Joppatowne

Joppatowne officials were forced to postpone Friday night's homecoming football game against Havre de Graceuntil Monday because of a power outage at the school. “I came in at 6:45 [a.m.] and the cafeteria ladies were standing out front. I thought, 'This can't be good,'” Mariners coach John Horgan said. “When I left, BG&E was there with a backhoe, so I don't even know if we could have played last night. I don't know if the power was restored.” Classes were dismissed at 9:15 Friday morning.

Elaine Dodd, member of the Joppatowne Garden Club, looks through her garden for specimens to enter in the Joppatowne Garden Club and the Joppa library's Small-Standard Flower Show, "Joppa Past and Present. " The show will be held at the Joppa library, 655 Towne Center Drive, Joppatowne on Saturday, June 1 from noon to 4 p.m. There will be exhibits of plants members and others have grown in their yards and floral designs created to carry out the show's theme. For more information call Ellie Pfoutz, 410-679-4813.

A 19-year-old woman from Joppatowne has been charged with murder in connection with the death last week of her 9-month-old daughter, who police say was repeatedly injected with insulin. Quecelia Yvette Baldeo, 19, aka Qucelia Baldeo, of the 900 block of Scannell Court, is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in death and first-degree assault in the death of Selena Olivia Weber, according to Maryland electronic court records. According to the Harford County Sheriff's Office, Baldeo was served with an arrest warrant upon her release from Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air late Friday afternoon.

The Joppatowne Garden Club participated in the Federated Garden Club's District III May Fair at The Shops at Kenilworth. Shown selling plants are, from left, members Ellie Pfoutz, Betsy King and Sophia Montgomery.

Brittany Thornton, Joppatowne, basketball The senior point guard showed off all her talents in leading the No. 14 Mariners to a key Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference win over then-No. 13 and unbeaten Aberdeen, 62-55, last week. Thornton, 5 feet 10, had 17 points, 15 rebounds, five assists and four steals. Her 3-pointer with 2:44 left sealed the win. An Amateur Athletic Union veteran with the Maryland Elite, Thornton also contributed to wins over Bel Air and Glen Burnie last week.

The Joppatowne branch of Harford National Bank was robbed Friday evening an hour before closing. Harford County sheriff's deputies responded to the Harford National Bank in the 500 block of Riviera Drive in Joppatowne around 5 p.m. Friday, responding to a report of a robbery. The robber is described as a light skinned black man believed to be in his late 30s to early 40s. He is between 5 feet, 4 inches and 5 feet, 7 inches tall with freckles and was wearing black rimmed glasses, a black jacket over a gray hooded sweat shirt, jeans and a black golf style cap, Harford sheriff spokeswoman Monica Worrell said.

Thursday's much-anticipated girls basketball rematch between Aberdeen and host Joppatowne turned out to be a lopsided 82-40 win for the visiting Eagles, who stayed unbeaten in the Chesapeake Division of the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference. Aberdeen, 19-0, division champions at 10-0 and ranked No. 1, used its relentless full-court press to force the Mariners (16-4, 9-2) into numerous turnovers throughout the first half. The Eagles led 31-8 after one quarter, 45-21 at the half and 68-38 after three quarters.

Et cetera Shakara Head scored a game-high 32 points, including her 1,000th career point, to power visiting No. 10 Joppatowne past Bel Air, 72-52, in girls basketball Thursday night. Head also had 10 rebounds. College football: Good Counsel running back Wes Brown announced at the Under Armour All-America Game in St. Petersburg, Fla., that he will attend Maryland. He wanted to "just stay at home with my mom, make sure everything is good back home, not going too far so she won't have to worry," the football player said.

Joppatowne guard Zameria Jones signed her first autograph when she was 10. Even then, the natural instincts and athleticism that today allow her to hit circus shots and come from nowhere to make big defensive plays were obvious. With added skills, game smarts and experience, the senior does those things every night for the No. 3 Mariners (24-1), who are headed to UMBC to defend their Class 1A state title starting with Friday's 7 p.m. semifinal vs. No. 9 Dunbar. "I started going to the Boys and Girls Club when I was 7, and I used to play every day," Jones said with a laugh.

Larry Jones made two free throws with 27 seconds to play, Tyon Harris added one more with one second left, and City College thwarted Joppatowne, 60-58, for the championship of the Joppatowne Holiday Tournament last night.In successfully defending a title won a year ago, City (2-5) stopped a five-game losing streak with the two wins. The loss for the Mariners (4-2) ended a four-game winning run.With only two players (no starters) back from last year's 10-10 squad, City had been having trouble working together as a team.

Firefighters from several volunteer companies in Harford and Baltimore counties battled a woods fire in Fallston Tuesday afternoon. On Friday evening, another woods fire in Joppatowne required several area fire companies to control. The Fallston fire was reported in the rear of Fallston Valley Drive at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Association's media Facebook page. Several dozen firefighters from volunteer companies in Fallston, Bel Air, Kingsville and Long Green responded to the blaze, which consumed several acres, association spokesman Rich Gardiner said.

It's not every day a Harford County high school team wins a state championship, and it had been largely unheard of for a girls basketball team to make it to the state final game until but a few years ago. Sports editor Randy McRoberts pointed out Wednesday in The Aegis , sister newspaper to this one, that in the modern era of high school sports – which began in 1973 when Title IX went into effect stipulating that girls have the same athletic...

A 19-year-old woman from Joppatowne has been charged with murder in connection with the death last week of her 9-month-old daughter, who police say was repeatedly injected with insulin. Quecelia Yvette Baldeo, 19, aka Qucelia Baldeo, of the 900 block of Scannell Court, is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in death and first-degree assault in the death of Selena Olivia Weber, according to Maryland electronic court records. According to the Harford County Sheriff's Office, Baldeo was served with an arrest warrant upon her release from Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air late Friday afternoon.

Occupants of a Joppatowne home were taken to an area hospital Tuesday night after a carbon monoxide detector activated in the home, where Harford County fire officials say a generator may have been improperly used. "Three persons were taken to an area hospital after the fire dept. responded to a residence in Joppatowne for a carbon monoxide detector activation," Rich Gardiner, spokesman for the Harford Fire and EMS Association, posted on the association's Facebook media page shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday.

Week Six of the high school football season featured some of the most impressive statistics yet as four of the Top 5 won big -- including one game that feature 100 combined points -- and the other eeked out a double-overtime victory. Here are some of the numbers that stood out this weekend: 1 Game postponed until Monday - Havre de Grace at Joppatowne - after a Friday power outage at Joppatowne 2 Overtimes needed for Calvert Hall to get past Mount St. Joseph, 27-21 2 Turnovers forced by Dunbar in the final four minutes to secure a 13-8 win over Edmondson 4 Undefeated teams in The Baltimore Sun's Top 5 - River Hill, Arundel, Westminster and St. Paul's 5 Wins for C. Milton Wright this fall - more than the last two seasons combined 6 Undefeated teams left in the Baltimore metro area - River Hill, Arundel, Westminster, St. Paul's, John Carroll and St. Frances 6 Interceptions by Chesapeake-AA in its 41-18 win over Glen Burnie 7 Touchdowns scored by Arundel quarterback Jack Gordon - five passing, two rushing - in a 66-34 win over Old Mill 15 Consecutive 100-yard rushing performances by Lewis' Donnie Neal, who gained exactly 100 yards in a 56-8 win over National Academy Foundation 16 Unanswered points scored by Broadneck in coming back to beat Annapolis, 30-21 16 Tackles by C. Milton Wright linebacker Tyler Bussineus in a 19-14 win over Fallston ...

Joppatowne officials were forced to postpone Friday night's homecoming football game against Havre de Graceuntil Monday because of a power outage at the school. “I came in at 6:45 [a.m.] and the cafeteria ladies were standing out front. I thought, 'This can't be good,'” Mariners coach John Horgan said. “When I left, BG&E was there with a backhoe, so I don't even know if we could have played last night. I don't know if the power was restored.” Classes were dismissed at 9:15 Friday morning.

Eight months ago, Shakara Head was a girl without a high school team. Now, she's a girl with a chance to win a state basketball championship. Head, a 5-foot-10 sophomore transfer from Towson Catholic, stole the inside thunder from Mardela and scored 16 of her 26 points in the first half as she led the No. 13 Mariners to a 63-41 victory in a Class 1A state semifinal at UMBC's RAC Arena. "I just knew that when my teammates' shots didn't fall, I was there to clean it up. I know they depend on me, so I was making sure I got good position," said Head, who had 12 rebounds.

Joppatowne High School closed at 9:15 a.m. Friday because of a power outage and the early dismissal forced the cancellation of all after school activities for the day. "All after school and evening activities at Joppatowne High School are cancelled," Teri Kranefeld, manager of communications for Harford County Public Schools, wrote in an email Friday morning, "including the homecoming football game. " The game was cancelled, but not the dance. "However, the homecoming dance scheduled for tomorrow will be held as planned," Kranefeld wrote.

As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, May 3, 1962: Construction finally got underway on the Harford County side of the Susquehanna River on the Northeastern Expressway bridge across the river north of Havre de Grace. Gov. J. Millard Tawes was on hand for a ceremony at the river's edge where a 3,000 pound piling was lowered into the water symbolizing the start of work on the 42 mile section of expressway. The bridge was expected to take 18 months to complete and the entire expressway, now known as I-95, was slated to open in the fall of 1963.