Store, school team up for reading project
George's Super Thrift and Freedom Elementary School are participating in a Books on a Bag project as part of American Education Week. The school's students created book reports on grocery bags that were returned to the store for distribution to customers.
The aim of the program is to develop and promote reading as a worthwhile activity.
FIRE
* Sykesville: Sykesville, Gamber and West Friendship of Howard County responded to a house fire on Central Avenue at 11:01 a.m. Saturday. Units were on the scene for 40 minutes.