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- A building permit was issued for a new A&P supermarket at Joppatowne, estimated to cost $138,500. This would be the first construction in what would eventually be a shopping center on the east side of Route 40 at the intersection of Joppa Farm Road
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Leo Bretholz, a Holocaust survivor who became a major voice in the campaign to gain reparations from companies who transported victims to concentration camps during World War II, died Saturday in his sleep at His Pikesville home. He was 93. - Leon Panitz of the Panitz Brothers Inc., developers of Joppatowne, unveiled his new plans for a marine-oriented 500-acre residential recreational community at Joppatowne
- When some kids hear the hallowed words "Snow Day" in advance of Monday's storm, they'll grab their coats and sleds and head outdoors. But for Maryvale Preparatory School senior Elizabeth Piet, like a growing number students across the Baltimore region, she'll power up her iPad to see what assignments her teachers have waiting.
- Even if the campus is closed for inclement weather again this winter, students at The John Carroll School will be in class.
- One John Carroll School senior seeks to help children find comfort during tragic situations by hand making comfort teddy bears.
- Institutions across Harford County are scheduled to be closed or open late Thursday, moves announced before the first flakes hit the area Wednesday night.
- It was announced that Rev. Raymond Wanner, the assistant pastor at St. Margaret's Church in Bel Air since 1959, would be the first principal of John Carroll School when it opened in September 1964. The Archbishop of Baltimore Lawrence Shehan also announced that the new school would be named John Carroll in memory of Archbishop John Carroll, the first Archbishop of Baltimore and the first member of the United States Hierarchy
- A little more than four months later, Geiger and Lane's luck would take a sharp turn. In the early morning hours of May 10, Geiger would awaken in the couple's Ellicott City home to a knife struggle between Lane and then 19-year-old Jason Anthony Bulmer, the boyfriend of Lane's then 14-year-old daughter, that would ultimately leave Lane dead.
- Six Harford County high school are serving as student pages during the 2014 Maryland General Assembly session in Annapolis.
- A Sunday at Saint Margaret is rarely low-key, and this weekend was no exception.
- Children in Harford County Wednesday got to enjoy the deep, powdery snow that settled over the area the day before.
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- A number of local government entities got a late start Wednesday morning, or meetings were canceled, because of Tuesday's cold and snowy weather.
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- Looking back at the month of September 2013 in Harford County
- Looking back at the month of June 2103 in Harford County
- On behalf of the Town of Bel Air and the Bel Air Downtown Alliance, I would like to thank the citizens of greater Bel Air for their attendance and enthusiasm at yesterday's (Sunday, December 1) Bel Air Main Street Christmas Parade and Shamrock Park Celebration.
- Thousands of Bel Air and Harford County area residents filed into downtown setting up lawn chairs and blankets in anticipation for the 24th annual Bel Air Christmas Parade to spark the beginning of the holiday season.
- For Piper Bateman, 18, her high school breakup was really a breakthrough garnering the Fallston native more than 2,500 eyeballs on her music video "(Finally) A Refugee" in just two weeks.
- Three John Carroll School seniors were recognized by the Bel Air Town Commissioners for writing the top responses for the town's municipal month essay contest on Monday evening.
- Nearly 400 of Harford County leaders from the worlds of business, government, education and the nonprofit sector put their heads together at Harford Community College on Friday to brainstorm about the county's future.
- Due to an unsportsmanlike act by some members of the John Carroll School girls jayvee soccer team, the teams' final three games of the 2013 season were suspended.
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- Rob Tisch and Danielle Kays led all the way in the RASAC Fall Duathon Sunday in Churchville.
- Government employees and local businesses won't be the only ones affected by the looming federal government shutdown. Students at Harford County Schools may lose the most fun part of their educational enrichment — field trips to Washington, D.C., landmarks and other places owned by the federal government.
- Republicans in the House of Representatives were set to approve a government funding bill Saturday that would delay the nation's health care law for one year — inching federal agencies closer to a shutdown analysts predict would have a significant economic impact in Maryland.
- The Harford County Wine Festival will be held this Saturday, Sept. 28, from noon to 6 p.m. at Rockfield Manor in Bel Air.
- A one-day license was approved 4-0 for the Harford County Wine Festival at Rockfield Manor noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 28. This is the eighth wine festival held in the bowl next to the manor house; the event has grown from 1,000 people three to four years ago to 3,000 last year, said Mark Welsh of the Rockfield Foundation
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- Despite the ongoing public controversy about it, Harford County's $50 pay-to-play fee to participate in athletics is having little apparent impact on the players themselves.
- Baltimore County police said Tuesday they don't know whether someone who sent sexually explicit material to students at St. Paul's School for Girls is male or female, as more students say they were contacted by the person.
- In 1964, The John Carroll School in Bel Air opened its doors to its first students. On Monday, the school held a special Mass and rededication of one of its buildings to kick off several months of 50th anniversary events lasting into next year.
- "Breaking Bad," on AMC, is one of the most successful TV shows in recent memory. Sony Pictures Television grows worldwide, expanding channels into 840 million households.
- This weekend will be one of the biggest of the summer in Harford County, what with the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, the Maryland BBQ Bash in Bel Air and the Havre de Grace Seafood Festival all slated to start on Friday.
- In a brief ceremony on the steps of Bel Air Town Hall, the Bel Air Independence Day Committee, the all-volunteer non-profit organization that produces and runs all the 4th of July festivities in the Town of Bel Air each year, distributed its major awards from the recent July 4th parade.
- At the start of a formal ceremony opening the STEM and Education Outreach Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground Tuesday morning, Chaplain Lt. Col Juan Crockett gave an invocation. "Lord of science," Crockett said, "thousands of children will come here seeking truth. We pledge to use this center to guide and heal."
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- Students from John Carroll School in Bel Air became stars of their own Disney show as part of the Disney Performing Arts Program.
- Upper Chesapeake Health, the not-for-profit company that owns and operates Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace and the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, has announced seven people have joined the firm's board of directors.
- The John Carroll School in Bel Air is renovating a building that began its life as a faculty house into a residence hall for 14 international students.
- On behalf of the Bel Air Independence Day Committee Inc., I wish to thank the greater Bel Air and Harford County community for its response to this year's parade
