Ceremonies

Laurel Police Chief receives city's highest employee award

2013-05-14 17:12:00

Laurel city employees were recognized at the 18th annual awards ceremony and luncheon May 9 at the Partnership Activity Center. Laurel Police Chief Richard McLaughlin received the Mayor's Award, the city's highest honor for employees. In presenting...

Back Story: Arts patron revives outdoor festival in Druid Hill

2013-05-16 14:18:04

Barbara Shapiro's love affair with Druid Hill Park dates to her childhood, when she passed through it daily on the way from her Ashburton home to old School 49 on Cathedral Street. And even when construction of Druid Park Lake Drive in the 1940s and...

Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary

2013-05-16 18:15:00

Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...

Garden Club holds Blue Star Memorial Marker dedication

2013-05-16 09:00:00

The Howard County Garden Club is holding a dedication ceremony for a Blue Star Memorial Marker on Friday, May 17 at 10 a.m. at the Howard County Welcome Center, in Ellicott City. The memorial marker is to honor service membersmen and women in all...

Howard County Briefs

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Spring Party The Columbia Foundation's annual Spring Party will be held beginning at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at Howard Community College's Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway. Tickets are $100. Information: 410-...

An Annapolis tradition, grounded

2013-05-13 03:00:00

My town, Annapolis, is a special kind of college town. The students at the Naval Academy are distinctive not for their backpacks, ear buds and school T-shirts, but for their crisp summer whites and their somber dress blues. The midshipmen take off...

Mother knew best for daughter, and now they'll graduate together at HCC

2013-05-12 07:09:00

As a mother, Howard Community College student Sonia Halboni believes she always has her children's best interests at heart, yet she can remember once when her peers didn't concur. When her daughter, Daliah, graduated from Marriotts Ridge High School two...

Celebrating 35 years, Laurel Regional Hospital plans changes

2013-05-07 07:20:00

Beltsville native Pat Penkala doesn't remember much about May 4, 1978, her first day as an employee at Greater Laurel Beltsville Hospital and just three days after the hospital admitted its first patient. "I was young, the hospital was quiet," Penkala...

Reisterstown volunteer firefighter dies of injuries

2013-05-02 19:29:00

A volunteer firefighter who joined the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company as a teenager more than a decade ago died Thursday of injuries sustained in a fire last week that also killed another man. Gene Kirchner, 25, died at Maryland Shock Trauma...

Consider the lemon stick

2013-05-03 07:58:00

Consider the lemon stick, a rite of spring in Baltimore. The signature item of the annual FlowerMart, the lemon stick is a Baltimore thing in the way that Edgar Allan Poe is a Baltimore thing — because we want it to be, and because we say so....

'Mad Men' recap, 'The Flood'

2013-04-29 03:15:00

At last, more insight into Don Draper's psyche. Now that old Don is back, most of season six's sins have been cyclical, from revisiting adultery and prostitution to a hefty resurgence in Don’s liquor bill. The reboot of old Don has sometimes...

Orioles ride three homers to their first series win in Oakland since 2007

2013-04-27 18:54:00

OAKLAND, Calif. – The Orioles exorcised plenty of their demons in 2012 when they finally achieved a winning record and a playoff berth for the first time in 15 years. But not every lingering nightmare can be erased in one season — not after...

Winner Tejay van Garderen celebrates on the podium during the awards ceremony for the Amgen Tour of California on Sunday in Santa Rosa.

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Five-year-old, Camila Gastelum of the Diamond Divas poses for a photo after receiving a trophy during the T-ball 2013 Desert Sun Girls Softball league awards ceremony Monday at Joel Reisn Park in Calexico..FERNANDO ACOSTA JR. PHOTO.Monday, February 13, 2013.

2013-05-17 03:05:00

Memorial dedication Master of Ceremonies Dick Story acknowledges VIPs in the crowd during the Blue Star Memorial Marker dedication ceremony at the Howard County Welcome Center in Historic Ellicott City.

2013-05-17 00:00:00