Carnvial spared violence that plagued last year?s event

Increasing security and rescheduling events kept Havre de Grace?s Fourth of July carnival on Tuesday free of the violence that beset last year?s celebration, organizers said.

After allegedly gang-related grudges at the Fourth of July carnival escalated into a small-scale riot on July 2, 2006, the city contemplated whether the evening of parades, fireworks and festivities in Tydings Park had outgrown police officers? ability to maintain order.