April 2008 News Stories
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Pope's Visit to White House features Kathleen Battle
who sang the Lord's Prayer with the voice of an angel
Famous Soprano sang
The Lord's Prayer.
White House photo by
David Bohrer
More about Kathleen
Battle
The US Army Band played the Battle
Hymn of the Republic and 10,000 guests sang Happy
Birthday to the Pontiff prior to an Oval Office meeting.
Photo NBC 4
Kathleen
Battle singing 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
You Tube
Pope Benedict and President Bush
stand for the National Anthem at the White House.
Photo courtesy of ABC 7 News
Pope Benedict XVI waves
from the Pope-mobile as he passes the White House on
Pennsylvania Avenue
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, following a welcoming
ceremony in his honor on the South Lawn.
White House photo
by Chris Greenberg
Average of PA polls shows Hillary
up by nearly 9 points
Press greeted McCain with donuts;
Obama with gaffe
How Hillary can come from behind and win
Obama leads in 2 of 3 states, can sew up nomination
Bill: older voters won't fall for OBamaloney
People who cling to guns vote too
NBC 4 Reports:
Police charge 3 in PG County
Latino gang beating death
World's largest cruiser liner will
carry over 5,000 passengers and be home-ported in
Florida, will feature park
Coach Taught Sex Lessons to Student
LEONARDTOWN --- St. Mary's Sheriff's Deputies report
that on April 9th St. Mary’s County BCI
detectives arrested Leonardtown High School Drum Line
Coach, Scott Thomas Strandberg Jr., a 24 year old male,
from Lexington Park, Maryland and charged him with Child
Sexual Abuse. Strandberg was arrested after detectives
learned of the coach having an inappropriate sexual
relationship with a 16 year old female student.
Incidents occurred at Strandberg’s home and on a school
bus, between September and November 2007. Strandberg was
incarcerated at the St. Mary’s County Detention Center.
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Gas prices now at $3.25 gallon on
Great Mills Road in Lexington Park at Exxon
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Zoning
staffer harasses local business over truck with ads as
economy tanks
CALIFORNIA (March 18, 2008)--- Once again the forces
of regulation and the national economy combine to hurt
small business. The John Deere company has in the
past year sold its line of lawn tractors to the large
hardware store chain Lowes, which discounts the tractors
and severely damages local John Deere dealers such as
Carroll Equipment. With a dropping economy and
less funds for advertising the local family owned
business has taken to putting some of its service trucks
out on weekends along key highways such as this truck
parked just off of Rt. 235 in California. The
trucks are insured, have current tags and do not violate
the law. A St. Mary's County land use and growth
management staffer, with a lot less new home
construction to inspect and a lot of time on his hands,
told the firm that they could not park their trucks
along highways. ST. MARY'S TODAY is waiting for a
response from County Administrator John Savich to
explain if there is a new ordinance which would restrict
use of vehicles for advertising. Carroll Equipment
is fully prepared to service the John Deere tractors it
sells while Lowes has to contract out service that they
cannot perform themselves. The end result,
is one more local business gets the squeeze from
national chains while local government puts the
regulatory bite on the business. Some Maryland counties
are now eliminating county jobs in order to balance
budgets as taxes are already sky high.
Greeter Reads Novel at Front Desk of Government Center
While Board Makes Budget Cuts
The greeter who works at the desk at the entrance of the
governmental center was reading a book Monday at the
glass enclosed nerve center instead of being given some
county clerical work to do at the desk, as would be the
case in private industry. A person working at this
position recently refused to let a citizen leave his bag
at the front door of the Governmental Center last week
so he could go into the courthouse on business and when
he did, the greeter called the police, who predictably
triggered an evacuation of the building and shut down
county business while the police Swat Team did whatever
they do to gain overtime.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo
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Pope Lands
in
Maryland
Pope Benedict
walked quickly down the stairs to greet President Bush
at Andrews Air Force Base in Allentown, Maryland.
Photo courtesy of ABC 7 News.
Photo
courtesy of NBC 4 News
Pope Benedict is only
2nd Pontiff in history to visit the White House.
Pope John Paul II came to Washington in 1979 where he
held a Mass on the national mall with hundreds of
thousands attending. He wound his way down
Constitution Ave. where throngs of people waited hours
for him to pass by and to receive a Papal blessing.
Details on visit
Vatican website
NBC 4 News Report:
President Greets Pope Benedict XVI
at Andrews Air Force Base
Waldorf woman among those greeting
Pope at Andrews AFB
Pope's visit energizes abortion
debate
Pope Ashamed of Pedophile
Priests; Vows No More
Ask the White House in this forum
about the official visit of the Pope
SMECO Ready to Roll with
New Power Lines
to Meet Service Demands
St. Mary's Schools Computerized Maps of Each Household
Nearly 10 Years Ago
St.
Mary's Says No to Cameras or Trespassing and Votes 3-2
to Approve Dangerous Dave's Disastrous Plan
for Government Snooping...all under the guise of
improving emergency response by finding homes not in the
911 system...
St. Mary's Commissioners
Larry Jarboe (R. Golden Beach) and Dan Raley (D. Great
Mills), as has been the pattern for the past 6 years,
sometimes are on the same side of issues and sometimes
opposed. But usually the two are the ones who move
the Board ahead on decisions. ST.
MARY'S TODAY photo
Story
Tax Payers Deserve Answers on Money Trail at St. Mary’s
College
letter
Public
Forum:
Citizens roared against government
snooping on their property without search warrants
Fourth Amendment Trumps Any Ordinance Created by Mad
Hatters
Letter
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With Chabad rabbis from across the world looking on,
President George W. Bush signs a presidential
proclamation Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in honor of
Wednesday's Education and Sharing Day, and highlighting
the important work of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. The
Chabad Lubavitch movement promotes global education, and
since 1978, every President has signed an Education and
Sharing Day proclamation. White House photo by Joyce
N. Boghosian
Three
Leonardtown High Heathens
Set Fire to School to Offset Boredom
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Land Use Rules Forced
Crab house Owner - Farmer to Take
Government Money
Oyster Packer and Crabhouse Owner
Explains Why He Accepted Agricultural Preservation Bucks
Leonard Copsey may not open his
historic Drift Inn this season, billed as the Granddaddy
of Crabhouses, due to high prices of crabs. At
right is the Drift Inn when the day after being visited
by Hurricane Isabelle in 2003.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo, photo at right courtesy of
Copsey family
Crabbers meet with O'Malley over
crab restrictions
Backwards
Robin Hood
Government steals from
the middle income to give to the rich
Today's top stories, blogs and remarks
over Obama's bittersweet attitude towards his likely
butt-whipping coming up in Pennsylvania.
Blacks sound off in Sun
blog and white voters fire right back as Obama faces
being denied the Democratic nomination.
Obama lashes out at
Clinton after 'bitter' weekend
Clinton airs 'out of
touch' ad
Politico: 'Annie Oakley' changes
her mind on guns
WSJ questions Clinton lead of 20
points in PA
Poll: Obama within 3 pts
Gov.:
Obama knows not PA
In DC when they accidentally tell
the truth, they rush to apologize
Food prices soar
McCain says US in in recession
Drudge tops all other news sites
Delta & Northwest combine
Post Editorial admonishes Obama for
going back on his promise on
federal financing
American Legion National Oratorical
Contest Winner is Spencer Hartung from
Maryland
See Video
Massive Oil Deposit Could Increase
US reserves by 10x
Got a Job?
You might want to be nice to
customers, help your boss make a profit and...God
forbid, show up for work!
Retailers closing stores, filing
bankruptcy, thousands of stores closing,
tossing employees out of jobs
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New Cook
for Public Schools Used to be Running Navy Mess
Halls...HOW GOOD CAN THIS food be in the future?
LEONARDTOWN, MD –
Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Michael J. Martirano,
announces the Board appointed Mr. Louis Jones to the
position of supervisor of food and nutrition services in
the Division of Supporting Services. Mr. Jones
currently works for the Ft. Myer Dining Facility in
Northern Virginia as a project manager/director of food
services. His experience also includes serving as a
leading chief/food services director for the United
States Navy. Mr. Jones, who is currently pursuing a
Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from
the University of Maryland, holds an Associates degree
in business management from Northwood University.
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Two Shot at Liberty Street;
1 dead,
1 dying, 1 in jail
One corner of Love Triangle had a gun....
man shot
ex-wife and her black lover
LEXINGTON PARK
--- Police report that a man working at
Pax River NAWC-AD blew away his ex-wife and a black man;
she is in critical condition, the lover is dead.
Police identify the man as Thomas John Saunders, 38, of
Lexington Park. Under arrest for murder is
Koummane Virasith, 39, of Lexington Park.
Melissa
Lea Virasith, 40, of Lexington Park is fighting for her
life. Virasith was born in Viet Nam, say police. This
murder took place across the street from where a man was
shot dead in his car while leaving for work just one
year ago and about 3 blocks from another love triangle
shooting. Virasith waited for police after the
shootings and was arrested.
LEXINGTON PARK
(April 11, 2008) --- UPDATE One man is in custody after
he allegedly opened fire on another man and a woman.
Fire, rescue and police screamed to the scene of this
murder attempt on Liberty Street where a midnight
shooting left a man with a gunshot to the head and a
woman with two bullet wounds to her back.
Helicopters were called for the mission of flying the
wounded and dying to a trauma center, with the man with
the head wound in serious condition.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie.
story and photos
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Only in the Kremlin-like halls of Government of St.
Mary's County could we find an ordinance requiring
citizens to have to take a test of their plumbing skills
before the county government will allow them to fix
their own toilets...see commentary by Commissioner Larry
Jarboe in this weekend's print edition on
The Toilet
Police
READER
FEEDBACK:
Its the job of firefighters to accept risk o f injury
responding to arson fire
After reading this article, "Three Leonardtown High
Heathens Set Fire to Offset Boredom", I was pretty mad.
I get that the action they did was moronic its self but
that gave you no right to call them "heathens", "morons"
or "punks", that is rude and very unprofessional. If i
recall, emotionally charged words such as these are not
supposed to be in a news piece and it could hurt their
reputation and you could be held in court for libel.
Also, what you said about the fire fighters taking a
risk going to the school and how they could have got
hurt or hurt others, that is their job; if there really
was a fire, they would have been taking the same risk. I
understand where your coming from, but that's their job
and they were living up to it, fake fire or not. Plus,
the part where you asked "Should the three students be
publicly humiliated by being in a dunk tank and give the
public an opportunity to attempt to drop them into a
water tank?" and "Should the three heathens be publicly
whipped to alleviate their boredom?", that was
unnecessary and plain childish. Hard news stories are
supposed to inform, not humiliate, and I believe you did
the exact opposite.
Rachel Brown
Sex Offender Allowed Work
Release in Calvert County by St. Mary's Judge
LEONARDTOWN --- The St. Mary's Sheriff's Department
reports that Eric Christopher Schug is a registered sex
offender currently on the work release program at the
St. Mary's County Detention Center. His address is as
follows: St. Mary's County Detention Center, 41880
Baldridge Street, Leonardtown Maryland 20650. He is
employed by Bayhill Home Services at 7544 Bayside Road,
Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732. Several sex offenders
who have been ordered to assigned to work release by
Judge Karen Abrams, in one case, have while on work
release been arrested again. In one case a man
working at the Patuxent INN on Rt. 235 in California was
charged with molesting a little girl while working at
the motel.
GE report gloomy; cites Bear
Stearns collapse harming real estate sale
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All that is left of fire that killed double amputee is
this
melted wheel chair
This power wheel chair was melted by the fire on Butler
Road in Newburg. The house was left in ruins.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos by Matthew Ivancie
Double Amputee Dead in House Fire;
wife made
heroic effort to save man
NEWBURG -(April
10, 2008) -- A report of a man trapped in a fully
involved house fire on Butler Road in Newburg was the
object of a furious response from Charles County fire
companies at 6 am today. A
man who was a double amputee was trapped in his home and
his wife suffered serious burns trying to save his life,
to no avail.
Story
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Newburg Volunteer Rescue Squad & Fire Department
Community Events
Spaghetti Dinner & Silent Auction to Benefit the Thomas Family
May 2, 2008 - 6PM to 10PM at station 14
In
the early morning hours on April 10, 2008, the Thomas
family on Butler Road in Newburg lost everything
in a
House Fire including a loved one, James Thomas. Newburg
Volunteer Rescue Squad & Fire Department
will
be hosting a Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction on
Friday May 2, 2008 at 6:00 pm to benefit the Thomas
Family. Doors will open at 5 p.m., and this will be by
donation only, and also there will be an all you can eat
Spaghetti Dinner! Come on out and show your support for
the Thomas Family Benefit!
The
station is also collecting donations (clothes,
money/gift cards) to give to the Thomas Family. If you
would like to donate an item for the silent auction
please contact the station 301-259-2105
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LEONARDTOWN -- Where was Zylak last week instead of
attending the public forum on the issue of sending
county employees onto private property, like Tommy
Mattingly wants to do as Zylak proposed? He was
off on a junket at a conference on hurricanes, like he
couldn't learn all he needs to over the internet or
watching coverage of Hurricane Katrina or even reading
about the visit of Hurricane Isabelle to this area in
2003...no, folks, he had to blow more of your tax
dollars by sneaking in a vacation to go on this latest
junket to a warm and sunny location....
O'Malley runs the roads in a SUV
while lecturing all on environment
Teachers
at Maryland 's
Failing Schools May Be Canned
Story
8 More Prison
Guards Canned
What do government employees do with
those government credit cards?
GAO report says that 41% of the
time, the use is not authorized or cards are misused...
Senate President Mike Miller, left, garnered support for
bill he and Sen. Mac Middleton sponsored to remove all
the illegal slot machines in So. Md.
Tech Tax
Threatened Developing Tech Industry in Lexington Park
area...
St. Mary's Del. John Bohanan says that it was essential
to remove the tech tax which the General Assembly put
into place in last fall's special session, exactly the
kind of danger warned about by Comptroller Peter
Franchot when he argued against a special session geared
to raising taxes. Comptroller Franchot said that
he was afraid that the proper checks and balances of
committee hearings on legislation would not be followed
and that was exactly what happened. Now the tax
has been repealed and replaced by other taxes which
won't hit the various defense contractors in St. Mary's
County. Bohanan said that the hundreds of contractors
who have established offices in St. Mary's County and
support big contracts held by major national contractors
at Pax River would have simply closed up shop in
Maryland and moved to Virginia which has no such tech
tax. More from
The Examiner
BG&E Customers to Get $170 Rebate
from Settlement
Funds to be Used for Clean Air and Green Energy Projects
BALTIMORE, MD (April 8, 2008) – Attorney General Douglas
F. Gansler
announced today that Maryland and seven other states
will divide $24
million to be used for energy efficiency and air
pollution reduction
projects as a result of a federal Clean Air Act
settlement with American
Electric Power (AEP), the nation’s largest power
company. Each state
will establish a process for determining how their share
of the project
money will be distributed. Potential projects include
supporting the
construction of “green” buildings, installing solar and
other
renewable energy systems, purchasing pollution control
technologies, and
investing in energy efficiency and conservation
programs.
Bloomberg Reports:
Three large banks cut of all loans
as credit crunches more due to housing slump
Post wins 6 Pulitzer Prizes |
Millionaire tax could pay for New
York's transit system overhaul...could it be
used in Maryland to help fund mass transit?
Washington Mutual cuts 3,000 jobs,
adds $7 billion infusion to stay afloat, closes offices
Fed supplies another $50 billion
to banks
Pets get bounced to the pound when
folks lose their homes in foreclosure |
It all went downhill for Hill after she lost Iowa to
Obama
Hillary Up 7 points in
Pennsylvania
poll
Young Mayor of
Pittsburgh leads Hillary on Path to Winning Another Big
State
Cain is Great Volunteer
at Oakville
Kevin Cain
has displayed outstanding volunteer service to Oakville
Elementary School. He was instrumental in initiating
and overseeing the environmental projects that were
necessary for Oakville to become a Green School. He has
continued to work diligently to improve the environment
while educating and engaging the students of Oakville.
He also facilitated the planting of over 40 trees.
Twice a year he organizes a "Clean-up Day," which
includes the participation of over 60 students. He
works side by side with them to improve the school's
grounds. He also helped a fourth grade class make a
rain garden. Environmental projects are not his only
contribution to Oakville. As a representative of the
Pioneers Organization, each year he provides every
student with a book. He also participates in the
"Dictionary Project." In the program, a non-profit
organization provides funding so that third grade
students are provided with their very own dictionaries.
Cain is always looking for ways to promote literacy.
He has made an incredible impact on the students, which
is evident by the passion for learning that he has
ignited in them. Cain is being honored by
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Subprime industries open their
wallets for politicians
Country
Club Had 60 Illegal's
Caught in the act of the TACO
TAKEOVER: Don't like illegal aliens taking away
jobs in US? The resort in Northern Virginia,
Landsdowne was busted with dozens of aliens. How
could they not know? The fat cats who hire these illegal
aliens to work in nurseries, landscaping, hotels and
restaurants all can obtain the documents of those who
are here legally, but they choose not to...
ABC
7 Report
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Suspense Slithers to Bitter End; Bill to Gut Glut of
Slots Sluts Slogs Through
ANNAPOLIS --- When it came down to the last minute of
this year's session of the Maryland General Assembly it
wasn't the Fat Lady who sang but it was the Cash Cow,
Del. Johnny Wood, who tried one last time to help out
all of they mystery money of the unregulated and
corruptible slot machine interests, but he failed.
The House passed the Senate version of the dump out the
illegal slots bill in the last 30 minutes of the
session, according to Del. John L. Bohanan (D. Lexington
Park).
An amendment by Del. Johnny Wood (D. Mechanicsville) was
offered at about 11 pm Monday to make legal all the
machines which were in place Feb. 28th, would
have made legal statewide. Like most of Delegate Wood’s
bills, a veteran delegate from St. Mary’s County who was
demoted from being a committee chairman by current
Speaker Michael Busch, the Wood, anything goes slot
machine amendment failed on a 74-49 vote. A last
minute amendment on Monday to make slots legal at any
commercial bingo establishment, which essentially would
have done the same thing as Wood’s amendment, passed but
was then defeated in the last minutes of the session.
Wood and other sleazy advocates for the illegal slot
machine operatives in the House then began a strategy of
talking to death every bill as it came up, effectively
avoiding a filibuster but still slowing everything down
to a snails pace. The real deal now appears to be
that ADF Bingo won't have slot machines, that the corner
casinos are out of business and will now have to go back
to running businesses which serve their customers well
without having a slot machine parlor. Charitable
groups will be able to have the devices as long as all
proceeds go to the charity and not to others.
Millions were made by slots mafia
CHARLOTTE HALL --- While
local yokels involved with various charities such as the
Leonardtown Volunteer Fire Department, Little Flower
School and the Mechanicsville Lions Club, groups which
were suddenly laden with big bucks, enough to turn them
into prostitutes for an illegal group of casino owners,
all of which have vanished as fast as they appeared; the
big money was unaccounted for and wound up being split
up by characters as diverse as out of state slot machine
kings, local saloon keepers and a guy who runs a
business which distributes illegal phone cards all over
the state. See more in this week's print
edition...and more coming up this weekend...
Sun Report: Final
bill bans slots; session extends time for homeowners
facing foreclosure
Maryland's big spenders had brakes
put on their spending habits this year
ABC 7 Report:
After big push by ACLU against
voluntary gun searches, DC dumps effort to weed out
weapons
GOP leader:
Maryland doesn't have a revenue
problem but has a spending problem, state spends too
much money
High School
Students Clog Pool Parking Lot During Day
GREAT MILLS --- On any given
weekday those driving by the Great Mills Aquatic Center
on Great Mills Road will see a parking lot that appears
full and projects a message that the swimming pool is a
busy place, perhaps too busy for middle aged folks in
need of a healthy workout.
At the same time that the swimming pool parking lot is
jammed with the cars, the Parks and Recreation Director,
Phil Rollins, says that the pool is suffering from a
lack of business, falling below what is needed to
operate the facility and the slowest time for the pool
is weekdays, with few swimmers using the facility during
the day.
How does the report of the parks director jive with the
full parking lot?
A check of the swimming pool on Tuesday April 8 at about
1 pm revealed an almost full parking lot and only two
people swimming.
The attendant on duty stated that he thought the cars
may belong to Great Mills High School students.
One school official said that it likely that those
parking at the pool are students who have either been
banned from bringing their vehicles to school or simply
do not want to buy parking passes.
A check of the school parking lot at the same time,
revealed many unused spaces in the school parking lots.
In any event, when contacted on Tuesday evening, St.
Mary’s Commissioner Dan Raley said he was going to
request the county staff erect signs in the parking lot
to warn that the vehicles of those not swimming at the
pool would be towed and to enforce the policy.
Raley, an experienced businessman, knows that a full
parking lot is sending a message that the facility may
be crowded and those driving by who might otherwise use
the facility are instead staying away, and anyone making
that decision based on the full parking lot hurts the
revenue and usage of the pool.
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Fatal Wreck
LA PLATA --- A LaPlata woman was killed just after
midnight Saturday on Cool Springs Farm Place when her
vehicle was westbound at Rt. 488 with a four-plex of
trouble blamed by police in causing her death --- rain,
speed, booze and drugs. Maryland State
Police Sgt. Mabry reports that Rachel Ellen Johnsen, 18,
was operating a red 1995 Pontiac Firebird when it hit a
pole and a tree. She was killed on impact
and her body was removed to the State Medical Examiner
for an autopsy. Trooper Ford is the investigating
officer and a results of medical tests will determine
any drugs or alcohol in her system.
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Zylak
Ducks Public Hearing on Government Snooping
LEONARDTOWN (April 1, 2008)
Property Rights, Pictures and
More Government Waste Cited During Hearing on 911 System
Big crowd turned out to roast those who are wasting tax
money on buying what is already available free to anyone
with a computer, who really is trying to honestly find
residences in St. Mary's County and not just trying to
issue a contract to a company. Some citizens
questioned who the money is going to; Frankie Tippett
wanted to know why 911 Director Dave Zylak didn't show
up to answer questions about his pet project; ITT
Director Bob Kelley was thrown to the the wolves
by Zylak; a Charles County 911 employee who lives in St.
Mary's County explained that she simply goes out with a
laptop every day to map in the coordinates of homes not
in the system and doesn't really need to take photos;
the sentiment of not trusting the government was
expressed continuously by those who fear 'gotcha'
government would use the photos to entrap people for
failing to obtain permits for work on their homes and
others expressed fear that the photos of their homes
would end up on the internet...in all, it appears the
board will run, not walk, to the nearest exit...they can
only blame themselves for taking a major ass whipping
for what Zylak came up with, as they were the ones who
hired Zylak to be the 911 director after the voters
threw him out as Sheriff in the 2006 election. It
was partisan politics as Democrats Raley, Mattingly and
Russell hired defeated Democrat Zylak after he got
thumped by Republican Tim Cameron. After Zylak was
hired, the Democrats then gave him a raise to $86,000,
even though he nails retirement from the St. Mary's
Sheriff's Department.... more
later and in print edition this weekend
Did
someone donate a live bomb to the Navy Museum at Pax
River?
LEXINGTON PARK
(April 1, 2008) --- That was the question that a staffer
at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum had when a
potentially live military ordnance was discovered among
military artifacts, according to Deputy Fire Marshal
William Potts. 10 firefighters responded to assist the
bomb squad, which means that the firemen stood close
enough to get an idea of what was happening without
being blown up. The fire marshal reports that items had
explosives and were returned to the military for further
action, hopefully not by UPS. The state fire
marshal bomb squad was on teh scene for two hours and
the museum was closed to tourists. For some reason, the
St. Mary's Sheriff's Department did not shut down Rt.
235 during the incident the way they did when they shut
down Rt. 5 in Charlotte Hall when a dead body was
discovered a block away from the highway. A St.
Mary's deputy once found a bomb in a car during a
traffic stop and brought it back to headquarters to give
to her sergeant, who likely had it coming to him.
The building was evacuated and the bomb squad called to
remove the bomb the deputy had carried into the
building...and none of this was an April Fools joke as
folks act like fools year round in the land of the
flask, the fiddle and the dark roasted possum!
Fire Smokes Home in California
Bay District
firefighters responded to a fire in this home on
Schooner Drive in Heards Estates.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos by Matthew Ivancie
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Dangling
Drivers on Dangerous Deeds of Death Defying Daredevil
Dumbness
Five vehicles piled up in this wreck
on Chancellors Run Road at Strickland Road on Saturday.
How about an oil change? At least one person from
this free-style driving contest was flown out from the
All-Star driving challenge and Bay District firefighters
waded in foam sprayed out on the roadway.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos by Matthew Ivancie
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--- Slots taken out of Brass Rail
The gravy days
of unregulated slot machines are over at Brass Rail:
Here are workmen putting in overtime on Saturday to
remove the unlicensed slot machines that a recent
advisory to the Maryland State Senate said were illegal
and are pending action by the Comptroller's Office.
These slot machines are headed back to Frank Moran and
Son for placement perhaps at a legal slot machine parlor
next year should voters approve allowing 15,000 slot
machines when the subject is listed on the ballot for
approval.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos
by Matthew Ivancie
--- The Hunt for
Red
March:
Tom
Clancy's BBQ got too hot
firefighters went out on Saturday at lunch time for a
deck fire at at author Tom Clancy's waterfront home
located on Camp Kaufman Road on the Chesapeake Bay to
put out a fire which started on a deck.
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Reverse
Robin Hood: Millionaires on Welfare
Lawmakers
steal from the middle class chumps and dish out the
moola to the landed gentry...Who are all the
millionaires on welfare while the taxes for middle
income homeowners are hiked? See this story on
newsstands now while the St. Mary's Board of
Commissioners ponders raising taxes by $40 on every
household to replenish the exhausted "Agricultural Land
Preservation Fund". Actual working farmers who
have been given money to take a pass on development of
their property are few and far between, while folks like
the Parlett Family have picked up tax free payments of
$1.9 million, Dr. Norton Dodge, who wouldn't ever, even
in a Blue Moon, allowed any development on his
illustrious manor, got $4 million and more public funds
were doled out to the left, to leading liberals, to the
right, to hard-nosed conservatives, and all the while
sticking the poor slobs in the middle income
subdivisions like Country Lakes, Wildewood or Golden
Beach with the bill while Millionaires are picking up
welfare checks...read this story now, as they are coming
for more of your tax money to keep giving to those who
are fox hunters, vineyard owners, oil distributors, high
priced attorneys and developers, all in the name of
preserving land from development. Much of this
land was never in danger of being developed and could be
the biggest scam ever thought up by Maryland's brain
dead elected officials...
17 Pounds of Pot...story
now on newsstands...
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