The Howard County Board of Education selected Interim Superintendent Michael J. Martirano as the permanent superintendent for the Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) during the regularly scheduled board meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 19. Following the announcement, Board Chairman Cynthia Vaillancourt and Martirano signed a letter of intent to begin the negotiation process leading to […]
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Kittleman Announces $12.3M Taxpayer Savings From Bond Sale
Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman announced that the successful annual bond sale conducted this week is expected to save county taxpayers $12.3 million, demonstrating the county’s strong value in the marketplace. Kittleman said that the successful sale is due in large part to the county’s AAA credit rating, which Howard County has earned for more than […]
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VitusVet Expands to Howard County Innovation Center at Gateway
VitusVet is relocating from the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship (MCE) into the future location of the Howard County Innovation Center, inside the Columbia Gateway Innovation District. The company has resided in the MCE since May 2015 and expanded into a new space following a period of rapid growth. VitusVet was founded by CEO Mark Olcott, […]
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Kellner Retiring From Columbia Archives
After more than three decades of leading the Columbia Archives, Barbara Kellner is retiring. Kellner, 72, moved to Columbia from New Jersey with her family in the early 1980s. Soon afterward, she took an administrative position with the newly formed Archives, which became part of Columbia Association in 1992. What began as a part-time job […]
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Kittleman Unveils Partnership With Aetna to Combat Opioid Crisis
Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman announced a unique partnership with Aetna to combat the ongoing opioid crisis by training county employees in the use of naloxone kits donated by the Aetna Foundation. The foundation delivered 408 Narcan kits (the brand name for naloxone) to Howard County, the first donation of its kind to a county […]
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Rotary in the News
Rotary International is regularly in the headlines worldwide — from its international health projects, including Polio Plus, to the local clubs donating time and talent to local nonprofits. Following are a small sample of the headlines seen over the past year providing a sample of projects and programs in which Rotarians are involved. Rotary Day […]
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Fort Meade Bolsters ‘Front Line Fort’ Identity
Fort Meade Garrison Commander Col. Tom Rickard joined Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, U.S. CyberCommand Commander Adm. Michael Rogers and Maryland Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Linda Singh, in officially breaking ground on the latest major construction project at Fort Meade. Gov. Hogan was the keynote speaker at the event, which signified the commitment to build […]
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Say Women in Tech Fields
Here’s an unsurprising fact about Maryland: It ranks second in the United States in the ratio of female-to-male workers in information technology (IT) occupations at 24%, according to the research report Cyberstates by CompTIA. Locally, women who work in private technology companies, or at addresses such as The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory […]