Posted on: May 26, 2023
Just hours after staffers with the Bel Air Department of Public Works had readied the equipment and turned on the water for the Chesapeake Sensory Plaza at the Rockfield Park playground, children were splashing about in the water pooled at the bottom of t...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 26, 2023
The public is welcome to come out and help honor those who gave their lives while serving in America’s armed forces this coming Monday, May 29. The town and American Legion Post 39, of Bel Air, will host the community’s 38th annual Memorial Day ceremony i...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 19, 2023
The Town of Bel Air supported Bike-to-Work Day in Harford County by participating in Friday morning’s kick-off celebration outside the county administration building at 220 S. Main Street. Bel Air Town Commissioner Erin Hughes and Rob McCord, Ha...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 18, 2023
The Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners and the Economic & Community Development Commission are soliciting nominations for the Business of the Year award. Nominees will be evaluated based on the Bel Air business that has made the greatest contribution...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 18, 2023
Angela Robertson, who has more than a decade of service with the town’s Economic Development Department, has been promoted to director of economic development.
Her promotion was approved unanimously by the Board of Town Commissioners during their meeting M...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 9, 2023
The town’s real property tax rate will not increase in the next fiscal year, even as a “proposed real property tax increase” was put forth in a recent newspaper advertisement.
The real property tax rate is slated to remain the same at $.54 per $10...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 8, 2023
The Shamrock Park playground will be closed for a number of weeks – starting on Wednesday, May 10 – in order to install several pieces of equipment that can be used by children with disabilities. A new rubberized playing surface, as we...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 4, 2023
There will be plenty for adults and children to enjoy at the site of this year’s first, First Fridays celebration – a beer garden, food trucks, live music, artisan vendors, entertainment for kids – but attendees should not limit themselves to the festivit...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: May 2, 2023
Pollinating insects, including butterflies and moths, are crucial for food production and healthy ecosystems. Residents can do their part to support the insects that support humanity by putting native plants in their gardens and their yards.
“It&...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 28, 2023
Bel Air’s parks will be filled with music this spring and summer, and things kicked off Wednesday in Shamrock Park with a performance by the Pineapple Band, a local cover group formed in Bel Air.
The show was the first of 11 dates in the &ldq...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 27, 2023
The developer of a 32-bed assisted living facility, which is slated for a former dental office building in the 900 block of South Main Street, has been granted a special exception to build in a part of town zoned for residential office use.
Multiple regula...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 21, 2023
The town’s plans to narrow Thomas and George Streets and improve traffic and pedestrian safety around Plumtree Park – plans that have been in the works for nearly 10 years – are expected to come to fruition later this year.
Pr...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 19, 2023
The Bel Air Kite Festival was the first community event Kimberly Plant and her then-toddler daughter, Gabby, attended when they moved to town in 2015.
“It’s just a party . . . it’s a community event,” Kimberly Plant said.
Since then, mother and daughter – n...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 19, 2023
Bel Air’s police communications operators, who interact with the public and dispatch calls to officers in the field – in addition to many other duties – are the police department’s “unsung heroes behind th...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 14, 2023
Blue pinwheels have been planted in the flower beds on the grounds of the Harford County Courthouse in downtown Bel Air, to celebrate the innocence and playfulness of childhood, but also to raise awareness of child abuse in Harford County.
The “pinwheel ga...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 13, 2023
On one of her final days as the Town of Bel Air’s economic development director, Trish Heidenreich was walking through the Armory Marketplace – a collection of former garages behind the town’s iconic Armory building that has been rehabilitated as a busine...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 11, 2023
The town’s $23.4 million draft budget for fiscal 2024 is available for public viewing online.
The current tax rates of $.54 per $100 of valuation for real property and $1.20 for personal property are expected to remain the same when the next fisc...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: April 3, 2023
Come support your local farmers as the Bel Air Farmers' Market kicks off its 2023 season on Saturday, April 8. The market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon in the parking lot of the Mary E.W. Risteau state office building at Bond and Thomas Streets. Visito...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: March 27, 2023
Users of Homestead Park in Bel Air will be able to enjoy several new amenities – including pickleball courts – once extensive upgrades are completed later this year.
Property owners adjacent to the nearly 5.5-acre park off East MacPhail Road were made awar...
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Bel Air News Flash
Posted on: February 21, 2023
The Town of Bel Air invites current students of Bel Air High School and The John Carroll School to participate in a logo design contest, in celebration of the Town's 150th Anniversary in 2024!
Submissions are due by June 1, 2023.
Entries must incl...
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Bel Air News Flash