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** Mom always did love you better. ** Magnet schools in the Anne Arundel County Public School (AACPS) system are giving students lots of options. Unfortunately, mixing students among established school clusters has created an unintentional side effect: conflicting graduation ceremonies. In the past few years, the growth of these magnet schools has helped to [...]

From the Anne Arundel County Public Schools office of public information: Superintendent Kevin Maxwell released the following statement today regarding County Executive Laura Neuman’s Fiscal Year 2014 Operating and Capital Budget proposals: “Over the last two months County Executive Laura Neuman and her staff have engaged in many collaborative, honest, and meaningful discussions with school [...]

From Anne Arundel County Public Schools spokesman Bob Mosier: The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County will receive a briefing on the educational impact of County Executive Laura Neuman’s proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget at its next meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, in the Board Room at the Parham [...]

It took Anne Arundel County firefighters about a half hour to get a blaze in the 800 block of Conservation Lane in Harwood under control. The fire was called in from multiple sources on 911, fire department spokesman Chief Keith Swindle said on Monday. When firefighters arrived, they found a single family home fully engulfed [...]

Each year in June, the Southern Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce (SAACC) hosts the South County Festival at Herrington Harbour (North). It is a great day to celebrate all things “South County” with entertainment, food, activities, demonstrations, crafts and more. This year the event will take place from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on June [...]

Police announced Monday that they had chrged James Siggers, 31, of Baltimore with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after a February incident where he smoked marijuana with teens in his care on a youth church trip. Here’s what police said: On February 19, 2013, the Anne Arundel County Police Department and the Department [...]