Mount Vernon News

Residents of Mount Vernon will have to take the long way home starting Tuesday when the State Highway Administration begins replacing an aging bridge over Monie Creek.

PRINCESS ANNE -- U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., pledged to intervene with the Army Corps of Engineers to help speed up three Somerset County dredging projects that have been on hold for lack of funds.

The National Weather Service indicates a strong thunderstorm 20 miles west of Princess Anne, 18 miles northwest of Crisfield, is moving east at 20 mph.

Residents of Princess Anne and vicinity, who desire to help the 'Fresh Air Kiddies' of New York, and yet feel unable to take one or more of them into their home for the two weeks they will be in Princess Anne, will be glad to learn that they may still contribute to the cause.

PRINCESS ANNE , Md.- Authorities have ruled as accidental an early Thursday morning fire that destroyed a mobile home in Somerset County.

Mr. Lewis T. Cannon became the owner of the Mount Vernon Bathing Beach on Tuesday of this week, when the popular Somerset watering place was sold at auction in front of the Court House door in Princess Anne.

Frank Branford, local contractor, will begin working immediately on remodeling the W.O. Lankford Building on Main Street, recently sold to a Philadelphia concern.

PRINCESS ANNE -- Organizers of the Princess Anne Farmers Market hope to bring in more locally grown produce and also move the market to a weekday in hopes of attracting downtown workers.

WESTOVER -- Somerset County Health Department has scheduled its annual spring rabies clinic.

Baltimore police have identified the woman who was shot to death early Saturday morning outside a lesbian nightclub in the Mount Vernon neighborhood.

Baltimore police say four women were shot in the Mount Vernon neighborhood early Saturday morning.

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At a meeting today, Somerset County Commissioners are expected to amend the county's zoning map as the result of a court order.

EASTON -- Inez Gertrude Bounds of Easton died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, at the age of 92.

Meeting highlights from Wednesday, Jan. 28: BUDGET AMENDMENT Action taken: Approved City Council members approved a $31,750 revenue reduction to the current city budget due to a recalculation of state ...

SALISBURY -- Ralph D. Welsh, 95, of Salisbury died Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, at his home, at peace with family and friends.

EDEN -- Clarence Sylvester Denton, 87, of Eden died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, at Wicomico County Nursing Home in Salisbury.

PRINCESS ANNE -- Somerset County property owners who recently received assessment notices from the state are seeing the effects of the economic downturn of the past year.

A Dorchester County man has been charged for a second time in less than a week with illegal commercial fishing.

SARAH HOFFMAN BARNETTE, 87, of Mount Vernon died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2008, at Manokin Manor Nursing Home in Princess Anne.