Each month the Harford County Health Department conducts routine inspections of 1,893 food service facilities. Some pass, some fail. These are their stories…
Below are all the critical health inspection violations for Harford County in February 2010:
7-Eleven Store #11614
911 Ontario Street
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper hot temperature.
7-Eleven Store #11629
806 Conowingo Road
Bel Air, MD 21014
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper cold temperature.
7-Eleven Store #11630
602 South Philadelphia Blvd.
Aberdeen, MD 21001
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Bulle Rock
320 Blenheim Lane
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Chili’s Grill & Bar
502 Baltimore Pike
Bel Air, MD 21014
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must ...Continue Reading
The State Highway Administration has wiped its slate clean and will be starting anew on plans to repair Route 24 through Rocks State Park – this time promising to work in concert with a contingent of scientists, planners, environmentalists, elected officials and citizen activists.
During the first meeting of the DNR/SHA Advisory Committee for MD 24-Rocks Road, held Thursday night in Bel Air, Kirk McClelland, director of the Office of Highway Development for SHA, announced that SHA would reset its Route 24 proposal and consider new alternatives for the project.
“We’re starting this project over again,” McClelland said. “We’re starting fresh.”
In its initial proposal, SHA planned to deal with the continued erosion of the banks of Deer Creek by moving the roadbed of Route 24 as much as 20 feet away from the water, which would require deforestation and blasting of the rocks in the park.
Robert Wagner, the former Harford County Council President who served 16 years on the council, has entered the increasingly-crowded race for Harford County Executive.
Wagner, a Republican from Churchville, was elected to Council President in 2002 despite having to struggle against the intentions of the local GOP – which supported the Democratic incumbent Gunther Hirsch.
Wagner joins Republican Stephen Wright, a Churchville accountant and member of the Republican Central Committee, as the only filed candidates for County Executive. Incumbent County Executive David Craig has not yet filed, but is believed to be running for reelection.
The last time I saw Wagner was the night of the Gubernatorial General Election in 2006. He had just lost his council president reelection bid to newcomer Billy Boniface, but vowed to me that he “would be back.”
The last time the public likely heard about Wagner was also about four years ago, during an embarrassing drunk driving ...Continue Reading
The 15-year-old girl, Kelsey Elaine Brown, who was critically injured in a Feb. 5 accident when the vehicle in which she was traveling struck a snow plow, has died from her injuries.
Maryland State Police reported today (Monday) that the teenager died over the weekend. She had been at Bayview Hospital in critical and unstable condition.
The accident occured on the afternoon of Feb. 5 when the mini-van being driven by the victim’s mother, Carrie Ann Brown of Darlington, struck a dump truck on Paradise Road at the I-95 overpass in Aberdeen. Police said the dump truck, privately-owned by contracted by the Maryland State Highway Administration, was parked on the side of the road and preparing to plow the forthcoming snow.
Here is the original MSP press release:
MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION WITH SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY
(Aberdeen, Md.) On February 5, 2010 at approximately 3:09 p.m. troopers from the Maryland State Police Bel Air ...Continue Reading
Each month the Harford County Health Department conducts routine inspections of 1,893 food service facilities. Some pass, some fail. These are their stories…
Below are all the critical health inspection violations for Harford County in January 2010:
7-Eleven Store #11633
1818 Emmorton Road
Bel Air, MD 21015
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper cold temperature.
7-Eleven Store #26334
3000 Abingdon Road
Abingdon, MD 21009
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper hot temperature.
7-Eleven Store #29978
1020 Gateway Road
Edgewood, MD 21040
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper cold temperature.
7-Eleven Store #32361
504 Edgewood Road
Edgewood, MD 21040
Violations: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper temperature. Food must be held at proper cold temperature. Food must be held at proper hot temperature.
More than two feet of snow fell on much of Harford County Friday night and into Saturday, burying cars and weekend plans, and forcing begrudging shovelers into the cold on a day when most look forward to never having to leave the sofa.
Schools, courts, local governments, and most everything else announced by mid-day Sunday that they would be closed Monday – leaving those snowed-in to contemplate spending their Super Bowl Sunday chipping away at their icy prisons, or watching the endless hours of pre-game festivities. I chose the former.
By the time the final flakes fell on Saturday, I had roughly 26 inches of snow fall in my area (Jarrettsville) and a monumental clean-up effort ahead of me.
I shoveled for three hours on Saturday evening. Long enough for the beautiful sun set to reveal just how much trouble I was in.
Doing some rough calculations in my head, I reckoned I had ...Continue Reading
Harford County Council President Billy Boniface delivered his annual legislative address Tuesday night, citing the economy, budget, and property tax relief as the council’s priorities heading into 2010.
Addressing the slumping economy and its impact on Harford County’s budget, Boniface cautioned not to expect much in the way of new projects or programs.
“On the operating side it’s maintaining basic services without any bells and whistles. The Capital Program for this year; if the mortar isn’t being mixed or the dirt isn’t being moved, it’s most likely going to have to wait until things improve,” he remarked.
Boniface also said the council is determined to provide property tax relief for county residents.
“We lowered the homestead tax cap from a maximum allowed rate of 10% to 5% for this year forward, something no other Council since 1991 has had the fortitude to execute. We recently removed the service charge placed on those that choose ...Continue Reading
Merrie Street, the former Harford County director of government and community relations during the Jim Harkins administration, filed last week as a candidate for Register of Wills.
Street, who lives in Bel Air and has worked in radio, communications and public affairs, will face opposition in the Republican Primary Election from Derek K. Hopkins, an auctioneer from Pylesville.
Hopkins, who is not related to longtime Harford County Register of Wills Harry “Tombstone” Hopkins, has been fundraising and campaigning since he filed as a candidate for the office in August.
It remains to be seen whether Street will garner the support of the local Republican regime, of which she was such a major part while serving as the mouthpiece of the county executive’s office.
It also remains to be seen whether any other contenders will join the race for Register of Wills. Prior to his re-election to the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners there ...Continue Reading
A round-up of legislation introduced by members of Harford County’s delegation to the Maryland General Assembly:
Sen. Barry Glassman’s Senate Bill 294 would prohibit “a person from driving a motor vehicle in an inattentive manner resulting in the unsafe operation of the motor vehicle when the inattention is caused by the person engaging in specified preoccupying activities; providing that a violation of the Act is not a moving violation for the purpose of assessing points; authorizing a police officer to enforce the Act only as a secondary offense; etc.”
Glassman’s Senate Bill 302 would expand “the scope of the Equipment Dealer Contract Act to include outdoor power sports equipment.”
Glassman’s Senate Bill 324 would require drivers “approaching an emergency vehicle that is stopped, standing, or parked on a highway and using any visual signals, unless otherwise directed by a police officer or traffic control device, to vacate the lane closest to the emergency ...Continue Reading
The entirety of Harford County’s delegation to the Maryland General Assembly has signed on to co-sponsor a bill aimed at reviewing state property tax assessment procedures, the assessment appeals process, and producing a report on those findings by 2011.
House Bill 204, which is sponsored by Del. Wayne Norman and co-sponsored by the remainder of the Harford delegation – Dels. Rick Impallaria, Mary-Dulany James, J.B. Jennings, Susan McComas, Pat McDonough, Dan Riley, and Donna Stifler, would establish “a Task Force to Review Property Tax Assessment Procedure and the Assessment Appeals Process; establishing the composition of the Task Force; requiring the Governor to designate the chair of the Task Force; providing for the staffing for the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation; requiring that the Task Force issue a report by January 1, 2011; and providing for the termination of the Act.”
