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The Harford County Sheriff’s Office unveiled the four drones that make up its new Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Unit Wednesday at the agency’s Edgewood precinct.
- Habitat for Humanity Susquehanna was able to open its build sites to volunteers earlier in June for the first time since the pandemic closed them over a year ago.
- The Baltimore County Republican was one of 21 House members, all Republicans, voting against a measure on Tuesday to award the Congressional Gold Medal to U.S. Capitol Police and others officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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- Harford County Public Schools will no longer require students, teachers or other staff to wear masks starting in July, including for all summer programs and those participating in July 4 parades in the community. The school system also expects to begin the 2021-2022 school year without masks.
- The Harford County Council recently approved a 120-day moratorium on construction of new farm breweries to study their impacts on local communities. But the freeze on construction and planning approval left AleCraft brewery's proposed expansion in limbo.
- Norah Hart hit a go-ahead three-run home run then Chesapeake plated four more runs in the bottom of the sixth to defeat Bel Air, 9-3, in a Class 3A state quarterfinal game on Tuesday.
- Ron Wooden wiped away tears as he sat in his office Monday, the last day of the 2020-21 school year, listening to messages from students and teachers over the intercom, wishing him well as he wrapped his final year as principal of Havre de Grace Elementary School.
- Aberdeen Police are investigating after a man was found dead inside his home following a barricade situation Tuesday afternoon.
- Bel Air’s traditional Independence Day activities, including family activities in Shamrock Park, the downtown parade and fireworks show, are coming back this summer after being canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Emmorton Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Tina Purtell started the 2020-21 school year in September with all of her students on a computer screen, interacting with them from a room in her house. She ended the year Monday getting hugs, balloons, cards, even flowers from her students as they interacted face-to-face in her classroom.
- Patterson Mill baseball battled right to the end Monday afternoon, but the third-seeded Huskies were edged, 3-1, by visiting Catoctin in a Class 1A state quarterfinal playoff game.
- Sophomore Aiden Dixon won all 22 faceoffs he took to help Fallston to a 12-7 victory over Liberty in a Class 1A lacrosse state quarterfinal Monday.
- Chase Kalisz, a Fallston alumnus who grew up in Bel Air and says Baltimore swimming star Michael Phelps is like a big brother, claimed another trip to the Olympics by winning the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. trials late Sunday.
- The first round of meetings on Maryland’s legislative and congressional redistricting will be held virtually Wednesday night for Harford, Cecil and Carroll counties.
- The grounds of the historic Liriodendron Mansion in Bel Air will be filled with music again this summer as its Music at the Mansion Sunday evening concert series returns.
- Girls lacrosse teams from C. Milton Wright and Fallston were both winners Wednesday and both will play Friday for respective state championships at Loyola University. CMW (13-1) knocked off previously unbeaten and host Urbana (11-1), 12-7, in a Class 3A state semifinal, while Fallston (13-1) was a 11-4 winner over visiting Southern-Anne Arundel (5-5) in a 1A state semifinal.
- A Baltimore nonprofit conspired with city officials to give itself an unfair advantage over other developers to acquire property through the city’s annual tax sale, according to an inspector general report released this week.
- Increases in elective surgeries, coupled with trauma cases and organ transplants, has left the Red Cross facing an urgent blood shortage.
- The Biden administration said it is approving 18,000 loan forgiveness claims from former students of ITT Technical Institute, a chain that closed in 2016 .
- While modern Baltimore is known for its drag brunches and lively modern ballroom culture, the blossoming of Baltimore’s drag culture dates back to prohibition— an era when drag balls took center stage.
- Three things you might not know about Gina Kazimir, executive director of Pets on Wheels.
