The Laurel History Boys have launched a new video series that brings Laurel's forgotten residents back into the story of the community they helped shape. Over the past several months, Richard Friend has been researching the lives behind the headstones in Laurel's historic cemeteries. What often begins with the gentle cleaning of a weathered gravestone quickly becomes a journey through old newspapers, century-old deeds and mortgages, census records, death certificates, court d

Those of us who live in Howard County are fortunate to be able to send our children to a widely diverse school system in terms of...