Golden Beach News

For most, it's a three-day weekend with food, festivities and fireworks, but for the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office its full time duty for the Fourth of July weekend.

The Golden Beach neighborhood in Mechanicsville is putting on a fireworks display on Saturday, June 27, starting at dusk to celebrate the Fourth of July a few days early.

A judge ordered Thursday that a woman remain jailed in lieu of $150,000 bond on charging papers alleging she abducted a teenage boy last week from his Golden Beach home and brandished a handgun.

The members of the Southern Maryland chapter of the American Sewing Guild, the Itchin' to Stitch group, have a lot of reasons for getting together to sew.

Published: Monday, May 18, 2009 at 9:06 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, May 18, 2009 at 9:06 p.m. Tuesday is your last chance to tune into the 21-part mini -series called the Venice comprehensive plan.

The king and queen contest - a new addition to this year's St. Mary's Animal Welfare League Fifth Annual Animal Fair - has pitted dog owner against dog owner, dog against dog.

Samantha Johnston, 17, helps drill holes with an auger controlled by Roger Lavoie at a farm near the Golden Beach neighborhood.

Lauris "Hugh" Powell didn't fall to the ground or run to town when he saw something fall out of the sky on Sunday night.

At least one St. Mary's County school board member wants to make the move to county commissioner in next year's election.

The charred remains of a garage and car sit outside a Golden Beach area home the day after a Friday afternoon blaze, which the state fire marshal's office reports was caused by an electrical malfunction in a refrigerator.

Even in tough economic times, shoppers were out early to catch the after-Thanks giving sales at major department stores and elsewhere Friday.