NEWS
February 22, 2009
The three finalists for the post of Columbia Association president are scheduled to take part in a public forum from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m today at the Stonehouse, the Long Reach community center in Long Reach Village Center. At the event, conducted by the association's board of directors, candidates will answer residents' questions submitted in advance. No questions will be taken at the forum, officials said. The three candidates are vying to replace outgoing President Maggie J. Brown. Association officials say the selection could be made in the coming days, and the new president is expected to assume office May 1. The finalists are: * Rob Goldman, 59, vice president of sports and fitness for the Columbia Association.
NEWS
By Larry Carson | July 13, 2007
Columbia is nothing if not organized, and three Howard County council members want to use that village structure to create a citywide revitalization committee to keep the four-decade old town spiffy. Two members, Mary Kay Sigaty and Calvin Ball, both Democrats, took a first step toward that goal yesterday with a meeting in the county council chambers involving eight of Columbia's 10 villages and a variety of county agencies and private business representatives. "This is a great opportunity to improve our constituent services.
NEWS
December 30, 2007
Howard County residents can track the progress of snowplows by visiting the county's home page: www.howardcountymd.gov, and clicking on the snowflake icon. A snow-tracker map will show location of plows, untreated roads, salted roads and plowed roads. The maps are to be updated every 15 minutes. Each county snow vehicle is equipped with a global positioning device to allow residents to track its real-time progress during a storm. Residents can also call 410-313-2900 for information on maintenance efforts.
NEWS
October 24, 2007
Public meeting set on `Vision' paper The Columbia Association's board of directors will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 to hear comments from residents on "Downtown Columbia: A Community Vision," a document released Sept. 28 by Howard County Executive Ken Ulman. The document establishes a framework for the next 30 years of development in Columbia's Town Center and outlines a three-step implementation process The Columbia Association board plans to respond to the proposal and include comments from members of the community.
NEWS
By Sandy Alexander | June 29, 2007
The Columbia Association is ready to draw people to Town Center this weekend with some new enticements: roller coasters, singing dinosaurs and 3,000 free cupcakes, all part of the revived Columbia City Fair. The City Fair also will have music, food, artists, vendors, information booths and family entertainment tonight through Sunday as part of the community's 40th birthday celebration. The fair is the latest in a series of summer events at the lakefront, which has already hosted Australian artists on stilts, two fireworks displays and Harry Potter (on a movie screen)
NEWS
By Sandy Alexander | April 25, 2007
The Columbia Association board of directors plans to vote on a contract for association President Maggie J. Brown tomorrow night when it meets for the last time before two newly elected members take their seats. Tom O'Connor, the council chairman, said yesterday, "There will be an announcement on the contract." Before the open board meeting, a closed session has been announced to discuss personnel matters. O'Connor said he also expects a vote on which of several plans will be implemented to dredge Lake Kittamaqundi in Town Center and Lake Elkhorn in Owen Brown village.
NEWS
By Sandy Alexander | March 18, 2007
Plans are taking shape for an expansive celebration of Columbia's 40th anniversary this summer with 40 days of activities that will include a new three-day celebration at the Town Center lakefront. The Columbia 40th Birthday Celebration Task Force has hired consultants to organize a City Fair, which will be sponsored by the Columbia Association from June 29 through July 1, said Barbara L. Russell, a Columbia Association board member from Oakland Mills and chairwoman of the task force. After considering several candidates, the committee chose TPC: The Party Connoisseur, an event-planning company in Bowie, and Signature Space LLC, a project management company in Silver Spring, which submitted a joint proposal.
NEWS
By Karen Nitkin | June 15, 2007
Not quite a mayor and not a CEO either, Padraic "Pat" Kennedy held a job unlike any other as the first and longest-serving president of the Columbia Association. Kennedy, who was president of the association from 1972 to 1998, was honored yesterday with a scholarship fund created in his name by the Horizon Foundation. The award, pegged to Columbia's 40th anniversary, recognized Kennedy's longtime service to the planned community he led from its earliest days. "It was amazing," said Richard Krieg, president of the Horizon Foundation and the one who presented the award.
NEWS
By Tyrone Richardson | January 24, 2007
The Columbia Association board of directors will meet tomorrow behind closed doors to decide whether minutes taken during two closed sessions of the operations committee about the contract extension of President Maggie J. Brown are accurate. The closed session is scheduled an hour before the regularly scheduled monthly meeting. If the panel agrees on the accuracy of the minutes, its members will vote during the public meeting whether to release them. The operations committee has been holding closed and open meetings to prepare a contract offer for Brown.
NEWS
By Tyrone Richardson | April 18, 2007
Five of the seven Columbia Council seats to be filled in elections this weekend are being contested, with issues ranging from village revitalization and downtown development to the handling of contract negotiations with the association's president. Incumbents are facing challengers in Dorsey's Search, Hickory Ridge, Oakland Mills and Wilde Lake and two newcomers are vying in Kings Contrivance. Running unopposed are incumbent Henry F. Dagenais in Long Reach and newcomer Michael Cornell in River Hill, where incumbent Patrick von Schlag is not seeking re-election.