Hollywood News

Starting Monday, residents of St. Mary's County can file their candidacy for the 2010 election.

St. Mary's fairgrounds sit along Route 5 south of Leonardtown in perhaps an ideal location just about equidistant from the edges of the mother county.

The nonprofit organization will host "New Generation Showcase 2009" at 7 p.m. June 27 at St.

The St. Mary's County Planning Commission will hold another public hearing on revisions to the comprehensive land-use plan at Chopticon High School on July 13 at 6:30 p.m. After the planning commission makes its recommendation, the county commissioners will hold additional public hearings on the plan.

HOLLYWOOD a ' St. Marya TMs Sheriffa TMs spokesman DFC Cindy Allen reports that on June 15, 2009, Deputy Boyer responded to a residence on Hollywood Road for a report of an assault in progress.

Eric Vogt and his son, Justin, 8, of Hollywood, Md., work on a catapult for the Father's Day Fling at Annmarie Garden in Solomons on Saturday.

Unions, school board sign contracts The school board approved contracts Wednesday with the Education Association of St.

A Hollywood couple driving home with their children a little over a year ago from a Christian music festival pondered how they could get one going locally.

It's like a countywide genealogical project. How many people know whether they are the descendant of a Civil War soldier from St.

John Gatton Sr. guides the clippers across the head of one of his customers. John Gatton Sr.

Joe Tippett, who will turn 84 next month, holds a skin-mounted 48-inch trophy rockfish at his Hollywood home he caught in the spring of 2007.

A St. Mary's County circuit judge ruled this month that work on a waterfront house in Hollywood can continue according to its original building permit, overruling a stop work order and a board of appeal's decision made last year.

The 2010 budget for St. Mary's County government was finalized Tuesday, ready to fund operations for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The operating budget totals $199.3 million, $3.3 million less than the current budget.

Why isn't there a Navy Federal ATM located anywhere at Pax River. There are multiple Cedar Point ATMs throughout Pax, and also one at Webster Field.

A dispatcher had to call St. Mary's Hospital's emergency room four times Sunday before reaching a staff member to inform them of an incoming life-or-death patient.

Maryland fire marshals say a man has been killed in a fire at his St. Mary's County home.

MetCom to meet Thursday The St. Mary's County Metropolitan Commission will be meeting on Thursday, May 14, at 1 p.m. at the Larry K. Petty Building in Hollywood.

Dia Charmansky of Hollywood stopped by Helping Hands food pantry on Friday afternoon.

F. Elliott "Sonny" Burch, 75, is president of Burch Oil. The company started 81 years ago near the county line and has employed five generations of the Burch family.

Checks may be mailed to St. Mary's County Science and Engineering Fair Board, P.O. Box 258, California MD 20619.