National Night Out Returns To Towson In 2021

TOWSON, MD — National Night Out 2021 events around Towson on Aug. 3 are part of a nationwide push to strengthen police and community relations.

The nationwide event “promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer,” according to the National Association of Town Watch, the organization that founded the annual early August event in 1984.

Here are some of the events happening near Towson:

• Block party coordinated by Campus Hills
  • Seaword Road between Sawyer Court and Shelley Road
  • 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3
• Block party hosted by Glendale/Glenmont
  • Loch Raven United Methodist Church, 6622 Loch Raven Blvd.
  • 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3

See the full list of National Night Out activities in Baltimore County for 2021.

Many National Night Out events are back in 2021 after widespread cancellations last summer due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2020, the Baltimore County Police Department moved its National Night Out events to October due to the virus.

Since 1984, communities across the country have held National Night Out events on the first Tuesday of August. Block parties, festivals, parades, cookouts and other community events have been popular ways to celebrate the outreach-focused event.

More than 2 million Americans took part in the first National Night Out. Now, the event is celebrated in more than 16,000 communities across all 50 states, according to the National Association of Town Watch.