Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz submitted a $3.15 billion budget for fiscal year 2018 on Thursday. The new county budget will provide many positive initiatives that will help the citizens of northeastern Baltimore County. Initiatives include $500,000 for improvements to Double Rock Park, $800,000 for turf fields at Perry Hall High School, and $4 million for the dredging of the […]
Councilman David Marks announced on Tuesday that Baltimore County will provide funding in the Fiscal Year 2018 budget for a new middle school in the northeast and an addition at Pine Grove Middle School. The budget will include $7 million in planning and design funding for a new 1,500 seat middle school in Perry Hall and a 200-300 seat addition […]
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz issued an Executive Order on Wednesday morning formalizing Baltimore County’s public safety policies in light of President Trump’s anti-immigration campaign. Reducing the current practice to written policy, Baltimore County police officers will not unlawfully profile the immigration status of its residents, and the Detention Center will not unlawfully hold any individual past their release date, […]
UPDATE: Councilman David Marks has issued the following press release: Following the release of new enrollment statistics, Baltimore County Councilman David Marks called today for immediate action to deal with severe overcrowding at Perry Hall Middle School. Perry Hall Middle, a school built for 1,643 students, will enroll more than 2,000 by the 2018-2019 school year. The enrollment climbed far […]
by Councilman David Marks IGNORING PERRY HALL MIDDLE’S OVERCROWDING IS UNACCEPTABLE!!! As you know, one of my priorities as Perry Hall’s Councilman has been to reduce overcrowding at Perry Hall Middle School. It was the primary reason why we downzoned, lowered and blocked development in 2016 on more than 1,268 acres of eastern Perry Hall. Last fall, Superintendent Dance committed […]
The Baltimore County Office of Tourism and Promotion, the Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce, RestaurantReputations.com, Sysco, and Boulevard Brewing have announced that the 13th Baltimore County Restaurant Week will begin on Friday, January 20. Many restaurants have joined the January promotion, and many more are expected to register before the start. Participating restaurants will feature special menus at discounted, fixed […]
The Baltimore County Police Department confirms 34 homicides in 2016. All but six of those cases have been cleared. BCoPD says their Homicide Unit’s clearance rate continues to exceed state and national averages. Its overall clearance rate for 2016 – which under FBI Uniform Crime Reporting guidelines includes cases from previous years that were solved this year – stands at […]
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced on Thursday that county residents will have a direct line to communicate storm-related concerns to the county’s emergency managers beginning this winter season. He made the announcement during the County’s annual winter storm exercise in the Emergency Operations Center, where representatives from County agencies and regional partners work together to coordinate the County’s response […]