Notre Dame Prep junior Rylan Sachs, a lacrosse and ice hockey player, earned a seat on the NHL Power Players youth advisory board.

Harford County Public Schools has not incorporated the controversial “critical race theory” into its curriculum or professional development for staff, officials said earlier this week in response to criticism from parents and other community members.

Young people between ages 15 and 60 have driven Harford County’s test positivity to the highest in the state, Harford County Health Officer David Bishai said, despite middle-of-the-pack testing in the county.

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the Baltimore-area housing market continues to thrive. The trends reflect the public health crisis’ continued hold on the economy, fueling demand for property and opening the consumer floodgates with record-low mortgage interest rates.

Harford County government will begin accepting applications for a COVID-19 relief grant for local nonprofits that have been impacted by the pandemic as well as extend another round of grant funding to hotels and restaurants, the county announced Tuesday.

Jane F. Barrett, a trial lawyer, state and federal prosecutor, white-collar defense counsel and legal educator, has died at 68.

Harford County Public Schools families will have a chance Wednesday evening to learn more about potential adjustments to elementary school attendance area boundaries, as well as as questions and give feedback through live online polls.

The Aberdeen City Council voted to outsource its municipal refuse collection to GFL, a private waste management company, after months of consideration, public comment and back-and-forth.

Harford County’s three municipal police departments have created autism awareness shoulders patches that they are selling in April to raise money for Pathfinders for Autism. April is Autism Awareness and Acceptance month.

The Harford County Farm Fair will return in 2021, but as a primarily virtual event for the public, during the last week of July. The summertime staple for more than three decades will still include community competitions, 4-H exhibits and contests, and 4-H and FFA livestock shows and sale, organizers announced.

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman unveiled his proposed $1 billion-plus budget for the upcoming fiscal year Monday, which reduces the tax rate and prioritizes expanding broadband access in the northern reaches of the county and body cameras for the sheriff’s office, along with fully funding the Board of Education’s operating budget request.

Seventeen Marylanders will be honored for STEM-educated workforce development and advancing our technology and innovation base to grow the economy and protect national security at the 10th annual Northeastern Maryland Technology Council Visionary Awards Gala on April 22, a virtual event this year.