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Region playoffs for boys and girls soccer teams opened with quarterfinal play on Wednesday. Boys teams from Bel Air and North Harford, as well as the girls team from North Harford, earned wins.
- North Harford senior Zach Wilcox placed fifth in the 1A/2A tournament and Aberdeen junior Erica Honadel, tied for sixth in the 3A/4A tourney. C. Milton Wright freshman Jack Geyer tied for sixth in 1A/2A.
- The John Carroll boys soccer team will go into next week’s playoffs on a well-deserved high. Midfielder Ryan Skandalis made sure of that Wednesday at Gilman.
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- Tuesday's event at Brantwood Regional Park in Elkton showed that the C. Milton Wright girls and the Bel Air boys made the best comebacks. CMW’s Ashton Tolson and Bel Air’s Elizabeth Pickett were the best among the individual runners.
- Dr. David Bishai, health officer at the Harford County Health Department who assumed the position in January at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, has been terminated from his position.
- U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland says he has deactivated his official congressional and campaign Facebook and Instagram accounts until their parent company and Congress make reforms to protect children, health and democratic values.
- A 38-year-old Edgewood man who was a music teacher at a Baltimore school has been indicted on federal charges of soliciting and distributing child pornography online.
- The unassuming Jiffy Lube building tucked across the street from Harford Mall recently received a face-lift from a group of art students from the John Carroll School.
- Some Baltimore area business owners are adding branches in Towson, Urbana and beyond.
- School districts across the state will use federal and state funds to recover from the effects of the pandemic and improve schools.
- Winners of the 58th Annual Havre de Grace Art Show Awards held on Sunday.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Region playoffs for boys and girls soccer teams opened with quarterfinal play on Wednesday. Boys teams from Bel Air and North Harford, as well as the girls team from North Harford, earned wins.
- When selecting Maryland’s next governor, many voters will pick a candidate they believe can boost jobs and the economy, a new poll from Goucher College shows.
- 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.
- A consent judgment in Baltimore County Circuit Court ends a legal battle between Roula Paterakis, the widow of the man who turned H&S Bakery from a family business into a conglomerate, and his six adult children.
- When Maryland environmental regulators inspected state poultry farms in recent years, they uncovered water pollution concerns in the majority of cases. But only a handful of those operations ended up paying fines, an investigation by an environmental watchdog group has found.
- 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.
