Prince Frederick News

The American Red Cross Southern Maryland chapter has many ways volunteers can help their community this summer and be a part of President Barack Obama's nationwide volunteer campaign, United We Serve, according to a press release.

VeriChip Corporation , a provider of radio frequency identification systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that it has sold the VeriTracea system, including 1,000 RFID microchips, for disaster preparedness and emergency management needs to Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, Maryland.

Dylan Cocker, 8, of Prince Frederick jumps through a hoop. Cocker was attending the event with others from Little Feet Family Day Care in Prince Frederick.

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.

A man used a gun to rob the Dunkirk 7-Eleven store Sunday around 1:30 a.m., and police are asking the public for assistance in tracking down the armed robber.

Those anticipating the completion of the new Calvert Middle School facility in Prince Frederick now have one more reason to be excited: the school has been named one of Gov.

Give the gift of life The Southern Maryland chapter of the American Red Cross that is headquartered in La Plata needs healthy folks 16 and older to donate blood, particularly B negative and O negative blood.

The preliminary results are in from last weekend's Calvert County Relay for Life.

Joe Klausner, Calvert County's director of technical services, stands in front of the county's technological nerve center in Prince Frederick.

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

Mural artist Mary Beth Harry, left, poses in front of her creation with outgoing Mount Harmony Elementary School Principal Tony Navarro and incoming Principal Elizabeth Gebelein.

At its annual meeting on May 12, held at Christ Church on Broomes Island Road, the League of Women Voters of Calvert County elected officers and started its yearlong celebration of its 40th year as a chartered league, according to a press release.

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.

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 College of Southern Maryland Foundation will celebrate the success of its 50th anniversary fundraising campaign by recognizing all of the donors who supported the campaign with plaque unveiling ceremonies at each campus.

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

The Leading Edge Awards Partnership in Education Award Wyle Laboratories Presented by the College of Southern Maryland.

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

Calvert public schools Superintendent Jack Smith explains a loss in expected state money to school board members at a recent meeting in Prince Frederick.

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