Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Council members undecided on changes to Ulman plan With less than a week until final budget votes, no consensus has emerged among Howard County Council members on whether to make changes in County Executive Ken Ulman's $1.4 billion budget.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Even after 25 years of organizing the Columbia Triathlon, Robert Vigorito gets emotional about the race.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Howard Neighbors No one relishes the idea of throwing a party without knowing how many guests might show up, yet organizers of the Ellicott City Senior Center's 20th anniversary bash are doing just that.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
After 18 months in temporary quarters, staff and residents of the Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center are set to move into their new $5 million building that replaces the nonprofit's cramped former quarters on the same site.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Performing chamber music with intimate friends and relatives is an experience usually reserved for amateurs, but not so this weekend at Christ Episcopal Church. Howard County's own Wonju Kim, violinist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, will be joined by her family and friends at 3 p.m. Sunday in a concert that features Schubert's "Trout" Quintet and Mendelssohn's Piano Sextet in D.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Carroll County man accused of driving drunk when a stranded motorist who was standing on a Howard County roadside was struck and killed last month has been indicted.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Eduardo Morales-Soriano, an illegal immigrant charged with killing two people in a drunken driving accident in 2006 in Columbia, will plead guilty to two counts of negligent manslaughter, his attorney said yesterday in Howard County court.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A Howard County man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore yesterday to robbing a bank in Elkridge in November and escaping with more than $8,500, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Howard County State's Attorney Dario Broccolino announced yesterday the appointment of Mary V. Murphy as deputy state's attorney.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Entry lane and more bays are added to help users The county's Alpha Ridge Landfill has recently undergone a million-dollar upgrade to eliminate lines and congestion. At the same time, improvements were made to the storm-water ponds, the household hazardous waste drop-off section, the waste oil section and more.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Stage set for effort to trim $1.4 billion spending proposal As they debate a spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1, some Howard County Council members are more worried about potential red ink in the county's future.
Parenting Solved (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Maryland's Howard County Health Department has taken the step of providing only bisphenol A-free products to its WIC (Woman's, Infants and Children) Program. WIC provides supplies and supplemental foods to low-income pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children under the...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Consultants gave residents a glimpse last week of a Columbia no longer so dependent on cars -- a place where walking, biking and taking a train or bus were all very real options for getting around.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The political wars over Howard County tax policy pop up each spring, as evidenced by a County Council budget debate and the four people who came to the annual constant-yield tax rate hearing before the council's May legislative meeting.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
For the second year in a row, Turf Valley Resort is hosting a hot air balloon festival and other activities in the days leading up to the Preakness, the second leg of thoroughbred horse racing's Triple Crown.
