Gibson Island News

Memo to lead-footed drivers in Brooklyn Park: Church Street and Walton Avenue are not the Autobahn and the Indianapolis 500.

The Coast Guard rescued one adult and four children that were stranded on a disabled vessel due to an engine fire in the Chesapeake Bay near Gibson Island, Md., Thursday afternoon.

Brooklyn Park Elementary School's Girls on the Run program collected 154 pairs of pajamas for Kami's Jammies as part of their service project.

Last night former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did his best to rally his troops with an illustration that he said he saw as a parallel to the situation of Republicans in the state of Maryland.

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In the ongoing battle of communities versus trash, score one win for the Arundel Neighborhoods Association.

Similar to the African proverb "It takes a village to raise a child," so, too, it takes a community to run a community association.

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A long-term effort to reduce the tick population on Gibson Island is working, but the mites continue to spread Lyme disease throughout the state.

North county lawmakers, like those across the state, spent this year's legislative session grappling with what all said was the tightest budget they had ever seen.

In 1997 these words were incorporated into the General Development Plan and the Lake Shore Small Area Citizens Planning Committees Plan.

Driving down Mountain Road in Pasadena, it's hard to miss the change that happens somewhere around the Long Point community.

The artists and friends of Gibson Island Country School will host "Heaven and Earth," an art show for adults only from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the school at 5191 Mountain Road.

With the General Assembly heading into its final three weeks, the ticking legislative clock will get louder as local and statewide issues angle for closure.

The Brooklyn Park Senior Center, 202 Hammonds Lane, will celebrate National Frozen Food Day with frozen breakfasts from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The county is working on two proposals for public boat ramps, one at Fort Smallwood Park and now a second one at the site of a private marina for sale on Riverside Drive in the Pinehurst neighborhood of ...

Skeptical county lawmakers are questioning whether a proposal to hike liquor license fees is necessary while the hospitality industry groans under the weight of the recession.

Gov. Martin O'Malley has been chosen vice chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.

The MOMS Club of Northwest Pasadena will hold an open house at 10 a.m. today at Community United Methodist Church, 8680 Fort Smallwood Road.

The East Anne Arundel Lions Club is offering its winter sales of fresh fruit from Florida.