Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The 1-year-old was riding in an Acura when the vehicle collided with a Howard County school bus, police said.
UPDATE - 9:30 p.m. - Police said the 1-year-old girl was released from the hospital Wednesday evening. Original Story A 1-year-old girl was injured after her mother's car collided with a school bus on Little Patuxent Parkway near Hickory Ridge Road on Wednesday morning, according to police. The Howard County school bus was travelling eastbound on Little Patuxent Parkway around 7:50 a.m. when an Acura, driven by the child's mother, made a left turn in front of the bus, according to a preliminary investigation by police. The bus hit the car near the rear passenger's side door, where the 1-year-old was sitting in a child restraint seat, said police. The child was taken to Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital; the mother left the scene before she…
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The plan to remove the spots was approved on Thursday.
UPDATE - March 8 - At their meeting on March 7, the Howard County Planning Board approved Howard Hughes Co's plan to remove the parking spots and redevelop the site at the former Rouse Building which is slated to be a Whole Foods and Columbia Association Gym. Original Story - March 5 The big changes shown in Howard Hughes Co.'s plan to develop the Rouse Building downtown to make way for a Whole Foods and Columbia Association Gym largely has to do with parking. One of the most noticeable developments for most residents will be a traffic signal on Little Patuxent Parkway leading into the lakefront lot. A traffic study by the county deemed the signal necessary, according to a staff report written by the the Department of Planning and Zoning. …
Monday, May 21, 2012
The arrests were made for DUI and disorderly conduct.
Howard County Police reported there were two arrests related to Wine in the Woods over the weekend. A motorist was arrested and charged with driving under the influence Sunday after her vehicle collided with a tree in the Green Lot of Merriweather Post Pavillion as she was leaving Wine in the Woods, according to Sherry Llewellyn a spokesperson for Howard County Police. On Saturday, a cab was ordered for an intoxicated man but when it arrived, he refused to get in and allegedly became disorderly. He then reportedly hit another person and started running down Little Patuxent Parkway shouting at people and cars, according to Llewellyn. Police attempted to calm him down, but he allegedly continued to be combative. He was arrested and charged…
Friday, March 16, 2012
'There were 25 years of incredible happiness that happened in there.' - Architect Bob Moon
In 1976, Bob Moon sat in an architecture design office in Montreal, intent on returning home with his mission complete. Moon, now 72, had been chosen to design the home of the Columbia Flier—which was enjoying the prosperity more common to community newspapers in those days—by the manager of the Flier and his wife, Jean Moon. "I was just determined that the other folks weren't going to design it," Bob told Patch. He sketched the design for what would eventually become a blueprint on a napkin in the Montreal office. "I came home and thought, 'This is what it's going to be,'" Bob recalls. Today, the Flier building on Little Patuxent Parkway sits vacant. The paper's owner, Patuxent Publishing, announced plans to move to a smaller location …
Jennifer DeMoss
7:47 pm on Saturday, April 6, 2013
Everyone always blames the bus. I didn't see it! Come on its big and yellow. I too drive a school bus and people are always trying to get in front of you, usually dangerously. I had someone run a stop sign into my bus path. Thank god none of the 35 children I had on were seriously injured only 13 went to hospital. All were ok. People need to pay attention. I feel bad for the baby and now the mom … more ›