Big 2010 for Wilde Lake Football, Merriweather Post Pavilion: Columbia Patch Week in Review

These week in review pieces, by their very nature, ask for you the reader to look back. The two top stories from this past week, however, take us beyond just the previous seven days.

After all, the subjects of those headlines worked throughout 2010 before receiving recognition.

For Merriweather Post Pavilion, . We looked at what brought Columbia's signature concert venue to that point, and the many improvements that have been made there in the years since it had been in danger of shutting down.

For Wilde Lake's football team, its 2010 season ended with it as Maryland's Class 3A champions. We told , and we also .

Those were the big stories. There was other notable news, of course:

A homeless man was arrested and charged with.

Four Loko, the caffeinated alcoholic drink that'd been getting all sorts of media attention of late, was .

A seventh-grader from Elkridge . 

And ATM skimmers who targeted a machine at a bank in Ellicott City.

On to the next week...