Abell News

In today's paper, I write about the debate over how to teach math. College professors are arguing that high schools aren't teaching what students need to know for college.

Christina Barbour, far right, site supervisor of the St. Clement's Island Museum in Colton's Point, guides children from the Achieving Career Excellence Summer Enrichment Program from Prince George's County, directing them to the Blackistone Lighthouse replica on the island last week.

Such programs treat addiction as a health problem by providing drugs to addicts, and then moving the users into treatment.

From left, Patsy Ervin listens to a speaker as she sits next to Jeanette Thompson, who attended with her husband, Rodney Thompson, at right.

Douglas Abell shields himself from the sun with a hat and umbrella while planting soybeans in his field at his home in Leonardtown earlier this month, the first time temperatures soared into the 90s this year in St.

Two years ago, the Pasadena Elementary School began its process to become a Green School.

Chris and Debbie Soussanin have run Morris Point Restaurant in Abell for 10 years.

The sixth volume of SlackWater, a journal on environmental and cultural change in Southern Maryland produced at St.

It's high season for fundraising walks and runs. The "We're Looking for Trouble" 5K run/walk was held April 4 in Charlotte Hall to benefit the Community Mediation Center of St.

Charles County Board of Education member Jennifer S. Abell has filed a formal request for information from her fellow board members about a vote they took on her request to have items put on the board's meeting agenda.

James Abell Longmore Jr., 65, died Monday from pancreatic cancer. Longmore was a longtime businessman in St.

Stuck upstream of the recession's economic logjam is the final payment on what may be one of the largest settlements from a car-accident lawsuit in Southern Maryland history.

Waterfront residents on and around Mill Cove Road in California assembled Monday evening to oppose two residential projects that would sit among them between Mill Creek and Sam Abell Cove.

The St. Mary's County commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to award a $1 million contract to Dennis Anderson Construction of Waldorf to build a structure that will house county government's hazardous material ...

A Charles County Board of Education member publicly cried foul on other members after an unannounced meeting regarding the health curriculum.

Maryland State Highway Administration will hold a public meeting for the Americans with Disabilities Act from 6-7:15 p.m. Feb.

Former Charles County Commissioner Candice Quinn Kelly, along with her daughter, Megan Quinn, will serve as co-chairs for March for Babies, the March of Dimes biggest fundraiser.

The Board of Appeals will consider the following: 1. Application/case no: ZAAP #06-110-066, Huseman/Estate of Jane Catherine Bowles Property owner: Richard B. Huseman, Jr.

Charles County Circuit Court, District Court and Circuit Court Clerk's Office at 200 Charles St.

St. Mary's County had a close call with a tropical storm in September, but it was a springtime nor'easter that did the most damage in 2008.