Community Corner

Week In Review

A look back at the week in news in Ellicott City and Howard County

We started the first full week of 2011 taking a look at arrests for drunken driving over the New Year's holiday. between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.

Now that the holidays are squarely behind us, it's out with the old and in with the new. For some lucky folks, that means new phones computers and other electronic gadgets. We explore .

Students in Howard County also returned to school last week. What do you remember about school lunches? Chicken Alfredo and vegetable lo mein? Not me. But a group of are working to bring these and other meals to Howard County cafeterias. 

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The at its meeting last week, including the "Bee Bill," which, if passed could allow more people to keep honeybees on their properties.

Resident historian Michael Radinsky took us back to Christmas Day, 1953, when at the scene of a fire on Old Columbia Pike. He also previewed the at the Miller Branch Library by taking us back -- all the way back to ancient Assyrian army musicians.

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In sports news, we've got indoor football in Ellicott City -- not that football, American football, although they will be playing at the Soccerdomes. The Ellicott City Patriots brought a state title home, and they hope to .

The to eight with a win over the Marriotts Ridge Mustangs and the with less than a second to play.

In wrestling, this weekend at the District V Duals.


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