recreational and sporting goods industry

On a sunny and balmy Labor Day, thousands of people took advantage of the holiday weekend to fill Ripken Stadium for the last Aberdeen IronBirds game this year.

Howard County Government offices will be closed for Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 5 and will re-open at regular business hours on Tues., Sept. 6.

An East Baltimore youth center that opened a decade ago after catching the eye of Baltimore-bred basketball star Carmelo Anthony has attracted a new celebrity benefactor: Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank.

Sykesville resident Virginia Harrison, who is involved in numerous community organizations throughout Carroll County, was recently named the 2015 Carroll County Good Scout of the Year. She was honored at a special breakfast earlier this month by the Carroll District Boy Scouts of America.

Even though Havre de Grace's annual community Thanksgiving dinner has been moved from its traditional site at St. Patrick Catholic Church to the Havre de Grace Community Center this year, that did not stop several hundred volunteers and multiple people wanting a Thanksgiving meal and holiday company from coming out Thursday.

Anyone who is in need this Thanksgiving and cannot share a holiday meal with family or friends has their pick of meals offered by local community groups and houses of worship around Harford and Cecil counties.

Stephen Coco, the first principal for the new Mays Chapel Elementary School, has taken to social media as well as other traditional methods to communicate and receive ideas from the community.

Old photographs, newspapers and other miscellaneous "gay pride ephemera" from the last half-century of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in Baltimore will be added on Tuesday to one of the nation's most esteemed museum collections.

"Love Dove" is the quilt being featured in the Mount Airy Senior and Community Center's annual Site Council Quilt Raffle for 2014

The redevelopment of a former Army base in the Blue Ridge mountains doesn't initially appear to have much in common with the renovation of the historic Hippodrome Theatre on Baltimore's west side. Except one thing: "it's at least as big a challenge."

Local day spas catering to more kids and teens

They're both dressed like lifeguards. They both have that sexy hair flip down to a gel science. And they're both actors, although one may be a tad more famous than the other.

Nearly one year after a Baltimore County police officer was shot and killed while serving a police warrant nearby, a dozen people from the Winters Lane community of Catonsville walked a block near the Banneker Community Center as part of National Night Out against crime on Tuesday, August 5, symbolic of their desire to spark positive change within their community.

County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is on the side of the taxpayers — and good sense — in nixing Superintendent Dallas Dance's convoluted school construction plan.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is proposing a new, 700-seat elementary school near the center of Towson, rejecting the school system's plans for renovations to several other schools.

A new program at the Mount Airy Senior Center provides activities for dementia patients

The Community Action Council of Howard County has been awarded $212,800 as part of the Prekindergarten Expansion Act of 2014, the Maryland State Department of Education announced this week.

The Howard County Police once again will hold their Community Athletic Program on Thursdays at the North Laurel Community Center.

Several Baltimore City Council members expressed skepticism Monday about a plan to sell some downtown parking garages, while others began lobbying the Rawlings-Blake administration to claim funds from the sale for recreation centers in their districts.

Weekly meeting groups

An aquatics instructor at a summer camp for youngsters at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, police said.

An aquatics instructor at a summer camp for youngsters at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, police said.

A schematic design for the new Catonsville Elementary School to be built at 106 Bloomsbury Avenue was released by Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) Tuesday, July 8.

More than a dozen community members attended the commission's meeting and voiced opposition to the school system's plan, saying the building's current use as a community center fits the neighborhood's needs.

Elliott A. Brager, an attorney who was an accomplished fundraiser for HIV treatment and research, died of heart failure Monday at his Mount Washington home. He was 72.

A Baltimore County solution is in the works to address overcrowded elementary schools in southwest Baltimore County, but some Catonsville residents say the solution fails to address future overcrowding in middle schools and high schools.

Florence H. Deitz, who had been a founder of the old Baltimore County General Hospital in the 1960s, which later became Northwest Hospital, died Monday of cancer at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. She was 91.

Groups that meet regularly in Howard County

The Howard County Council voted Monday night to pass two bills aimed at increasing public involvement and transparency in government and development projects.

Second-place finish by 34 votes in primary

Former Oriole Nate McLouth, a Michigan native whose allegiance falls with the Maize and Blue got into it with the Michigan State mascot on Monday.

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.

Wegmans of Columbia has partnered with the Howard County Department of Recreation & Parks and the Columbia Association to deliver programming incentivizing the use of the county's trail system.

Go to the rear of Mary Martin's shop in Havre de Grace, and you'll discover a vast history of the world — of nearby small towns but also farflung foreign cities — being collated in an assortment of 3x5 postcards.

Turnout was low for Tuesday's primary election at polling places in Laurel, as expected. With so few contested races, and what experts say is the usual apathy found in a nonpresidential election cycle, the turnout wasn't a surprise.

Plan to alleviate overcrowding of southwest Baltimore County public schools has school move from Frederick Road to Bloomsbury Community Center site

Polls opened in Laurel at 7 a.m. today, and the earlier-than-usual June primary is not expected to draw out many voters.

Ragin' Cajun is part of Maryland theme park's new Mardi Gras section.

With People's Community Health Centers closing its five low-cost clinics in Baltimore and Anne Arundel, patients are concerned about what happens next and officials are trying to find other providers to fill the void.