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Calvert board adopt three 911 public safety ordinances
Policies calling for proactive measures to ensure public safety found unanimous approval from the Calvert County commissioners on Tuesday. The three ordinances passed include granting the department of public safety local enforcement authority for Kari’s Law. According to a memo to the commissioners from Stanley Harris, communications chief for the department of public safety, the federal law was enacted in 2018, five years after Kari Hunt was killed in a...
Calvert man facing multiple assault charges
A 30-year-old Calvert County man is behind bars after he allegedly threatened four people with a knife during an early morning incident at at Prince Frederick residence on Armory Road. According to court records, the defendant, identified as Christopher Jarret De Sousa, has been charged with four counts each of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment, plus three counts of second-degree assault. Court records have conflicting information regarding the defendant’s home...
Suspect Arrested For Connection To Four Commercial Burglaries In Waldorf, Nearly $25,000 In Stolen Property Recovered
WALDORF, Md. – Detectives have arrested a suspect wanted in connection with four commercial burglaries that occurred at two Waldorf businesses. The burglaries occurred between March 17 and March 20; one of the burglaries occurred in the 2300 block of Crain Highway and three others occurred in the 2400 block of Old Washington Road. In the most recent burglary, the suspect stole several fireplace inserts, grills, and other items.
Sabedra pens song for childhood friend who died in fire
For 39 years Derek Sabedra had only memories of a beloved classmate who died tragically, but now the former Southern Maryland resident has something tangible after a song he wrote about her was recently recorded. Denise Evans was 16 years old when she died in a house fire, along with her 14-year-old brother Shawn, in Prince Frederick on Dec. 22, 1985. Luke Doran, 19, also perished in the accident, which started when a discarded cigarette was placed in a paper trash container. ...
Brysen Carter Dies In Leonardtown Crash
Ashley Nicole Nolan, 27, failed to negotiate a turn on Point Lookout Road around 1:44 a.m. Saturday, March 16, in Leonardtown, the St. Mary County Sheriff's Office said. The Honda Odyssey driven by Nolan left the road and overturned several times before striking a tree. Police said only that three...
These restaurants in Brandywine Hundred and Port Penn have closed their doors
The New Castle County restaurants Ulysses American Gastropub in Brandywine Hundred and the Augustine Inn Seafood and Chop House in Port Penn have closed their doors permanently. Ulysses, a restaurant in the Shoppes of Graylyn off Marsh Road, stopped operations earlier this month after about 13 years. The restaurant's website is no longer...
Planning commission OKs review for Dunkirk expansion
The vote wasn’t unanimous but a request to add less than 20 acres to the Dunkirk Town Center map is moving to its next stage following the March 20 meeting of the Calvert County Planning Commission. The proposed designated planning category change would annex just over 17 acres into the town center and would give owners of the Dunkirk Gateway Shopping Center some additional land for its septic facility. The...
St. Mary's women feted at annual awards banquet
If Patrice Campbell wasn’t so busy with her Building Bridges Foundation, perhaps she might be in the hardware business as she has racked up some pretty impressive trophies recently. The third of those awards was being named as the Woman of the Year at the St. Mary’s County Commission for Women’s annual Women’s History Brunch on Saturday at the SMART Building in California. “I was really excited,” Campbell told Southern...
Waldorf Native Serves With U.S. Navy Aboard Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Petty Officer 1st Class Elantra Robinson, a native of Waldorf, Maryland, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek. Robinson graduated from Westlake High School in 2010. The skills and values needed to succeed in the Navy are similar to those found...
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