From MacKenzie Ventures, LLC: Spartan Surfaces is pleased to announce the recent ground breaking of their new downtown Bel Air headquarters location. Occupying the county’s well-known Aegis Building at 10 Hays Street, Spartan, a Forest Hill based flooring sales and consulting firm, will be performing a complete renovation, and will be contacting ryker for the […]
Jergensen: Every Harford County Citizen Can Benefit From Center for The Arts
From Nicki Jergensen, owner/instructor, Exploration Art School: Editor: I am writing this letter in support of the effort to build a Center for the Arts in Harford County. Recently a letter was written by Sallee Kunkle Filkins, Executive Director of the Center for the Arts entitled “Making the Case for a Performing Arts Center in […]
Gessner: “…It is Hard to Blame Walmart for Considering a New Store on Land with Proper Zoning for a New Store”
From John J. Gessner: The following is a letter to the editor I wrote to the Aegis in response to their editorial of Wednesday April 13,2011 about the rumored construction of a new Wal Mart store in Bel Air. So far, the Aegis has refused to print my letter. I thought you might be interested […]
“You Can’t Get The Ink Out Of Our Blood” – Baltimore Sun Takes On The Dagger
A couple of weeks ago, a few of us sat down with Baltimore Sun Today Editor Andrew Ratner for about an hour-and-a-half. A Harford County resident himself, Ratner had been following The Dagger for some time and was interested in writing a story about us. That story was published today in The Sun: Local Web […]
The Gift That Keeps On Giving – Matt
Last Christmas I mailed a good friend of mine, an editor at the Aegis and Record newspapers, a gift. He mailed it back, unopened, with a curt note attached. Maybe this was to be expected. About a month-and-a-half earlier, we’d allowed some local businesspeople to run an ad for The Dagger in The Record newspaper […]
Aegis Launches Ink-Saving Campaign – Truncates Week-Old Letter
Homestead Publishing Company, parent of the Aegis and Record newspapers, announced Friday morning that, in order to save ink, letters to the editor would be arbitrarily truncated – particularly if those letters make mention of a certain local news and commentary website peopled largely by ex-Homesteaders. In order to save costs at the printing press, […]
Feel The Love
The Dagger was offline this past weekend, quite literally at a wedding and a funeral. For everyone who’s still with us, a word of note: We received angry, angry emails from The Aegis and The Examiner over the past few days. The Examiner editor reminded us that he’s worked for The New York Times, etc., […]
An Offer They Couldn’t Refuse?
Speaking of benefactors, could The Aegis newspaper, Harford County’s community newspaper of record, have been helping the cause of an Aberdeen annexation opposition group behind the scenes last year? More disturbing details from the testimony of a member of the annexation opposition, as part of the lawsuit that group filed against the City of Aberdeen, […]
