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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.
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- A full range of 4-H club activities was on display at the 76th Annual Howard County Fair in West Friendship this week.
- 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.
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- Two new commissions aimed at furthering diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across Howard County were approved late last month by the county council.
- Patricia Owens, a retired Red Cross public relations director who was a potter and accomplished gardener, has died. She was 93 and formerly lived on Guilford Avenue in Charles Village.
- A friendly rivalry between Howard County’s firefighters and police officers took to a new venue this weekend with Farmer Wars, a contest introduced at the 76th annual Howard County Fair in West Friendship Sunday night.
- Thunderstorms left hundreds without power Thursday evening and downed dozens of trees, with rain and outages mainly impacting Northeast Baltimore.
- The 76th annual Howard County Fair will return Saturday to the Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship.
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After more than 200 Howard County school staff members retire, leaders work to fill vacant positions
This year has produced a higher number of retirees as compared to past years and Howard County schools has been busy hiring for vacancies this summer, according to spokesperson Brian Bassett.
- A full range of 4-H club activities was on display at the 76th Annual Howard County Fair in West Friendship this week.
- Edward T. “Tom” Maxwell Jr., a retired criminal defense attorney who practiced for more than 50 years and a civil rights activist, died from heart failure July 16 at Gilchrist Center in Towson. He was 88 and lived in Homeland.
- Edward T. “Tom” Maxwell Jr., a retired criminal defense attorney who practiced for more than 50 years and a civil rights activist, died from heart failure July 16 at Gilchrist Center in Towson. He was 88 and lived in Homeland.
- 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.
- Thirty-two years after they attended the Naval Academy, Mike Graham and Heather Keane returned to the Yard as parents this weekend to say goodbye to their daughter Darby as she concludes Plebe Summer and enters the institution in the Class of 2026.
- Look for winners of Howard Magazine’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Contest in October.
