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Mount Zion Church in Finksburg will celebrate the 163rd anniversary of its founding on Sunday morning, June 9. The public is invited. - Several local students graduated or earned honors from Hood College, Frederick, in the spring 2018 semester: From Finksburg: Abigail Griffin, dean's list. From
- Laurel Post 60 contended for another title
- Sydney McDonald, of Finksburg; and Chandra Reiff, of Westminster, were among 19 McDaniel College freshmen selected for the college's Global Fellows program.
- Towson resident Laurie Taylor-Mitchell is a longtime advocate for Baltimore County public school students.
- Glen A. Thomas, a national expert on college admissions and a former director of undergraduate admissions at the Johns Hopkins University, died at his home in Phoenix on January 14 of pneumonia.
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- The following McDaniel College students were named to the college's spring 2017 dean's list: Eldersburg: Andrew Jordan Murphy, high honors; Kayla Nicole
- The following local students earned bachelor's degrees from Hood College, Frederick, in May: Justine Del Nunzio, 2014 alumna of Century High School, graduated
- The following local Stevenson Univeristy students have been inducted into Who's Who Among Students, an organization recognizing outstanding students: Sarah
- A passing conversation with a high school chemistry teacher set Catalina Righter on a path that led her Friday to claim one of writing's most lucrative prizes.
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- Before last season Laurel High boys basketball Torrence Oxendine said he expected Kirk Hawkins to average about 12 to 15 points per contest.
- U.S. News & World Report on Wednesday released its 2016 list of the "Best Colleges" in America, and placed Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Naval Academy in the top 10 — though in different categories.
- Weekly tests conducted along some Harford County streams that are popular for swimming this summer found levels of harmful bacteria that are well above the federal Environmental Protection Agency's safety standard for recreation, especially after a heavy rains.
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- Lynne Dowell, a retired Towson University director of academic advising and an occasional English instructor, died.
- After spending the entire day performing before a panel of five judges on Saturday at the first Miss Carroll County Pageant held in more than 15 years, three women and three teens were chosen to represent the county at the Miss Maryland and Miss Maryland Outstanding Teen pageants in June.
- 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.
- Textiles and fashion students at the Carroll County Career and Technology Center have stepped away from their sewing machines to experience the fashion world in
- On Saturday, Oct. 25, at 9 a.m., the Marriotts Ridge Boosters will hold the annual Mustang 5K Stampede & 1 Mile Pony Trot.
- Voters in the Third Councilmanic District will have to choose between Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, a longtime activist running her first campaign and Wade Kach, a 40-year veteran of the House of Delegates. Despite their different backgrounds, both say land use and education are the critical issues for the district.
- School officials at Carroll County colleges say they are prepared to comply with new federal standards in transparency, education and reporting of sexual violence at on campuses by the October 1 deadline.
