Lusby News

The Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association has selected the Solomons Town Center Master Plan as co-winner of its Outstanding Plan Award.

Police were called out on two reports of gunshots fired early Sunday morning, with one shot entering a house, but no one was reported injured.

BALTIMORE -- As Maryland closes in on the construction of a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, an environmental organization has released a report calling nuclear power a step backward in the nation's race to reduce pollution.

At right, George Owings III, former Maryland secretary of Veterans Affairs, salutes as the flag is placed Wednesday at the Veterans Day ceremony at the Calvert County Courthouse.

A Calvert County man was jailed Monday on a burglary charge in court papers alleging about a dozen sets of keys for residents' homes at the Lexington Park Active Adult Community were stolen from its office.

Calvert Country School assistant Tracy Nicholson and student Taylor Wilson of Lusby make like a leopard Friday at the school's Halloween celebration.

At the moment, jobseekers can use all the help they can get. Fortunately, Calvert residents have free resources available to them.

A Lusby man who reportedly owed money to another man pulled a semi-automatic handgun and threatened the collector when he came to the borrower's home.

Longtime Calvert County educator and historian Russell Costley spoke about his time in the public school system when Calvert County schools were integrated in 1966.

At right, Ryan McGovern, 2, of Owings wasn't afraid of the monster Key Low on Saturday at the annual Halloween in the Garden at Annmarie Garden in Dowell.

PLEASE keep those ideas for "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" coming ! Meanwhile, I have big food news out of Maryland -- the 30th Annual National Oyster cook-off has ended and several people went home with shiny silver trays and big grins on their faces.

The final symposium of the 325th Anniversary Celebration of Middleham and St. Peter's Parish in Lusby will be held at the parish at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

Savannah Miller, 7, of Lusby holds her brother Justin Wilder's hand while she gets a flu shot Thursday from College of Southern Maryland nursing student Priscilla Rawlings at the Calvert County Health Department flu shot clinic at Patuxent High School in Lusby.

Top, Jordan Ayme, 1, and Logan Powell, 1, dance and yawn at the Solomons Daycare Center's Dance-A-Thon on Thursday.

Lily Fisher-Flaherty, 12, of Lusby was named the State Novice Champion at the Maryland State Jousting Championship in Brunswick after winning a run against her best friend.

Elizabeth Moorman, 4, of Alexandria, Va., gets a pony ride from Cocoa's Corral Sunday at the annual Patuxent River Appreciation Days at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons.

Left, Tania Gale, a naturalist at Battle Creek Cypress Swamp, displays various specimens of bats at Friday's "Pizza and Wings" program at the park.Right, Avery Degennaro, 3, of Prince Frederick, and his father, Mike, look over bat specimens displayed by Gale at Battle Creek Cypress Swamp.

John Schaffner's "Spikes, Spires, Stalks, Stripes and Spines" is planted in a box of wood chips and rocks at CalvART.

Soldiers of B Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th infantry hold up a sign that was sent to them by local Cub Scouts.

Dallas Demar, left, an HVAC instructor, talks to prospective student Michael Steward, 24, of Calvert County in the new HVAC classroom.