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- Brooke Ciampaglio, a recent graduate of North Harford High School, was the District VII Minds in Motion scholarship winner.
- Lindsey Baker, 35, took the helm of Patapsco Heritage Greenway, a preservation-based nonprofit, in January 2018.
- Lauren Hemling is known to the graduating class of Harford Tech as “the only girl in auto body.”
- Patterson Mill graduated approximately 190 students Tuesday at its 10th annual commencement ceremony.
- The scholarships are awarded by the Al Cesky Scholarship Fund Inc., named for late Bel Air High School teacher and coach Albert “Al” Cesky.
- The following local students were named to the dean's list for the fall 2018 semester at University of Delaware: Hannah Barr, of Finksburg; Jessica Jenkins, of
- Dr. Thomas Cripps, a historian of African-American cinema and a retired Morgan State University professor, died of Alzheimer’s disease complications on his 86th birthday, Sept. 17, at Symphony Manor.
- Dulaney High School Chamber Choir had the honor of singing the National Anthem at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Aug. 29. As an added bonus the group also performed “O Canada” as the opponent that evening was the Toronto Blue Jays.
- Nolan Chase, a construction management major from Westminster, received a bachelor's degree at the May 5 commencement at Florida Institute of Technology,
- This summer came an answer to Catherine Mukantabana prayers. The world would know her husband was no war criminal. But he still wasn’t coming home.
- The Brigance Brigade Foundation will celebrate former Raven O.J. Brigance's 49th birthday and honor all those battling ALS at the fourth annual Soirée with O.J. on Oct. 5 at the Valley Mansion by Martin's in Cockeysville.
- Management of University Center, a multi-disciplinary educational, training and technology development campus in Aberdeen, is expected to change in the coming months, according to Harford County government, which owns the facility.
- The following local students have been named to the dean's list at West Virginia University for the fall 2017 semester: Blake Baderian, Finksburg, business;
- After almost 10 years with Laurel Historical Society, Lindsey Baker steps down as executive director. One of her final projects, the "We the People:" How Civic Engagement Has Shaped Laurel" will celebrate its grand opening on Feb. 4.
- Nicholas Parrish, of Westminster; and Tucker Schmidt, of Taneytown, were among the winners of 2017 Maryland State Fair Scholarships. Parrish is a University of
- Carroll County college students Nicholas Parrish and Tucker Schmidt recently received $2,000 scholarships from the Maryland State Fair Scholarship Program.
- The following local students have graduated from LIM College, in New York: Imani Waldrum, of Mount Airy, Bachelor of Business Administration degree in fashion
- Rising carbon dioxide levels are not just warming the globe, but causing oceans to become more acidic. That threatens all aquatic ecosystems, but especially estuaries like the Chesapeake Bay.
- Catherine E. Poindexter, who worked with animals at the National Institutes of Health and enjoyed adventures, died Sept. 21 from a rare form of cancer, at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 24.
- Edith C. Daly, 97, who had careers in editing, theater and televison and was an adovocate for social justice and peace, died Sept. 1 at Union Memorial Hospital.
- Kristen Trumpler and David Bacon, of Reisterstown, are engaged to be married
- The Community Foundation of Carroll County Inc. is about two-thirds of the way through scholarship season. We get to take a deep breath after all our Carroll
- Doreen Bolger's impact on Baltimore's art scene could scarcely be overstated.
- Six individual alumni and the seven Dang siblings were joined by a former staff member and a community supporter as the latest to be inducted into the Edgewood High School Hall of Fame during a ceremony on the school's 2017 Commencement Day Tuesday.
- President Trump's climate change executive order is intended to roll back government policies that allegedly are holding fossil fuels back. It's true that fossil fuels, and especially coal, are losing market share and investor confidence: The world's 40 largest coal companies saw their market capitalization decrease by a stunning 37 percent between 2010 and 2015. But what really holds fossil fuels back is that investors and consumers prefer clean energy.
- An ecology graduate from the University of Delaware and former Peace Corps volunteer has beaten hundreds of competitors from around the world to a $12,500
- Dr. Kathleen Galbraith, a nursing professor in Baltimore who refused to let her students, many of them immigrants and working parents, be deterred by the barriers to an education — whether time, money or even border agents — died Tuesday at her home in Harford County.
- Dr. Carol Hosfeld, 88, the retired patient care coordinator at the Keswick Multi-Care, died Dec. 4 at Sinai Hospital of complications of a fall at her home the previous month.
- Jessica Krug and Michael Guss, of Baltimore, are engaged to be married
- Robert A. Wilson, former owner of the legendary Phoenix Bookshop in New York's Greenwich Village who also had amassed signed first editions of the works of Gertrude Stein, H.L. Mencken and Ezra Pound among others, died Nov. 29 of heart failure a Copper Ridge, a Sykesville assisted-living facility. He was 95.
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- Joe Flacco had ample opportunity to reminisce about his two years as a Blue Hen as he was one of 10 former athletes and coaches inducted into the University of Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame at a ceremony that took place at the Bob Carpenter Center.
- The Rev. William E. "Sonny" Hayman Jr., a retired Lutheran minister who had pastored churches in Columbia and Dundalk, died Tuesday from gastric cancer at Osceola Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla. He was 66.
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Dulaney High School has long been a powerhouse in athletics, boasting 32 state championship teams and 80 individual state champions in its 53-year hi
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- Three alumni, three former staff members, and a community supporter will be added to the Edgewood High School Hall of Fame during induction ceremonies to be held at the school on the EHS Class of 2016's Commencement Day, June 1st. The seven will bring to 48 the number of people who have been enshrined in the EHS Hall of Fame in the six years since the program was begun in 2011.
- Norman C. Crawford Jr., a career educator who had served as president of Salisbury University for a decade where he championed diversity, died May 12 from respiratory failure at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. He was 85.
- Through a program in Howard County public schools, students from the Applications and Research Laboratory, a career and technology high school in Ellicott City, designed cars for students with disabilities at the Cedar Lane School in Fulton. Students delivered and tested the cars on Friday after a trial run last week.
- Westminster grad, big lineman played pro ball and now coaches Owls
- A new program at Bon Secours Community Works aims to help people adjust to life after prison. An affiliate of Bon Secours Hospital, the Community Works program addresses the social issues, such as poverty, lack of housing and unemployment, that are as important to a person's well-being and health as the physical ailments that land them in a hospital.
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- On the night of March 7, three Havre de Grace High School graduates had the chance to return to their original home field – James R. Harris Stadium – to play a college women's lacrosse game in front of a real home crowd.
- When McKay Jenkins complained of nagging soreness in his hip and thigh 10 years ago, he expected doctors to attribute the pain to exercise and middle age. But an MRI revealed a tumor was growing— a shocking discovery for the health-conscious professor living in suburban Baltimore. Although Jenkins' tumor turned out to be benign, the scare prompted him to start extensive research that became material for "ContamiNation: My Quest to Survive in a Toxic World," published in paperback earlier
- Recently Laurel resident and senior basketball player Dominque Johnson became the first student-athlete at Towson University to wear a microphone during a practice session for a special feature for the Towson Sports Network.
- Five Minutes with Steve Mosko, Baltimore-raised head of Sony Pictures Television
- Greg Feulner, a candidate for Harford Community College president, emphasized his commitments to lifelong learning, fundraising and increased diversity on campus during a public meet and greet Tuesday afternoon.
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Harford Community College presidential search narrowed to four finalists; community forums next week
Harford Community College announced Wednesday that its presidential search committee has identified four finalists for the college presidency and will hold open public forums for each candidate when he or she visits the campus next week. - David L. Warnock, the Baltimore venture capitalist and philanthropist, is entering the mayor's race — arguing that his business background and political inexperience are positives for a city in desperate need of job growth.