Howard County Executive Calvin Ball has sent a letter to the county Board of Education proposing the new North Columbia fire station, currently scheduled to be located at Cedar Lane Park East off Route 108, be relocated to an open portion of land on the school system’s Central Office property.
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May 14, 2021
Marylanders who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to wear a mask in most settings, nor do they need to practice social distancing, under an executive order signed by Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) on Friday.
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His decision to align the state s mask policy with the guidance issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Thursday represented a significant step in a historic 14-month pandemic that has impacted every aspect of daily life. If you re fully vaccinated which means two weeks have passed since you received your second shot, or your one dose of Johnson & Johnson you should feel free to safely resume any activities without wearing a mask, indoors or outdoors, Hogan told reporters at a State House news conference.
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Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said Wednesday that he, too, was concerned about the sale of Camp Ilchester and its 19 acres of green space. (Photo Courtesy of Eileen Brewer)
ELLICOTT CITY, MD Camp Ilchester s fate seems doomed despite a protest held in April against its sale that was led by current and past Girl Scout members. Numerous people also spoke out at a Girl Scouts of Central Maryland board of directors meeting in favor of keeping the camp.
But on Wednesday, the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland board of directors announced its decision to go ahead and sell Camp Ilchester, one of four Girl Scout camps in the state.
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MD NAACP CHIEF BLASTS HOGAN PARDON OF LYNCHING VICTIMS: The head of Maryland’s NAACP on Sunday lambasted Gov. Larry Hogan’s posthumous pardon of lynching victims as “political posturing,” criticizing the Republican governor for issuing a blanket pardon of dozens of the state’s Black victims even though many were never convicted of any crimes, but merely charged or accused of wrongdoing before they were killed, Chandelis Duster of CNN reports.
STEELE: DON’T DEFUND, RE-EVALUATE THE POLICE: Former Lt. Gov. and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, who is considering a run for governor, addressed the ‘defund the police’ idea in an interview Monday with Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter. He said the idea “is not realistic. … But there has to be some level of re-evaluation of how we are policing, particularly in communities of color. And not just where we are seeing top-level problems, but also more sy