community college of baltimore county

• Health

On-demand apps, providers bring massage, makeup, hairstyling to your door

Health and beauty apps enter local market, where some providers had already established on-demand services

• Howard County

Amid growing needs, Howard Community College carves space for food pantry

Food pantries are cropping up alongside corporate cafes and dining halls on college campuses across the country -- including Howard County Community College. On community college campuses ¿ the home of many untraditional students with diverse needs ¿ pantries serve a unique purpose.

By Fatimah Waseem

Mar 9, 2016

• Business

Troubled teen turned savvy business owner expands her Mount Vernon salon

Her family had been torn apart by drugs and mental illness, and Rosalind Holsey had little hope for the future. Then her life took a new direction. She was shut out of cosmetology in high school and found herself among the boys in a barbering class. "This industry literally changed my life," she said.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 8, 2016

• Maryland

Rebranding of Sparrows Point bittersweet

Sparrows Point Terminal, the Hanover-based firm that owns the site of the former steel mill, has changed its name to Tradepoint Atlantic, a move the company hopes will enhance its global appeal but that evokes feelings of loss.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Jan 13, 2016

• Baltimore County

Arbutus Senior Center marks five years

The Arbutus Senior Center is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a week's worth of events planned for members.

By Heather Norris

Aug 14, 2015

• Baltimore County

Lunch-time duty a welcome break for Halethorpe woman, 92

Bertha McManus is a lunch lady at Halethorpe Elementary\y

• Maryland

Two Carroll students pop the hood, looking for a win

Two seniors in the automotive services technical program at Carroll County Career and Technical Center earned fourth place in the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills state finals during a competition held Saturday at the Community College of Baltimore County's Catonsville campus.

• Baltimore County

Preservation effort for historic Catonsville house

A boarded up stone house located on the grounds of Catonsville High School near the school's football field off Hilltop Road may not look like much. But one Catonsville native, Jim Jones, is taking steps in an effort to preserve the former home, which he says is an important part of Catonsville's past.

• Maryland

Maryland Women's Expo on March 22 to focus on using technology in business

In her 15th year organizing the annual Maryland Women's Expo and Conference, Patsy Anderson is looking for ways to reinvent the exhibition, which she hopes to pass on to other female entrepreneurs.

• Baltimore City Paper

Shannon Cosgrove gave up working with corpses to deal with drunks

• Opinion

CCBC is crowding out library users

Threatened community rooms

• Features

Party: A Poe Masquerade

• Baltimore County

Racist comments in Bowleys Quarters draw ire, Adam Jones tweet

Several comments that suggested shooting unrecognized black men in the Bowleys Quarters neighborhood of Baltimore County sparked outrage on social media Wednesday, spurred by a tweet from Orioles outfielder Adam Jones.

• Baltimore City Community College

Helping children feel at home

I volunteer to work with special young refugees at a local church in Beechfield, a neighborhood in Catonsville. The group is known as the Baltimore City Community College Refugee Youth Project. The young refugees come from all around the world, but those we assist at the Beechfield church are mainly from Burma. The students range from middle school to high school.

• Maryland

Winter storm takes toll on southwest Baltimore County businesses

Small businesses in southwest Baltimore County are feeling winter's woes as they begin to feel the impacts of today's winter storm combined with previous weather events this year.

• Community College of Baltimore County

School brief

News from schools in Baltimore County

• Colleges and Universities

Maryland lawmakers aim to make improvements to business sphere

• Maryland

Evening commute: Snow emergency plan declared in county, workers salt roads

Several Baltimore-area schools systems and governments dismissed early Tuesday, and transportation workers began salting roads around noon, in anticipation of another bout of freezing rain forecast in the evening.

By Colin Campbell

Mar 3, 2015

• Baltimore County

Ice storm prompts Baltimore County schools to close early

Baltimore County public schools will close two hours early today in anticipation of an ice storm expected to begin this afternoon as rush hour begins.

• Weather

1-3 inches of snow reported around region, closing schools

An inch or two of snow could fall across Central Maryland, with the best chances south of Baltimore, from Wednesday night through Thursday morning as a storm moves through the Southeast.

By Scott Dance

Feb 26, 2015

• Baltimore County

Morning snow causes Baltimore County schools to close, complicates commute

Snow began to fall Thursday morning in Baltimore County, just in time for the morning rush hour, prompting public schools to close.

• Obituaries

Joseph Crivello

Joseph Crivello, the longtime greeter and host at Donna's restaurants in Baltimore, died Feb. 10 of complications from cancer at a hospital in Naples, Fla.

By Yvonne Wenger

Feb 23, 2015

• Maryland

Finksburg Scout Beavin earns Eagle rank

Boy Scout Troop 1750 of Finksburg celebrated its first Eagle Court of Honor for 2015 on Jan. 10 as Nicholas "Nick" Lee Beavin received his Eagle rank

• Opinion

Alcoholics and addicts lie, it's part of their disease

The Episcopal church is investigating whether Rev. Heather Elizabeth Cook "misrepresented" her struggles with alcohol to the church. There's no need for an investigation: Of course she lied. That is what alcoholics and addicts do.

• Opinion

FAFSA challenges cost students thousands

Educators need to think critically about how we can better help students, including altering the Maryland FAFSA deadline date to ensure those most in need don't systematically fall on the outside of opportunity.

• Community College of Baltimore County

Around the county

News and events taking place around Baltimore County

• Maryland

Winter storm prompts school closings and delays in Baltimore County

A snow storm moving in from the south swept across Baltimore County last night covering areas with four to five inches of snow, prompting public schools to close and government offices to open late.

• Maryland

Naamah Kendrick, the 'First Lady of Arbutus,' dies

Naamah Kendrick, wife of George Kendrick, known as the "first lady" of Arbutus, died Monday, Feb. 9 of lung and brain cancer. She was 83.

• Education

Community college students implore state lawmakers to keep their schools affordable

If the goal of today's college students is to finish with as little debt as possible, Ifechukwudeli Okafor of Overlea has begun with the aim of a marksman.

By Joe Burris

Feb 11, 2015

• Community College of Baltimore County

Owings Mills developer touts small road

Dignitaries and developers on Wednesday celebrated the opening of a small road in Owings Mills that they hope will make transportation smoother in the area.

By Pamela Wood

Feb 11, 2015

• Ice Hockey

Division III lacrosse preview for Stevenson

Division III lacrosse preview for Stevenson Mustangs

By Edward Lee

Feb 11, 2015

• Community College of Baltimore County

Around the county

Events taking place in Baltimore County

• Maryland

MTA adding bus routes to Amazon distribution center, other job sites

The Maryland Transit Administration said it will launch two bus lines, including one with a stop at the upcoming Amazon Distribution Center on Broening Highway, to transport commuters to new job opportunities in Baltimore City, officials said on Tuesday.

By Joe Burris

Feb 10, 2015

• Sports

Football odyssey for New Town's Douglas McNeil III leads to Seahawks contract

He went to four colleges, worked briefly at a coffee shop and played in the Arena Football League with the Portland Thunder.

By Aaron Wilson

Feb 5, 2015

• Barack Obama

School Briefs

News and events from schools in Baltimore County

• Obituaries

Evelyn M. Stokes, CSX worker

Evelyn M. Stokes, a retired CSX worker who enjoyed cooking, died at her Abingdon home.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 29, 2015

• Dining and Drinking

Around the county

News and events around Baltimore County

• Maryland

Northwest Middle student a finalist in Champions of Courage

Essay submitted by 7th grader exemplifies spirit of Dr. King

• Baltimore County

College president supports Obama's proposal for free community college program

Dr. Sandra Kurtinitis, president of the Community College of Baltimore County, said she supports President Barack Obama's proposal announced Thursday, Jan. 8 that would make community college tuition free.

• Howard County

Local Futsal team wins Maryland State Cup Championship

Rec Sports submissions for Howard County for the week of Jan. 15

• Colleges and Universities

Obama focuses on access to higher education

• Metro Centre at Owings Mills

Metro Centre continues construction to foster community atmosphere

The Owings Mills Metro Centre has seen many changes since it was first taken on as a project by developer Metro Transit LLC and manager/leaser David S. Brown Enterprises in the summer of 2011. Though the Metro Centre may have much to offer, the site is far from finished.

• Baltimore County

School superintendent hears student input during town hall meeting

Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Dallas Dance fielded dozens of unscripted questions from a room full of high school and middle school students in the western portion of the school system, during the televised event, that also streamed live on the Internet on Thursday.

• Harford

Community college tuition hike weakens the system [Editorial]

The more community colleges compare themselves to four-year institutions when it comes to pricing, the more people at the low end of the economic ladder will be priced out of a higher education.

• Obituaries

Alvin J.T. Zumbrun, criminologist

Alvin J.T. Zumbrun, a noted criminologist whose career teaching in various police academies spanned more than four decades, died Tuesday at his Catonsville home of cancer. He was 88.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Dec 12, 2014

• Obituaries

Sarah 'Sally' Tarr, musician and teacher

Sarah Catharine "Sally" Tarr, a retired Baltimore County teacher and musician who accompanied performers in numerous community theater musicals, died Dec. 5 at Carroll County General Hospital

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 11, 2014

• Health

Sleep technician

• Obituaries

Marian E. Spencer, educator

Marian E. Spencer, a retired educator who earlier had a varied career as a policewoman and truant officer, died Nov. 27 at FutureCare Old Court of multiple myeloma. She was 82.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Dec 6, 2014

• Maryland

The Rev. Ellin M. Dize: Know what you want and walk that path

• Obituaries

Purnell B. Oden Sr., mortician

Purnell B. Oden Sr., a retired mortician who taught mortuary science at the Community College of Baltimore County, died of kidney failure Nov. 30 at the Loch Raven Veterans Hospice. He was 84 and lived in Pumphrey.

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 4, 2014