After being canceled because of COVID in 2020, the Town Fair will return this Saturday June 26 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. in front of Perry Hall High School, 4601 Ebenezer Road. There is no entrance fee for The Town Fair. No Pets allowed.
Parking is available on the lot and nearby on-street parking, but there is also a free shuttle from Faith Fellowship church at Perry Hall Square near the Y.
The Town Fair will have lots to offer everyone in the family! The Kids Adventure Zone is bigger than ever-great local vendors, fabulous food, and much more! Proceeds from The Town Fair directly benefits our community through donations to local projects.
DJ in the Beverage Garden. Limited seating based on Baltimore County Guidelines, but you can dance to the music ANYWHERE!
The Perry Hall/White Marsh Business Association and the PHWMBA Community Foundation presents The Town Fair each year to bring business & community together.
The Baltimore County Public Library will hold a Community Shredding Day on Saturday, June 26 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Perry Hall Library, 9685 Honeygo Blvd.
There is a three box limit per car. Business or commercial shredding is not permitted at this event. It is for personal/residential users.
The US National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington has issued a Severe Thunderstorm WARNING for Towson, Overlea, Dundalk, Essex, and Perry Hall until 10:15 p.m.
As the storm moves east, winds up to 60 mph could cause tree damage. Shelter inside away from windows.
Councilman David Marks announced there will be a dedication ceremony for the bridge at White Marsh Boulevard/Belair Road in honor of Sergeant Eric M. Houck and Staff Sergeant Christopher O. Moudry.
The ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 24 at 10 a.m. at 8200 Belair Road, in the parking lot of American Freight Furniture and Mattress that overlooks the bridge. Participants must wear masks and observe social distancing.
Sergeant Houck was killed on June 10, 2017 when he and two other soldiers were attacked in the Peka Valley of the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. A graduate of Perry Hall High School, he was 25 at the time. He had married his high school sweetheart and had two children.
Staff Sergeant Moudry and three other soldiers were killed on October 4, 2006 in Taji, Iraq. A graduate of Perry Hall High School, he was an accomplished athlete and member of Boy Scout Troop 746. He was 31 at the time and is survived by two children.
The bridge dedication was approved by the Maryland State Roads Commission.
“Our office was honored to work on this dedication along with the Perry Hall Improvement Association,” Marks said about the dedication.
-Article & photo courtesy of Perry Hall Boys Soccer Facebook page-
Perry Hall Boys Soccer picked up a 6-0 win over Franklin on Tuesday. Jeff McDonough (pictured) played a through ball to Zach Eichelberger in the 24th minute to open the scoring. He then scored off a diving header, finishing a cross by Ben Yi. The Gators had a 2-0 lead at the half.
The second half was all Gators. Nine minutes into the half, Jacob Foley received a cross from Noe Kabre, dribbled past two defenders and finished into the corner, which led to a flurry of scoring. Kabre scored four minutes later off a pass from Marco Serpico, making it 4-0. Eichelberger added his second goal of the game off a pass from Serpico 2 minutes later. Paul Emasealu capped off the scoring off a pass from Eichelberger.
The Gators are 4-0 this season and play Dulaney in the Senior Game on Thursday evening at Perry Hall.
They say that the defenses are usually ahead of the offenses in the early part of the season. With Friday night’s game being only the second game in 16 months for both Eastern Tech and Perry Hall, it is safe to say both defenses were way ahead of their offenses.
Both defenses combined for six turnovers, but the difference in Friday night’s game was Perry Hall Receiver Jeremiah Turner’s two touchdown catches in a 16-0 Gator win.
Perry Hall improves to 2-0 and still hasn’t allowed a point in their first two games after they shut out Catonsville 39-0 last week. Eastern Tech had defeated Sparrows Point 18-0 in their first game.
Gator Quarterback Jailen Knight threw both TD passes to Turner and completed two 2-point conversions in the second quarter for the only scores of the game.
Quarterback Trevor Knight and the Maverick offense couldn’t move the ball on the Gator defense in the first half. The passing game was limited but Knight and running backs Jerry Preisigner and Omari Lawrence were able to get in Gator territory in the third quarter with the running game.
Tech ran the ball down to the Gator 10-yard line, but the drive ended when Perry Hall’s defender Karon Brown sacked Knight on third down and intercepted him on a fourth-down pass.
Jeremiah Turner (7) had two touchdowns catches in the win.Eastern Tech’s defense kept the team in the game. The Gators moved the ball into Tech territory on the first two possessions on the game but the Mavericks stopped the drive on a fourth down sack by Lawrence and then recovered a Gator fumble on the next series to keep the game scoreless after the first quarter.
It appeared Perry Hall was going to wear down the Maverick defense after going up 16-0, but the Gator offense would not score again.
Koren Brown scores on a 2point conservationGator receiver Mehkai Price’s 60-yard touchdown reception was called back near the end of the first half and Eastern Tech’s Noah Oliver had an interception off the Gators a few plays later to end the drive and the half.
Perry Hall was also looking for the knockout score in the fourth quarter, but Tech answered when Lawrence recovered a Gator fumble and returned the ball to midfield.
Knight and Tech moved the ball into Perry Hall territory on the next drive but never got in the endzone. Gator defensive backs Derrick Wallace and Daniel Johnson broke up two passes on back-to-back plays. That drive ended with a Gators sack.
Perry Hall won the special teams battle as they stopped a fake punt and recovered an onside kick to start the second half.
The Gators also recovered a fumble on a Tech kickoff return and sacked the Tech punter on fourth down to give the Gators the ball on a short field.
With the arrival of COVID-19, all high school sports were canceled last spring and that entered in the fall as football and all fall sports were canceled.
Teams around the area were very grateful to start an abbreviated fall season in the spring. The season started a week later after Week One was cancelled with COVID restrictions.
Teams finally took the field last night in front of limited fans. Here are some of the results for Eastern Baltimore County high schools:
Dundalk 39 Patapsco 6
The Owls went on the road to defeat their cross town rivals Patapsco 39 to 6. Click here for the full story
Eastern Tech 18 Sparrows Point 0
The Mavericks started off their season with a shutout win on the road. Eastern Tech is looking to bounce back from a 4-5 season. Sparrows Point is looking to improve from their 2-7 season in 2019.
Kenwood 38 Chesapeake 0
Since Kenwood was a playoff team in 2019 & Chesapeake was only a one-win team last year, this game wasn’t expected to be close. And it was a blowout as the Bluebirds started off 2020/21 with an easy 38-0 win at home.
Perry Hall 39 Catonsville 0
The shocker of the evening was Perry Hall’s 38-0 whipping of Catonsville. The Gators were expected to bounce back from their 0-9 season in 2019 but not many were predicting a blow out win at Catonsville, who made the playoffs in 2019.
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The Kingsville Volunteer Fire Company reported that crews responded to an accident at the intersection of Belair Road and Honeygo Boulevard in Perry Hall on Tuesday, March 9 around 11 p.m.
Crews arrived to find no entrapment but a vehicle was turned over.
One patient was transported to University of Maryland Shock Trauma. Another was transported to a local medical center.
Julie Henn, Vice Chair of the BCPS Board of Education, announced that the Board has approved the funding for the New Northeast Elementary at Ridge Road at its meeting on Tuesday night. The school will be built in the Rossville area and is expected to open in August 2022.
“This evening, Board approval will be requested for $48.3 million in construction contracts for the new Northeast Elementary School at Ridge Road.
Construction is expected to start this summer with an anticipated opening in August, 2022,” Henn said in a statement.
This school is expected to take away some of the students from the overcrowded Joppaview and Perry Hall elementary schools.
A new middle school was also set to be build on King Avenue and Henn expects that funding for that school to be approved shortly.
“It is the next priority in the capital improvement program after the elementary school and construction is imminent. All projects were delayed pending state funding,” Henn explained about the northeast middle school.
Councilman David Marks said the county now has the green light to build many of its proposed schools as state funding has been approved by the Maryland General Assembly.
“With the activation of the Built to Learn Act, money should advance over the next few years for high school projects,” Marks said.
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced his third annual series of town hall meetings to hear from constituents about their ideas and priorities.
The Fifth District Town Hall will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 23 with Councilman David Marks at 6:30 p.m.
“Ideas presented in previous years have been incorporated into the budget – Joppa Road was resurfaced once the water project was finished, for example, and new park projects have advanced throughout our district. The county funded its share of two new schools soon to be under construction,” Marks said.
“This is your opportunity to discuss what you believe should be funded in the budget.”
Seven virtual meetings, one for each Council district, will provide a forum for public discussion focused on future budget priorities and ensure that community members have the opportunity to provide input into the budget planning process.
“In order to best serve the people of Baltimore County, we need to hear from them directly,” said Olszewski. “While this pandemic has upended our way our life, we remain committed to keeping Baltimore County’s government, open accessible and transparent so that we can continue to work with stakeholders in every community to build a better Baltimore County together.”
From 2016-2017, a total of two people testified on Baltimore County’s budget. In 2018, during his first year in office, Olszewski held the inaugural series of budget town hall meetings where over 2,000 residents attended, with hundreds sharing priorities for the county.
Last year, Olszewski held a second round of town hall meetings, which included a virtual opportunity for residents to share their priorities when in-person town hall meetings were canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
All Budget Town Hall Meetings will be livestreamed on Baltimore County Government’s YouTube page and Facebook page. Residents may also join by phone.
