Bel Air Armory Virtual Tour

Some pictures on the website will depict the original space, but the updated space no longer has basketball nets, basketball lines on the floor, and now has new window treatments, allowing for full black-out or bright sunlight, new stage curtains, complet...

Bel Air Armory Top Wedding Venue in Harford County!

Bel Air Armory Featured in the TOP 8 Wedding Venues in Harford County!

Live Shows at the Armory!

The Bel Air Armory is a large, open, multi use space. Dimensions are approximately 56’x 94’ which includes a stage at one end of the hall that is approximately 35’x 20’. This stage is perfect for hosting various performances and concerts. Seating capacity...

Enjoy Bel Air’s parks this holiday weekend – and throughout the summer

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...

Town and American Legion will host annual Memorial Day ceremony

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...

Bike-to-Work Day in Harford County kicks off with ride through Bel Air

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...

Nominations open for Bel Air Business of the Year and Citizen of the Year awards

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...

Angela Robertson named director of economic development for Town of Bel Air

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...

Real property tax RATE not increasing; real property REVENUE increase projected w/higher assessments

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...

Shamrock Park playground closing for up to five weeks, starting Wednesday, May 10, for upgrades

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...

First Fridays kicks off for 2023 season with live music, beer garden, food trucks and more

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...

Support the ‘Bel Air Five’ with pollinator-friendly plants in your garden and yard

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&...

‘Music in the Park,’ Wednesday concert series, kicks off with Pineapple Band

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...

Special exception granted for assisted living facility on South Main Street

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...

Public input sought on narrowing Thomas & George St., improving traffic safety around Plumtree Park

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...

Families take to the sky at annual Bel Air Kite Festival

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...

Bel Air's ‘unsung heroes,’ its police communications operators, honored by town officials

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...

Blue pinwheels planted in Bel Air to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month

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...

Trish Heidenreich, economic development director for 17 years, calls Bel Air ‘a town that’s alive’

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...

Town’s draft budget for fiscal 2024 released, next public hearing will be May 15

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...

Bel Air Farmers' Market opens Saturday, April 8

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...

Town of Bel Air upgrading Homestead Park with pickleball courts, parking area, full accessibility

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...

Election for Town of Bel Air Board of Commissioners

The Town of Bel Air Municipal Election for three (3) seats on the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners is scheduled for November 7, 2023.

The Board of Town Commissioners consists of five members who are elected to four-year terms. Any citizen who d...

Logo Design Contest!

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...