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Winners of the 58th Annual Havre de Grace Art Show Awards held on Sunday.
- Dr. David Bishai, health officer at the Harford County Health Department who assumed the position in January at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, was terminated from the position last week, he said late Tuesday evening.
- No individual players finished even par or better, compared with seven that accomplished the feat in 4A/3A, and the cut score of 346 in the team competition was 28 strokes higher than the 318 total from Monday.
Vote in the 2021 Harford Magazine’s Best Restaurants contest.
- Harford County police officers are investigating after being dispatched Tuesday to a Bel Air hospital following a report of gunshots heard in the area, a Harford County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.
- The Maryland school board will collect three months of data on cases and outbreaks before making a decision in December.
- Gov. Larry Hogan has extended the period for people to apply to an upcoming vacancy on Maryland’s highest court, citing a need for more diverse candidates after the initial seven applicants appeared to all be white.
- Harford County Public Schools will require students who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 and are participating in winter sports or after school fine arts activities to take weekly a COVID-19 test. The testing program is set to start next month.
- Aberdeen junior Erica Honadel shot a 3-over-par 74 and trails the leader by three strokes after the first day of the 4A/3A state golf tournament in College Park.
- Many teams have byes into semifinal play, scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
- “I have extreme confidence in this team, it’s really easy to ... just know that anytime they get a little bit down, they fight their way out of it,” Bel Air coach Dave Simon said. “There’s a lot of confidence on this team right now.”
- Both teams, as expected, reached the championship with semifinal wins on Monday.
- The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association conducted its region playoff draw Monday, placing all participating Harford County schools and Perryville from Cecil County in championship brackets.
- See where Harford County's field hockey teams were seeded in the MPSSAA playoff brackets.
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Harford County says COVID relief and policies, reduced spending led to record surplus of $58 million
Harford County government ended the 2021 fiscal year with a record $58 million surplus due to strong income tax revenue and reduced government spending, County Executive Barry Glassman announced. - Wanda Denise Distance, a former nurse and celebrity hairstylist, died Oct. 13
- A week removed from winning the Harford County regular-season title with a win over Patterson Mill, the Bobcats beat those same Huskies for the Harford County tournament title Tuesday.
- After almost 40 Baltimore County residents during a Tuesday evening hearing overwhelmingly opposed a redistricting plan, Democratic County Council chair Julian Jones said he plans to “work hard to see if there is a way” to create at least one more majority-Black district.
- The medical leadership of Upper Chesapeake Medical Center fully support the University of Maryland Medical System’s decision to make the COVID vaccine a condition of employment for all of its team members, in precisely the same way flu, measles and mumps vaccines are required across our system.
- U.S. home prices jumped in August by a near-record amount from a year earlier, as Americans eager to buy a home drove up prices on a dwindling number of properties.
- Winners of the 58th Annual Havre de Grace Art Show Awards held on Sunday.
- The nomination period is now open for Harford Magazine’s Best of Harford County Readers’ Choice Contest. Nominations end Oct. 31 at 5 p.m.
