Howard County Executive Calvin Ball today announced Truth Thomas has been selected as Howard County’s inaugural Poet Laureate.

ELLICOTT CITY, MD – Today, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced $500,000 in CARES Act funding will go to support Howard County residents in need of energy assistance through the Community Action Council of Howard County (CAC). The grant funding will assist nearly 1,500 families who have applied to the CAC for electric or oil energy assistance. 

Maryland’s Commission on Public Health will hold a public listening session for central Maryland on Thursday, June 13, 2024, from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Howard County Health Department.

Preliminarily, detectives believe all those involved are related.

Nomination deadline is Thursday, June 20th.

In response to high temperatures forecast by the National Weather Service, Dr. Maura J. Rossman, Howard County Health Officer, has issued a heat alert for Howard County for Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23.

A Howard County construction project to install sidewalk along the south side of Montgomery Road near Steepridge Drive, connecting Steepridge Drive to the Lawyers Hill apartment complex, in Elkridge, is scheduled to begin on or about Monday, June 24th. Weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed by late August.

Howard County Government offices, courts, animal shelter, 50+ centers and Alpha Ridge Landfill will be closed on Thursday, July 4th in observance of the Independence Day holiday. As there will be no Thursday curbside trash, recycling, yard trim or food scrap collection on the 4th, the County’s holiday "slide” schedule will be in effect for the remainder of the week.

Additionally, County Government offices, animal shelter and 50+ centers will also be closed on Friday, July 5th.