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Nance Reed, who served as Towson University’s senior associate athletic director and was instrumental in the development of Johnny Unitas Stadium and SECU Arena, has died. She was 63.
- Harford County residents have an opportunity this weekend to find out if their bone marrow is a match to help an Abingdon woman undergoing treatment for cancer — and even if they are not a match, they will still become part of a nationwide database that can be used to help someone else battling blood or bone cancer.
- Three recent murder-suicides in Harford County have cast light on issues of mental health and self-harm — coinciding with more people seeking help at the Klein Family Crisis Center as the coronavirus pandemic wears on.
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- Jack Dawson, who covered sports on WMAR-TV for more than three decades, died of coronavirus complications Nov. 19 at UM Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace. He was 91 and formerly lived in Towson.
- The parking lot at the Havre de Grace Community Center was packed late Thursday morning as volunteers waited in their vehicles, anticipating their turn at picking up Thanksgiving meals and then getting out to deliver them to members of the community.
- The Aberdeen City Council is ruminating on doing away with drug tests for its members or making the results public after a Monday meeting. The reasoning behind the idea is practical; council members cannot be fired, so why do or pay for the tests if they are not made public?
- Starting Nov. 30, COVID-19 testing will be available in Aberdeen from 8 a.m. to noon Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays. Previously, testing was only available for two hours on Mondays and Fridays and the site was closed on Tuesdays.
- The Bel Air Lions received a delivery of more than 1,200 Christmas trees on Saturday, which are on sale at the Heavenly Waters parking lot across Route 24 from the Harford Mall.
- A revised policy on sexual harassment, in line with new regulations put forth by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, was recently adopted by the Harford County Board of Education.
- Several Edgewood families have something more to be thankful for this year after receiving Thanksgiving meals from a collection of local businesses that stepped up to help Tuesday.
- Harford County’s average case rate dropped for the first time nearly a month Tuesday, but is still trending above the statewide average and thresholds established by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- About 30 families affiliated with the Harford County Public Schools' Alternative Education Program at the Center for Educational Opportunity in Aberdeen were selected to receive donated Thanksgiving meal supplies.
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- Lynne Thomas, a member of the North Harford FFA chapter in Pylesville, was awarded the American FFA Degree at the 93rd National FFA Convention & Expo Oct. 27-29.
- The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region announced it netted more than $156,000 from its 16th annual After d’Arc Gala, “Let’s Get Wild” on Oct. 30.
- There was much anticipation for Immanuel Quickley and his family Wednesday evening as they sat together in New York City, watching the 2020 NBA Draft click off, pick-by-pick.
- After more than two years of work and $13 million, the state is preparing to reopen Lawyers Mall, the prominent First Amendment gathering space outside the State House in Annapolis.
- The Havre de Grace community lost a very special friend on Nov. 7 as Karen Green passed away. Karen was instrumental in running the Havre de Grace recreation programs for many, many years.
- Two factors — the coronavirus pandemic and a public numb to what once seemed to be astonishingly large prizes — have seen jackpots that once topped $1 billion tumble.
- The day before Thanksgiving, the Baltimore County Public Schools system was shut down by a ransomware attack that hit all its network systems.
