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  • Stepping up and stepping in

    La Plata United Methodist Church members witnessed a miracle, their pastor Rev. Bruce Jones said. [...] How to help Neighbors Eager To Serve works to identify and respond to those in need in western Charles County. NETS is in need of donated nonperishable food items to fill Christmas food baskets that will be [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:01am EST

  • Open Thread - November 26, 2009

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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:00am EST

  • Indy LTE: Times are too tight to raise commissioners’ president’s pay

    I would like to make it clear that the actions taken by the Charles County commissioners at our Nov. 18 meeting on the Compensation Commission report concerning salary increases in 2011, is by no means an endorsement of the report or the recommended increases. [...] On a personal note, I entered public [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:51am EST

  • Commissioners discuss long-awaited light rail plans

    Despite the gloomy financial climate and the headline-grabbing conflicts between the local government and Charles County residents, the groundbreaking on a project that would promote economic development and literally connect Southern Marylanders to other jurisdictions might be just a decade away. A 19-mile light-rail transit system next to existing CSX rail [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:42am EST

  • Christmas on the Square and Annual Tree Lighting in Leonardtown

    The Town of Leonardtown is hosting its Annual Christmas on the Square on Washington Street in Historic downtown Leonardtown on Friday, Nov. 27 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The main stage will have a variety of entertainment including seasonal music and Christmas carols. [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:37am EST

  • All across Maryland, foster children are home to stay

    Their most recent adoption was in June. That’s when Gary and Vickie Ferko officially brought their 14-year-old son, Jesse, into the family fold. The teen had been living with them as a foster child for five years. This year, as Jesse became the Ferkos’ fifth adoption, he was also part [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:33am EST

  • Hospice Festival of Trees in Waldorf

    The theme of this year’s Festival of Trees, which benefits Hospice of Charles County, is “Home for the Holidays.” Trees and wreaths will be decorated for the 22nd annual event, which kicks off Friday with a hypnotist show. Other events include a lunch with Santa Claus, a senior brunch, a [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:27am EST

  • Holiday travel under way, but millions are staying home this year amid tight economic times

    There’s still family, turkey and football, but one Thanksgiving tradition is taking a hit this year. Millions of Americans are spending the holiday at home, saying the poor economy has made it unaffordable to hit the road or board a plane. [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:21am EST

  • Happy Thanksgiving

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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:54am EST

  • Average rates on 30-year mortgages fall, matching record low reached in spring

    Average rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, matching a record low set last spring and more than a full percentage point below what they were a year ago, Freddie Mac said Wednesday. Rates for 30-year mortgages averaged 4.78 percent this week, down from 4.83 percent last week and equaling [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:40pm EST

  • Metro pleads guilty to dumping hazardous chemicals in 2003

    The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of violating the Clean Water Act in 2003, when hazardous chemicals were released into a regional sewer system from the New Carrollton and Branch Avenue rail yards. U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland Roger Titus placed the [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:22pm EST

  • CSM Students Join Chamber, Businesses, Community on Tour of China, Spring 2010

    Southern Marylanders Travel to Bejing, Shanghai, to Meet Chinese Business Leaders College of Southern Maryland students taking courses in international economics, marketing and business in a market economy will learn first-hand the value of building personal relationships, the intricacies of cultural communications and international business protocol when they travel to [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:18pm EST

  • Poll pumps up campaign finance reformers

    Campaign finance reform advocates, unbowed by the state’s budget shortfall and emboldened by a poll, plan to redouble their efforts next year to adopt a public financing law that gained more support in the 2009 General Assembly than any previous session. [...] “The idea of taking money out of politics and fixing [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:45pm EST

  • Toys For Tots kicks off this week

    If you are looking for a way to spread some holiday cheer, you may not have to go any further than your local fire station. From now until Christmas Eve, you can drop off toy donations at any D.C., Maryland, or Virginia fire station to participate in the U.S. Marine [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:29pm EST

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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:44am EST

  • Retailers Ramping Up Online Means Bigger and Longer Black Friday

    By BOBBY MCMAHON Prices have dropped across the land. Bargain-hungry shoppers have checked items off their Christmas lists. And teenage boys have snooped in closets looking for video game-shaped presents. The explosion of deals known as Black Friday has begun. And it’s not even Friday, yet. Big-box stores like Best [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:46am EST

  • Too Loud, Too Tiny, Too Toxic—New Tool Spotlights Toy Trouble

    By DAVID M. JOHNSON Figurines small enough to swallow, a knight’s helmet with a high concentration of lead and play phones too loud for young ears are all toys on shelves this holiday season. There is trouble in toyland. This fall, the Maryland Public Interest Research Group found hazardous toys [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • Waldorf Man Charged with Discharging Destructive Device

    Tuesday morning, Deputy State Fire Marshals charged a 24 year-old Waldorf man in connection with the possession and detonation of a destructive device. The explosion took place in the parking lot of the Lowes Store located in the 300 block of Rosewick Road in La Plata at about 1:00 pm [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:42am EST

  • Former U.S. Navy Air Traffic Controller Indicted on Charges Related to Murder of His Wife

    A federal grand jury has indicted Ryan Holness, 28 of Lexington Park, for interstate domestic violence, related to the murder of his wife, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The Interstate Domestic Violence Statute, which was enacted in 1994, authorizes federal prosecution of any criminal [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:23am EST

  • DHR Gets $2.6M Federal Grant to Boost Families Caring for Child Relatives

    Maryland Department of Human Resources’ (DHR) Secretary Brenda Donald announced today that DHR competed for and won a three-year, $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to build on the progress made under the agency’s Place Matters reform agenda. Planning and implementation will begin immediately. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:25am EST

  • MDA Issues Enforcement Actions for Pesticide Law Violations

    The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide Regulation Section reported the following enforcement activity between Oct. 1, 2008 and Nov. 23, 2009 against organizations located in the southern Maryland region. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:23am EST

  • Americans’ tax burden is lightest in developed world

    You’d never know it from all the cable news chatter, but Americans bear the lightest tax burden in the developed world. Total U.S. tax revenues in 2008 equaled 26.9% of gross domestic product, according to provisional figures released Tuesday by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. That figure – which [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:19am EST

  • Salvation Army’s iconic kettles now credit ready

    There could be less jingle in the Salvation’s Army’s hallmark red kettles this season. The charity is testing kettles that take debit and credit cards. The growth of so-called “plastic kettles” comes as fewer shoppers carry cash. Bell ringers who stand outside stores during the holiday season say that more and [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:14am EST

  • About 22% of mortgages in region are ‘underwater’

    More than 71,500 homeowners in Hampton Roads owed more on their mortgages than the homes were worth at the end of September, according to a report released Tuesday. That’s nearly one in four local mortgage borrowers -22 percent - who are “underwater” on the loans, according to First American CoreLogic, which [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:10am EST

  • Note to criminals: ATMs not as dumb as they look

    If you’re trying to get away with armed robbery, it is usually not a good idea for you or your friends to use the debit card you just stole. It gives police an easy way to track your movements, and a lot of ATMs are monitored by surveillance cameras these [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:05am EST

  • Children’s gives the birthday boy a helping hand toward the future

    On the day he turned 8, Brian Wathen decided to wear his Tom Brady (No. 12) New England Patriots jersey. On the day he turned 8, Brian’s mother, Jill Wathen, didn’t make him sit in a booster seat on their 90-minute drive from La Plata to Washington. [...] Dr. Packer explained [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:57am EST

  • GM returns $140M provided for parts suppliers

    General Motors has returned $140 million of the $290 million it received from the government to support is parts suppliers. The Treasury Department said Tuesday that the $140 million was part of the $2.5 billion pledged to GM to help the automaker’s parts suppliers. The money came from the government’s [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:53am EST

  • Remaking Main Street

    A small Prince George’s County town sets out to ‘green’ its thoroughfare and help out the bay[...] In a bid to make the working-class community of 1,500 more pedestrian- and environmentally friendly, Edmonston has begun a $1.1 million makeover of busy Decatur Street, narrowing the two-lane residential thoroughfare to make room [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:47am EST

  • Maryland has fewer state police these days

    As thousands of Marylanders hit the road this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, they may find fewer patrol cars monitoring their speed. Maryland is one of a dozen states in which the number of highway patrol officers has either shrunk or failed to keep pace with population growth since 1995, according [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:40am EST

  • U.S. urges Americans to help feed their neighbors

    The U.S. government on Tuesday urged Americans to volunteer to help feed their neighbors, noting that almost 15 percent of the country’s households had a hard time getting enough to eat last year. Every American can chip in to fight hunger, the Agriculture Department said as it unveiled the Obama Administration’s [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:21pm EST

  • Governor Martin O’Malley’s Weekly Economic Update Focuses on Job Creation

    Economic Update from Port of Baltimore Highlights Growing Maryland Companies ANNAPOLIS, MD (November 24, 2009) – In his weekly economic update released today, Governor O’Malley focused on efforts to strengthen and grow Maryland’s middle class by creating new jobs and expanding economic opportunities for Maryland’s small businesses and families. Governor O’Malley’s [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:17pm EST

  • Incident Reports

    11/24/09 - Charles County Sheriff’s Office [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:14pm EST

  • Board of Education announces joint legislative brunch agenda

    The Board of Education of Charles County will hold a joint legislative brunch with members of the Charles County delegation at 10 a.m., Monday, Nov. 30, at the Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building in La Plata. The meeting will be televised live on Comcast Channel 96. All televised Board meetings [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:09pm EST

  • U.S. Fund for Bank Deposit Insurance Falls Into the Red

    The government-administered insurance fund that protects depositors fell into the red for the first time since the fallout from the savings-and-loan crisis of the early 1990s as the pace of bank failures accelerated. The fund had a negative balance of $8.2 billion at the end of the third quarter, federal [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:54pm EST

  • Catamarans and SMILE Set to Feed The Needy on Thanksgiving Day

    Incoming Executive Chef, Robert Hesse who begins revolutionizing the way people in Southern Maryland understand a quality restaurant experience is set to provide a great Thanksgiving meal for those in need on Thursday. From noon to 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving, the enigmatic master chef will be fixing up a great meal [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:35pm EST

  • New GOP chairwoman comes out swinging

    With less than a week on the job, Maryland Republican Party Chairwoman Audrey Scott has found an issue to debate with her Democratic counterpart: mammograms. On Nov. 18, a day after a national task force recommended that women put off regular mammograms until they are 50, Scott was still reeling and [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:18pm EST

  • County GOP plans rally against furloughs for Charles workers

    There’s nothing like a protest to ring in the holiday season. The Charles County Republican Club is encouraging local residents and workers to spend their lunch hours on Wednesday at a rally in front of the county courthouse in support of more than 600 furloughed county employees. Thanksgiving Eve is the first [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:16pm EST

  • Candidates rip proposed raise for county commissioners

    Last week the Charles County Compensation Commission wrote in its official report that a recommended salary increase for the county commissioners was “justified and appropriate.” The handful of candidates who’ve already filed to run against the incumbent commissioners in 2010 say it’s “shameful” and “irresponsible.” [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:15pm EST

  • Public interest in legislation wanes

    Legislative package hearing is cancelled When Charles County Commissioners’ President F. Wayne Cooper first joined the board in 2002, he recalls the annual hearing to solicit legislative proposals from the public stretching deep into the night. Some years, a hot-button issue would prompt lengthy testimony. Other years, it was just the sheer [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:09pm EST

  • PUBLIC NOTICE OF A RESPONSE ACTION PLAN AND PUBLIC INFORMATIONAL MEETING

    Former Jameson-Harrison American Legion Post 238 & Dyson Besche Realty Company, Inc. [...] The subject property located at 15322 Prince Frederick Road in Hughesville, Maryland has been accepted into Maryland’s Voluntary Cleanup Program. [...] The project will restore the wetlands and stream by importing soils, grading to the original elevation and stream channel [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:51am EST

  • PUBLIC NOTICE OF A RESPONSE ACTION PLAN AND PUBLIC INFORMATIONAL MEETING

    Former Jameson-Harrison American Legion Post 238 & Dyson Besche Realty Company, Inc. [...] The subject property located at 15322 Prince Frederick Road in Hughesville, Maryland has been accepted into Maryland’s Voluntary Cleanup Program. [...] The project will restore the wetlands and stream by importing soils, grading to the original elevation and stream channel [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:51am EST

  • Virginia to buy back 359 crab licenses for $6.7M

    The Virginia Marine Resources Commission will buy back 359 commercial crab licenses as part of an effort to take more than 75,000 crab pots out of the water in an effort to rebuild the species. It’s an 18 percent reduction in the number of pots permitted for use in Virginia [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:46am EST

  • 1 killed, 1 injured in Waldorf car carsh

    A 78-year-old woman was killed and a 33-year-old woman injured in a two-car collision in Waldorf on Monday, authorities said. Both women were traveling separately, headed north on St. Charles Parkway near St. Marks Drive, when their cars collided, said Diane Richardson, a spokeswoman for the Charles County sheriff’s office. [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:38am EST

  • Nuclear power regains support

    Even green groups see it as ‘part of the answer’ Nuclear power—long considered environmentally hazardous—is emerging as perhaps the world’s most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the backing of even some green activists who once campaigned against it. It has been 13 years since the last new nuclear power plant [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:36am EST

  • Goodbye jobs, hello mom and dad, say young adults

    Faced with limited job options, many young adults are turning to an old standby to weather the recession: moving back in with mom and dad. Nearly 1 in 7 parents with grown children say they had a “boomerang kid” move back home in the past year, according to a study being [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:31am EST

  • Relationship between bikers, drivers at fever pitch

    It’s a common scenario: A driver rounds a curve only to find a bicyclist riding slowly in the roadway. The driver becomes frustrated and tries to pass to biker, creating a dangerous situation. This continues to happen even as the D.C. region continues to add bike only lanes as more [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:28am EST

  • Good Deals May Be Too Hard To Come By

    We keep hearing that it’s a home buyer’s market, fueled by low interest rates and lower prices. But one local couple found out it’s not easy to land a really good deal. Julia and John Landry started looking for a home in April of this year, in the $300,000 range [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • Police Plan Seat Belt, DUI Blitz Over Thanksgiving Holiday

    Police and safety officials in St. Mary’s County plan a special crackdown this Thanksgiving for people who refuse to buckle their seat belts and make the choice to drive under the influence of alcohol or other drugs during this Thanksgiving weekend. The campaigns, known as Click it or Ticket and [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:21am EST

  • Open Thread - November 24, 2009

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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:16am EST

  • Medical debt: It’s not just for the uninsured

    It’s not just uninsured patients who rack up steep medical bills. Even if you have insurance, you might not realize that your coverage is inadequate until you’re sick and overwhelmed by co-payments and other health costs. “Medical costs are the single largest contributor to people declaring bankruptcy,” often including those who [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:04am EST

  • Man charged with stealing 100+ flat-screen TVs from Fort Belvoir

    A Fredericksburg man has been arrested on charges of stealing more than 100 flat-screen televisions from Fort Belvoir. Stephen Don Carter, 36, was charged in federal court in Alexandria with theft of government property. [...] Prosecutors said Carter was friends with Michael A. Cook, a stockroom manager of the Post Exchange [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:47pm EST

  • Southern MD Drug Dealer Sentenced to 220 Months in Prison

    U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Otis Renaldo Harris, 36 of Washington, D.C., and Jerry Carlos Bannister, 38 of Indian Head, Monday, Nov. 23, to 280 months in prison and 220 months in prison, respectively, followed by five years of supervised release each, for conspiracy to distribute and possess [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:42pm EST

  • Buy a Fresh, Real Maryland Christmas Tree

    Mention Christmas trees and the images quickly form: evergreens glistening with decorations and topped by an angel or star; family outings to select the “perfect tree.” This holiday season, why not start a new tradition by displaying a fresh, real Christmas tree grown by a Maryland farmer? “Maryland farmers work [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:53pm EST

  • Tiny Iowa town has the chargers, awaiting drivers

    Hoping to see the USA in your Chevrolet Volt or Nissan Leaf? The tiny Iowa town of Elk Horn will have plenty of electric charging stations and no wait — if you can get there. [...] Mike Howard, the businessman financing a project that reflects his lifetime fascination with the possibilities of [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:48pm EST

  • New olive planting method prompts Calif. oil boom

    An oil boom is under way in California’s agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra virgin market. Gnarly trees picked by hand are being supplanted. This year, California’s olive oil production will top 1 [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:42pm EST

  • PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA

    DECEMBER 7, 2009 CONSENT ITEM 4. FINAL PLAT A. GLENEAGLES, PARCEL E, XRS 08-0067, 6th & 8th e.d., 53.57 acres, 117 lots, single family, PUD Zone, located off Piney Church Road DISCUSSION ITEMS 5. PUBLIC MEETING A. INDIAN HEAD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PARK, STEP 2: GENERAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN, PDZA 09-21 6. PRELIMINARY PLAN A. DAVID & SARA FOSTER, [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:25pm EST

  • Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service

    2008 Annual Report [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Economist: No ‘gangbusters’ holiday this year

    Survey: Region’s consumers more upbeat about economy The “shaky” economic recovery may have an effect on this year’s holiday sales, economists say. Several factors that were part of the recession, including fluctuating house prices and the dramatic increase in unemployment, add to the stress felt by consumers, said Robert A. Dye, a [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:51pm EST

  • Sewers at Capacity, Waste Poisons Waterways

    [...] One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation’s sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste. During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:39pm EST

  • Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government

    The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer. Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:34pm EST

  • Officials Kick Off Effort to Win 211 Hotline Funds

    Federal and state leaders are kicking off an effort to win funding for a statewide hotline to help connect Marylanders with health and human service needs. Sen. Barbara Mikulski has requested $800,000 to make the state’s 211 hotline pilot program permanent and is cosponsoring a bill that would provide dedicated [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:17pm EST

  • Teenage Suicide Prevention Program - Tuesday, Nov. 24 at Bowles Farms

    Dr. Kathleen V. Price will facilitate a discussion for folks who have been affected by teenage suicide. There have been 3 deaths of young men in the Seventh District in the past 22 months. This seems an unusually high number for a small geographic area. Dr. Price is the rector of [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:55am EST

  • Fundraiser adds spice to holidays

    [...] More than 20 chili recipes vied for top spot at the Saturday afternoon cook-off in La Plata, according to officer John Long of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office. The event collected about $1,700 for Shop With a Cop, a program that gives kids from low-income families a chance to buy [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:23am EST

  • Tight budgets mean some prisoners go light on meals

    The inmates at Plainfield Correctional Facility east of Indianapolis can’t be accused of getting a free lunch. Or any lunch at all. At least on some days. The medium-security prison has eliminated lunch on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays — part of a pilot program that could go statewide. The Indiana Department [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:47am EST

  • DMVs hit by budget cuts

    Drivers are waiting in longer lines and paying higher fees for licenses and vehicle registrations as budget cuts force motor vehicle departments to close offices, furlough employees and scramble for revenue. The Department of Motor Vehicles is “not that service-oriented to begin with,” says Tom Crosby, spokesman for AAA Carolinas. “This [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:44am EST

  • Open Thread - November 23, 2009

    It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.  ~Albert Einstein [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:40am EST

  • Late payments on credit cards drop in 3rd quarter

    For the first time in a decade, more people paid their credit card bills on time in the third quarter this year than in the second quarter. The delinquency rate on bank-issued cards like those bearing MasterCard and Visa logos fell to 1.1 percent for the June-to-September period, from a rate [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:36am EST

  • Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare

    Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV, according to a study published Monday. When [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:34am EST

  • Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S.

    The same day they rejected a gay marriage ballot measure, residents of Maine voted overwhelmingly to allow the sale of medical marijuana over the counter at state-licensed dispensaries. Later in the month, the American Medical Association reversed a longtime position and urged the federal government to remove marijuana from Schedule [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:29am EST

  • 24th Annual Christmas Doll and Train Exhibit Begins Dec. 2

    The St. Clement’s Island Museum in Colton’s Point, will present the 24th annual Christmas Doll & Train Exhibit beginning Dec. 2 for a month-long exhibit featuring antique and collectible dolls and toys, and working miniature trains to delight children from one to 101. The theme of this year’s exhibit is [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • Free H1N1 Vaccination Clinics Offered to Students

    The Department of Health and Charles County Public Schools are partnering to offer two free H1N1 vaccination clinics for school-aged children ages 3-19. H1N1 vaccination clinics will be held on Monday, Nov. 30, from 3 - 7 p.m., at Westlake High School in Waldorf, and 3-7 p.m., on Dec. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:21am EST

  • Denistry Taken to the Next Level: Dental Spa Opens in Calvert

    Everyone wants to go to the spa but not to the dentist,” muses Dr. Sharmin Meraj, owner of Meraj Dental Spa in Prince Frederick, Md. “People will cancel their appointment for a dental cleaning, but not for a massage,” she says. That light-bulb realization was what led her to create [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:19am EST

  • Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests

    Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands. For centuries, forests have provided lumber to build cities, pulp for paper mills and a [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:03am EST

  • No recovery in sight for region’s food charities

    In the midst of the busiest months for food pantries, many aren’t seeing or celebrating the end of the nation’s recession, wondering instead how to help so many without as much. “I don’t know what economic recovery people are talking about, because we’re seeing things get worse,” said Amy Ginsburg, executive [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:58am EST

  • Rising unemployment taxes could hinder hiring

    As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself. Employers already are squeezed by tight credit, rising health care costs, wary consumers and a higher minimum wage. Now, the surging jobless rate is imposing another cost. It’s forcing higher [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:55am EST

  • As lawmakers focus on divisive policy issues, Democrats’ health bills leave gaps for consumers

    For consumers, the health care bills taking final shape in Congress don’t rate close to a perfect 10. The Democratic measures would leave 12 million or more eligible Americans uninsured. Many middle-class families who’d now be required to buy coverage would still find the premiums a stretch, even with government aid. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:51am EST

  • St. Mary’s River reported failing

    Water clarity and oxygen levels in the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland are at failing levels, a condition activists and scientists attribute mainly to development. Data collected by the St. Mary’s Watershed Association and other scientists show that between 2000 and 2008, water quality has decreased in streams that feed [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:47am EST

  • Courthouse News

    A publication of the Maryland Association of Counties [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:45pm EST

  • Local leaders say no to pay raises

    In this bad economy some people are voluntarily giving up pay raises. Both the Montgomery County Council and the Baltimore County Council were scheduled to get cost of living pay raises. All nine members of the Montgomery County council decided to forgo the pay raise. Council President Phil Andrews said [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:16pm EST

  • Courses offer knowledge on money management

    As it turns out, there is occasionally such a thing as a free lunch. And those who attended “Get Money Smart” seminars Saturday got to enjoy one, as well as attend up to four free presentations on subjects including “Free Money” and “Investing 101.” The courses, intended to help Southern [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:11am EST

  • Local doctor facing trial on wrongful death claim

    A jury heard testimony from expert witnesses and family members this week in a wrongful death civil case that accuses a local doctor of failing to properly diagnose a patient and provide health care in the ordinary standards, contributing to the death of the patient in 2007. [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:09am EST

  • Real estate suspect faces more charges

    A Leonardtown man jailed earlier this month on indictments from a grand jury probe of real estate transactions was served Friday, authorities report, with additional charges of theft, forgery and a firearms offense. [...] Detectives report that they are still seeking information on Brown’s business activities through entities including Graydon Sears LLC, [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:02am EST

  • Bohanan Calls Town Hall Meetings

    Delegate John L. Bohanan, Jr. is inviting St. Mary’s County citizens to town hall meetings in Legislative District 29-B. Bohanan plans to focus the discussion on the state budget and other issues that will be considered in the upcoming 2010 Legislative Session. Delegate Bohanan is specifically looking for ideas on [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:54am EST

  • Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarships Available for CSM Students, Alums

    Students and recent alumni from the College of Southern Maryland are eligible to apply by January 13 for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program. Through this initiative the private foundation will award up to $30,000 annually per recipient to help students and recent alumni from community colleges and [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:52am EST

  • Let’s Say Thanks…

    ...In support of our troops [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:48am EST

  • Open Thread - November 22, 2009

    We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday’s good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow’s regrets.  ~Robert Brault [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:32am EST

  • LTE: Backers of connector missed point of meeting

    Charles County Commissioner Reuben B. Collins II (D-Waldorf) and Gene Davies attended the Cross-County Connector Forum at the College of Southern Maryland on Nov. 4. Mr. Collins was quoted [Southern Maryland Extra, Nov. 8] as saying that additional roads built by developers in the Billingsley Road corridor “would create even [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:03am EST

  • Panel proposes 7% raise for Charles board president

    Commissioners may get 10% County’s growth, more demanding job citedThe next Board of County Commissioners in Charles County could have bigger paychecks, despite a year in which county employees faced furloughs and cutbacks. The Charles Compensation Commission’s report recommended a nearly 7 percent increase in the 2011 salary for the [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:31am EST

  • In battle over mammograms, Md. leaders race to front lines

    When a government advisory panel put out new recommendations last week that said women under age 50 need not be screened for breast cancer, the calls began flowing to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski’s office. Within days, the Maryland senator had responded with an amendment to the Senate’s pending health care [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:26am EST

  • Report finds wide disparities in gifted education

    [...] The federal government spent just $7.5 million last year on research and grants for the estimated 3 million gifted children in the U.S. Both the Bush and Obama administrations have tried to eliminate that money entirely, but Congress put it back into the budget each year. Gifted programs are typically paid [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:49pm EST

  • Huntingtown shuts Westlake out of state championship game

    Did the Huntingtown football team want to advance to its first-ever state tournament? Did it ever, and it dominated Westlake, the defending Class 3A state champions, in order to do so. Greg Goodwin scored four touchdowns as the host Hurricanes throttled Westlake 46-0 in the 3A South region title game Friday. Huntingtown [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:41pm EST

  • Public Hearing: Board of Appeals - Docket #1239

    THE BOARD OF APPEALS FOR CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND has been petitioned by the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco for a Variance to the side building restriction line for an addition to the Burch House, as provided in Article XXV, Section 297-416 of the Charles County Zoning Ordinance. The [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:33pm EST

  • Survey: U.S. workers set to seek new jobs in 2010

    Nearly two-thirds of U.S. workers intend to look for new jobs next year, according to a poll released on Thursday that could indicate workers’ frustration and discontent. Sixty percent of employees polled “intend to leave” their jobs and 21 percent said “Maybe, so I’m networking,” according to the survey by Right [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:25pm EST

  • Heavy rains deter planting of cover crops

    Maryland farmers encouraged to cut nutrient runoff into bay [...] It’s been a wet year for farmers, and that could spell trouble for the Chesapeake Bay. Schmidt and other Maryland farmers have been in a race with the weather lately - trying to get the last of their fall crops harvested and [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:19pm EST

  • Jobless Rate Up in 29 States, Hitting Records in 4 of Them

    California, Delaware, South Carolina and Florida registered record rates of unemployment in October, the Labor Department said Friday. Joblessness rose in 29 states last month compared with 22 in September, the agency said in a monthly state breakdown. Michigan had the highest jobless rate at 15.1 percent, followed by Nevada at [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:17pm EST

  • Legislative Pileup Looms in the Senate

    When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was informed that the House had taken less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that languished for a month in the Senate, his aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry. It has been that kind of year in the [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:15pm EST

  • Expect tightening from the FHA

    For the past several years, the Federal Housing Administration has been the go-to financing resource for cash-strapped home buyers who can’t come up with a big down payment. It has zoomed from barely a 3 percent market share to nearly 30 percent of home-purchase loans. But now, wildly popular FHA-insured [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:12pm EST

  • Our Bay: Green concrete can help slow increase in bay’s nitrogen load

    The parking lots of Queen Anne’s County’s Bloomfield Farm will soon be modeling the latest in a series of efforts by the county to battle stormwater runoff pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. Pervious concrete - the technology Queen Anne’s County will use in Bloomfield Farm’s parking lots - allows water to [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:09pm EST

  • EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

    [...] For almost a decade, people who make their homes in this rural community in the Mason Valley 65 miles southeast of Reno have blamed that enormous abandoned mine for the high levels of uranium in their water wells. They say they have been met by a stone wall from state regulators, [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:03pm EST

  • Two State Police Troopers Injured in Chase

    WUSA—LANDOVER, Md. (AP)—Authorities say two Maryland State Police troopers have been injured in a crash on the outer loop of the Capital Beltway.  State police say the troopers were pursuing an erratic driver on Saturday in Prince George’s County, when the suspect swerved into the side of one patrol car, [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:59pm EST
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