Anne Arundel County residents and officials came together Sunday morning to remember Sept. 11, 2001. The ceremony took place at the county's Police and Fire Department headquarters in Millersville and featured appearances from County Executive John R. Leopold, Fire Chief John Ray and Fort Meade's Installation Commander Col. Edward Rothstein. A 9/11 memorial of steel beams from the World Trade Center already stood on the lawn of the Police Department, but Sunday's ceremony saw new additions to the memorial. An additional plaque was placed on the lawn along with the beams commemorating the men …

Sept. 11, 2001 was a Tuesday. That Sunday, Bert James (seated at the left in this photo) went looking for a place to pray. He found the Epiphany Episcopal Church in Odenton. “We were looking for some place to worship, and my wife said, ‘There’s a little church that I often pass. Let’s try it.’ And we’ve been here ever since," he said. "It’s like a magnet. The culture, the atmosphere, the worship and the fellowship have been unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.” In this photo, James is chatting with Jim Conboy, who was baptized at Epiphany Episcopal in 1923. Inspired by the events of Sept. …

All of us can think back 10 years ago and know the exact time and place we were when we heard the tragic events unfolding on Sept. 11. For quiltmaker Georgina Fries of Lothian, she had just started cutting fabric for a new quilt. When her son called and told her to turn on the television, like the rest of us, she said she couldn't believe what she saw. Over the next six months, the fabric she held in her hand on that morning took shape into a beautiful quilt with a pattern flowing out from the center. Fries named the quilt "Ground Zero." On the backside of the quilt she worked in an unusual …

This story is a local component to a larger project in coordination with Action America to document how the country has been affected by 9/11. See how you can become an Actionist and turn the events of 9/11 into positive action at www.ActionAmerica.com and look for more local coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Patch. ________ When four planes were hijacked by terrorists in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the way people travel in the United States was forever changed. Prior to 9/11, security screening procedures were left up to …

This photo is a local component to a larger project in coordination with Action America to document how the country has been affected by 9/11. See how you can become an Actionist and turn the events of 9/11 into positive action at www.ActionAmerica.com and look for more local coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Patch. It was the news many American families with loved ones in the military dread to hear—there's been a serious injury. When Michael Garvey, son of Peter and Laurie Garvey of Cape St. Claire, told his parents of his decision to join the military after the 9/11 attacks, they …

This photo is a local component to a larger project in coordination with Action America to document how the country has been affected by 9/11. See how you can become an Actionist and turn the events of 9/11 into positive action at www.ActionAmerica.com and look for more local coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Patch. A gentle wind flutters the American flag in stark contrast to the stationary towering steel beams reaching toward the sky in front of the Anne Arundel County Fire and Police headquarters in Millersville, MD. This 9/11 Memorial reminds our community that 343 firefighters …

This photo is a local component to a larger project in coordination with Action America to document how the country has been affected by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. See how you can become an Actionist and turn the events of 9/11 into positive action at www.ActionAmerica.com and look for more local coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Patch. The Coast Guard Station Annapolis, in Bay Ridge, earlier this year took delivery of a new Response Boat to allow it to better patrol Greater Annapolis waters and the Chesapeake Bay. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, improving the …