In March 2014, the state agreed to fund the Youth's Benefit Elementary School replacement and recommended approval to replace Havre de Grace Middle/High School. The state's board of public works must give final approval to spend the $13 million for the projects.
The Havre de Grace Mardi Gras celebration became the victim of another Harford County snowstorm. The parade was rescheduled for Friday instead of "Fat Tuesday" because of safety concerns. Main roads were clear by Tuesday evening, but the side streets were not.
Residents reported seeing bears in Fallston. One resident called the sheriff's office to report a "big person" walking around in her back yard. Two Harford County sheriff's deputies searched the yard and found what they described as bear tracks.
An 81-year-old, Mary Magdalene Root, was arrested for allegedly letting her dogs run loose near her home in Havre de Grace. Harford County District Court Judge Mimi Cooper ordered Root held on $2,500 bail and, if she posted bail and was released, to not have any animals on her property. According to charging documents, Root was issued five citations in February and given 30 days to pay the citations, but didn't. Root intended to fight the charges.
Governor Martin O'Malley told Harford County Public Schools to feed breakfast to more of their low income students. In 2012, 62 percent of eligible students were getting free lunch and breakfast. The Partnership to End Early Childhood Hunger recommended that school districts in Maryland reach 70 percent of the eligible population. Based on the 2012 figures, Harford County Schools needed to reach 702 more students in to reach 70 percent.
The Maryland Transportation Authority agreed to delay for at least two years the implementation of an all-electronic tolling system on the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge on Route 40.
Cal Ripken Jr. appeared at the Abingdon Library to promote his new book "Squeeze Play." About 100 people paid $35, which included a copy of the book, to attend.
Looney's Pub in Bel Air hosted a head shaving event to raise money for the St. Baldrick's Foundation, a charity that aids cancer research for children. This was the third such event hosted by Looney's and they hoped to raise $30,000 this year.
Harford Community College's Board of Trustees voted to increase consolidated fees by 2.6 percent. HCC President Dennis Golladay recommended the increase saying the money will be allocated to the general operating fund. The increase quickly follows a recent tuition increase of $12 per credit hour. The main reason for the increase, college officials said, was declining enrollment.
Background checks are now required of all coaches and volunteers in recreation councils across Harford County in a new countywide policy. The new checks are looking for a history of sex offense, violence, domestic abuse or any misdemeanors within the past seven years.
Patterson Mill High School's girls basketball team won the Maryland Class 2A Championship at Towson University. It was the Huskies first state title in girls basketball.
The Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference's Board of Control voted to stop holding championship games between the regular season winners of the upper and lower divisions to determine a conference champion. The automatic practice of having the top team in the lower division move up while the bottom team in the upper division moves to the lower would also be discontinued starting in the fall of 2014.
A 29-year-old burglary suspect, Rajsaun McCray, of Washington, D.C., was fatally shot by State Police troopers and an Aberdeen Police Department officer after he drove his car at officers on the entrance ramp to the Maryland House Travel Plaza near Aberdeen on March 21. McCray led police on a high speed chase on I-95 after he was caught breaking into the Target near the Route 22 interchange in Aberdeen. Harford County's state's attorney later ruled the fatal shooting by police was justified.
The Maryland Association for Secondary School Principals named Edgewood High School's Larissa Santos Principal of the Year. The Maryland Association of Elementary School Principals named Havre de Grace Elementary School's Ron Wooden as Assistant Principal of the Year.
Lawrence Jehnert of Edgewood Elementary School was named the 2014-15 Harford County Public Schools Teacher of the Year.