University of Maryland Eastern Shore News

Maryland will expand its efforts to redesign the college courses most responsible for stalling students' pursuit of degrees, using a $1 million grant from the Lumina Foundation.

PRINCESS ANNE - The Little Soup Kitchen on the county's northern end, and Marion Baptist Church to the south, are familiar Somerset County institutions to whom the community turns for food during the Thanksgiving season.

U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton's notability for human rights and feminist activism rivals her records in public office as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and, earlier, on the Washington City Council.

They've got to be one of the oddest-looking couples in rock: this big, hulking black man who looks like he just stepped off a football field, and this wiry, streetwise white guy, with his scruffy beard that, even when they met in the early 1970s, screamed beatnik chic.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is rolling out the red carpet for a Hollywood-style fundraiser that will bring five big-name celebrities to the school.

PRINCESS ANNE - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is rolling out the red carpet for some notable names who they say will attend a fundraising gala early next year.

Only 42 percent of black college students actually receive degrees, according to the latest statistics posted in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, and much of the focus of a national conference in Baltimore was on how to solve the problem.

WESTOVER -- Branches of Somerset County government already are moving toward satisfying a newly adopted vision driven by local and state civil rights groups to correct a long history of racial disparities in county hiring practices.

SALISBURY -- Trevor H. Jones of Berlin was recently hired as the dean of occupational education at Wor-Wic Community College.

Host Our Coast, a tourism initiative featuring an online contest and the use of social media to highlight local travel, was honored with two awards at the 29th annual Maryland Travel and Tourism Summit.

PRINCESS ANNE , Md.- Due to budget cuts, the Princess Anne police south substation will close by the end of the month.

SALISBURY -- Loney Brown Stewart Jr., 66, of Salisbury, and formerly of Mount Holly, N.J., died Friday, Nov.

High school juniors and seniors from as far away as New York are expected to show up at today's Tri-County College Fair hosted by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

"Uncle Sam wants you!" In years past, that was the call to action to protect the United States from aggression by foreign nations.

Kaye Camille Byrd joined a group of about 20 people Friday to learn more about raising sheep and goats -- something that's missing from the 25 acres outside Berlin where she and her husband practice organic gardening and have a flock of 30 chickens.

SALISBURY ---- Salisbury University President Janet Dudley-Eshbach will serve as the keynote speaker for University System of Maryland's 18th annual Women's Forum conference on Friday.

PRINCESS ANNE - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore's eighth annual Tri-County College Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov.

PRINCESS ANNE - A Bull and Oyster Roast fundraiser for the Princess Anne Main Street Partnership is Tuesday between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. at Peaky's Restaurant.

PRINCESS ANNE -- The 10th annual Inter-Collegiate Music Association and Friends Choral Festival will be held Sunday, Nov.

Diana Bisengo's mother and aunt. Editors' note: This is the first installment in a two-part series about the Rwandan genocide and the experiences of one of its victims.