Port Tobacco News

La Plata Planning Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Aug. 6 at the town hall, 305 Queen Anne St., La Plata.

Oaths of fealty in Maryland have been around since the founding of the colony. Early on they seemed to have had more to do with acknowledging Lord Baltimore's claim to Maryland than anything else.

Gypsy Port Tobacco Players Port Tobacco Players Theater, La Plata, MD Playing through August 10th Dickson Mercer for the Southern Maryland News reviews Port Tobacco Players' production of Gypsy : Less than two ...

I have been in the newspaper business for what seems like a long, long time. I first got paid to write a story for a bonafide periodical back when Duran Duran was just heating up and you could dance the Hustle ...

A team of nine costume designers had to create nearly 590 pieces for the stage production of ''Gypsy" being performed at the Port Tobacco Theater.

The Port Tobacco River Conservancy will hold a silent auction and party fundraiser, ''A Night on the River," from 7-10 p.m. Aug.

La Plata officials are moving quickly ahead with plans to upgrade the town's wastewater treatment plant with the goal of completing the project by 2018.

A 22-year-old aspiring pastor was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for armed robbery following his family's statements about how he has ''done a 180-degree" turnaround.

A Charles County grand jury has issued the following indictments: James Clinton Cole, 50, currently residing in the Maryland House of Correction Annex in Jessup, was charged with first-degree rape, ...

Frank Cowherd, left, and Davie Skulski position a seining net in the Port Tobacco River at Chapel Point State Park on Saturday morning during a fish survey conducted by volunteers with the Southern Maryland ...

Trinity Fitness, a new ministry offered by the New Life Wesleyan Church of La Plata, is donating 15 percent of training revenues from June and July to the Charles County Children's Aid Society.

It might have been Reggie Rice's 25th birthday, but it was not exactly a time of celebration.

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Charles County authorities said Tuesday they are investigating the drowning death of a man.

History is in the forefront of a lot of people's minds this year because of the celebration of Charles County's 350th anniversary.

The Charles County Planning Commission is leaving the record open on the draft Religious Freedom Byway Management Plan until July 16.

The Charles County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday to gain public comment about the draft Religious Freedom Byway management plan.

The final shows of The Port Tobacco Players' ''Noises Off"will be at 8 p.m. June 13 and 14 and at 3 p.m. June 15.

Archeologists with the Archeological Society of Maryland dig and sift dirt last fall during one of many excavations for prehistoric and Colonial artifacts that will be done on the grounds of the Port Tobacco ...

By the second and third acts, Michael Frayn's ''Noises Off" was a hard play to review.