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With more than 200 staff members who retired at the end of June, statewide teacher vacancies and the lingering effects of the pandemic, HCPSS is working to ensure that staff shortages are addressed ahead of the start of classes on Aug. 29.
- Howard County Police are investigating a fatal collision Monday afternoon in Fulton in which a man was killed.
- The Maryland State Board of Elections will seek a court's permission to start counting mail-in ballots before Election Day in November, hoping to reduce delays that meant voters didn't know for days who had won primary races.
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- A monthly column focusing on people and events in and around Clarksville.
- Jeremy Duffie of Bethesda took home more than $4.5 million at the White Marlin Open in Ocean City last week, setting a world record for prize winnings.
- Shop Maryland Tax-Free Week runs from Aug. 14 through Aug. 20.
- July is typically a hot month for home sales, but rising interest rates and fears of inflation and an economic slowdown threw cold water over the Baltimore region’s once-scorching housing market.
- Maryland has 236 confirmed monkeypox cases, about 2% of the 10,392 cases in the U.S., as of Aug. 10. Last week, the White House declared monkeypox a public health emergency, a move that freed up additional funding and resources to fight the outbreak.
- A full range of 4-H club activities was on display at the 76th Annual Howard County Fair in West Friendship this week.
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- A monthly column featuring events in and around Ellicott City.
- Monthly column featuring news and information about people and places in and around Glenwood, Glenelg and Dayton.
- Howard County officials are working to develop a long-range, visionary plan called HoCo by Design that will detail development and conservation in the county through the year 2040.
- Photos from the Howard County Fair Maryland - 75th Anniversary Annual Fair! August 6-13, 2022
- County Executive Steuart Pittman selected Howard County attorney and recent political candidate Janssen Evelyn as the first-ever executive director of the county’s recently formed police accountability board.
- Two new commissions aimed at furthering diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across Howard County were approved late last month by the county council.
- A full range of 4-H club activities was on display at the 76th Annual Howard County Fair in West Friendship this week.
- A federal judge rejected Tuesday the government’s proposed prison sentences, saying they were too lenient, for former Annapolis-based Navy engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, six months after they pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to sell classified nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign government.
- With more than 200 staff members who retired at the end of June, statewide teacher vacancies and the lingering effects of the pandemic, HCPSS is working to ensure that staff shortages are addressed ahead of the start of classes on Aug. 29.
- Two juveniles were arrested Thursday after police say they robbed two people at gunpoint and fled into a nearby apartment building in Glen Burnie that contained guns, ammunition and drugs.
- As home prices rise, buyers can now eliminate up to $50,000 of their student debt under Maryland’s SmartBuy program, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday.
- Look for winners of Howard Magazine’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Contest in October.
