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Robert Gross, who died Aug. 1 after an almost six-year battle with brain cancer, was honored through song and dance by Hammond's theater and dance students.

Final votes on the two bills that will map out Columbia's future likely won't come until the Howard County Council's Feb.

As we head into Thanksgiving, Y&H wants to help you eat like a pilgrim . In other words, we want to help you eat locally for the holiday.

Created by a change in federal accounting rules several years ago that require every state and local government in the United States to put aside cash for those costs up front instead of paying them as they occur, Howard's initial estimate of the county government's bill as County Executive Ken Ulman took office in late 2006 was a whopping $477 ...

Although far from fully recovered from his Sept. 3 heart transplant, Noah Thyberg has returned to some of his favorite activities a " as evidenced by this portrait of him bouncing joyously on the family trampoline Oct.

An attempt to give fully disabled public safety workers a pass on Howard County property taxes sounds simple, but is proving complicated as the County Council prepares to vote on the bill Monday night.

Quality Associates, Inc. www.qualityassociatesinc.com, an established provider of services and solutions for large-scale document management, imaging, and e-archiving, is pleased to announce that its Founder and President, Paul Swidersky, was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Howard County Maryland Chamber of Commerce.

Students at Clarksville Middle School pack groceries donated by students and staff for local seniors on fixed incomes.

The tortuous legislative road that led to construction of 106 rental apartments for limited-income residents ends Tuesday with a celebratory ribbon-cutting for Ellicott Gardens, the only residential property in Howard County with its own wind turbine to generate power.

As my fellow neighborhood columnists can attest, some weeks provide a bounty of local news items; others, a mere trickle.

Share + Aug 30, 2009 5:27 pm US/Eastern Reporting Pat Warren ELKRIDGE, Md. An Elkridge community is in mourning after a teenager hit by a car dies.

If you've never seen Jimmy Buffett in concert, it was the next best thing. The Highland/Fulton area turned into Margaritaville for one night Aug.

The last Howard County employees left the George Howard Building for temporary office quarters in Columbia in November, but a few citizens still show up at the former government headquarters to try to pay their taxes.

By CARYL VELISEK AFP Correspondent TIMONIUM, Md. - An aged cow and a four year old made up a double win for the Iager family at the 37th Maryland Spring Holstein Show held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds on April 7. Beaumond Spendide Spirit, an April 1999 daughter of Hanover-Hill-R-Spirit out of Beaumond Lestate exhibited by Gene Iager, Fulton, ...

Howard County Recreation and Parks presents the Sons of Pirates, a Jimmy Buffett tribute band, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Schooley Mill Park, 12975 Hall Shop Road in Fulton.

A resolution that would help an Ellicott City church cut interest costs on loans for new buildings appears poised for approval by the Howard County Council after a work session discussion Monday evening.

A Howard County teacher who is accused of telling an African-American student in March, "I'll lynch you," is no longer employed by the school system.

15. The County Council will then vote on salaries for the next county executive and council, starting in December 2010.

Dozens of Howard County homebuilders already suffering through the recession are up in arms about sharply higher sediment and erosion control review fees they could be charged starting July 1. The new rates proposed by the Howard County Soil Conservation District, an independent agency that reviews development plans soil runoff, would cost more ...