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A roundup of football games in Howard County on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.
- A roundup of soccer and volleyball matches in Howard County on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.
- Howard County Executive Calvin Ball on Thursday announced the county’s community engagement plan for using the $63.2 million in federal funding allocated to it by the American Rescue Plan to address immediate and long-term challenges as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
- A look at the top passers, rushers and receivers in Howard County through Week 3 of the 2021 football season.
- Saturday’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Centennial Park in Ellicott City, with the goal of raising $140,000 to provide Alzheimer’s care, research and support, is the first of six walks sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Maryland Chapter.
- For many Howard County parents, students and teachers these past 18 months have been especially grueling, and now it is more important than ever to keep investing in our educational systems.
- More than 200 staff members and students in the Howard County Public School System have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the school year, according to a school system official.
- Busboys and Poets will open its ninth and largest restaurant Oct. 10 in Columbia. The two-story restaurant at 6251 Mango Tree Road is more than 10,000 square feet and features both an outdoor patio on the first floor and a large covered deck on the second floor.
- Standard Industries Holdings, a New York building materials company, said Wednesday that it has completed its $4.6 billion acquisition of W.R. Grace & Co., a Columbia-based specialty chemicals giant.
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- For Ellicott City Ballet Guild founder Caryl Maxwell’s 80th birthday, her sister suggested she do something special to mark the milestone. Maxwell knew exactly what she wanted to do: dance.
- Zhenzhu Nelson, a senior hitter for the Oakland Mills volleyball team, is this week's Howard County Sports Q&A athlete.
- "It’s amazing how newspaper opinion writers can conveniently ignore history and its sometimes painfully harsh truths and reality to support their positions. To say that 'perceived inequities and injustices' are not the fault of slavery, Jim Crow and racism (and a bunch of dead old white guys) is simply ludicrous."
- A roundup of soccer and volleyball matches in Howard County on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.
- A sampling of Howard County police reports from Sept. 10 to 17.
- A roundup of field hockey games in Howard County on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, and cross country results on Saturday, Sept. 18.
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- Developed in 1971 by James Rouse, a pioneer in urban planning who planned Columbia and built some of the nation’s first enclosed shopping malls, the mall has served as the focal point of the community for generations.
- Roger Erricker, who coached Towson’s track and cross country teams for 30 years, died of cancer at home on Sept. 12.
- The second edition of the Howard County 2021 football power rankings.
- A roundup of football, field hockey and volleyball games in Howard County on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.
- Shareholders of W. R. Grace & Co. approved a deal Friday for a New York building materials company to acquire the Columbia-based specialty chemicals giant for $4.6 billion.
- Howard County schools Superintendent Michael Martirano announced at a recent school board meeting that the school system’s purchase of 4,600 HEPA filters is expected to be delivered to all county public schools by Oct. 1.
- School nurses in the Baltimore area are shouldering pandemic duties on top of their day jobs and are burning out just weeks into the new year.
- A Baltimore man convicted of killing a teenager in a case of mistaken identity will get a new trial, after it was revealed that the judge overseeing the case had undisclosed communications with a juror.
- This year, the Savage 7K Run and One-Mile Historic Walk are returning to the streets Oct. 17 to benefit the Carroll Baldwin Hall. The race begins at 8 a.m. at the hall and winds through Savage Park, the Patuxent Branch Trail and the streets of Savage.
- Clauda Towles, who owns aMuse Toys in Baltimore's Fells Point with her husband, says the coronavirus pandemic has been made finances and daily operations of the store difficult.
- Cases are starting to circle through soccer teams and history classes, cafeterias and school buses, but parents and students say they’re overjoyed to be returning to full-capacity school for the first time in months, albeit with a COVID-19 storm cloud overhead.
- A roundup of football games in Howard County on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.