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New Harford County Public Schools Superintendent Ray Keech had been on the job not even two weeks 25 years ago this week and already he was butting heads with Harford County Executive Habern Freeman. The two were having a back and forth about the need for new schools

"Quite a number of persons from this place are contemplating a trip to Gettysburg on the 3rd and 4th of July to witness the great reenactment of Veterans." The veterans mentioned were from the Civil War and the event was the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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John Richard "Dick" Irwin, a veteran police reporter whose career at the News American, The Evening Sun and The Baltimore Sun spanned 44 years, died early this morning at Greater Baltimore Medical Center from complications of diabetes.

John Richard "Dick" Irwin, a veteran police reporter whose career at the News American, The Evening Sun and The Baltimore Sun spanned 44 years and his police blotter was obligatory reading by daily newspaper readers, died early yesterday morning at Greater Baltimore Medical Center from complications of diabetes. He was 76.

The first troops showed up on a Saturday morning at the four-bedroom house in Columbia heavily armed: saws, hammers, crowbars, drills. They have returned three times since and are expected to be back again next week in hopes of making repairs upstairs and down, inside and out.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said it will give $25 to each residential customer who recycles a working air-conditioning unit at an event this weekend.

Carrolltowne Mall redevelopment on agenda of Town Hall meeting April 22

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Authorities believe Ida Mae Snipe worked with several others, and for years targeted woman in public restrooms along the Interstate 95 corridor in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, according to an application for a search warrant of the car used in the scheme.

Three Washington men face assault and theft charges in connection with the Wednesday robbery from Sears in the Mall in Columbia, according to Howard County Police.

The Columbia teen who plead guilty arson charges for setting two fires near the Mall in Columbia was sentenced to time served, 248 days, in Howard County Circuit Court on Thursday, according to state's attorney spokesman Wayne Kirwan.

Icky winter weather probably helped keep the traditional post-Christmas shopping rush pretty tolerable in the Bel Air area Wednesday.

Miracle on Main Streets, Baltimore's neighborhood holiday shopping campaign, kids off Wednesday

Black Friday shoppers flocked to Howard County retailers late Thursday and into the wee hours of Friday morning, but by 8 a.m. the Mall in Columbia and stores like Target and Walmart were still full of shoppers wrapping up their all night shopping spree.

On a holiday morning that in bygone years meant deserted mall parking lots, crack-of-dawn consumers were lugging packages to their cars and wrestling flat-screen TVs into minivans shortly after the department store's 7 a.m. opening. Thanksgiving Day is now Black Thursday.

Get information about Baltimore-area malls' extended holiday hours.

Responding to consumer demand, retailers have pushed up store openings to the end of Thanksgiving dinner, started online price wars in November and replaced door buster opening events with waves of sales targeting different consumers.

A Columbia teen plead guilty to setting two fires near the Mall in Columbia earlier this year in Howard County Circuit Court on Wednesday, according to state's attorney spokesman Wayne Kirwan.

Presented by the Department of Citizen Services' Office on Aging, the 14th annual 50+EXPO will be held on Friday, Oct.19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Wilde Lake High School, 5460 Trumpeter Road in Columbia. Admission is free.

Consumers expect to spend same or more this year for holidays

Forty years ago today, on the site of a former racetrack, Harford Mall opened its doors to thousands of shoppers with 1970s mainstays like Montgomery Ward and Korvettes.

The 50+ Expo at Wilde Lake High will feature more than 150 exhibitors

The Mall in Columbia is inviting customers to "Think Pink" this weekend and support the American Cancer Sociery's mission against breast cancer.

ShopSmart magazine, a Consumer Reports publication, offers fall clothing deals in October issue

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Essex company Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre gives 'Sunset Boulevard' visually classy staging.

Aegis writer/editor looks back on 40 years covering Harford County and what he may or may not have learned from his experience.

The Planning Board Thursday unanimously approved General Growth Properties' plan to remove 30,000 square feet of retail at the Mall in Columbia and replace it with 75,000 square feet of retail to create an outdoor-facing "lifestyle center."

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Though sales for luxury items — from diamond rings to well-appointed SUVs — continue to grow, erratic financial markets and a deepening European debt crisis have caused that growth to slow recently, raising the question of weather luxury retail will continue to flourish this year.

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A teen suspected of intentionally setting a fire at the Columbia mall last month and seven other fires in Columbia was indicted on 12 criminal charges June 6, according to Wayne Kirwan, spokesman for the state's attorney's office.

Finding little to fault in the design of the first building project in the downtown Columbia redevelopment process, residents at a community meeting Tuesday night presented concerns regarding traffic and affordable housing

Boscov's department store will return to White Marsh Mall Oct. 7, filling an empty anchor spot the regional chain vacated nearly four years ago in a bankruptcy restructuring.

The Eastpoint Mall, in southeast Baltimore County, is being sold at auction on May 29, according to the auctioneer.

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A Columbia teen is facing sixteen criminal charges after being accused of intentionally setting a fire that shut down the Sears store at the Columbia mall and several other fires that caused damaged at properties elsewhere

Sears reopened Saturday morning, two days after a fire at the store's loading dock left extensive smoke damage inside that closed the Columbia mall store

Blaze started in trailer attached to store's loading dock.

Maryland employers added 1,500 jobs in March — thanks entirely to growth in the private sector — but the state's unemployment rate inched up as the pool of would-be workers expanded more rapidly.

In its first vote on a redevelopment project for downtown Columbia, the Howard County Planning Board Thursday unanimously approved a plan for a mix of new residences and retail in the Warfield neighborhood to the west of the Mall in Columbia.

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It was Wednesday, March 4, 1987, at 12:45 p.m. that Cranberry Mall — now known as TownMall of Westminster, on Route 140 at Center Street — held its much-anticipated grand opening.

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