Somerset County (Maryland)

Recreation and outdoors calendar

2013-05-11 01:33:00

Surfing regionals Through today, May 12: The Eastern Surfing Association's 2013 Mid-Atlantic Regional Surfing Championships will be held in Ocean City off the beach near 48th Street. For hours, registration and more information, call 800-399-6820 or...

Smith Islanders debate buyout offered by state

2013-05-12 15:35:00

Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the...

Recreation and Outdoors calendar

2013-05-18 01:30:00

Canoe/kayak Today, May 19: USA Canoe/Kayak Whitewater Slalom Team Trials and Deep Creek Open, Adventure Sports Center International, Deep Creek Lake, Garrett County. Admission: free. Children's Adventure Series and Kids Day at The Races, 11 a.m.-2 p.m....

Smith Island denial

2013-05-16 11:27:00

Even the most jaded observer must acknowledge there's something admirable about the desire of so many living on Smith Island to see their community survive and prosper. Residents of this marshy (and shrinking in both population and real estate)...

Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy

2013-04-28 16:34:00

A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of the once-rare national bird has grown so...

No. 1 Dunbar boys rout Washington, 70-41, in Class 1A semifinal

2013-03-15 17:28:00

Dunbar could do just about anything it wanted against Washington in Friday's Class 1A state semifinal. The Poets had a large advantage in size, speed and strength. In other words, they were just too much. The Jaguars, from Somerset County, scored...

UMES police say '20 to 30' people may have witnessed stabbing

2013-02-19 16:55:00

During a packed town hall meeting at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Tuesday, campus police said as many as 30 people may have witnessed the death of student Edmond A. St. Clair over the weekend and asked students with information to come...

State police investigating response time in UMES stabbing death

2013-02-18 16:51:00

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore officials on Monday said state police are investigating assertions that campus officers took an extended period of time to respond to the fatal stabbing of a student during homecoming weekend. Edmond A. St. Clair,...

Md. will receive $8.6 million more in Sandy aid

2013-02-06 08:29:00

Maryland communities affected by Super Storm Sandy will receive $8.6 million in federal funding under an emergency spending measure approved by Congress last month. The money, which is in addition to the roughly $1.5 million in assistance the federal...

U.S. sends aid for Eastern Shore victims of Sandy

2012-12-26 15:51:28

The federal government has sent more than $1 million in aid to the Eastern Shore to help victims of Hurricane Sandy and continues to process requests, emergency management officials said Wednesday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has received...

Lawmakers press for disaster aid for Garrett Co.

2013-01-24 14:01:32

Members of Maryland's congressional delegation asked the Obama administration Thursday to reconsider its decision to deny federal disaster aid to Garrett County residents walloped by an October snowstorm. In a letter to Federal Emergency Management...

Still recovering from Sandy, Crisfield braces for next storm

2013-01-13 18:06:00

— Hazel Cropper, for years the fastest crab picker in this city built on its seafood industry, worries about the storm drain a few feet from her living room. As volunteers assessed the damage Superstorm Sandy caused to her home, the 74-year-old...

Linda Fetterolf, chairwoman of the Somerset County Campus Foundation, left, and Peggy Ogle, foundation board member, standing beside the door to the Allegany College of Maryland�s Somerset campus. That door will be eliminated in a renovation project.

2013-05-09 11:12:00

Late last week while fall was still fall, Linda Fetterolf, chairwoman of the Somerset County Campus Foundation for the Allegany College of Maryland, sat enjoying the sun and the scenery from a bench along the track on the Somerset Campus off Route 31.

2012-10-31 14:22:00

Several members of the 2012 job fair committee were checking out the new site for this year's event: the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory off Route 281.

2012-09-10 14:41:00