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Local dignitaries join members of the Klein's Family Markets for the ShopRite Partners-in-Caring Day at Klein's ShopRite at The Festival at Bel Air on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. The event, featuring local celebrity baggers, was intended to raise support for local food banks, coinciding with Hunger Action Month, and a percentage of the sales on Friday also went to the benefit the Empty Stocking Fund.
- Two Bel Air men have been federally charged with receiving kickbacks from overcharging their employer for shipping drums meant to transport flavoring ingredients and seasonings for the food industry, Maryland’s U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
- On a recent trip back to the Perrywood Gardens Apartments neighborhood where he grew up, local artist Antonio Moore saw a rundown, lifeless basketball court. His imagination kicked in and, inspired by videos and photos of artists using courts as a canvas, he saw lots of potential.
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- WHFC 91.1 FM, Harford Community College Radio, is gearing up for its fall membership drive, which will kick off Sept. 20 and run through Sept. 26.
- Harford County Farm Bureau has awarded two scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year to students enrolled in an agriculturally related field and who are members of a Farm Bureau family. Each received a $1,000 scholarship.
- A proposal from the Harford County Public Schools’ superintendent to balance enrollment and address overcrowding will reduce the amount of secondary students required to switch schools by about half.
- Three disparate maps of proposed council districts are now on the table for the Harford County redistricting commission to evaluate and, eventually, recommend to the county council.
- The Harford County Council has asked University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health to reconsider its vaccine mandate for medical staff, issuing a formal letter saying as much.
- Participants range from Baltimore steakhouses and pizzerias to a coffee shop in Cumberland.
- For those who are new to Judaism in Baltimore, Yom Kippur looms as a major landmark on a long spiritual journey.
- Girls soccer teams from North Harford and host Bel Air played for 100 minutes Tuesday night and settled nothing. Both teams scored once to force overtime, yet neither found the net again, ending the game in a 1-1 tie.
- In the game’s first five minutes, the Huskies struck for what ended up being the lone goal of the game and keeper Caitlin Welker made it stand in a 1-0 win over the host Mavericks Tuesday.
- Aberdeen’s City Council passed a resolution Monday signaling its support for joining the same county council district as Havre de Grace as the process of redrawing political districts enters the homestretch.
- Harford County Public Schools Board of Education is waving part of its backpack policy to allow students to properly carry their electronic devices after several have been damaged.
- More than half of Maryland school systems may soon institute routine testing for unvaccinated students or staff in an effort to tamp down the spread of the coronavirus among schoolchildren and the surrounding communities.
- Football teams from Fallston and Havre de Grace both stayed undefeated Friday night, as week three of the high school football schedule yielded a few surprises in Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference play.
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Capitol Police request National Guard if needed ahead of rally defending those arrested after Jan. 6
The Capitol Police have requested the support of the National Guard on Saturday if events get violent at a rally of demonstrators supporting those arrested in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
- The unvaccinated and unmasked have been assessed by science as being bigger threats to themselves, society and the world itself, in this pandemic. The unvaccinated should mask up with N95 masks, at the very least, and stop creating chaos and pain across American communities.
- Shareholders of W. R. Grace & Co. approved a deal Friday for a New York building materials company to acquire the Columbia-based specialty chemicals giant for $4.6 billion.
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