Howard County Public Schools students will start later and walk farther to school this year. About 1,350 elementary schoolers, 800 middle schoolers and 1,200 high schoolers will lose bus service as a result of newly implemented zones.
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The Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum in West Friendship chronicles agricultural life in the region from the 1600s through the 1960s. Visitors can explore a one-room schoolhouse, general store and sawmill or try digging potatoes and shucking corn.
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Since making her first record in 2014, River Hill alumna Vanessa Collier has traveled the U.S. and world performing original songs that mix blues, funk and soul.
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Going to Frederick as a child, Garden City, South Carolina and summers on the beach in Brazil.
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Columbia family marks 25th anniversary of losing their son, Norman Flecker, an Army pilot whose helicopter crash in South Korea.
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Elizabeth J. “Betty” May, a playwright and theater director who brought her love of performing arts to thousands of Howard County students as well as incarcerated women, died of complications from cancer June 12 at her home in Columbia.
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The Howard County Center of African American Culture’s 30th annual Juneteenth celebration, held at St. John Baptist Church in Columbia, featured a talk by authors Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel Freeman.
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June is typically when yearlings, the “teenagers of the bear world,” leave the place they were born to establish their own ranges. An increase in sightings this year in Howard County is indicative of a healthy bear population, officials say.
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Despite continued low enrollment growth in the last few years, compared to pre-pandemic student levels, half of Howard County’s public schools are projected to be above 100% capacity for next school year, according to an annual feasibility study presented to the Board of Education.
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Wilde Lake High School rising senior Abisola Ayoola will begin her one-year term as the student member of the Maryland Board of Education on July 1.
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