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- The Harford County government is working with the Armstrong cable and internet provider to seek USDA grants to expand service in northern Harford County.
- Stephen Kelly scores inaugural goal in new men's professional league.
- The New Windsor candidates forum, sponsored by the community Media Center and the Carroll County Times, will take place Thursday at 7 at the New Windsor Firemen's Building, 101 High St., New Windsor.
- The Westminster candidates forum, sponsored by the Community Media Center and the Carroll County Times, will take place Wednesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at John Street Quarters, 28 John St. in Westminster.
- Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. is seeking the county’s first income tax increase in nearly 30 years — plus new fees on development and additional charges on residents’ monthly cellphone and cable bills.
- A gala to commemorate the 100th season of Maryland men's basketball attracted hundreds of former players and coaches, as well as fans, to Under Armour's headquarters Saturday night.
- The Arc Carroll County Inc. has a Technology Coaching Center where clients can take classes and get one on one coaching in typing, coding and other technology skills.
- Verizon FiOS subscribers across the country are suffering a sudden television blackout of key broadcast channels this week after the company’s content negotiations with a major media company, Tegna, fell through. Affected channels include WUSA, the CBS station in Washington.
- Last year at this time, the Sinclair Broadcast Group was riding about as high as a media company can ride these days. But what a difference 12 months have made for this Baltimore-based broadcaster.
- Who received thumbs up from the Carroll County Times this week?
- When it is too soon for you children to have their own devices?
- Five hundred public housing residents were selected for a tablet giveaway as part of an initiative to help more people access the internet.
- WBAL-TV is partnering with Morgan State to televise the school's regular-season home football games on MeTV Baltimore, the company's digital channel. All five
- The Big Ten Network took its battle with Comcast to social media Thursday, warning the league's football fans of the possibility that Comcast will drop games on BTN and Fox Sports 1 once the current contract expires Aug. 31.
- If anyone still thought President Trump didn’t see Sinclair in political terms as part of his media support system, his Tuesday night tweet denouncing the FCC for not granting approval for the Maryland company's purchase of Tribune Media should dispel that notion.
- Buckets of rain fall on Harford County over the weekend and Monday and Tuesday, with more likely on the way, according to forecasters.
- In light of a recent Baltimore Sun article on "wishcycling," the Carroll County Environmental Advisory Council and recycling manager are reminding residents what they can and cannot recycle...
- Orioles fans wonder why Camden Yards' lineup doesn't include Wi-Fi when nearly every other Major League Baseball ballpark does.
- Four years after the Maryland State Department of Education began requiring the state’s public schools to give students the PARCC tests, some teachers remain concerned that the online version is helping to widen an achievement gap they’ve spent decades working to close.
- The president of the Baltimore City Council wants officials to consider the creation of a public broadband network because of the Trump administration's moves to repeal open internet rules.
- To help residents and emergency personnel stay connected during — and in the aftermath of Winter Storm Toby — Comcast has opened thousands of Xfinity WiFi hotspots at outdoor and business locations in the greater Baltimore area, including Carroll County, available at no cost to anyone.
- If you want to watch the game on TV in Maryland, here’s where to find truTV.
- Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is seeking a contractor to help turn two large rooms in her office suite into a television studio, complete with green screen backdrops, a control room and multiple cameras — a project that could cost as much as $150,000.
- If you’re a cord cutter, or even someone who has a cable package and a streaming service, you should be mindful of some happenings that are going to change that experience for you sooner or later.
- President Trump's tweets about the mainstream press are troublesome. But that's just the onstage story. Backstage, in less than a year, his operatives have put the pieces in place for a massive right-wing media messaging machine while stripping away most regulatory controls.
- In many spaces, the discussion centers on big companies and big cities that may sway the FCC members to vote one way or another. But players in Carroll have also weighed in with strong opinions.
- Ending net neutrality rules would be a disaster for consumers.
- Charles Irwin, a retired Harford County businessman and War II veteran, who later in life was a Senior Olympics champion, died Thursday morning.
- When you think about essential infrastructure, you probably think of things like water, electricity and roads. Add broadband internet to that list.
- robert C. Morgan, a retired account executive who specialized in media advertising, died Aug. 6 from heart failure at his Lutherville home. He was 77.
- Recent upgrades to the Western District police station in Baltimore are all part of a $4.5 million renovation of the building unveiled Wednesday by city officials, top police brass, community leaders and the various nonprofit and business executives who made the work possible through a generous public-private partnership.
- The Baltimore County Council is considering bills that would require meetings to be held in the evening, more budget hearings, ethics training for top officials and a ban on campaign donations during the rezoning process.
- May 2017: Sinclair Broadcast Group said it will buy Tribune Media Company for $3.9 billion after the FCC loosened rules on TV station ownership in late April.
- As the 2000-01 and 2001-02 teams return Saturday to reminisce and be honored before Maryland's home game against Iowa, another group of young Terps have started to lay their own roots and made their own history earlier this season. And those young Terps hope to make a bigger mark down the road.
- Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, an important Ravens outlet since 2010, will no longer carry the team's preseason games or weekly in-season programs. The end of the relationship has left the Ravens looking for a new television partner — a search already well underway.
- Three years ago, the state completed one of the nation's largest public investments in a fiber optic network— installing hundreds of miles of cables to secure fire and police communications, spur economic development and lead to faster, cheaper Internet. Today, much of that potential remains unlit, like a 21st-century highway to nowhere.
- Japan's only public English language channel began airing programs Tuesday on Maryland Public Television, including international news from Tokyo and lifestyle programs on Japanese society, politics, culture and food.
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I stand at the top of the stairs and cannot remember why I have climbed them. Am I heading to the left, into my son's bedroom? Right, into my study?
- Morgan Stanley said Thursday it plans to deepen its presence in Baltimore, hiring 800 more people over the next four years and opening a second office in the heart of traditional downtown.
- Newcomers to Netflix will be able to sign up through X1 and have the service added to their Comcast bill.
- Baltimore's City Council on Thursday unanimously gave approval to a 10-year, $114 million deal with Comcast to continue providing cable television in the city.
- Blast! and Performance Pro speed tier customers will get faster Internet looks to keep up with expanded Internet use at home.
- Comcast Corp. plans to relocate its regional office from Baltimore County to South Baltimore early next year, bringing 140 workers to the city.
- Carter Blackburn, Chris Simms and Jenny Dell are not household names for CBS. But that's what you get when you have two smaller market teams playing.
- The Baltimore County Council plans to start live-streaming its meetings – years after other county governments adopted the practice.
- Hunt Valley-based Sinclair Broadcast Group is interested in acquiring The Weather Channel's TV operations in a deal that could be valued at $100 million, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
- Comcast phone service failed at some business in Baltimore and around the country Tuesday afternoon.
- Tom Perez fought three years ago to win confirmation as U.S. labor secretary. Recently, he has been answering to another, unofficial title almost as frequently. "Potentially our next vice president," a union official roared into a microphone as the Marylander took a stage last week on Capitol Hill.