Tuesday, May 22, 2012
It's National Emergency Medical Services Week. Join first responders in helping save lives.
The number one killer in Howard County is heart disease, according to the County Health Director. And this week, first responders want the community to help them save lives. This week is National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week and the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services wants people to learn more about the signs of cardiac arrest -- a symptom of heart disease – and what to do to help. “We’re asking the residents of our great county to learn to recognize the signs of sudden cardiac arrest, immediately call 911, and perform chest compressions until we arrive,” Fire/EMS Chief William Goddard said in a statement. “We can’t do it alone; we need the help of the entire community. Bystanders performing continuous chest …
Friday, May 18, 2012
30,000 people are expected to attend the 20th anniversary of the festival in Columbia this weekend.
Paul Farragut was serving as a Howard County Council member back in 1990 when he first pitched the idea to invite Maryland wineries to showcase their wines in Howard County. He said he had seen the success of the Maryland Wine Festival in Caroll County and believed it could be emulated. “It came as a simple suggestion when it came to the Council,” Farragut said about Howard County’s premier festival—Wine in the Woods, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend. “I’m not even sure I suggested Symphony Woods,” said Farragut in an interview this week about the origins of Wine in the Woods. “I was thinking of two areas at the time; Symphony Woods and the Howard County Fairgrounds.” He took the idea to the County Executive at the …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
This weekend's events schedule is aggregated from local Howard County bloggers.
There is no excuse not to get out and enjoy yourself in Columbia this weekend. The event list is jam-packed. Dennis Lane, who writes the Tales of Two Cities blog, reminded readers on Thursday about events in his post, “Big Weekend on Tap in HoCo.” “While world leaders encamp at Camp David in Frederick County this weekend and world class thoroughbreds compete at Pimlico in Baltimore, in HoCo we’ll just be doing a whole lot of eating and drinking,” wrote Lane. On tap are Wine in the Woods, which showcases Maryland wineries under the large trees at Symphony Woods on Saturday and Sunday and the 2nd Annual Clyde’s Craft Beer Festival at the Town Center lakefront from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday. Blogger Sarah who writes the Sarah Says …
"It's still not entirely clear exactly what the [school] board relied on" when voting to remove its own member Allen Dyer, said judge, after hearing five days of testimony.
An administrative judge will consider dropping the Howard County Board of Education's request to remove board member Allen Dyer from his seat because the charges were unclear, the Howard County Times reported. At Tuesday's hearing, the fifth day of testimony, Administrative Law Judge Douglas Koteen said he would consider a second appeal by Dyer to have the charges dismissed. Koteen had denied a previous request to dismiss the charge. The Board of Education in June asked the State Board of Education to remove Dyer from his position, accusing him of breaching confidentiality provisions, undermining the board and using his position to "further his personal litigation against the Board of Education,” among other allegations. In his May 15 …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Join Patch on Wedneday afternoon for a Liveblog with Howard County School Board Member Brian Meshkin.
Patch will be hosting a liveblog with Howard County Board of Education member Brian Meshkin on Wednesday afternoon. The blog will start at 2 p.m. and Patch users are invited to join in with questions or comments during the liveblog. The liveblog will be the first in a planned series of public blogs with local officials on issues throughout Howard County. Meshkin has served on the Board since 2010. He currently lives in Fulton and is the CEO of Proove Biosciences, which is based in Los Angeles. Meshkin often travels to California as part of his work with Proove, a company that provides information to help improve the selection, dosing and evaluation of pain medications, according to its website. Meshkin previously served as executive …
Monday, May 14, 2012
This local business at Savage Mill can make your high-soaring dreams a reality.
Have you ever dreamed of soaring through the treeline or climbing a mountain? Do your kids need a new way to get some energy out? Well you don't have to travel far to get that kind of experience, with Terrapin Adventures at Historic Savage Mill. Boasting four rock climbing walls, elevated ropes courses, a giant swing and a locally famous zip-line, Terrapin Adventures is a must-do activity and is our first installment on the Howard County "Bucket List," a list compiled of must-see, must-do items in Howard County. "Basically, we're all about connecting–making people connect on a different level with each other," says owner Matt Baker, who set up shop at the Mill four years ago. Baker says students and tour groups go through team-building …
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Lisa Young serves as a resource teacher for both fellow educators and students.
Some days during afternoon school announcements in Alaska where Lisa Young taught for six years, students were reminded about proper moose safety. “Stay two house-lengths away, never get between a mama and a calf and always remember your alternate route home,” Young said the school's announcer would remind students as they were leaving for the day. Sound advice as it may be, Young doesn't have much use for the moose safety tips in her current job at Atholton Elementary School but she does credit her experience in Alaska with instilling in her a creative attitude toward teaching. Young's approach apparently has been of substantial benefit to both her teaching colleagues and students as she recently was named Howard County Teacher of Year. …
Officers were posted in Columbia on Thursday looking for seatbelt violators.
If you were driving near the intersection of Snowden River Parkway and Robert Fulton Drive around 2 p.m. on Thursday in Columbia you may have noticed a line of four police cars pulled over with officers walking around outside their cars. The police were looking for seatbelt violators, said one of the officers who was posted on a grassy island where Robert Fulton Drive merged into the northbound lanes of Snowden River Parkway. The officer's position on the island gave him an ideal vantage point to check drivers and passengers for belts as they slowed down to merge onto Snowden River. Throughout May and into early June, Maryland law enforcement officers will be aggressively enforcing Maryland’s seat belt laws, according to Sherry Llewellyn, …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
"You're not alone in this world," the Baltimore Ravens running back told victims of bullying at a Ray of Light event in Ellicott City.
Baltimore Ravens Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice had his own problems as a kid, which might have been what made what he said at an anti-bullying event especially poignant. In the audience was the family of Grace McComas, the 15-year-old Glenelg student who took her own life on Easter after constant harassment in school and on social media. Rice was at Howard High School Saturday to address a Ray of Light anti-bullying event organized by Howard County Councilman Calvin Ball after two Howard County students died by suicide this school year. "To think about somebody getting picked on and somebody losing their life–that really struck a nerve in my body in my soul and eveything that I stand for," Rice told the crowd of more than 300 students, …
Friday, May 4, 2012
Do you support the proposed tax increase?
Howard County Executive Ken Ulman is proposing a countywide fire tax of 17.6 cents per $100 of assessed property value in his fiscal year 2013 budget. The change would increase the fire tax rate by 52 percent for the western part of the county and 30 percent for residents in the east, if approved by the county council. The increase would largely go toward funding 41 new positions to staff the Glenwood Fire Station, which will open this year in Western Howard County, and a new paramedic unit for the Ellicott City fire station, according to an article in the Howard County Times. Raymond S. Wacks, the Howard County Budget Administrator, said the increase was needed to offset revenue losses from declining real estate assessments. He said even …
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7:06 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Last year was my last WITW as well, only because I've never seen a larger gathering of sloppy drunk riff-raff. It used to be sophisticated event, now it's an event wholly unbecoming of what Howard County strives to be. You may be onto something- it's so expensive people feel they need to get sloshed to get their money's worth. Wait until there's a WITW driving fatality. more ›