Huntingtown News

Amateur radio operator Joseph "Gene" Talley surrounded by his equipment, new and old, inside an old shed in the backyard of his home in Hollywood.

From left, Patuxent High School's Junior Miss Michelle Denny, Calvert County's Junior Miss Ariana Ramos and Southern Maryland's Junior Miss Briana Butler.

Despite having made it to the National History Day competition for five years, Lauren White's two favorite subjects are English and science.

Huntingtown, Northern and Patuxent high schools received national recognition last month when they made Newsweek magazine's list of the 1,500 top U.S. high schools.

Payton Flemming, 11, of Owings tries to balance a pile of soft balls, unsuccessfully, on an overturned basket on her head Friday during the last day of Chesapeake Church's RainbowLand MEGA Week in Huntingtown.

Eric Vogt and his son, Justin, 8, of Hollywood, Md., work on a catapult for the Father's Day Fling at Annmarie Garden in Solomons on Saturday.

The grand opening of the Calvert Memorial Hospital Medical Arts Building brought the attention of several local and state politicians at Friday's Capital for a Day in Calvert County.

A little boy blows bubbles during the survivor's lap of the Relay for Life on Friday.

At Thursday's Calvert County Board of Education meeting, several employees from the school system's central office were recognized for their service.

Three Prince Frederick residents will be among those competing when SPEED's "PINKS All Out" descends on Maryland International Raceway in Mechanicsville on June 20.

The Calvert County Board of County Commissioners scolded engineers from the Maryland Transit Administration for a lack of communication regarding proposed modifications to the median just south of the Route 2-4 merge and the entrance to Chesapeake Church at their weekly Tuesday meeting.

Two Calvert County young adults started the day with a love for animals and ended it with a new career option incorporating that love.

With seniors graduating, the Southern Maryland College Access Network or SoMD CAN is wasting no time reaching juniors and sophomores.

Mary Joachim, family day care provider; Shelby Potts, pre-college advisor with the Southern Maryland College Access Network; Deborah Ursiny, president of Autism-Asperger Association of Calvert County; and Tierney Guido of St.

A trash truck ran off Broomes Island Road on Friday afternoon, striking a tree, and then the full load of the trash caught on fire and a man who saw the accident pulled the driver, Ronald Stout of Prince Frederick, out of the truck to safety.

A vehicle struck a telephone pole and a brick sign then spun out of control and skidded through a parking lot on Sunday night, smashing into a parked vehicle, causing a domino effect of damage to another vehicle and a building.

Tidewater School students helped care for five-week-old kittens recently. The project was meant to teach responsibility and caring to the children.

It's never too late for women to realize their dreams. This was proven on Thursday evening at the American Association of University Women's third annual Dare to Dream Awards at the Solomons Island Yacht Club.

Zachary Johnson of Huntingtown, Jacqueline Smedley of California, Md., and Jazmine Ashleigh Smith of Waldorf are now not only excellent spellers; they are ESPN stars as well - at least to those close to them and to their communities.

All four county high schools were vandalized last week and officials think it was probably senior pranks.