The Howard County school board has voted to move 146 students to new elementary and middle schools for the 2026-27 academic year to relieve crowding at Bryant Woods Elementary.
Heron’s Meadow Farm in western Howard County grows tea. The farm’s owners, husband and wife duo Lori and Bob Baker, say it’s the state’s only tea farm.
In the early 1960s, developer James Rouse quietly cobbled together 14,000 acres of land in Howard County, telling few and using a number of shell companies to keep prices low. People speculated that the land was being used for a research lab or a giant compost pile.
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball on Thursday announced steps to jump-start plans for a lakefront library and new affordable housing units in Columbia — top priorities on which there had seemingly been little progress.
A former Howard County hearing examiner is calling out the County Council for voting in closed session not to renew her contract, a decision that she says should have been made in an open meeting.