A midday agreement reached between Harford County and Havre de Grace Monday will ensure a portion of the city’s downtown parking lot will remain open to the public during the 18-month expansion of the adjacent water treatment. While County Executive David Craig and Mayor Wayne Dougherty celebrated the agreement Monday with a joint press release, […]
Archives for March 2008
Del. Jennings: In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigration and the Harm It Creates to Maryland
Dear Editor, Last Tuesday, I was sitting at my desk in the House Ways and Means committee hearing room watching and listening. The hearing room was crowded with people spanning from special interests organizations, to lawmakers, to citizens, statewide, all present for a single purpose – House Bill 1236. As many already know, but for […]
C. Milton Wright High School Science Teacher and Wrestling Coach Arrested For Multiple Child Sex Offenses
David “Dewey” Louis Vasses, a 29-year-old Science Teacher/Wrestling coach with C. Milton Wright High School in Bel Air, was arrested Saturday on charges that stem from information that a teacher at the high school was having a sexual relationship with at least one student at the school. On Saturday, March 8, 2008, Harford County Sheriff’s deputies […]
Fair Warning: Who Knew the Havre de Grace Parking Debacle Was Coming and Why Didn’t They Tell Anybody?
Harford County Executive David Craig and Havre de Grace Mayor Wayne Dougherty are engaged in a bitter battle, which may have even gone to court this week, over who is to blame for allowing a multimillion-dollar water treatment plant expansion project, and its accompanying impacts, to slip by with nary a heads-up for unsuspecting downtown […]
Looking For An Adrenaline Rush…And Maybe Some Bruises?: Harford Dodgeball Picks Off The Competition
Remember when you were in elementary school gym class and your teacher would unleash you with a bunch of rubber balls in the middle of the gymnasium? You’d beeline to those balls, make your way back to the start position and the carnage would begin. You’d dip, dive, dance and hurl like a complete lunatic. […]
If You Tear It Down, They Will Come: Havre de Grace Mayor Orders City Parking Lot Remain Open
Facing public pressure from of some of his city’s most prominent business leaders and restaurateurs, Havre de Grace Mayor Wayne Dougherty issued an immediate stop work order Monday night and instructed city police officers and public works employees to take down the fence that had been erected around the heavily-used water plant parking lot. With […]
Harford Hoteliers Be Forewarned, Taxing Times Ahead: The Statewide Push To Tax Rooms In Aberdeen
If state Sen. Barry Glassman has his way, he will not give Harford County or the City of Aberdeen the ability to put a new tax on hotel/motel rooms anytime soon – unwelcome news to a financially-strapped city that was looking to finally secure the much sought after lodging surcharge. While the rest of the […]
Ekey: Elected School Board Needed To Take Away Superintendant Haas’ “Rubber-Stamp”
March 2, 2008 The Honorable Sheila Hixson and Members of the House Ways and Means Committee The State House Annapolis, Maryland Dear Delegate Hixson and Members of the Ways and Means Committee: I am writing in support of HB 779 which would provide for an elected Board of Education in Harford County. I retired from […]
