deere and company

Motorists traveling through central Bel Air and residents of many nearby neighborhoods can't miss what seems like the interminable construction work related to replacing underground gas lines.

Kingsville's 4th of July Parade

Darlington kicked off a week of Independence Day celebrations in and around Harford County Saturday with its annual Independence Day parade and fireworks show.

In the race for 42nd District in the state Senate, there is only one real Democrat: Connie DeJuliis.

Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen was transformed into a wrestling arena Sunday night for the latest stop on TNA's Impact World Tour. In case you missed it, three dedicated and talented Baltimore Sun summer interns were there to provide a running, retroactive commentary.

An machinery storage building on a farm in Jarrettsville caught fire Wednesday morning damaging a tractor and another piece of farm machinery.

Any way you measure it -- and there have certainly been some creative ways, per the Internet -- it's a lot of snow.

Charles Edwin Lamb, an architect of forward-looking, modernist structures and a founder of the RTKL firm, died of complications of Parkinson's disease Dec. 12 at the Heron Point Retirement Community in Chestertown. He was 87 and had lived in Baltimore and Annapolis.

As snow fell during the Ravens' game at M&T Bank Stadium for the first time since the team arrived in 1996, coach John Harbaugh wondered if there were any weather conditions his team hadn't faced yet.

President Kennedy accepted an invitation from Governor Tawes of Maryland and Governor Carvel of Delaware to attend the ceremony to open the Maryland Northeastern Expressway. A special opening day luncheon would be served at the new Maryland House restaurant on the Expressway near Aberdeen. From the luncheon, the dignitaries were expected to travel east to the Maryland-Delaware line, where President Kennedy would help officially open the roadway, arriving there from Washington via helicopter

This Howard County movie has played before: the County Council considering laws to restrict rural land development, farmers staging a tractor parade protesting an attack on their property values, public officials saying preservation efforts would only push land owners into the arms of developers.

Some Howard County farmers are up in arms over development rights. They say a new bill before the County Council that would limit the use of septic systems would destroy the collateral they rely on when borrowing money to run their farms.

The county's refuse and recycling collection will be expanded to include other county agencies after the single stream program proved to be very successful.

Nate Allan sat on a four-legged stool, knees bent showing the tear in his gray skinny jeans, naked feet perched on the rungs of the stool. He leaned forward into the microphone. "Thanks guys for coming out today," he said to the handful of teens sitting on the metal bleachers in front of the stage set up at the Harford County Farm Fair in Bel Air. "It's real hot out here so I'm gonna make this my last song."

Roundup of police reports

Jeffrey L. Barnes, a farmer and owner of an Eldersburg Chevrolet dealership, died Monday of pancreatic cancer at his Finksburg home. He was 68.

An 11-year-old boy died at a Baltimore hospital this morning after being shot by an unknown person in Pylesville

Route 1 over Conowingo Dam was closed in both directions Wednesday morning following an accident involving a tractor trailer that spilled its load.

Maryland Occupational Safety and Health officials say they're investigating the death of a young man who fell from a utility vehicle at a minor-league baseball stadium in Hagerstown.

The Aegis police blotter lists the most recent arrest, crimes and other police reports.

It's time to go Easter egg hunting! Bring a basket or bag and enjoy a morning of seasonal fun from 10 a.m. to noon, on Saturday, April 7, at Sherwood Farms in Cromwell Valley Park, 2002 Cromwell Bridge Road.

Maryland State Police are continuing to search for four people suspected of stealing a lawn tractor from a new Lowe's store in Cecil County, and then crashing a get-away pickup truck as they sped away, killing one of the suspects who was riding in the back of the vehicle.

Four suspects are being sought by Maryland State Police for stealing a John Deere lawn tractor from a newly constructed Cecil County Lowe's and fleeing police before crashing a stolen pickup truck, an accident that resulted in the death of one of the suspects.

In the shopping industry, it's an accepted truth that The Average Man is allergic to malls and finds holiday browsing about as appealing as dental work. So if men won't go to the malls, the vendors are coming to them.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police report

Picture-perfect afternoon made all seem right with the world in West Friendship Sept. 12

Grilled and smoked goodies command the spotlight at Sandy Springs restaurant

With rumors circulating that legendary quarterback Brett Favre is joining "Dancing with the Stars," the sports blogosphere is close to imploding on itself (and I'm now contributing to it, too). If the rumors are true, Favre will follow in the dance steps of retired greats such as Emmitt Smith, Kurt Warner and Jerry Rice when the 12th season of the ABC hit show debuts March 21.