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With Halstead Academy being factored into Baltimore County schools' plans to address overcrowding at elementary schools, the principal is working on countering negative perceptions about the school in the wake of protests by parents of students who could be redistricted.

Laurel Woods Elementary School is turning 40 this year and throughout the school year the school and PTA will be doing special events to celebrate.

It may have looked like they were on strike, but the Bel Air Elementary School students marching down Main Street Thursday afternoon carrying hand-written signs were doing anything but. The students participating in a walkathon to raise money, which garnered about $12,000, Principal Dyann Mack announced to the students gathered outside after the walk. The news generated cheers and screams among them

Students at Longfellow Elementary School are learning how to enact social change and conflict resolution through the program Move This World

Unsafe driving on roadways where children are walking to school is right up there with firing a gun into the air in a crowded community or poisoning a salad bar in terms of being socially repellent.

The annual Reservoir High School Marching Gators Florida Fruit and Georgia Pecan Sale is back by popular demand.

Who loved the movie "Drumline"? Come see a real live version when Reservoir High School's Music Department hosts Music In Motion on Oct. 26.

A group of Emmorton Elementary School parents expressed concerns to the members of the Harford County Board of Education Monday evening about the safety of their children who must walk to school along a busy South Tollgate Road.

If you go to the Glenwood Library this month you will see the front showcase decorated for the Howard County 4-H Program.

Open House at the Fifth District Fire Station in Clarksville is set for Oct. 13.

Donate to the annual coat drive sponsored by the Pupil Personnel Workers, the PTA Council of Howard County and other community organizations.

University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will help inform you of ways to have a healthy garden while protecting our bay on Oct. 17 at the North Laurel Community Center at 7 p.m.

Any plans to close West Friendship Elementary School are off the table for now, Howard County Superintendent Renee Foose said in an email to parents last week.

Although the ground has not yet been emblazoned with colorful leaves, in Maryland City our youngest soccer and flag football players dazzled the fields last weekend in their brightly colored uniforms. Check out their action on Saturday mornings at Brock Bridge Elementary for soccer, and in the late afternoon at Maryland City Park for flag football and cheerleading programs. The youngsters enjoy their chance to race up and down the field showing their new skills each week. Come out to support

The new Dundalk High School that opened this fall might have ignored the past out its windows, but instead it was built to honor it, and to give students an inspiring space to continue the striking academic gains made over the past five years.

Hollifield Station Elementary students darted by the dozens along a pair of 1/16th mile ovals on the school's lower field, high-fiving teachers with each completed lap

If the Naval Academy's football game against the Air Force Academy is canceled due to the federal government shutdown, schools and businesses in the Annapolis area would miss out on money-making opportunities.

Thunder Hill Elementary School's after-school Scrabble Club is in its second year and a great success among students

During her sophomore year at Oakland Mills High School, Alexa Kanakry spent an hour every Thursday sorting food and filling 16 backpacks for Blessings in a Backpack, a nonprofit that provides food for elementary-age students during the school year.

Lutherville Laboratory Elementary School holds its annual PTA-hosted Fall Family Funfest Sept. 27.

Hampton Elementary celebrated the culmination of its two-year construction project with a ribbon cutting and grand opening party Friday.

Martha Rowe and Robyn Levy of Girl Scout Troop 4602 earned their Silver Awards, the highest offered in Girl Scouting, by organizing "Hugs for the Homeless" to assist homeless women and men supported by the Route One Day Resource Center.

Howard County Board of Education members react to the arrest of an Ellicott City man last week at a Common Core forum in Towson.

Dr. Dallas Dance met with community stakeholders to address overcrowding in the southwest area of Baltimore County

As students inside learned in their newly renovated, state-of-the-art classrooms at Stoneleigh Elementary in Towson Tuesday morning, Principal Christine Warner and a host of elected officials thanked the parents and community who advocated so hard for the addition and renovation.

What a delightful surprise Roger and I had on Sunday. We had a visit from Janet and Bill Carter. Janet was the daughter of Herbert and Dorothy Sprankle, who lived next door to us for many, many years. Over those years we have become good friends, watching our children grow from tots to married adults with children. Janet and Bill were in town for Janet's 50th class reunion from Perryville High School. I couldn't get over how much she looked like her mother. We visited for about an hour and

Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School has started several First Lego League teams among fourth- and fifth-graders. It's the first time the program is at the Ellicott City school.

Worthington Elementary School in Ellicott City closed to students for the second day in a row because of a power outage on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Principals from the seven Hereford Zone schools have always met with each other several times a year to discuss common goals and concerns. But they started meeting more often after attending a Safe Schools conference this summer that featured bullying prevention expert Michele Borba.

Column provides information on Back-to-School nights for Maryland City/Fort Meade area schools; PTA activities, including Brock Bridge Elementary PTA's Spirit Night and Meade Middle School's urgent need for a volunteer treasurer; and activities provided by the Laurel Senior Friendship Club.

Carroll County residents reflect on experience

Harford County school leaders received an earful Monday night from parents and students frustrated with new athletic and activity fees, as well as several support employees, angered over exemptions from paying the fee granted to children of teachers.

Now that our Rodgers Forge and Gaywood students are back to school, we wish them the very best, whether they are continuing in the same school or have begun the next level of their education. May this year meet their expectations and may each succeed in all of their endeavors.

Fred Eiland has thought about running for office for the past five years. And on his birthday ¿ July 23 ¿ he made it official by filing for the state delegate race in District 13.

Stanley J. Hanna, former chief of the Maryland state Purchasing Bureau, died Aug. 16 of Corticobasal syndrome, a rare and progressive neurodegenerative disease at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home in Hunt Valley. He was 87.

The Howard County School Health Council, and advisory group to the Howard County Public School System and the Board of Education, will hold a general meeting Wednesday, Sept. 11.

Members of the Carroll Co. chapter of the NAACP joined tens of thousands on Sat., Aug. 24, at National Mall - at the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial - in Washington DC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.