Tonya Aikens has spent the past three years running the Howard County Library System. For the past 15 months, she’s been doing it from her home in Columbia. Here are three things you might want to know about her.

After a difficult year, filled with loss, Columbia Community Care leaders are focused on creating community for Columbia-area residents, as they continue their search for a physical location for the Columbia Community Care Peace and Justice Center.

Through the new Communications Initiated Referral to Crisis program, Howard County 911 dispatchers will now divert certain calls to certified crisis hotlines run by Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center. These calls will need to meet certain criteria before being transferred, including that the caller does not present any immediate harm to themselves or others.

The Koreatown Planning Committee Board, originally formed in summer 2019 to rebrand Koreatown in Ellicott City, has been fundraising for the past nearly two years for the installation of two traditional, Korean palace-style signs to replace the current “Korean Way” signage on either side of Route 40.

Howard County District 4 council member Deb Jung filed her paperwork Tuesday using the Citizens Election Fund, a voluntary program for small donor financing of county executive and county council candidates. She is the first of the county council members to publicly announce her decision to run for reelection.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced Wednesday that the county will host an expanded Fourth of July celebration at Lake Kittamaqundi to what was previously planned, including music, live entertainment and food trucks.

A man and a woman Howard County police believe were involved in a June 7 Woodbine bank robbery were arrested Wednesday, the department announced.

For the past 15 months, Nisha Sheth said she has done everything she can to save her livelihood and her life’s work: the Mumbai Boutique in Clarksville.

When Shelley Sharkey announced that she was shutting the doors of Miss FIT in Ellicott City, she said customers reached out in droves, like they never had before, asking about fundraising efforts. That’s what led Sharkey to create a GoFundMe to try and keep the gym open.