Calvert County News

The Calvert County D.A.R.E. Program is taking advantage of a fundraising opportunity involving clothing recyclers.

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.

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

The restored Old Wallville School as pictured on a handout available for visitors.

Maryland has banned video bingo machines, but their use was allowed to continue in parts of the state until 2012.

The Calvert County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will celebrate 75 years of service to Calvert County with a fall luncheon at noon Nov.

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.

Due to a nationwide shortage of the H1N1 vaccine, Calvert County public schools Supervisor of School Health Donna Nichols said it will not be administered on a school-by-school basis.

To many adults, the life of a school-aged child or teenager is a carefree one. Not so much, as was indicated at the Calvert Crusade for Children's Citizen Summit II, held at the Elks Lodge in Prince Frederick on Tuesday evening.

The impasse hearing between the Calvert County Board of Education and the Calvert Education Association, which represents Calvert County public school teachers, is set for tomorrow, Saturday, Oct.

At its weekly meeting Tuesday, the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners approved a $500,000 federal grant that will equip additional Calvert County Sheriff's Office patrol cars with computers and digital video recorders.

A St. Mary's judge has ordered that a teenage boy be placed in a short-term behavioral counseling facility for recklessly endangering a man in a stabbing incident last August at a Budds Creek sports facility.

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.

The shining black Labrador retriever's tail snapped back and forth like a flag in the wind as he jumped happily in the tall grass - Blu completed his mission and then gleefully attacked a black Kong toy in a victory dance.

Mayor Mike Bojokles announced at the North Beach Town Council meeting last Thursday that the town was featured in the October issue of National Wildlife, the National Wildlife Federation's magazine, in an article about beach erosion titled "Slip Sliding Away." North Beach knows about beach erosion, a problem that plagues the town beach every year, ...

The Calvert County Ethics Commission determined in a Sept. 4 report that Principal Environmental Planner David Brownlee committed three ethics violations with regard to his business relationship with Dunkirk development company Marrick Properties.

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

James Trembly, 8, of Dunkirk pets a champion ram Saturday at the Calvert County Fair in Barstow.

Local community theater lovers now have a third place to call a home away from home.