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- A new ice cream flavor – Campfire Delight – will be available locally next month. The flavor was created by a team of students, most of them from Harford County, participating in this year's Ice Cream University, hosted by TIC Gums at the TIC Gums Texture Innovation Center in White Marsh.
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7472 in partnership with Bob Evans on Beaver Run off Executive Park Drive, Route 100 exit 1 B-C in Ellicott City, is having a fundraiser on Saturday, April 12, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- It's time to revive the idea of learning a trade in high school
- Sojourner-Douglass College will overcome its present difficulties
- As debate rages about the country's spiraling levels of student debt, some advocates want more focus on making sure people don't get suckered into bad educational deals — and on helping those who have already been scammed. The debt is a hole some might never dig out of, they say.
- Under Armour founder Kevin Plank liked Friday's winner of the nationwide entrepreneur competition he runs with the University of Maryland so much, he offered the graduate student $25,000 in exchange for a stake in his company.
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts met with students at KIPP charter schools Friday to resolve their fears a day after a college student's tripod was mistaken for a gun, setting off an hours long lockdown.
- Snow days have made Maryland's customary 180-day school year impossible to maintain
- Sue Van Essen's Loch Raven column includes snippets on Ron and Wendy Duncan, faithful grandparents at Oakleigh Elementary as well as winners in the school's Oakleigh 500, a timed car race, for which nearly 40 students built entries.
- Two Baltimore city charter schools are on lock down after students observed a potential intruder in their building.
- A fifth-grade math and science teacher whose principal calls her the "cream of the crop" and whose students say makes them forget they're learning equations and elements was named Baltimore City's 2014 Teacher of the Year.
- Sojourner-Douglass students face uncertainty as school deals with financial woes
- Gregory Thornton's appointment has heartened Baltimore arts advocates who hope he will breathe new life into the school system's diminished arts education.
- Baltimore County schools will embark on a number of new initiatives next year, including expanding pre-kindergarten for its poorest students and those with special needs, a Spanish blended learning program in 10 schools, and more opportunities for middle and high students to advance their studies.
- Ridgely Middle School staff and students are getting high marks this spring: principal was named principal of the year by Maryland Association of Secondary Schools; robotics team is going to world championship and one student's theme for Baltimore County's Anti-Bullying campaign was the winning theme.
- Thirty-three Calvert Hall College High School students attended Central Maryland History Day on March 22 and several captured awards for their projects.
- The three recipients of Howie Awards are only called upon to make brief speeches expressing their thanks when the Howard County Arts Council presents its 17th annual "Celebration of the Arts in Howard County" on Saturday, March 29, from 6 to 10 p.m., at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.