Edgewood residents and activists have started a petition drive and will hold a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the implications of a Harford County Council bill which would place a waste incinerator next to a community recreation field.
Community activist Omar Simpson has created an online petition for the public [...]
Reviews
• The Twilight Saga: New Moon
• An Education
• The Blind Side
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Summit)
The Stab: A satisfying second chapter to the Twilight saga, improving on its predecessor in every way possible. Even with [...]
From the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County:
Baltimore Ravens Guard Ben Grubbs will host a Thanksgiving dinner distribution on Tuesday, November 24 for 100 single parent families in the metropolitan Baltimore Area. Included in this number are 2 single parent families from the Westminster Unit of the Boys & [...]
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:Â
(Abingdon, MD – November 19, 2009) On August 24, 2009, Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a complaint for recovered stolen property discovered near Federal Lane, in the Abingdon area of Harford County.
A number of wallets were located at the scene containing ID’s from [...]
This is about my sonâs dog, Koda. She was meant as a gift to me for Christmas in 1992 from Sam. He wanted me to have a âpalâ to keep company with since I was living alone for the very first time in my life. I wasnât in any shape [...]
From Maryland State Police:
Joppatowne, MD _ Detectives working a serial robbery case nabbed the assailant seconds after he struck a pharmacy on the Pulaski Highway corridor in Harford County Thursday night.
Anthony Pierre Willis, 45, of the 4000 block of Hawksbury Road, Pikesville, Maryland, was taken into custody as he left [...]
From Harford County government:
(Bel Air, MD) – - Effective November 20, 2009 Harford County Government will provide a new online research tool on the Harford County Government website that will enable citizens to view the details concerning their current year Real Property Tax, Property Assessment, Bay Restoration Fund fee, and [...]
By Tom Myers
I love following governments and what they are doing. I also get alarmed at the very idea of a crisis occurring on any level, be it federal, state or local. So imagine my concern when I attended the Harford County Council meeting on October 20 and heard Susan [...]
Aberdeen Communities Together (ACT), the community action group which recently saw all four of its endorsed candidates for mayor and city council elected into office, will celebrate the election victory Friday at the Aberdeen Senior Center.
ACT, which originally organized to stop the Wetlands Golf Course annexation and has been actively [...]
From The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region:
Although many are familiar with the Cedar Lane Regional Park in Bel Air, most know it as the home of soccer and lacrosse tournaments. That perception will be changed on Saturday, November 21st when hundreds of football enthusiasts gather at the facility to showcase their [...]
Advanced Placement Exams are developed by The College Board and offered to high school students nationwide in subjects ranging from English Literature to Calculus to Art History. Results from the AP Exams let students know if they are ready for college-level work and provide the rest of us with one [...]
From Harford County Public Schools:
Dr. Percy Vandella Williams was a true giant in the field of public education, not only in Harford County, but also in the state and nation. Born in rural Perryman, Dr. Williams spent an entire lifetime proving that education is the key to equality for all. [...]
On Thanksgiving morning, Havre de Grace-area residents can burn off some calories before the big feast and raise money for a great cause by participating in the 3rd Annual Bulle Rock Turkey Trot benefiting the Susquehanna Hose Company.
Open to the public for all age groups and fitness levels, the [...]
From Harford Center for the Arts:
WHAT: 2nd Annual âDancing for the Artsâ Gala with ballroom competition participants include Rick Dempsey, MASN Broadcaster/Oriole; Wini Roche, Harford County Tourism; Betsy Campion, Campion Insurance; Lyle Sheldon, President Upper Chesapeake Health; Jesse Bane, Harford County Sheriff; Jay Young, Brown, Brown & Young; Alan Doran, [...]
The following letter was received from Patrick McGrady:
On Monday, November 16, 2009 the Route 40 Republican Club hosted it’s first fundraising event at the Wetlands Golf Club in Aberdeen. More than 250 people attended the dinner and by 6:00PM the only space left was standing room.
Stephen Wright, the President of [...]
From Harford County government:
Jim Ports will be the guest speaker at the November 24, 2009 meeting of the Harford County Transportation Management Association (TMA).
The meeting will take place from 9:00â10:00 AM in Room 201 of the Higher Education and Applied Technology (HEAT) Center, 1201 Technology Drive in Aberdeen.
Mr. Ports brings [...]
The list of confirmed special guests attending Monday night’s Route 40 Republican Club Fundraiser in Aberdeen has grown to include Charles Lollar, Candidate for House of Reps, MD District 5; Dr. Jim Pelura, Maryland GOP Party Chairman; David Craig, Harford County Executive; and the featured speaker, former Gov. Bob Ehrlich.
It [...]
From Maryland State Police:
Date: November 14, 2009 Time: 0439 hrs. CC No. 09-53-0013662
(Street, MD): Troopers from the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack responded to MD 543, Ady Road, south of MD 646, Prospect Road, in reference to a two car motor vehicle collision.
The preliminary investigation revealed [...]
With the election in the history books and dust from campaign season starting to settle, Aberdeen’s candidates have finally found the time to reflect on their victories, defeats, and futures.
After 6 years on the city council, Mike Hiob considered leaving elected office altogether, but some chance conversations (with Gov. Martin [...]
From Maryland State Police:
Over the past several days business establishments in the Edgewood area have experienced four robberies that appeared to be committed by the same individual. The Friendlyâs Restaurant, 1400 block of Pulaski Hwy, Edgewood, Md. was struck on two separate days: Monday, November 10 in the morning and [...]
At the request of Harford County Councilman Dion Guthrie and several Edgewood residents, the Edgewood Community Council has called a special meeting to discuss Bill No. 09-36, Acquisition of Prologis Park, and it’s potential impact to the Edgewood Community.
WHAT: ECC SPECIAL MEETING
WHERE: Harford County Council Chambers, 212 [...]
The following was received from Al Redmer:
Good morning,
I would like to thank the more than 300 folks who fought the weather to help kickoff our campaign for State Senate! It was truly a humbling display of support. For those of you that were not able to make it last night, [...]
The town of Bel Air resolved another close election on Monday, and interest in the town administration was piqued by divisive campaigning. The town forum, which The Dagger moderated, was less contentious than most of the campaign despite good questions from town citizens.
Among the questions posed by attendees were several [...]
One of the joys of living where i do is having a clothesline to dry all laundry on. A day like today, sunny, little wind, is perfect for sheets, pillow cases, genes, shirts, skivvies, and all manner of socks, handkerchiefs and even jackets and sweaters. Seems as though the elastic [...]
From the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office:
Joseph I. Cassilly, Stateâs Attorney for Harford County, announced today the conviction of Demetrius D. Lovelace, Temple Hills, Maryland, for his participation in the murder of Alan Zurita of Havre De Grace, Maryland.
Lovelace was indicted for the murder and the case was tried before [...]
From the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office:
BEL AIR, MD- November 12, 2009- Despite the current economic woes the Harford County Stateâs Attorney collected $18.4 million dollars in child support payments in Fiscal Year 2009. The Stateâs Attorneyâs Family Support Division increased collection by more than $600,000 over FY 2008. This [...]
Reviews
2012 (Columbia Pictures)
The Stab: A poor excuse for filmmaking lacking in virtually every department. Even sequences of grandiose Earthly devastation are dim and dull. With a two-and-a-half hour runtime, this isn’t a movie: it’s torture.
2012 is just as the ancient Mayans predicted: an earth-shattering, cataclysmic event unleashing [...]
From the Office of Del. Donna Stifler:
The Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington (AOBA) has announced that Harford County State Delegate Donna Stifler (R, Distict 35A) will be honored on November 13 with an Outstanding Leadership Award for her tenacious pursuit of legislation to ensure the safety of [...]
From Maryland State Police:
EDGEWOOD, MD _ Troopers from the Maryland State Police at the Bel Air Barrack âDâ are seeking assistance from the public to identify a middle-aged robber who held up a restaurant Tuesday night.
Shortly after 10 p.m., Troopers were called to the Friendlyâs restaurant at 1407 Pulaski [...]
From the HCC sports desk:
BEL AIR, Md.âThe No. 14 Harford womenâs soccer team will return to the NJCAA Division-I National Tournament for the first time since 2006 after defeating Cape Fear, 4-0 in the District H Championship on Saturday at Harford Stadium. The Fighting Owls (17-2-1) and Sea Devils (15-5) [...]
The Greene Turtle on Main Street in Bel Air closed its doors Tuesday after the restaurant felt it was “unlikely” that a new lease agreement could be reached with its landlord.
In a statement to The Dagger, a company spokesman said the Greene Turtle parent company and its Bel Air franchise [...]
Each month the Harford County Health Department conducts routine inspections of 1,893 food service facilities. Some pass, some fail. These are their storiesâŚ
Below are all the critical health inspection violations for Harford County in October 2009:
7-Eleven Store #19677
1752 Jarrettsville Road
Jarrettsville, MD 21084
Violation: Food must be held at [...]
Nearly a week after Election Night, provisional and absentee ballots re-elected Town Commissioners David Carey and Robert Preston over challenger Greg Adolph.
Final results announced Monday afternoon at Bel Air Town Hall included five absentee ballots and two provisional ballots. From those, Preston collected four votes and Carey gained six votes, [...]
Incumbent Bel Air Town Commissioners Rob Preston and Dave Carey appear to have both won re-election, albeit narrowly over challenger Greg Adolph, after a final tally of provisional and absentee ballots on Monday afternoon.
With the results too close to call following the town’s Nov. 3 municipal election, an absentee ballot [...]
From Harford County Public Schools:
The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) recently announced the finalists for the 2009-10 Maryland Distinguished Scholar Award, which include three students from Harford County Public Schools (HCPS).
The finalists from HCPS are Alex Hutcheson, senior at C. Milton Wright High School; Drew Thatcher, senior at C. Milton [...]
The following letter was received from Michael Perrone, Jr. of Belcamp, MD:
I would like to offer an analogy that I believe accurately illustrates the current state of health care costs in this country. Think of our health insurance system as a house in the middle of a hurricane. Water is [...]
Havre de Grace resident Juanita L. Warman was among the 13 people killed in Thursday’s shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, according to national media reports.
While Warman and the dozen others who died in Thursday’s attack have not yet been officially named by the Department of Defense, their names, Warman’s [...]
At a number of Harford County Public Schools where the scarce H1N1 vaccine has been offered, a majority of students did not have parental consent and therefore were not immunized in school.
In six out of the 11 public schools where it has been administered, less than half of the [...]
Reviews
A Christmas Carol (Disney)
The Stab: Visually spectacular, then some moreâto the point of monotony. A scary story more than a Holiday moralistic tale, with emotional resonance suffocated by its showy display.
Stuffed fuller than a Christmas goose, Disneyâs animated adaptation of Charles Dickensâ classic tale is [...]
The following letter was received from the office of Del. J.B. Jennings:
Dear Editor:
It is that time of the year. American families are preparing to celebrate their family traditions and homecomings on Thanksgiving as well as begin their early holiday shopping. Yet, amid the enjoyment of these festive times and [...]
Bel Air Tea Party organizer Tony Passaro loaded up two charter buses in the parking lot of the Harford County Government building in Bel Air this morning, headed for a health care protest in Washington D. C.
Passaro said he had about 100 people, whom he called âThe Old Maryland [...]
The Harford County Health Department will offer the injectable H1N1 vaccine to pregnant women and children aged 6 months to 18 years, on Friday, November 6th at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., rain or shine.
Health Department spokesman Bill Wiseman said the clinic is restricted to pregnant [...]
A bill to repeal Harford Countyâs development impact fee lost a co-sponsor and was defeated in a 6 to 1 vote of the Harford County Council on November 3 (Tuesday). Councilman Chad Shrodes was a co-sponsor of the repeal effort, but asked for his name to be removed from the [...]
Itâs going to be a very long weekend for three Bel Air Town Commissioner candidates.
Incumbents Robert Preston and David Carey led challenger Greg Adolph by a razor-thin margin in the results of Tuesdayâs voting. Nothing will be settled until Monday, when provisional ballots are verified and the remaining absentee ballots [...]
As of 8:48 PM on Tuesday, November 3rd, here are the Aberdeen election results:
winners in bold and italics
Mayor:
Michael Bennett – 982
Michael Hiob – 739
Barbara Kreamer – 139
City Council:
Ruth Elliott – 1236
Bruce Garner – 1123
Ron Kupferman – 967
Sandy Landbeck – 1077
Trudie Norman – [...]
The race for Bel Air Town Commissioner is too close to call, with incumbents Robert Preston and David Carey and challenger Greg Adolph separated by a razor-thin margin Tuesday night.
Preston led the field with 414 votes, followed by Carey with 411 and Greg Adolph with 410. Ricky Davis received 356 [...]
Keep checking in here to see updates from the frontlines of the Bel Air Election:
11/3/2009 3:44 PM
A few pics from the scene:
11/3/2009 3:30 PM
With beautiful fall weather, candidates and voters have been talking outside of town hall as what has been the most [...]
At least one mailer making the rounds over the last week appears to use the Town of Bel Airâs official seal in violation of the townâs charter, which in Bel Air is what passes for massive campaign scandal.
The flyer uses the seal and town letterhead as part of a notice [...]
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
(Bel Air, MD – November 2, 2009) Harford County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested several subjects on November 1, 2009 approximately 1:20 a.m. on the parking lot of Tully’s Bar located at 2403 Bel Air Road Fallston, Maryland.
The Harford County Emergency Operations Center received several 911 [...]
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
Harford County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating a domestic dispute that occurred in the 1000 block of Ellicott Drive Bel Air, Maryland on October 31, 2009 at approximately 1210 p.m. that resulted in the death of resident Jason Lawrence, 23.
A 911 call was received by the [...]
From Maryland State Police:
On November 1, 2009 at approximately 01:22 a.m. troopers from the Bel Air Barrack responded to Tullyâs Bar located at 2403 Belair Road, Fallston, Md. to assist the Harford County Sheriffâs office with a fight in progress.
Upon arrival it was learned that one of the confrontations involved [...]
The state Public Service Commission on Friday approved the $4.5 billion sale of half of Baltimore-based Constellation Energyâs nuclear business to French company EDF, on the condition that the company gives a one-time credit of approximately $100 to every Baltimore Gas and Electric residential ratepayer by next March.
In an order [...]
From the City of Aberdeen:
CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST SCHEDULES GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR NEW CLASS âAâ OFFICE BUILDING AT NORTH GATE BUSINESS PARK AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND FOR MONDAY, NOV. 2
WHAT: Groundbreaking ceremony for 210 Research Boulevard, a new three-story, 84,000 square foot Class âAâ office building in Harford County [...]
Interview with Bel Air Town Commissioner Dave Carey:
As part of The Daggerâs coverage of the Town of Bel Airâs municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for town commissioner.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The candidatesâ [...]
Interview with Aberdeen Mayor Mike Bennett:
As part of The Dagger’s coverage of the City of Aberdeen’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for mayor and city council.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The candidates’ answers [...]
From Maryland State Police:
Joppa, Maryland: On October 28, 2009 at 2:00 p.m., investigators from the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack, with the assistance of Harford County Sheriffâs office detectives and their Gang Suppression unit, identified the third suspect in connection with Monday night’s carjacking and robbery in Edgewood, MD.
The [...]
With just a few days before Aberdeen voters go to the polls, the mayoral and city council candidates worked hard Wednesday night at the Candidates Night Forum to demonstrate why they would be the best choice to represent the city for the next two years.
Nine of the ten active candidates [...]
From Harford County government:
Deputy Director of Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits Tapped by Governor
(Bel Air, MD) – - Richard C. Truitt, Sr., Deputy Director of the Harford County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits (DILP) has been appointed by Governor Martin OâMalley to the Maryland Building Rehabilitation Code Advisory [...]
From Harford County government:
Jericho Road will be closed to thru traffic on or about November 2, 2009 for approximately three weeks. The road closure is necessary to allow crews to repair Jericho Road Bridge.
The road will be closed to all traffic from 9:00 a.m. â 3:00 p.m. weekdays until repairs [...]
From the Maryland Department of Natural Resources:
Annapolis, Md. (October 21, 2009) â Governor Martin OâMalley today announced Board of Public Works approval of recreational projects in Carroll, Cecil, Garrett, Harford, Prince Georgeâs and Washington Counties through Program Open Space and the Community Parks and Playgrounds Program.
“These are challenging times for [...]
From the Maryland Department of Natural Resources:
Biologists hold new hope for endangered Maryland Darter
Havre De Grace, Md. (October 26, 2009) â The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists started a search for one of the rarest fish in the world, the Maryland darter. This particular species has only been [...]
From Maryland State Police:
On Monday, October 26, 2009 at about 10:00 pm troopers from the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack responded to the 300 block of Philadelphia Road, Joppa, Md. for a reported victim of a carjacking and robbery.
Troopers learned upon arrival that the victim Kara Smithson, 20 of [...]
The Harford County Health Departmentâs current supply of the H1N1 vaccine will be given to elementary school students today (Tuesday) at three area schools, Bel Air ES, Meadowvale ES and North Bend ES. While local health officials wait for more supplies of the H1N1 vaccine to arrive, three more Harford [...]
For those who are unable to attend the Aberdeen Mayor and City Council Candidates Night Forum tonight (Wednesday), or may just want to catch the action for the comfort of their own homes, The Dagger will be providing live video of the entire event.
The Dagger is hosting and moderating the [...]
The Bel Air Candidates Forum is over, but some of the answers that attendees gave will fuel debate right up until Election Day – one week from today.
Four of the five active candidates for Bel Air Town Commissioner fielded 18 total questions generated by some of the approximately 60 people [...]
From the Harford County Health Department:
The Harford County Health Department has announced it will offer the injectable form of the seasonal flu vaccine at their upcoming community seasonal influenza vaccination clinic to be conducted on Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm at the Churchville Recreation Center [...]
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
(Havre de Grace, MD – October 23, 2009) Harford County Sheriff’s Office investigators want to ease public concern regarding an alleged October 5, 2009 rape reported to have occurred in the Stafford Road parking lot just outside of the Susquehanna State Park in Havre de [...]
An outbreak of the suspected H1N1 virus hit four more Harford County public schools late last week.
North Bend ES, Aberdeen High, Forest Lakes ES and Youthâs Benefit ES brought the total number of schools with identified outbreaks of âinfluenza-like illnessâ to twelve out of 53 public schools countywide.
At the remaining [...]
Interview with Aberdeen Mayoral Candidate/City Council President Mike Hiob:
As part of The Dagger’s coverage of the City of Aberdeen’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for mayor and city council.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. [...]
Interview with Bel Air Town Commissioner Rob Preston:
As part of The Daggerâs coverage of the Town of Bel Airâs municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for town commissioner.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The candidatesâ [...]
Interview with Aberdeen Mayoral Candidate Barbara Kreamer:
As part of The Dagger’s coverage of the City of Aberdeen’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for mayor and city council.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The candidates’ [...]
Reviews
A Serious Man (Focus Features)
The Stab: Rich with style and substance. Moves slowly but holds strong. A must-see for serious filmgoers.
This darkly ironic comedy will make you go âhuhâ a lot more than âha haââunless you are one to find humor in anotherâs misery. Larry [...]
Just two weeks before the city’s election, Aberdeen is proving once again that when it comes to politics, no tactic is off-limits.
A police report filed earlier this summer against a notable local figure has come to light in what may be an effort to turn a dubious allegation into a [...]
Harford Republican Central Committee Member Stephen M. Wright has filed to run for Harford County Executive in 2010. Wright will challenge incumbent and fellow Republican David R. Craig.
Wright told The Dagger that he co-founded the Rt. 40 Republican Club to help Republicans and to re-elect Craig, but he said [...]
The Harford County Health Department has announced it will conduct a community seasonal influenza FluMist vaccination clinic on Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm at the Churchville Recreation Center located at 111 Glenville Road in Churchville, Maryland.
Only the seasonal FluMist nasal vaccine, which is available in [...]
Interview with Bel Air Town Commissioner Candidate Dave Mitchell:
As part of The Daggerâs coverage of the Town of Bel Airâs municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for town commissioner.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The [...]
From Maryland State Police:
(Bel Air, MD) After receiving information from a Comcast viewer, Maryland State Police make an arrest of a wanted fugitive in Harford County.
Troopers from the Bel Air Barracks arrested Sean Stephen Garrison, 37, of Joppa, Maryland after receiving information from a Comcast viewer who had seen him [...]
Harford County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Tomback told the school board at a work session October 19th that middle school students who complete high school coursework should receive high school credit.
Approximately 40% of HCPS students take the advanced math class Algebra I in middle school, according to Tomback. He [...]
Interview with Aberdeen City Councilman Ron Kupferman:
As part of The Dagger’s coverage of the City of Aberdeen’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for mayor and city council.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The candidates’ [...]
Supplies of the H1N1 FluMist vaccine are âdribbling inâ, according the Harford County Health Department spokesman Bill Wiseman. Wiseman told The Dagger that students whose parents had granted permission would be offered the vaccine by the end of the day today (Tuesday) at Aberdeen Middle School, Halls Crossroads Elementary and [...]
The Harford County Health Department has cancelled two planned seasonal flu clinics due to a lack supply. The clinics were to be held on October 26th at the Level Fire Hall and October 28th at the Health Department location in Edgewood at Woodbridge Station. The seasonal flu vaccine does not [...]
A bill to repeal Harford Countyâs impact fee created some strange bedfellows when it was first introduced by Dion Guthrie, a Democrat representing Edgewood and Joppatowne and Chad Shrodes, a Republican representing the rural north.
Now, the repeal effort has sparked a rift among the leaders of the anti-tax Tea Party [...]
Interview with Bel Air Town Commissioner candidate Ricky Davis:
As part of The Daggerâs coverage of the Town of Bel Airâs municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for town commissioner.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The [...]
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
(Edgewood, MD – October 20, 2009) Harford County Sheriff’s Office Mobile Precinct is scheduled to be in the Edgewood Meadows Area of Harford County from Thursday, October 22, 2009 through Monday, October 26, 2009. This concentrated patrol effort is designed to restore peace and tranquility [...]
From the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County:
This Saturday, October 24, from 9 AM to 2 PM, volunteers from Best Buy and the Geek Squad will be joining millions of volunteers across the country to make a difference in their own community. They will be at the Edgewood Boys [...]
Each month the Harford County Health Department conducts routine inspections of 1,893 food service facilities. Some pass, some fail. These are their storiesâŚ
Below are all the critical health inspection violations for Harford County in September 2009:
7-Eleven Store #11614
911 Ontario Street
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Food must be [...]
Interview with Aberdeen City Council Candidate Sandy Landbeck:
As part of The Dagger’s coverage of the City of Aberdeen’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for mayor and city council.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The [...]
Dedicated to George Donhauser and Mrs. Clara Wilson
DEL HAVEN COTTAGES AND HOTEL
Early ads for this landmark at the north edge of Bel Air at the intersection of Mooreâs Mill Road and Hickory Avenue were short and to the point…
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Delicious Food
Breakfast…Lunch…Dinner…Sandwiches
Open Year Round 23 Miles North [...]
This weekend, the Town of Bel Air Film Festival is being held at the Bel Air Reckord Armory on N. Main Street.
The festival opened on Friday with guest speaker Michael Sragow, film critic for the Baltimore Sun, and a screening of the 1937 Victor Fleming film Captains Courageous. Two [...]
Interview with Aberdeen City Councilwoman Ruth Elliott:
As part of The Dagger’s coverage of the City of Aberdeen’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for mayor and city council.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The candidates’ [...]
Interview with Bel Air Town Commissioner candidate Gregory Adolph:
As part of The Daggerâs coverage of the Town of Bel Airâs municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for town commissioner.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The [...]
The film adaptation of Maurice Sendakâs beloved story Where the Wild Things Are is ambitious, built from a mere eighteen illustrations and ten (grammatically-flexible) sentences. Sendak promotes childhood escapism from a world of increasing anxiety, and Spike Jonzeâs film vibrantly honors this spirit.
The world weighs heavily on Max, our rambunctious [...]
Interview with Aberdeen City Council candidate Zenobia Todd:
As part of The Dagger’s coverage of the City of Aberdeen’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the following questions were presented to each candidate for mayor and city council.
The five questions (bolded and boxed) were chosen to generate discussion on specific topics. The [...]
The following was submitted by Morita Bruce:
Do you support a tax increase to pay for recently-built schools? Should Red Pump Elementary School or other school construction projects be stopped?
If your answer is NO to either of these, then oppose Bill 09-29, School Development Impact Fee, because this Bill stops [...]
From Maryland State Police:
On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Troopers from the Bel Air Barrack responded to the Royal Farm Store located at 630 Edgewood Road, Edgewood, Maryland for a reported armed robbery. Upon arrival troopers learned that a light skinned H/M or B/M forced the victim/clerk at knife-point to handover [...]
From Harford County government:
(Bel Air, MD) – - The Harford County Emergency Operations Center located in Hickory, attained the highest accreditation possible, as an Accredited Center of Excellence (ACE) for use of its Fire, Police and Medical protocols. The Harford County EOC is only the second center in the world [...]
Continuing to feel the economic crunch, Maryland county governments will be looking for new ways around a long-standing state law requiring them to fund their portion of local education budgets according to a formula known as Maintenance of Effort (MOE).
Maintenance of Effort was designed to ensure that county governments [...]
Steven Testerman has withdrawn his candidacy for Bel Air Town Commissioner, leaving five candidates in the race with Election Day three weeks away.
Testerman told The Dagger that he withdrew from the race to support two of the remaining challengers, Greg Adolph and Richard Davis. They, along with challenger David [...]
The following was received from the office of Del. Rick Impallaria:
I have two interesting pieces of legislation which I plan to introduce in the 2010 session. The first one is a direct result of bad legislation which I fought against, and voted against last session. In their infinite wisdom the [...]
From Harford County Health Department:
Bel Air, MD â October 13, 2009 â The Harford County Health Department will be holding a seasonal influenza community vaccination clinic on Friday, October 16, 2009 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm at the Fallston Middle School, located at 2303 Carrs Mill Road in Fallston. [...]
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