27, at City Hall to get voter approval to spend $55,000 a year for the next 20 years to buy undeveloped land on Water Street just north of Jean Roberts Park.
- The process of closing Harford Memorial Hospital and opening a new medical center at the I-95 interchange in Havre de Grace, projected to be completed by 2020, is about to begin in earnest. It includes a series of community meetings that is expected to begin next week, as well as the recent hiring of a regional real estate firm to oversee planning for the redevelopment of the hospital site
- Harford County government, health and law enforcement leaders say the key to beating the heroin epidemic is for parents to talk to their kids.
- Organizers of the Relay for Life, the fundraiser for fighting cancer, are looking for a new home in Havre de Grace. And, after making a pitch to Mayor Bill Martin and the Havre de Grace City Council at back-to-back meetings this month, they're still looking.
- The Havre de Grace City Council sent a clear message to the community this week that the annual Fourth of July celebration will continue unabated when it voted, 5-1, to give $35,000 to the new group organizing next year's event.
- The Havre de Grace City Council voted unanimously at its most recent meeting to have Mayor Bill Martin proceed with a search for a proper location in the city for a Gold Star Families Memorial Monument. Mayor Bill Martin will begin the search for a suitable location.
- The 110-year-old Amtrak railroad bridge spanning the Susquehanna River, which bisects Havre de Grace and is a vital link carrying high speed trains up and down the country's Northeast Corridor, is on schedule for replacement.
- A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Friday to robbing a PNC Bank in Whiteford on April 27, 2015 while demanding $100,000 - the amount he owes in restitution from
- Denise Sconion has worked for many years at the Havre de Grace Library and what she sees in her new workplace had her beaming with pride Wednesday morning.
- The Aberdeen City Council will consider an ordinance at its April 11 meeting that, if approved, renews a memorandum of understanding allowing the Maryland Transportation Authority Police to take enforcement actions within the Aberdeen city limits.
- A coalition of the city's museums came together in the past couple of months to propose creating a folk festival to be held in August as a replacement for the Havre de Grace Seafood Festival, a long-time summertime fixture in the city's Tydings Park.
- The City of Havre de Grace is spending about $100,000 to replace about 570 linear feet of the Promenade boardwalk, plus some other upgrades that will include new lighting, benches and a new roof on the gazebo at the Yacht Basin end.
