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Outdoor living area with fire pit. (Photo provided by Carroll Landscaping)
Living

Plan for Safety When Designing a Fire Pit

When I was asked to write a series of articles related to outdoor living I immediately said yes. I quickly realized what a broad topic outdoor living is. When penning a series this a good […]

When Generics Cost Too Much There’s Still Help
Health

When Generics Cost Too Much There’s Still Help

Toni: I am a weekly follower of your Toni Says® Medicare column and would like to let your readers in on a wonderful experience I had regarding saving serious dollars on an expensive generic prescription. […]

How to Get Your Partner to Hear You
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How to Get Your Partner to Hear You

Relationships 101, Part 8: The What and the How I’ve been working with couples and families for almost 20 years as a therapist. One thing that has become abundantly clear is that when people are […]

Doctor taking senior man's blood pressure at home
Health

Medicare Advantage and House Calls

Toni: My 86-year-old mother with Alzheimer’s needs 24-hour care and lives in a local personal care home. She is enrolled in a Medicare Advantage HMO and taking her to the doctor is quite an ordeal. […]

Convenience Store in Savage Burglarized
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Convenience Store in Savage Burglarized

HCPD Daily Crime Bulletin, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Commercial burglary Savage, 20763: 2 Go Convenience & Deli, 9000 block of Washington Boulevard, Dec. 11 10:47 p.m. Unknown suspect(s) gained entry to the business by breaking […]

Zayah Abdul Hassan, of the 7100 block of Talisman Lane,
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Man Gets Six Months in Jail for Preying on Elderly

by Office of the State’s Attorney for Howard County A 19-year-old Columbia man arrested for a string of robberies targeting elderly victims in May has been sentenced to 18 months in jail. Zayah Abdul Hassan, […]

ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland — Len Berkowitz, 74, and wife Sherry Fackler-Berkowitz, 65, stand in now-gutted Great Panes Art Glass Studio on Ellicott City's Main Street. The shop sits over the Tiber Branch, which flooded earlier in 2018, inundating the shop. (Chris Cioffi/Capital News Service)
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Ball Halts Aid to Flood Ravaged Businesses

by Chris Cioffi Capital News Service ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland — After a 2016 flood destroyed Great Panes Art Glass Studio on this city’s Main Street, the owners resolved to rebuild. Sherry Fackler-Berkowitz, 65, has run […]