School Name
Number meeting requirements
Class of 2009
Percent meeting requirements
Aberdeen High
263
313
84.0%
Bel Air High
378
385
98.2%
C. Milton Wright High
389
404
96.3%
Center for Educational Opportunity – Alternative C
18
30
60.0%
Edgewood High
179
207
86.5%
Fallston High
380
394
96.4%
Harford Technical High
239
250
95.6%
Havre de Grace High
143
160
89.4%
Joppatowne High
174
200
87.0%
North Harford High
306
316
96.8%
CAPTAIN JIM’S TOWN HALL MEETING MONDAY – 20 OCTOBER Open Agenda
McFaul Community Center near the Weis Store on Rt 24. 7PM
Oct 18 – Songbird Walk – Dr. Dennis Kirkwood will lead a workshop at the Conowingo Dam Fisherman’s Park from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. Sponsored by Exelon Power Co.
Oct 18 – Dr. Evan Christman, D.C. Annual Open House. Learn about chiropractic care for children and adults with demonstrations of the “Select Comfort Bed” at the Campus Hills Shopping Center behind Rita’s and near the movie theatre. Enjoy great food, the Bel Air Corvette Club display, moon bounce, games and spin art.
Oct 25 - Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra Pre-election Concert, 7:30 pm at Aberdeen High School, 251 Paradise Road. For more details and ticket information go to www.ssorchestra.org.
Nov 1 - Special benefit concert featuring the North Harford High School Choir. Tickets ...Continue Reading
(Bel Air, MD – October 6, 2008) – - Harford County Executive David R. Craig has announced the recommendations from the Commission on Efficiency and Economy in Government. The Commission was established in November of 2007 in response to the fiscal crisis of the State of Maryland.
The county executive formed the Commission pursuant to Article IV, Section 412 of the Harford County Charter and charged the Commission to make recommendations with respect to how county government could be more efficient and save taxpayers money.
The Commission conducted more than a dozen meetings over the course of eight months in studying current operations and practices of Harford County Government for the purpose of identifying opportunities for improvement and seeking ways to maximize existing resources.
The bi-partisan Commission was comprised of 11 members who were well versed in government, business and law. The Commission was chaired by Scott T. Gibson, ...Continue Reading
Using the MRIS search available on the Baltimore Sun’s website, The Dagger was able to gather home sales data which compares the market conditions from the first half of 2007 to the first half of 2008.
At first glance, it appears that Edgewood and Forest Hill have been hit the hardest by the real estate slump. Could Edgewood’s decline be due to the increase in violence (or at least it’s media coverage)? Maybe it’s just because a large townhouse development opened in early 2007? What about Forest Hill? Were the homes overpriced compared to the surrounding areas that did not experience similar price drops?
21001, ABERDEEN
January – June 2007
Number of sales: 135
Average price: $217478
January – June 2008
Number of sales: 89
Average price: $211860
Price change: -3%
Sales change: -34%
21009, ABINGDON
January – June 2007
Number of sales: 345
Average price: $265622
January – June 2008
Number of sales: 249
Average ...Continue Reading
Anyone interested in seeing Harford County’s Temporary Board of Education Nominating Committee in action will get their chance tomorrow, Thursday, June 12, from 8 – 9 a.m. in the Harford County Council Chambers when the group meets for the first time to establish rules and procedures. The Dagger has learned the seat reserved for the Harford County Delegation will be shared by Delegates Susan McComas, Wayne Norman and Donna Stifler.
State Senators Barry Glassman and Nancy Jacobs will share the seat allocated to Harford County’s senators. The two positions representing the county executive’s office will be filled by Frank D. Boston Jr., Manager of the Harford County Office of Human Relations, and H. Roxanne Lynch, Director of the Office of Government and Community Relations.
A midday agreement reached between Harford County and Havre de Grace Monday will ensure a portion of the city’s downtown parking lot will remain open to the public during the 18-month expansion of the adjacent water treatment.
While County Executive David Craig and Mayor Wayne Dougherty celebrated the agreement Monday with a joint press release, it seems Havre de Grace is conceding the most in what appears to be a lop-sided truce.
The crux of the settlement is that Havre de Grace will lift its stop work order on the project and allow work to proceed in exchange for the county’s help re-establishing a lane through the lot with some diagonal parking spaces.
But the city seems to be giving up a lot: Havre de Grace will not only lift the stop work order and sign off on all approvals and permits for the project, but must also pay ...Continue Reading
I am writing to express my disappointment in your sponsorship of HB 806. HB 806 would create an oligarchy to control Harford County’s voice in the appointment of our school board members. I believe that this bill is directly in opposition to what is best for good government, positive education decision-making, and the people of Harford County.
The greatest accomplishment this bill could achieve is the creation of additional bureaucracy. Your bill would give the power to special interest groups, chosen by a means unknown to the public, to choose dues-paying members of their clubs to sit on a government-created “commission.” The commission would then make, using the criteria it creates, a list of the individuals the collection of special-interest representatives believes should serve on the school board.
Harford County Executive David Craig delivered his 3rd State of the County Address on February 5th, 2008. Below is an embedded video of the address (windows media player required) and the text of the address.
Does Craig’s address give you a warm, fuzzy feeling?
It’s budget season in Harford County, when public hearings are held, pleas for funding are made and grumblings about taxes waft through the air. At one such hearing last Wednesday night, Harford County Public Schools were a hot topic. But don’t you wonder what the Board of Education does with its money? Let’s look at one example.
A few years back, the Board of Education approved a series of high school reforms known as Comprehensive Secondary School Reform (CSSRP). One of the core concepts behind reform was that students would be more engaged in school if they could take more electives, which also meant that students would spend less time in classes covering math, science, English and social studies.
The idea was that something had to be done to improve student achievement; and this was definitely something. Despite warnings from teachers, parents, students, a few brave administrators and a boatload of research, ...Continue Reading
Howard Wayne Norman, Jr., a Bel Air attorney and longtime GOP booster, was selected unanimously Saturday afternoon by the Harford County Republican Central Committee – a group in which he is a member – to fill the soon-to-be-vacant District 35A seat in the Maryland House of Delegates.
Norman’s nomination will be forwarded to Gov. Martin O’Malley upon the swearing in of current District 35A representative Del. Barry Glassman to the state senate seat of Bob Hooper. Hooper is expected to resign from his seat on Dec. 31 because of health issues. With Hooper’s resignation, Glassman has been nominated to ascend to his senate seat and now Norman has been picked to fill Glassman’s seat in the northern Harford County District 35A.
The Republican Central Committee convened a special session at 9 a.m. Saturday morning in the Harford County Council chambers in Bel Air during which 9 candidates for the District 35A seat ...Continue Reading
