BUSINESS
By Kevin L. McQuaid and Kevin L. McQuaid,SUN STAFF | March 22, 1997
Rite Aid Corp. yesterday confirmed plans to build a nearly $70 million distribution center in Harford County that will employ at least 850, ranking the project as one of Maryland's largest job creators this decade.In selecting the Perryman section of Harford for its new warehouse, the Camp Hill, Pa.-based company becomes the latest in series of retailers and manufacturers, including Gap Inc., Time Warner Inc., Fila USA Inc. and Staples Inc., that have selected the state for major warehouse operations.
NEWS
By Mary Gail Hare, Julie Scharper and Nick Shields and Mary Gail Hare, Julie Scharper and Nick Shields,Sun reporters | January 19, 2007
Three generations lived in the century-old wooden house with two chimneys in Harford County. Jerome Shropshire, a retired steelworker, and his wife, Annette, a homemaker, took care of their four young grandchildren while their daughter worked at a nearby supermarket and attended college classes. "He loved [the] children more than he loved himself," Joseph Shropshire Sr. said of his elder brother's bond with the grandchildren. "Wherever he went, they went." But a fire that started yesterday morning quickly spread and engulfed the Abingdon house, killing Shropshire, 72, and four others: a woman in her 60s, two preschool-age boys, and an 8-month-old girl, fire officials said.
BUSINESS
October 27, 2002
The Land Development Council of the Home Builders Association of Maryland has announced its ninth annual Award of Excellence winners: The winner of residential project of the year is Clark Turner Companies for the Shores at Water's Edge in Harford County. The engineer for the project is Morris & Ritchie Associates Inc., and the primary contractor is Crouse Construction. The winner of the commercial project of the year is Sturbridge Homes, Sturbridge Development Co. and the Erwin L. Greenberg Commercial Corp.
EXPLORE
By Lisa Kawata | May 11, 2011
The trick to serving up good crabs is consistency, “consistency of product and consistency of service,” says Richard Anderson, owner of The Seafood Stop in Fallston, a family-owned and run seafood market and carryout. That standard has been a winning strategy for Anderson since 1989, when he started his crab business from a truck on the side of the road. It helped him expand to a seafood market and restaurant within three years and led to launching a second market in 2006, Richard’s Fish & Crabs, just eight miles away.
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Editorial from The Aegis | May 14, 2013
With some exceptions, any illness can strike anyone at any time. One of the more dangerous to emerge in recent decades is Lyme disease. Harford County, as many of us know either first-hand or because of someone we know, is not immune from the tick-borne disease. The revelation last week that Harford County Council President Billy Boniface has contracted the sickness is yet another reminder. Lyme disease is treatable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it can also be debilitating.
NEWS
By Childs Walker and Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun | June 2, 2012
The rain had begun to fall harder, so Anthony Sadleo figured he'd stop and see his buddy Keith Matthews in Matthews' small auto-detailing shop off Belair Road. Why plunge into rush-hour traffic before the weather cleared? Matthews was laughing when the men heard a keening sound, kind of like a train whistle, as the sky blackened over Fallston. "I think we're getting a tornado," he said. Within moments, Matthews was pinned under a collapsed concrete wall with a broken femur and dislocated shoulder that would send him to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.