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• Harford

Harford's Glassman calls his first year as county executive 'amazing'

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman says his first year in the top local elected office fulfilled a long-held dream.

• Features

Baltimore native Kevin Liles is a big hit in music and beyond

The Woodlawn High grad long ago reached the top of the music industry. Now he's making moves to expand his ventures globally

• Opinion

Gaza coverage: Al Jazeera America reports 30 percent surge in viewing

The audience for Al Jazeera America is up 30 percent the last two weeks, the channel says.

• New Products

Under Armour sales up 34 percent in second quarter

Under Armour's second-quarter profit remained unchanged, meeting analysts' expectations, while sales soared 34 percent, the Baltimore-based sports brand said Thursday.

• Agriculture

Supermarkets boost sustainable seafood offerings

Mainstream supermarkets are starting to look a lot more like organic grocers. Brands such as Whole Foods Market have built a following with their all-natural offerings. But in the race to win over consumers concerned about health and the environment, traditional grocers such as Safeway are increasingly touting sustainable seafood and expanded natural product lines.

• Baltimore County

Baltimore County launches new Trail Finder web app

Baltimore County officials unveile new app at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum in Oella.

• New Products

3-D printing meets crowdfunding in new device to relieve back pain

Baltimore start-up Verve LLC has created the first successfully crowdfunded project to come out of the downtown non-profit Baltimore Foundery.

• Opinion

Teaching teachers to teach STEM [Commentary]

Towson University, with support from the Maryland State Department of Education, has launched the first program in the state that leads to an elementary STEM certification, preparing teachers with the special skills needed to introduce critical science, technology, engineering and mathematics concepts into elementary classrooms.

• Opinion

Comcast provides competitive services in Baltimore [Letter]

Contrary to a recent Sun op-ed, Comcast provides top-quality services in Baltimore.

• Howard County

All Together Now at Howard library branches

Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches

• Howard County

Fitchitt, Nicklas named to lead Downtown Columbia Partnership

Howard County Public Schools leads all state systems in percentage of high school graduates that go on to enroll in college, according to Maryland Department of Education data.

• Maryland

Hampstead Farmers Market turns 5

This summer, the Hampstead Farmers Market will be turning 5 years old,and Hampstead Councilwoman Marlene Duff, one of the founders, believes it will be an important birthday.

• Opinion

Colleges promote entrepreneurship [Commentary]

Entrepreneurial success does not occur overnight, but by working together to foster stronger relationships between industry and higher education, we will make Greater Baltimore an environment where entrepreneurship thrives, innovation is fostered and robust industry growth is assured.

• Schools

Baltimore millennials creatively forge their own career path

More millennials are creating their own jobs, either as a response to a continually crummy economy in which they can't find work, or because they would rather be their own bosses and run their own businesses.

• Food & Drink

Ngata, Wieters and others add hometown appeal to snack foods

Crab-inspired cheese curls, buttery popcorn and sunflower seeds are just some of the product offerings from Home Team Snacks, headquartered in Carroll County.

• Harford

Over mayor's skepticism, Bel Air armory marketplace project continues

Bel Air's town commissioners and staff spent two hours last week discussing the future of the armory marketplace project and, despite strong reservations from the Mayor Robert Reier, they decided to move ahead with converting the Bel Air Reckord Armory's rear garages to commercial space.

• New Products

Nordstrom to open BaubleBar shops in its stores

Nordstrom is planning a new shop-in-shop concept with online jewelry retailer BaubleBar.

• Maryland

Chateau Tanunda is redefining Australian wine

• Features

Show your glow: tips for summer skin care

Bringing your skin out from the cold

• Maryland

Local duo launched snack-food company featuring Baltimore athletes

• Maryland

Hampstead Farmers Market turns 5

• Lifestyle and Leisure

Fast growing brand Tessemae's started with family recipe

The idea for Greg Vetter's business came to him shortly after a friend crept into his house and swiped a two-liter bottle of his mom's homemade lemon-garlic salad dressing from his refrigerator.

• New Products

Canton resident creates app for trading parking spots in Baltimore

Baltimore start-up Haystack is launching a parking application for smartphones that allows Baltimore residents to see and match up with others in their neighborhood who are either looking for or leaving a parking spot.

• Startups

Working to help veterans start businesses

Military veterans have a knack for building successful businesses, professionals say, but they have more trouble than non-veterans attracting investors. That's a challenge now being tackled by a new crop of Maryland-based initiatives aimed at helping veteran entrepreneurs.

• Startups

Manufacturing contemplates a 3-D printing revolution

Some see in 3D printing the potential for change as substantial as the industrial revolution — a different way of making things that could kick start tiny operations, disrupt entire industries and literally change the landscape.

• Maryland

Verizon launches beefed up FiOS DVR service in the Baltimore area

Verizon Communications launched its expanded Fios DVR television service this week in the Baltimore region.

• New Products

STX goes global, expands into ice hockey

Athletes associate STX with lacrosse, but the Baltimore-based brand began appearing last month in stores on ice hockey sticks and is launching a line of men's field hockey sticks in the United Kingdom.

• Howard County

Nonprofit launches downtown Columbia marketing campaign

The Downtown Columbia Partnership, a nonprofit created to be a marketing entity for the new downtown, unveiled a new branding and marketing campaign this week aimed at generating interest in the redevelopment.

• Health

Health exchange enrollment continues to tick up

More than 343,000 people gain insurance coverage through the Maryland's online marketplace

• Howard County

At HCEDA incubator, socially conscious capitalism takes root

Jeff Cherry wants to transform the way that capitalism is practiced in Maryland.

• Arts and Culture

Q&A with Neil Meyerhoff

Neil Meyerhoff turns his lens to destinations near and far.

• Laurel Leader

Laurel city launches municipal smartphone app

The application is called MyLaurel and is intended to be both informational and interactive. The chief function of the application is a feature that allows residents to place a variety of service requests – like reporting crime tips, downed trees, etc. The application also alerts residents during emergency situations and provides information on the city including a map of its historical locations and a directory to the city's elected officials and employees.

• Architecture

Howard Co. to buy Columbia Flier building as headquarters for business incubator

Howard County will purchase the iconic Columbia Flier building as a new headquarters for its Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship, County Executive Ken Ulman announced Thursday. According to the county, the purchase price for the Flier building was $2.8 million.

• New Products

TheraPearl to sell products at Target

TheraPearl wants its brand to become the Q-tips of the hot/cold pack category. The Columbia-based company, which makes therapeutic pearl-filled packs that can be chilled in the freezer or heated in the microwave, started with an idea and three employees nearly six years ago and has grown to $10 million in sales at some of the nation's biggest chain stores.

• Consumer Goods Industries

Fuchs North America launches new line of ethnic seasonings

Baltimore-based spice and seasonings maker Fuchs North America said Wednesday it has launched a new line of ethnic seasonings, marinades and flavor bases to sell to food service and food manufacturing customers.

• New Products

Under Armour will open New York Brand House store this week

Under Armour plans the official opening of its New York City Brand House store for later this week

• Opinion

Help wanted: lab workers [Commentary]

A health care crisis is quietly unfolding in our nation's laboratories. This crisis has developed largely off the public's radar screen. If not resolved, it can adversely impact the lives of every American. The crisis in question: alarming shortages within the laboratory workforce.

• Health Insurance

No looking backward [Commentary]

GBMC HealthCare is participating in a number of programs that began as part of the ACA. In one, the Medicare Shared Savings Program, we have saved Medicare roughly 2 percent of total expenditures in our first year while also extending hours of operation of our primary care offices, reducing needless emergency department visits and working to improve more than 30 metrics of patient outcomes and process measures of care. GBMC Affordable Care Act Obama Chessare website Deloitte

• Baltimore County

First-graders at St. James School make child's play of Google Glass

First-graders at St. James School in Monkton test Google Glass as the lower school as St. James celebrated United Nations Day

• Harford

A new Tech? [Editorial]

There are a lot of realistic, though not immediately obvious, possibilities out there and an issue of this magnitude deserves to have as many of them considered as is possible.

• Politics

Gansler calls for special probe of health exchange

Gansler calls for special probe of health exchange

• Anne Arundel

Pasadena artist's body of work is the human form

• New Products

Pandora looks to expand presence, brand

Pandora is looking to expand both its U.S. presence and brand. It plans store openings, more frequent product launches and a move to a bigger headquarters where it can add to its workforce of 210 over the next decade. The two sites under consideration are an office near its current Columbia base or a prominent spot at Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

• Restaurant and Catering Industry

Five questions for Acme Paper Co.'s Steve Attman

If you've ever been at one of Baltimore's ballparks with a souvenir Orioles or Ravens cup in hand, it was probably made by Savage-based Acme Paper and Supply Co.

• Howard County

Taste of Tuscany at Columbia Mall

• Business

McCormick explores relocating headquarters from Sparks

Spice giant McCormick & Co. Inc. is considering moving its corporate headquarters from Sparks in northern Baltimore County to combine administrative functions in a single site elsewhere in Maryland or southern Pennsylvania, the company said Wednesday.

• Carroll County Times

Westminster announces downtown business incubator program

With vacant storefronts scattered throughout the Downtown Westminster area, city officials are partnering with a Washington non-profit to try and bring business back to Main Street.

• Business

McCormick shares surge on rise in profits

The spice company used digital marketing to build its brand and launched new products around the world.

• Google Glass

Google Glass eyed for new assembly facility

VSPOne expects growth at its new eyeglass manufacturing facility in Halethorpe — including orders related to Google Glass. The company anticipates that the local site will make prescription lenses for the product after it launches sometime this year.

• New Products

Cyber security firm moves to Columbia from Glen Burnie

Convergence Technology Consulting relocated its headquarters to Columbia from Glen Burnie, almost doubling the space the cyber security firm occupies as it looks to sustain its growth.