Crownsville News

The Crownsville Conservancy Inc. has been awarded $44,870 to help preserve undeveloped lots in the Herald Harbor community, Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold announced.

County police are hoping the public can help them find two convicted sex offenders who are wanted for registration and probation violations.

The Annapolis Maritime Museum will hold its Summertime Maritime Concert at 7 p.m. today on the museum campus, 400 Second St., and at noon tomorrow at City Dock.

Anne Arundel County police are searching for two registered sex offenders and are seeking the public's help.

The state Board of Public Works has awarded Anne Arundel County $2.3 million to improve three parks, including building a visitor center at a popular Millersville park, developing a Crownsville park and improving athletic fields in Pasadena.

Kinder Farm Park in Millersville will receive the bulk of the Program Open Space funding, with $1.1 million going to the design and construction of a 5,600-square-foot visitor center, the state announced. The 288-acre farm was purchased by the county in 1979 to educate visitors about Maryland's agrarian heritage and direct visitors to activities that include fishing, biking, hiking and picnicking.

The state is seeking a developer for the Crownsville Hospital Center two years after county officials expressed interest in taking over the property.

There's a new dog in town, thanks to the help of a county couple. Art and Jean Held, owners of the former Johnson's On The Avenue on State Circle, donated money to the Annapolis Police Department for the ...

Last week's arrest of a 55-year-old named Richard S. Dorsey was not, in itself, a big deal.

A statewide anti-slots tour took a turn through Anne Arundel County this morning, with activists saying increased gambling would harm the neighborhoods around Laurel Park.

As his wife put it, Jerry Milton Stelzer wasn't your average 77-year-old man. Just two years ago, the Crownsville man jumped on a BMW motorcycle he had just rebuilt and took a cross-country trip to visit a ...

Linda Greenberg is founder of the annual Holiday Help for the Homeless drive in Annapolis.

Chicken coops and cornfields surrounded the state asylum in Owings Mills when it opened almost 120 years ago.

A child's education is a series of relationships. Parents teach. Grandparents teach, but we focus on our teachers in school who teach our children.

The weak economy has more workers planning to follow their base-realignment jobs from Northern Virginia to Fort George G. Meade to avoid a potentially lengthy job search or expensive commute, officials said ...

Every day, I drive past the Crownsville Hospital Center with its red brick buildings.

Auditions Colonial Players will hold auditions for casting of The Philadelphia Story at 4 p.m. today and tomorrow and at 7 p.m. Monday at 2132 Reynard Court, Annapolis.

Interstate 279 north has reopened after state police closed part of the highway for more than three hours this morning following a fatal accident beneath the Veterans Bridge.

The recent downturn in the economy is driving down enrollment for next year at some private schools in Anne Arundel County.

A yearbook salesman who bilked the Naval Academy and other schools and colleges out of close to $750,000 was sentenced to prison yesterday.

It's not often that politicians are honored for their failures. But there three of them stood last week - County Councilmen Jamie Benoit, Josh Cohen and Ron Dillon - clutching certificates from the Severn River ...