As mass shootings outnumbered days at one point last year, Allison Alston and her classmates at Reservoir High School joined the student activists at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and others around the country in a student walkout to protest gun violence. The Howard County junior knew it...
High school students in Howard County will soon be able to get free condoms at their school nurse’s office in a program officials say is aimed at reducing the spread of chlamydia, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted infections. School officials say they are partnering with county health department...
Oakland Mills boys basketball senior Daeshawn Eaton got to wherever he wanted on the floor during the first half of Friday’s game against Centennial. In the opening minutes, Eaton put on a clinic about slicing through the defense and finishing at the rim. The Scorpions scored 15 points in the opening...
A resurgent River Hill program kept its momentum going in the right direction on Friday night on the road against Atholton. Saniha Jackson led the way with a double-double (16 points, 14 rebounds and 7 steals), while Kennedy Clark (13 points) and Aniyha Smith (10 points, 7 rebounds and 6 steals)...
Marriotts Ridge boys basketball overcame a sluggish start to defeat host Long Reach, 74-61, on Wednesday night for its sixth win in seven games. Following a first-half that included careless turnovers, missed shots from in close and poor defensive rebounding, the Mustangs (4-3 Howard County, 8-4...
Despite its gaudy record and current first-place standing, Oakland Mills coach Walt Hagins is quick to point out that his group of girls is still learning this winter what its like to be a front runner. That’s what makes this middle stretch of the season, up against the Howard County’s six 3A/4A...
Seven Howard County public schools in Columbia were placed on a modified lockdown Wednesday morning in response to outside police activity. Talbott Springs Elementary, Stevens Forest Elementary, Oakland Mills Middle and Oakland Mills High schools were placed on modified lockdown, according to Howard...
Later school start times and screening to help detect reading disabilities were among ideas drawing comment Tuesday at a public hearing on the Howard County school system’s $1 billion proposed operating budget for the coming fiscal year. Superintendent Michael Martirano unveiled the proposed $998.4...
Another Howard County teen could serve weekends in jail under a plea deal reached Monday over graffiti found last May at Glenelg High School that included swastikas and racial epithets. Tyler Curtiss, 18, of Brookeville pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charge, but agreed to the statement of...
Students who currently attend Centennial or Howard high schools can request to move to a different school for the upcoming academic year. On Tuesday, the school system announced a plan to allow voluntary transfers from the county’s two most crowded high schools to either Glenelg or Marriotts Ridge....
Louis B. Weckesser, a retired Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory engineer and food bank volunteer, died Jan. 1 from complications of dementia at Harmony Hall Assisted Living in Columbia. The Ellicott City resident was 90. Louis Benjamin Weckesser was born in Baltimore, the son of Louis B....
John McMonegal Park Jr., a Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory mathematician, died of heart disease Jan. 2 at Brighton Gardens of Columbia. He was 89 and lived in Columbia. Born in Richmond, Ky., he was the son of John M. Park Sr., a farmer, and his wife, Mary Etta Cobb. He was raised on the...
Howard County is seeking applications for two spots on a committee to explore creation of an Ellicott City Community Development Corporation. Last month County Executive Calvin Ball announced that he would form a committee to help determine if a CDC — which generally promotes commerce and economic...
Crews from Howard County were working Sunday to clear snow that fell overnight and continued into the morning. On the county’s Facebook page, officials said the National Weather Service reported roughly 5 inches had fallen in the Columbia area as of Sunday morning, with another 2 to 3 inches expected...
More concert-goers will soon be able to experience the suite life at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia. Thirty suites are being added to the venue’s amphitheater as part of a six-year, $58 million renovation project, according to Audrey Fix Schaefer, communications director for I.M.P., the...
As kids, Isaac Carr and Israel Thomas grew up playing the same video game: Super Smash Bros. Melee on the Nintendo GameCube. To win, a player must knock his or her opponent off a virtual stage using kicks, jabs, jumps and other moves that the gamers dictate with nothing but their fingers. On a...
Anne Arundel County police have charged a Laurel man with sexually abusing two children and are seeking information about other possible victims. James Ten-eyck, 55, of the 3200 block of Purple Leaf Lane in the Russett neighborhood, was arrested Saturday, three weeks after police launched an investigation...
By day, Lisa Rosado works as an elementary school principal. Come evening, the Ellicott City resident harks back to her own youth, lacing up her roller skates and gliding gracefully around a maple rink in Laurel as organ music booms from ceiling speakers. “Skating is a good way for me to decompress,”...
In 2009, Lt. Jen Vaughn was at war — with herself. Or so it seemed to the then-32-year-old Naval officer. “I was going through some pretty tough stuff — a divorce and a series of deaths in the family, including a suicide,” says Vaughn, of Laurel. “The state of the world, and all that was going...