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| | Howard County | Maryland Information |
 | | As a charter county, Howard exercises powers and operates departments which are not traditional functions of sparsely populated rural Maryland counties. |
 | | County services include education, health, parks and recreation, planning, highways, water and sewerage systems, police and fire protection, libraries, housing inspection, an office on aging, and human service agencies with programs for youth, child care, consumer protection, manpower and community development, housing, and human rights. |
 | | The Howard County Library is composed of a Central Library in Columbia, Miller Branch Library at Ellicott City, Savage (not open on Sunday), Lisbon (a community library), and an East-Colombia Branch is opened on Sunday, Elkridge Branch Library in Elkridge not opened on Sunday. |
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