Elkridge Today: August 8

There’s a high of 94 degrees and a low of 72 in Elkridge today, according to the National Weather Service.

Today is the last day of Howard County’s Restaurant Weeks, during which restaurants offer menus from $10.11 to $40.11 featuring local fare. See the prix fixe menu here from the , the lone Elkridge participant. (Spoiler alert: It’s not the end of Restaurant Weeks for the and its home-grown ingredients. Look for more on that story later today.) 

On this day in 1994, The Baltimore Sun reported that a woman living in a well-known Elkridge house joined Howard County’s Historic District Commission. Janice Menear told the Sun that she brought “'hands-on’” experience to the commission since she had repaired her 19th-century Lawyers Hill home, The Lawn. Ellicott City and Lawyers Hill are the only historic districts in Howard County, according to the Department of Planning and Zoning, and the seven-member Historic District Commission is tasked with preserving their character. It meets the first Thursday of each month in Ellicott City's .