David Anderson

Harford County Public Schools officials are eagerly awaiting new COVID-19 related guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as they prepare for summer learning activities, as well as the start of the 2021-22 school year.

A statue honoring Ernest Burke, who played in the Negro professional baseball leagues in the 1940s, is set to be unveiled in Havre de Grace on Saturday, on what would’ve been his 97th birthday.

Pleas from community members to build new schools or expand existing buildings — rather than redistricting students to other schools every 10 years — are being heeded by Harford County Public Schools officials, although they stress that balancing enrollment must come first.

Col. Timothy Druell, who spent a significant portion of his two-year tenure at Aberdeen Proving Ground ensuring that soldiers and civilians assigned to the Harford County Army post remained safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced on his last day as garrison commander that the installation’s hea…

An At Home décor superstore is slated to open in late July at the Boulevard at Box Hill shopping center in Abingdon, in a building previously occupied by J.C. Penney before it closed in October.

The 2020-21 school year, which concluded last week, was the inaugural year for P-TECH, or Pathways in Technology Early College High School, in Harford County.

Harford County resident Marlon Shird has served as a foster father for more than 40 boys over the past 24 years, and while they are not his biological children, he stresses that the boys should introduce him as their father.

Emmorton Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Tina Purtell started the 2020-21 school year in September with all of her students on a computer screen, interacting with them from a room in her house. She ended the year Monday getting hugs, balloons, cards, even flowers from her students as they int…

Bel Air’s traditional Independence Day activities, including family activities in Shamrock Park, the downtown parade and fireworks show, are coming back this summer after being canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ron Wooden wiped away tears as he sat in his office Monday, the last day of the 2020-21 school year, listening to messages from students and teachers over the intercom, wishing him well as he wrapped his final year as principal of Havre de Grace Elementary School.

Havre de Grace residents can give their input on the city’s $35.8 million proposed budget for fiscal 2022 during a public hearing next week, following the introduction of the budget at a City Council meeting Monday.

Harford County Public Schools is making progress in restoring staff positions, after having to cut more than 130 slots in administrative and instructional sections two years ago, but “we’re not quite there yet,” according to Superintendent Sean Bulson.

Officials expect to have a series of recommendations on how Harford County Public Schools can balance enrollment throughout its 54 schools ready to present to Superintendent Sean Bulson, either by the end of this month or early July.

A new Park and Ride lot with 265 spaces opened this week off of Route 924, between Route 24 and Woodsdale Road in Abingdon, giving people a place to connect with local and regional bus transit systems.

Quinnten Hatfield has, during his four years at C. Milton Wright High School, played basketball, lacrosse and soccer, played double bass in the school orchestra, and completed the Project Lead the Way pre-engineering program.

Charles R. Boutin, a former Aberdeen mayor and City Council member, state delegate and Harford County Board of Education president, has died at 79.

Havre de Grace High School’s Julianna Eder comes from a family of educators, has been positively influenced by administrators, teachers and staff at her school, and starting this fall, will embark on her journey toward becoming an educator herself.

Abigail Wagner, a member of the Patterson Mill High School graduating Class of 2021, has two major passions — helping others and promoting mental health.

“In this situation, when it is clearly difficult for your child to self-regulate his video game time, it is best for you to get as much control over his environment as possible to set him up for success.”

Katie Poteet, who grew up on a farm in northern Harford County and is part of the first generation of her family to graduate from college, has been named a valedictorian for the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s spring graduating class of 2021.