Port Tobacco News

Ray Mertz, owner of KOOL productions, escorts two veterans, CW5 Ray Johnson and Sgt.

Members of the Charles County Garden Club and family of deceased members, Helen Mitchell, Irene Wood and Marjorie Farrall, gather to dedicate trees in their memory at the Port Tobacco Courthouse Saturday.

The county commissioners returned about $1,600 to nonprofit Southern Maryland Resource Conservation & Development after a request was sent in mid-October from the chairwoman of the group asking the commissioners to relieve the agency of any budget cuts or furloughs.

Charles Lollar, bottom, 5th District congressional candidate and former chairman of the Charles County Republican Central Committee, talks to Ernie Wallace at the Grand Old Party dinner Thursday at the Port Tobacco Courthouse .

Hammad Matin, candidate for state's attorney in Charles County, left, talks with orphans court Judge Frank Lancaster as Ken Robinson and Marie Lancaster listen during Matin's recent fundraiser at a Port Tobacco tavern.

Calvert County Commissioner candidate Kimberly Mackall, right, talks with friends and fellow churchgoers Stacey Jones, left, Paula Taylor and Koryn Parran, 9, Sunday after church at Greater Mount Zion Church in Barstow.

Maryland Department of Human Resources is seeking comment on the possibility of revising the child support guidelines in Maryland.

St. Ignatius Church on Chapel Point Road near Port Tobacco is one of several historic landmarks that are on the 139-mile Religious Freedom Scenic Byway that winds through Charles and St.

Mrs. Manningham , left, tries to convince her husband she is not insane in "Angel Street," the Victorian thriller.

Ferris Butler, a 28-year-old platoon leader and ninth-generation serviceman, was closing in on his sixth month in Iraq when his armored vehicle rolled over a hidden explosive, catapulting the 17,000-pound truck into the air above the dusty road. Moments later, in the Yousefia twilight four days before Christmas 2006, he would look down to see his legs shattered, his feet mangled and bloody.

Capt. Butler was flown from medical centers in Iraq to Germany and finally to Walter Reed, where doctors operated on his lower limbs, offered the relief of pain medication, and didn't answer when the soldier asked whether he was going to lose his legs.

Ken Hastings, a member of the Port Tobacco River Conservancy, shows Benjamin Stoddard students William Bonilla, left, Nicholas Williams, Kreig Wiggins and Kyree Earles a gizzard shad caught with a seine net last week.

Port Tobacco resident Mark Posey, a junior at St. Mary's College of Maryland, takes a break from working on a display of local artifacts that are featured in an archaeological exhibit in the lobby of the county government building in La Plata.

Chesapeake Bay boaters who know how, when and where to go after quality striped bass are beginning to salivate in anticipation of the arrival of ocean rockfish -- and that's where the fun begins.

Thomas Stone's birthplace, Habre deVenture, in Port Tobacco will host special events on Saturday as part of National Public Lands Day.

Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Jaycees center, 3090 Crain Highway, Waldorf.

Licensed commercial crabber Mike Roselle arrived at Charles County's Goose Bay Marina long before any local rooster entertained thoughts of waking up the neighborhood.

Engaged in December at the White House, Laura Sauriol and Ferris Butler are planning an Oct.

Angel Cruz' public defender, Mary Jane Hanrahan , is young yet already burned out.

A local attorney and former county prosecutor on Wednesday announced he is entering his name in the running for state's attorney, the second candidate to make a bid for the post held for 20 years by Leonard C. Collins Jr.

Charles County is set to receive some state open space funding that will be used to merge the county's parks and recreation division into one building on Radio Station Road in La Plata.