Laurel Leader

The Howard County Arts Council has announced the 12 sites and sculptures selected for ARTsites 2021, a public art exhibit that will be installed in August and remain in place until July 2022.

The water feature at Emancipation Community Park, which sits adjacent to the Laurel Library along Eighth Street, is operational again after the feature was not turned on in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.

The fish-planter project features 35 wood cutouts of fish painted and decorated by local artists and planted alongside native plants in 10 planters along Laurel’s Main Street, from the municipal pool to the train station.

The Bowie Baysox will host the “Star Spangled 4th of July Concert & Fireworks Spectacular” at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Prince George’s Stadium.

The Laurel Museum reopened to the public Saturday, with new exhibits about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and a mostly canceled 150th Laurel anniversary celebration, and is now open every weekend.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from June 18 to 25.

The recent — and brief — gas shortage when the Colonial Pipeline experienced a ransomware attack was just a blip compared with two separate gas shortages in the 1970s. Recent photos of people filling up every conceivable type of container with gasoline triggered memories of coping with much more serious shortages.

A look back at the details of everything we know from the day police say a gunman blasted through the newsroom’s Annapolis office and shot and killed Rebecca Smith, Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman and John McNamara.

Four star athletes from Laurel play baseball for the Salisbury Sea Gulls and recently won the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference National Championship.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from June 11 to 18.

As a way to earn their Bronze Awards, the highest honor a junior Girl Scout can earn, members of Girl Scout Troop 4507 in Laurel worked together to provide supplies to the Canine Humane Network in Olney.

Severna Park (16-0) crushed visiting Laurel, 20-0, in five innings while Sherwood (13-0) slipped by previously undefeated Dulaney, 3-1, during state semifinal play Wednesday.

The commencement at St. Vincent Pallotti High School on May 26 not only celebrated graduating seniors, but it also marked the school’s 100th commencement and the retirement of a beloved teacher after nearly half of a century.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from June 4 to 11.

Chelsea Adinuba, a 2021 graduate of Charles Herbert Flowers High School, not only wrote a book, she wrote two before graduating this spring.

The Savage Boys and Girls Club has some sports camp offerings for children this summer.

With the lifting of pandemic restrictions by the state, county and city, Mayor Craig Moe and the Laurel 4th of July Committee have begun planning for a modified 42nd Annual Independence Day Celebration tentatively set for July 3.

Laurel residents making their name at colleges around the U.S.

An Anne Arundel County jury found a suspended Prince George’s County police officer who lives in Laurel guilty of assault, reckless endangerment and a handgun violation for beating his girlfriend in September 2019.

County and state leaders and the University of Maryland Medical System cut the ribbon on the state's first new hospital in 30 years.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from May 27 to June 4.

Six months later, Shawn Price killed Jaime Hunnicutt’s 31-year-old son, her daughter-in-law and shot her 10-year-old grandson multiple times before killing himself, police said.

The Laurel Historical Society is not taking a break for the summer. Instead, the Old Town group is redoubling its efforts to preserve Laurel’s rich history and educate the community about it.

A survey funded by Northeast Maglev of 600 Prince George’s County residents and 600 Anne Arundel County residents found that in both counties over 68% support the construction and operation of a high-speed maglev train between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

After Prince George’s County failed to meet requirements under a municipal stormwater permit, the Maryland Department of the Environment has required it to complete environmental projects that will treat runoff, according to an announcement Tuesday.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from May 21 to 28.

An Anne Arundel County police corporal was arrested early Thursday morning in Howard County after police said he fought with multiple individuals, ran and hid from officers and later kicked an officer in the hand while resisting arrest.

Laurel resident Demond Nicholson has 23 victories in his professional boxing career, but his own personal favorite fight was none of them.