West Friendship News

The community is invited to the Living Heritage Farm Museum, in West Friendship, Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., for the Howard County Antique Farm Machinery Club's annual Cutting of the Wheat event.

If Fourth of July went by too quickly for you and yours, check out the free tour for kids at the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Museum on Saturday.

House Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell wrote Maryland Republican leaders this week asking them to rein in GOP Chairman James Pelura III, who has criticized lawmakers for failing to follow his party line.

The bright, three-sided rooftop mural at The Friendly Inn is creating quite a stir.

By Mike Santa Rita msantarita@patuxent.com Posted 6/24/09 The foundering economy has claimed another mom-and-pop store.

A last-minute bankruptcy filing has saved Nixon's Farm, a Howard County landmark known for social and political gatherings, from a foreclosure auction originally scheduled for today.

Nixona s Farm in West Friendship staved off a last-minute foreclosure auction after a member of the family filed for bankruptcy today.

Retirements and professional development were cited as a cause for more than 30 promotions and transfers that were unveiled at Thursday's school board meeting.

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman was supposed to be on vacation this week - a "stay-cation" during which he could spend time with his wife and two young daughters.

"Gotta move. Gotta dance." That was the mantra of local businessman Matt Eyre and his lovely wife, Alison, who along with three other couples, danced the night away during the "Soiree" annual fundraiser for Howard County Tourism.

Polo, anyone? Yes, polo and it's right here in Clarksville. The Lewis family presents the fourth annual Ten Oaks Cup polo match to benefit Catholic Charities Our Daily Bread/Our Daily Bread Employment Center Saturday, June 6. Gates open at noon at 6005 Ten Oaks Road and the match begins at 2 p.m. General admission is only $30 per car in advance and ...

On June 14 , the Howard County Fairgrounds will reverberate not with bleats, grunts, and moos, but with the clamor of thousands of motorcycles.

Now start the busy days at West Friendship Elementary. From now until mid June the calendar is overflowing with culminating events at our local elementary.

Lawyers for a Silver Spring dermatologist are appealing a Montgomery County judge's ruling that the state has no limits on jury awards in medical malpractice cases.

The week of May 4 proved jubilant for the Mt. View Middle School music department! Their "string" of accomplishments began May 4 when the orchestra, led by Andrea Aldrich, earned all superior ratings at the State Middle School Orchestra Festival at Clarksburg High School in Montgomery County.

Congratulations to Peter Charles Morrison, of West Friendship, who graduated from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., May 9. Morrison received his Bachelor of Arts during the 98th Commencement of the university, which was founded in 1908.

What's best about a Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School fifth-grade field trip to Philadelphia? According to Alec Angradi, it was seeing the Liberty Bell.

Now that spring fully surrounds us, our area offers many outdoor events designed to appeal to a variety of interests.

A sure sign of spring, it is once again time for the Glenelg High School Jazz Ensemble's annual Jazz Under the Stars picnic dinner and concert.

Barb Jacques and her fellow Hurricane Katrina relief church members at Mount Zion United Methodist Church are back after spending spring break in another house rehabilitation effort in Mississippi.