TOWSON, MD—The committee charged with examining central area elementary school attendance areas will convene for its third meeting this week. The meeting is the third of five committee sessions and two public information sessions planned for this fall and winter. The meeting will take place 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 2, 2023 in the George Washington Carver Center […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The funeral for fallen Baltimore City firefighter Rodney W. Pitts III has just concluded at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. The funeral procession will shortly be moving along I-695 in the Towson area and onto northbound I-83, ending at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. The following additional road closures are also in effect: West Northern Parkway closed from North […]
TOWSON, MD—The committee charged with examining central area elementary school attendance areas will convene for its second meeting next week. The meeting is the second of five committee sessions and two public information sessions planned for this fall and winter. The meeting will take place 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 12, 2023 in the George Washington Carver Center […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The October 4 Powerball and Bonus Match 5 drawings generated plenty of winners, although no one nabbed the $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot. Maryland did sell three $50,000-winning Powerball tickets in Beltsville, Lutherville, and Oxon Hill while another Lutherville business sold a $50,000 top-prize winning Bonus Match 5 ticket. The first two $50,000-winning Powerball tickets were sold in Prince George’s […]
BALTIMORE, MD—On Tuesday, the Baltimore Department of Public Works announced that the latest test samples found no traces of Cryptosporidium oocysts in the Druid Lake Reservoir. The test results were delivered to DPW on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. On Thursday, September 28, DPW announced that it had discovered low levels (0.09 Cryptosporidium Oocyst/Liter) of the microscopic parasite Cryptosporidium during a […]
UPDATE: The latest round of testing on October 3 showed no sign of the parasite mentioned below. Original story below… BALTIMORE, MD—On Thursday, the Baltimore Department of Public Works announced that, during a routine test of the Druid Lake Reservoir, low levels of the microscopic parasite Cryptosporidium were discovered. Cryptosporidium is a microorganism commonly found in lakes and rivers, which […]
TOWSON, MD—The committee charged with examining central area elementary school attendance areas begins its work at its first meeting this week. The meeting is the first of five committee sessions and two public information sessions. The meeting will take place 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 21, 2023 at the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology cafeteria. […]
TOWSON, MD—Police say a pedestrian was killed in a crash in Baltimore County on Sunday morning. At just before 9:30 a.m. on September 17, officers responded to the intersection of E. Seminary Avenue and Dulaney Valley Road for a motor vehicle crash with pedestrian injury. When authorities arrived, they discovered that 57-year-old Mary Beth Green had been struck by a […]