Dameron News

Maryland environmental officials are warning folks to stop eating or drastically reduce their intake of rockfish - striped bass - and bluefish that are caught in local waterways because of high levels of a banned chemical that is known to cause cancer.

Lydia Morris, 6, of Lexington Park holds her American flag high while her father, Ron Morris, a Marine Corps veteran and current reservist in the National Guard, holds his son and Lydia's brother, Peter, 4, at a Memorial Day ceremony in Ridge.

Elms Beach on the Chesapeake Bay has become so popular that the St. Mary's County Department of Recreation and Parks recommended instituting fees to control the number of people there during summertime weekends and holidays.

A delivery truck turned a little too sharp onto Trapp Road in Dameron Saturday afternoon and its trailer went off the road into a muddy ditch along Three Notch Road.

Margarita Rochow and Carver Elementary School first-grader Lizet Cano check out a spotted salamander at the environmental education center at the Elms Beach property near Dameron.

Two St. Mary's men and a teenage boy were charged Thursday with causing more than $63,000 in damages last month at a waterfront county park, according to authorities who suspect the trio used a stolen excavator to carry out the destruction.

Posted at 4:49 p.m. Friday P> Due to extensive vandalism, Elms Beach Park in Dameron is closed, St.

Dennis and Nita Poremski of California took advantage of the snow early Monday morning to walk along Wildewood Parkway with their daughters, Kate, 6, and Maggie, 4. Kate is a student at St.

St. Mary's County government budgeted $54.6 million in building projects for the current year; the capital budget proposed for fiscal 2010 sets the price tag for new and continuing projects at $41.9 million.