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A sampling of Howard County police reports from Feb. 19 to 26.
- The Spending Affordability Advisory Committee makes annual recommendations to the Howard County executive for the upcoming fiscal year on revenue projections, bond authorizations and long-term fiscal outlook. This is the third year in a row the committee has warned about the county’s fiscal future.
- Monday was the first day of hybrid learning in Howard County, with about 4,000 students in the 77-school system returning to classrooms to receive in-person instruction for the first time since March 2020.
- "I am excited to welcome many of our students back and know that many have been waiting for this day so they can see each other, but also receive the necessary instruction and support they need in-person," Howard County Public School System Superintendent Michael Martirano writes.
- George Phillips Jr., a a substance abuse counselor and member of the '80s pop group Starpoint, has died at 68.
- Laura Wetherald, a 34-year employee of the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks, died Feb. 19 at the age of 65 from complications related to COVID-19.
- Some spectators will be allowed to attend Howard County Public School System athletic events when sports return next week.
- Columbia-based W.R. Grace & Co. plans to expand its pharmaceutical manufacturing with the acquisition of Fine Chemistry Services, a division of a Charlotte, North Carolina-based chemical manufacturer, for $570 million.
- The Howard County Board of Education is advancing a $960 million spending plan for fiscal 2022 that requests a considerable increase in funding from the county.
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- During the 17-minute State of Business address, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball touched on the county’s response to the pandemic amid economic uncertainty, as well as his efforts to encourage the county government and residents to spend money with local businesses.
- "The Liberty Act is one step toward ensuring that fairness and compassion be shown to all county residents."
- The Howard County Board of Education on Monday approved changes to the system’s school resource officer program. The vote puts a “safety and security” program into the system’s fiscal 2022 budget, adding 22 full-time positions that are meant to aid in the physical and mental safety of students.
- Howard County is set to receive 1,700 COVID-19 vaccine doses a week from the state of Maryland for the next month, Dr. Maura Rossman, Howard County’s health officer, said Tuesday.
- A sampling of Howard County police reports from Feb. 12 to 19.
- The Howard County teachers union overwhelmingly voted to approve a work-to-rule resolution on Wednesday. The resolution, which will go into effect Feb. 22, is a union action that will result in the approximately 6,000 members in the Howard County Education Association to only do what they are contractually obligated to do.
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- Howard County is instituting divisions for a majority of its high school sports to go along with a unique schedule for the abbreviated fall season that is scheduled to begin games on March 5.
- Joseph O'Neill, 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award winner for fiction, is the featured author at the Howard County Poetry Literature Society's Evening of Irish Music and Poetry on Feb. 19.
- Starting at 5 p.m. Friday, Howard County will match statewide standards and allow for wedding receptions, social and fraternal organizations, and indoor and outdoor recreational sports and programs to host up to 50% capacity.
- A look back at the top field hockey teams and players from Howard County that played between the 2010 and 2019 seasons.
- The Howard County Board of Education voted last week to switch two full school days to half days next week in order to provide educators with more time to prepare for the start of hybrid learning.
- "Rushing the school reopening process is not the answer. Disregarding and delegitimizing the concerns of teachers and teachers unions is not the answer."
- A sampling of Howard County police reports from Feb. 19 to 26.
- Saturday afternoon was not some case of the wrong place at the wrong time. When the bullet hit Kaelin, she was right where she told them: down the block buying Cheetos.
- A sampling of Howard County police reports from Feb. 19 to 26.
- People who show up to Maryland’s mass coronavirus vaccination clinics will not be turned away for lack of documentation or proof of eligibility — a possible benefit for some of the state’s most at-risk residents, but also for those exploiting the system, medical ethicists, logistics experts and lawmakers say.
- Maryland counties are announcing and revising plans and guidelines for holding classes while containing the spread of coronavirus.
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