Elkridge Today: August 31

As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, BGE reported that 7,716 Howard County customers were without power. In the nine jurisdictions where it operates, BGE there were almost 150,000  current outages. Since the beginning of the storm, it has restored half a million customers.

All Howard County public schools except Atholton High School had power Wednesday morning and were open.

Today is the final day to drop off your storm debris at . Use the Landing Road entrance, between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. 

The county's Department of Public Works is hosting a workshop and seeking public input on school zone boundaries for . The open house-style work session is tonight from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Dorsey Building (9250 Bendix Rd.) in Columbia.

On this day in 1993, the first “wholly Chinese-owned company to open a manufacturing site in Maryland” established its U.S. headquarters in Elkridge, reported the Baltimore Sun. The space in the Route 100 business park was planned as a hub for producing and storing cashmere. Work permits threw a wrench in the company’s plans—its knitting instructors from China couldn’t get visas—and in 1995, the company was forced into involuntary bankruptcy, reported the Sun.