Harford County Public Schools officials are eagerly awaiting new COVID-19 related guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as they prepare for summer learning activities, as well as the start of the 2021-22 school year.

A statue honoring Ernest Burke, who played in the Negro professional baseball leagues in the 1940s, is set to be unveiled in Havre de Grace on Saturday, on what would’ve been his 97th birthday.

Col. Timothy Druell, who spent a significant portion of his two-year tenure at Aberdeen Proving Ground ensuring that soldiers and civilians assigned to the Harford County Army post remained safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced on his last day as garrison commander that the installation’s health protection condition level would drop from “bravo” to “alpha” as of noon Wednesday.

Pleas from community members to build new schools or expand existing buildings — rather than redistricting students to other schools every 10 years — are being heeded by Harford County Public Schools officials, although they stress that balancing enrollment must come first.

An At Home décor superstore is slated to open in late July at the Boulevard at Box Hill shopping center in Abingdon, in a building previously occupied by J.C. Penney before it closed in October.

The 2020-21 school year, which concluded last week, was the inaugural year for P-TECH, or Pathways in Technology Early College High School, in Harford County.

The 34th annual Harford County Farm Fair, scheduled for the last week of July, was initially planned to be fully virtual because of COVID-19 safety concerns, but organizers now are planning to open 4-H events — including the annual livestock auction — for in-person attendance.

Harford County resident Marlon Shird has served as a foster father for more than 40 boys over the past 24 years, and while they are not his biological children, he stresses that the boys should introduce him as their father.

Ron Wooden wiped away tears as he sat in his office Monday, the last day of the 2020-21 school year, listening to messages from students and teachers over the intercom, wishing him well as he wrapped his final year as principal of Havre de Grace Elementary School.