Students in a majority of Harford County public high schools exceeded new national benchmarks for proficiency in math and critical reading on the 2012 SAT, but nearly all schools fell short in writing skills. C. Milton Wright was the only high school to meet proficiency benchmarks in all three tested areas and the only one […]
Harford County Public Schools Violates Law in Case of Special Needs Student Allegedly Abused at John Archer
Harford County Public Schools violated federal and state law in the case of a special needs student who was allegedly abused at the John Archer School last October, according to the results of an investigation by the Maryland State Department of Education. The state investigation found violations including the improper use of a “stabilizing” device, […]
UPDATED: Harford County Development Advisory Committee Schedules Oct. 17 Meeting on Proposed Bel Air Wal-Mart Supercenter
Wal-Mart is moving ahead with plans to open a new Supercenter in Bel Air, taking another step in the development process last Friday by submitting a proposed site plan and a traffic impact analysis to the Harford County Department of Planning and Zoning. The move is another in a series of steps required prior to […]
Hurricane Irene Slams Harford Saturday Night; Damages, Power Outages Reported in Early Hours of Storm
Hurricane Irene rolled through the Harford County area Saturday evening and into the early Sunday hours, felling trees, closing numerous roads, creating at least two car crashes and causing power outages in the initial hours of the storm. While the full force of the hurricane was expected to hit the area after midnight Saturday, driving […]
Keeping It Local: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk
By Fran Johnson, Publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine Cinda Baxter, the marketing consultant from Minneapolis, MN responsible for The 3/50 Project, visited Harford County this week and addressed a group of business owners and economic development professionals on the importance of supporting local ‘bricks and mortar’ retail, restaurant and service businesses. The premise of The 3/50 […]
Harford County Declares State of Emergency as Hurricane Irene Looms; Patterson Mill Middle/High School to Open as Shelter Saturday at Noon
Harford County Executive David Craig declared a state of emergency for Harford County at 5 p.m. Friday evening as local government and other agencies braced for Hurricane Irene. The worst of the storm is expected to pass through the area Saturday evening through Sunday morning, and dump as much as six inches of rain on […]
McGrady: Revitalization of Aberdeen Church to Kickstart “a Downtown Where Folks Want to Visit, Shop, and Invest”
From Patrick McGrady* Special to The Dagger I have written a lot about government recently, and so I thought for a couple of weeks I would write about Aberdeen. There’s an awful lot of history in Aberdeen, and I hope to share some of the little I know with you. Driving down W. Bel Air […]
Dagger Book Club: “The Violent Bear It Away” by Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor, born in 1925, was the only child of a well to do family in Savannah, Georgia. When she was young, her father lovingly indulged her creativity and encouraged her story writing and drawings. She showed promise as a cartoonist, thinking from an early age that this would be her vocation. She spent most […]
