Ethan Ehrenhaft

June is typically when yearlings, the “teenagers of the bear world,” leave the place they were born to establish their own ranges. An increase in sightings this year in Howard County is indicative of a healthy bear population, officials say.

The Howard County Center of African American Culture’s 30th annual Juneteenth celebration, held at St. John Baptist Church in Columbia, featured a talk by authors Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel Freeman.

KENT ISLAND, Md. — Swimming has long been a Zen-like experience for Ellicott City resident Marty Wasserman, the Maryland secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene from 1994-99.

Elizabeth J. “Betty” May, a playwright and theater director who brought her love of performing arts to thousands of Howard County students as well as incarcerated women, died of complications from cancer June 12 at her home in Columbia.

Columbia family marks 25th anniversary of losing their son, Norman Flecker, an Army pilot whose helicopter crash in South Korea.

Since making her first record in 2014, River Hill alumna Vanessa Collier has traveled the U.S. and world performing original songs that mix blues, funk and soul.

By Ethan Ehrenhaft

The Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum in West Friendship chronicles agricultural life in the region from the 1600s through the 1960s. Visitors can explore a one-room schoolhouse, general store and sawmill or try digging potatoes and shucking corn.

Howard County Public Schools students will start later and walk farther to school this year. About 1,350 elementary schoolers, 800 middle schoolers and 1,200 high schoolers will lose bus service as a result of newly implemented zones.

Informal data from the 2022-23 school year show that while the overall incidence of the use of restraint on students in Howard County public schools has decreased, more than two-thirds of the time the practice involves a Black student.