Leonardtown News Archives

A judge ordered Wednesday that a Lexington Park woman be allowed to stay at a rehabilitation halfway house as she awaits trial on charges of breaking into eight homes and stealing property.

La Plata elected officials are gathering support from other municipal leaders in Southern Maryland to submit a bill in the 2010 Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis that will address serious issues with a state stormwater management law that they say severely hampers the ability to move forward with redevelopment projects.

The legend of St. Mary's County's witch, Moll Dyer, says she was forced out of her home south of Leonardtown on the coldest night of the winter in February 1697.

Growing up in Kent County , she became fond of oyster stew, steamed oysters and fried oysters.

The 2009 National Oyster Cook-Off took place in Leonardtown, Md. last weekend, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Lexington Park and the Maryland Department of Agriculture Seafood Marketing as part of the annual St.

Tres Hundertmark, owner of the Lobster Trap restaurant in Asheville, N.C., tears into an oyster Sunday during the men's championship shucking contest at the St.

MetCom meeting scheduled at Greenwell State Park The St. Mary's County Metropolitan Commission is meeting on Thursday, Oct.

The College of Southern Maryland's Leonardtown campus will be getting 59 new parking spaces in the coming months and possibly another 61 spaces next year.

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Seniors Hilary Bell and Tony Oblen wave to the crowd Thursday in downtown Leonardtown for Leonardtown High School's homecoming parade.

This is in response to a number of e-mails and citizen inquiries following the death of Curtis A. Leymeister, who was killed while operating a bicycle on Clarks Landing Road on October 5, 2009.

The Town Hall Alliance slate of candidates for next year's St. Mary's County commissioner election so far includes Commissioner Larry Jarboe, Richard Johnson of Valley Lee and Dan Morris of Mechanicsville and Randy Guy of Clements, all Republicans.

Dan Morris filed Monday as a Republican candidate for St. Mary's County commissioner to represent the Leonardtown/Hollywood district, where incumbent Thomas A. Mattingly Sr.

Local election boards are taking steps to identify suitable locations for early balloting next year.

Maryland State Police confer at the scene of Monday's fatal crash on a Hollywood roadway involving a car and bicycle, lying on the edge of a travel lane after the collision.

Charlene and Nick Tsirigotis' home, all decorated for Christmas, was one of seven homes featured in the 14th Annual Health Share Holiday Home Tour last December.

Dan Carrigg is left with the daunting task of climbing up Washington Street after visiting the Leonardtown Wharf with his two daughters, Anna Kate, 5, and Megan, 3, during the Friends of the Poor "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" event Saturday, which was sponsored by the Society of St.

A man convicted of an armed robbery and carjacking in which the victim later died of a heart attack was sentenced to 40 years in prison in St.