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More than 200 people turned out for the July 28 kick-off to the renewed Adopt-A-Whooper program at the Patuxent National Wildlife Visitor Center in Laurel. The refuge has about 68 whooping cranes in its flock, and is the nation's leading center for crane recovery efforts. - It was standing room only during Saturday night's 4-H livestock auction in the large 4-H pavilion at the Harford County Farm Fair. Spectators, families and potential buyers flocked to one of the fair's most popular events, as auctioneers spouted off prices looking for the highest bidder.
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- The Farm Fair, which is celebrating its 25 anniversary, begins Thursday morning at the Harford County Equestrian Center in Bel Air and ends early Sunday evening.
- The 25th Harford County Farm Fair runs next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 26-29, at the Harford County Equestrian Center on Tollgate Road.
- This season combines old contestants with the show's hyper fans. If the fans are nuts enough, which we suppose they have to be, this is going to be epic.
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- Perry Hall neighborhood columnist Shelley Silwick writes about where to buy local summer produce and includes Huber's produce on Belair Road
- Twenty dancers enter, 16 leave -- or four dancers leave, however you'd like to put it.
- The 67th annual Hereford Junior Farm Fair has added a poultry division to this year's show animals. Fair takes place Aug. 11-12 at Baltimore County Agriculture Center in Hunt Valley.
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- Welcome to our first live show of the season. Cat is shiny in gold. I won't lie -- I look forward to seeing what she's wearing each week.
- The Maryland SPCA hosts its second dog-friendly shindig of the summer.
- Laurel's annual Fourth of July Celebration will be held Saturday, July 7, beginning with a morning parade and ending with fireworks at dusk at Gude Park at Laurel Lakes.
- More military families around the Baltimore region are reunited this holiday as the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan winds down. Fort Meade garrison commander Col. Edward C. Rothstein said that Independence Day is a chance for Americans to reflect.
- Have you recovered from the hoopla of Havre de Grace Fourth of July patriotic exuberance of this past week?
- Fair hopes to raise funds with pre-fair events
- It's the 200th episode of "So You Think You Can Dance" and also the night on which the Top 20 will be revealed
- Carney columnist Sylvia Rogers writes of happenings in Perry Hall area.
- Start your Independence Day off on the right foot by running the Harford Hounds 4-Miler on the scenic Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Trail. Hosted by the Harford County RASAC Run Club, registration for this run/walk begins at 7:15 a.m. in the Conowingo Dam parking lot and the run starts at 8:30 a.m. on July 4
- It will be a winter wonderland wedding for this fun-loving couple who like to laugh together and spend time with their adorable Chihuahua.
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- There's a new bereavement Facebook page offered by Nicodemus Memorial Park at Baltimore Humane Society.
- On June 23, Julio Mendoza will show off Ivan and Xairel at the Potomac Valley Dressage Association Ride for Life's Dancing Horse Challenge.
- Krump, Otis Redding and green body paint -- oh my!
- Seven decades after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the last whites-only branch of the military to accept African-Americans, the first black Marines are being recognized for their service.
- Supporters of a Carroll County off-leash dog park will be at the Pet Expo on June 16, at the Agriculture Center, hoping to drum up interest, and money ....
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- West Friendship: There's great reason for celebration in the Chaillou household this holiday weekend. Ann and Wally Chaillou of West Friendship are proud to announce the birth of their newest grandson, Zachary Edward Shurer.
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- Harford Liquor Control Board approves several event and one-day liquor licenses
- Clarksville: Parents of sixth- and seventh-graders will be able to attend an information session on the new middle school program and schedule at Clarksville Middle School on Thursday, May 24 from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m.
- I won't get into the ins and outs of tick varieties, removal techniques and disease prevention options. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has a wonderfully complete web site that offers plenty of tick advice www.cdc.gov/ticks/. I will, however, caution anyone who has read this far along to keep an eye out for ticks and not take them as lightly as I once did.
- Three Laurel area students took home prizes in 19th Annual Be Kind to Animals poster contest, sponsored by the Prince George's County Department of Environmental Resources May 9. Laurel School Days
- Once targeted for development, wooded 'hillock' at University of Maryland College Park serves as outdoor classroom and laboratory.
- Brenda Brewington, an ecclesiastical administrator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Ellicott City who had taught earlier in its preschool, died Thursday in her office in a double shooting that also claimed a pastor's life. She was 59.
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- Series of short narrative films kicks off weekend-long cinema celebration.
- While much has been said and written about the artful communication between humans and dogs, the competitive pinnacle of that interaction is handling working sheep dogs, local handlers say
- Sweetlife is, of course, brought to you by DC sustainable eatery Sweetgreen, and the enviro-friendly fare was ubiquitous.
- Preakness Insider: Sagamore Farm history comes alive with visit from a Vanderbilt
