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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.

Led by Maggie Niland, and Corey Young, Howard Community College land 3rd and 8th place finishes at the NJCAA National DIII cross country championships Saturday, Nov. 7.

The Howard Community College cross country team competed at Greensboro Invitational on Sept. 26, and had good finishes on both men's and women's sides.

The 38th annual Howard County High School swimming championships were held on April 19 at HCC.

A year ago, Chas Brown installed cable for Comcast and had given up on basketball. Now he's headed to Albany.

Joyce Snow plans to write a poem about surviving a brutal sexual assault as her contribution to a national project, but she's waiting for inspiration to strike at a special event in Fulton next weekend before composing it.

The United States Marine Chamber Orchestra will be staging a rare public performance at Howard Community College April 12.

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While politicians' culinary contributions remain popular, they are only a small part of the appeal of "Men in the Kitchen," marking its 21st year as the major fundraising event of the Howard County Center of African American Culture.

Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman on Wednesday released his first capital budget, a $342.9 million proposal for the coming fiscal year that focuses on education and public safety but significantly reduces the county's borrowing.

A look at the breakdown of players selected for the annual Howard County boys basketball all-star game scheduled for March 27 at Howard Community College

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Joe Stanilaus wants it known that he's right where he wants to be. The new St. Vincent Pallotti High School boys varsity lacrosse coach is thrilled to be heading the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference program after taking over for Kris Weaver, who posted a 31-40 record in four years at the helm and earned a respectable 13-5 mark just two years ago.

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The Silas Craft Collegians Program, founded in 2000, is named after Silas E. Craft, Sr, who was the principal at Harriet Tubman High School — Howard County's first secondary school for blacks — for seven years.

With last weekend's "Black Ties, White Diamonds" Evening in the Stacks event that raised $101,000 behind them, Valerie Gross and staff are focusing on the rest of the year-long 75th anniversary celebration of the Howard County Library System.

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A profile of the HCC women's lacrosse team, which is hosting a preseason play day featuring several Howard County high school teams on Feb. 22.

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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.

For the first time on a Howard County high school stage, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Aida!" will be performed by the Centennial High School's theater department

Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches

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Head on over to Chick-fil-A on Johns Hopkins Road for River Hill Spirit Night Thursday, Feb. 12, from 5 to 8 p.m. RHHS Boosters have partnered with Chick-fil-A and will recieve a portion of sales.

Emma Donoghue is the latest in a long list of notable Irish writers who have been brought to Columbia by the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society. Donoghue headlines this organization's 37th annual Irish Evening on Friday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

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Amy Syversen, the band director at Dayton Oaks Elementary School, is excited about the wonderful winter concerts the band performed in January.

The Columbia Orchestra's first commissioned score provides new music for an old movie. It commissioned Washington, D.C.-based composer Andrew Earle Simpson to compose a score for Buster Keaton's 1920 silent film "One Week."

If you read a plot summary of Samuel D. Hunter's "The Whale," you might conclude that this Rep Stage production must be a really depressing play.

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Howard County Winter Restaurant Weeks has six Ellicott City restaurants participating in the three-course menu specials that start at $15 for lunch and $25 for dinner.

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Each year in January, Mary Toth, her colleagues in Howard County's Office of Human Rights and members of the county's Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission strive toward one goal: keeping Dr. King's message alive.

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Some students at Oakland Mills High School will soon have the opportunity to earn up to 30 college credits before they even graduate high school.

Momenta String Quartet performs for the Candlelight Concert Series on Saturday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

Writing a novel is an individual journey that requires imagination, patience and a whole lot of free time. For some, it takes a matter of months; for others, the process takes years. For Ellicott City resident and novelist Loree Lough, it took 20 years ¿ to write more than 100 books.

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Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column for the week of Dec. 11

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Jessup Baptist Church invites you to its annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 27., from noon to 4 p.m.

Atholton grad Gary Smolyak finishes third to lead the mens' program to its best ever finish at nationals

When Columbia resident Kelly Renee Armstrong was a student at Bowie State, she had several interests. Her first love was theater, but since Bowie did not have a drama department, she settled for being in campus plays while majoring in political science and minoring in Pan African studies.