Owings News

The Calvert County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting to award a revenue-generating, scrap metal recycling contract to Yowell Equipment Demolition of Westminster, Md.

Another rash of vehicle burglaries was reported in a Huntingtown neighborhood right before dawn last Tuesday, Oct.

Savannah Miller, 7, of Lusby holds her brother Justin Wilder's hand while she gets a flu shot Thursday from College of Southern Maryland nursing student Priscilla Rawlings at the Calvert County Health Department flu shot clinic at Patuxent High School in Lusby.

For his Eagle Scout project, Life Scout Alex Dugone of Troop 789 in Dunkirk is collecting donations to send overseas to Maryland soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fridays Creek Winery is located in Owings, Maryland. The winery sits on a small patch of land, complete with winery owned vineyards and a beautiful suburban location.

With flu season in full swing and the H1N1 virus complicating things further, Calvert County Public School staff members have had to keep a very close eye on each other and on their students, particularly with some schools reporting 10 percent or more of their students absent on a day-to-day basis.

Liz Chambers opened the second annual End Hunger in Calvert County benefit concert Saturday with a couple of songs at the Calvert County Fairgrounds in Barstow.

Calvert County musician Courtlyn Carr relies on her country roots as inspiration for much of her music.

A month into the 2009-2010 school year, Calvert County public schools already have good news: all Calvert high schools have met Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP.

The Tidewater School kindergarteners Sam Henshaw-Black, 6, left, and Noah Wurtz, 5, wash and peel potatoes for stone soup for the Farm to School education program at the school.

Mergers aren't just for Wall Street anymore. The Beach Business Group and the Calvert Business Alliance announced Friday, Sept.

With burglaries on the increase in Calvert County, burglary prevention surveys are now being offered to those who would like their homes or businesses assessed to identify potential security issues that might entice a burglar.

Emma Rader poses in the pen with one of the lambs she will be showing at the Calvert County Fair on Oct.

A year after a slew of home burglaries occurred in the north end of the county last September, one of the teenagers involved in the burglaries has been sentenced for his guilty pleas to burglary and thefts.

An 81-year-old North Beach man died from injuries sustained in a head-on car crash on Mt.

Though in theory they are "new principals," their faces are anything but. For the 2009-2010 school year, Liz Gebelein, Tony Navarro and Zachary Seawell are all beginning their first years at Mount Harmony Elementary School, the Calvert Career Center and Plum Point Middle School respectively.

A Calvert County man was killed Wednesday night when his boat hit a stone jetty in an Anne Arundel County creek, according to Maryland Natural Resources Police.

Residents of the Apple Greene community in Dunkirk packed the Fairview Library in Owings on July 29 for a public information meeting on proposed changes to a groundwater discharge permit for the sewage treatment facility of a planned shopping center.

Residents of the Apple Greene community in Dunkirk packed the Fairview Library in Owings on July 29 for a public information meeting on proposed changes to a groundwater discharge permit for the sewage treatment facility of a planned shopping center.

A Waldorf man, accused of beating and assaulting a woman in 2008 along with racking up several drug charges, was sentenced Monday to serve 16 years in prison.