BEL AIR, MD—At a reception held at Mountain Branch in Joppa on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, Freedom Federal Credit Union honored Ms. Sue Nickerson and Ms. Jen Olkowski, as the grand award recipients of the Credit Union’s 2024 Golden Apple Annual Educator Awards. The program, now in its thirteenth year, offers eight annual educator awards of $2,000, $1,000, $500 and […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) officers are being recognized for their hard work and dedication to keeping the state’s waterways safe. The DNR has announced that two of its officers are facing national recognition for their efforts to enforce impaired boating laws this past summer. Officer First Class Coby Blum (pictured above left) and Officer First Class Mitchell Muise […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Ben Halfpap, an angler from Monkton, has caught all three invasive species in Maryland, and caught them at trophy size. Halfpap has now been awarded the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ FishMaryland Master Angler Milestone Award. The award is given to those who have caught ten trophy-sized fish of different species in Maryland. Halfpap is now the 12th person […]
TOWSON, MD—The National Artist Travel Prize has been awarded to a Carver Center teacher, and will allow her to travel to document ghost forests along the mid-Atlantic coast and to Germany. Sherry Insley, a visual arts teacher at the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, has won the $7,000 prize from the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City. […]
TOWSON, MD—Tanise Thornton-Fillyaw from Goucher College’s women’s track and field team has been named the USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete for the second consecutive year. This honor is only bestowed on two student-athletes each year. To qualify, Thornton-Fillyaw must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a 4.0 scale across the most recent grading period. Institutions that use a […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The state has a new FishMaryland Master Angler, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced this week. Eric Packard is the 11th Master Angler in Maryland history. The award was given to Packard after he caught ten different species of fish in Maryland. The FishMaryland program has been around since 2019, and Packard is one of 11 people who […]
TOWSON, MD—The Baltimore County Police Department has received the Pro Patria Award for its support of employees who serve in the U.S. military’s National Guard and Reserve. The award was presented to Police Chief Robert O. McCullough and Officer Brian Eaton, who is an active Sergeant in the Maryland Army National Guard, at a luncheon event in Reisterstown on Saturday. […]
TOWSON, MD—The Baltimore County Department of Planning’s new Community Planning Institute (CPI) has received a 2024 Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo). The award was announced on Tuesday, June 18, for the innovative and effective county government program that was created to strengthen services for residents. The inaugural cohort of the CPI began in May 2022, and […]