Archive for: February, 2010

Google Seeks to Accelerate Your Web Experience

Google Seeks to Accelerate Your Web Experience

Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, [...]

Hello Dolly! Hammond H.S. Style

Hello Dolly! Hammond H.S. Style

Hammond High School’s theater department will present “Hello Dolly!”, on March 4-6 at 7 p.m.  The 90 member cast is sure to make the event one to remember. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door.  Members of the community can call 410-313-7615 (front office) to inquire about ticket availability.

Local Drug Abuse Awareness Council hosts discussion

Local Drug Abuse Awareness Council hosts discussion

The Howard County Drugfree Council  hosted an open discussion on drugs and drug use, at the Savage Branch Library,  featuring Dr. Joseph Gagliardi, this past Thursday. The discussion was open to parents and teens and centered around drug abuse awareness and prevention.  With the move in some states to approve medical marijuana use this topic [...]

Reservoir H.S. Boys Crowned Regional Champs

Reservoir H.S. Boys Crowned Regional Champs

Congratulations to the Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team on winning the 2010 Howard County Championship! Tuesday night, 3/2/10 at 7:00pm, the team will play in their first round of the State Playoffs at home. They will play the winner of Glenelg and Central. Tickets are $5.

Hammond H.S. Boys Take County Hoops Crown

Hammond H.S. Boys Take County Hoops Crown

Congratulations to the Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team on winning the 2010 Howard County Championship! Tuesday night, 3/2/10 at 7:00pm, the team will play in their first round of the State Playoffs at home. They will play the winner of Glenelg and Central. Tickets are $5. Come out and cheer on our team!

New Consumer Savings Program Grows Communities

New Consumer Savings Program Grows Communities

It’s rare that all sectors of our community get a lift at the same time, but a new consumer savings program is offering everyone a hand up.  ConsumersWin.com uses a novel approach to social networking to create a program that saves merchants money on advertising, saves consumers money when they shop locally, and gives non-profits [...]

A. j. & Jane Ali

A. j. & Jane Ali

Our community is fortunate to have two wonderful neighbors in A. j. and Jane Ali, the founders of Marathon of Miracles.  “MOM”  is a nonprofit organization started in 2006 by cancer survivor Jane Ali and her husband A.J. Ali after cancer diagnoses’ ran rampant and took many lives on both sides of their family for [...]

Identity Crisis, by Debbi Mack

Identity Crisis, by Debbi Mack

A domestic abuse case turns deadly, when the alleged abuser is killed and Sam McRae’s client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft, that has her running from the mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a [...]

Howard School Board Modifies Academic Calendar

Howard School Board Modifies Academic Calendar

The Board of Education approved the following changes to the calendar to make up the missed instructional days. The five days designated as inclement weather makeup days on the academic calendar will be used to make up five of the eight days, making June 23 the final instructional day for the 2009-2010 school year. The [...]

Gratitude is Focus of New Social Network

Gratitude is Focus of New Social Network

Community members who believe that living in a spirit of “gratitude” is a great way to live life will find it easier to find others who share those values with the launch of the Blue Marble 4Life program, social network.  Founder Elizabeth Zachariah launched her vision for making gratitude a focus for people around the [...]

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