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Public input is being sought until this Friday on a new section of the Patapsco Regional Greenway in Carroll County and Howard County which is planned to run through the Sykesville and McKeldin area.

With one dissenting vote, Carroll County’s Board of Commissioners approved to grant the Board of Education an additional $1 million to fund bonuses for school staff not receiving step increases on the condition the school system matches the funds.

It’s been a history-making few weeks as the roll call of women who have been mayors in this county’s municipalities is about to double.

Carroll County’s Board of Commissioners spoke out Thursday against a series of bills known collectively as the Maryland Police Accountability Act that were approved by the General Assembly.

More than 1 in 3 women and nearly 1 in 4 men experience sexual violence involving physical contact at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to Carroll County Health Department statistics that Health Officer Ed Singer shared during Thursday’s Board of Commissioners meeting, 51,526 county residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

During a lengthy discussion, Commissioner Ed Rothstein, R-District 5, who initially recommended that the county end the state of emergency made a 180-degreee turn after the county’s emergency management manager, Valerie Hawkins, and Maggie Kunz, the county’s health planner, detailed to the commissioners the need for effective response to the pandemic.

The commissioners' vote to retain 85 acres of the Harrison-Leishear property near Mount Airy and to seek requests for proposals and sell the remaining 169 acres was approved unanimously.

According to health department numbers, more than 27,000 Carroll countians have been vaccinated. Some 7,310 adults older than 75 have been vaccinated after nearly 900 got shots on Monday or Tuesday, leaving about 4,000 more in that group — many of whom have already turned down the vaccine.

Carroll County’s Solid Waste Enterprise fund — which finances the county’s solid waste system including the Northern Landfill at Westminster, recycling programs, public outreach and education — is operating at a loss.