St. Mary's City

College students from Laurel recognized for achievements

2013-04-25 13:31:00

Yawar Raza and Catherine Turner, both of Laurel, were named to the dean's list for the winter quarter at Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, N.Y. Raza is a third-year student in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information...

Margaret H. Abbott, genetics researcher

2013-02-25 14:20:58

Margaret Hawkins Abbott, a retired Johns Hopkins Medical School genetics researcher who investigated families with inherited conditions for nearly five decades, died of dementia complications Feb. 1 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 89 and lived in...

Herds of fun down on the farm in St. Mary's County

2012-11-27 13:06:26

The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the … wait, those aren't sheep, they're alpacas. And those rangy bovines look an awful lot like bison. And what about those long-legged turkeys running loose in the barnyard? St. Mary's County, site of...

History's lesson: Vote yes on Questions 4 and 6

2012-11-05 12:45:00

Maryland was established on the principles of equality, religious freedom, separation of church and state, and creating opportunities for all to achieve economic self-sufficiency. No place is this more clear than at Historic St. Mary's City. St. Mary's...

Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday

2012-06-29 04:15:00

WEATHER The National Weather Service is calling for Friday to start cloudy and then become sunny, with a high near 102 and west winds between 6 and 9 miles per hour. A heat advisory is in effect from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. Heat index values will be as...

Head of the Class: area students honored

2012-07-13 13:30:52

Kelly Auxt, Angela Springer and Stephanie Yonowitz, of Owings Mills, graduated with a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction; Lisa Goldberg and Rebecca Harman, of Reisterstown, graduated with a master's degree in Counselor Education, and Michael...

Head of the Class: North Baltimore County college students earn degrees, honors

2012-06-15 11:28:00

Megan Uebersax, of Sparks, graduated from Berry College, Rome, Ga. with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Spanish. Lauren M. Thomas, of White Hall, graduated from Millersville University of Pennsylvania on May 12 with a Bachelor of Arts in...

NASA rocket launch to be visible from Ocean City on Thursday

2012-06-15 12:01:00

A NASA rocket launch scheduled at Wallops Flight Facility on Thursday morning will provide a show as far away as the Maryland and Delaware beaches. The space agency is launching a research rocket with 17 experiments on board. The experiments were...

Archaeologists uncover Maryland's first capitol

2012-06-21 19:39:00

Archaeologists have uncovered the stone and brick foundation of a St. Mary's City structure that served as Maryland's first state house. The Calvert House site was identified in the 1980s. On Thursday, the Historic St. Mary's City museum announced its...

Discovery of WWII shells at state park spurs search

2012-01-21 14:05:50

Growing up, George E. Raley Jr. heard stories that the military had conducted some sort of testing during World War II on the quiet Southern Maryland peninsula known as Newtowne Neck. As an adult, he would learn that his father had assisted in...

Cary B. Beehler, sales associate

2012-05-13 13:46:06

Cary B. Beehler, a former Cross Keys sales associate and avid bird watcher whose travels took her all over the world in pursuit of her hobby, died May 7 from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. The Blakehurst retirement community...

Review: Do the time warp at Lighthouse Tavern

2012-04-03 04:32:00

After a run of the best of the '80s, Lighthouse Tavern's music selection hit its nadir with Eddie Murphy's "Party all the Time." Most bartenders would have quickly pushed 'skip,' but not mine, who pumped up the volume — and, when asked if the singer...

In this handout photo supplied by Historic St. Mary's City, HSMC, taken Thursday, archaeologists uncover the foundation of Maryland's first state house in St. Mary's City, Md. The Calvert House site was identified in the 1980s.

2012-06-21 16:34:00

A student walks toward her new temporary dorm on a cruise ship, which is docked on the waterfront next to the replica of the 17th c.

2011-11-16 00:00:00

It's also an active archaeological site. The living history exhibits are open from mid-March through November. Don't miss: Take a water taxi to St. Clement's Island, which, on March 25, 1634, was the site of the first settlement under Lord Calvert's flag.

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