South River Source

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health recently issued the results of the April Food Inspections. We pulled out the restaurants and food service businesses in South County. There are a couple of acronyms that you should know in reading the chart. First is the type of inspection as shown in column 4 (TYPE): ICI [...]

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health issued a water quality alert on Wednesday, notifying the public that Weems Creek in Annapolis is closed due to a wastewater spill. Weems Creek is a tributary of the Severn River. It is located southeast of Route 50. The bridges that cross the creek include Ridgely Avenue and [...]

Shady Side 5th graders have been busy. Aside from their usual schoolwork, the students walk over to Discovery Village every couple of days to check on the oysters they’ve been growing off the pier and in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation‘s (CBF) huge oyster-growing vats. The students also put together a business plan and raised $1611 [...]

No more taking the “back route” from Davidsonville to a Bowie Baysox game by crossing the one-lane bridge on Governor’s Bridge Road. The bridge is closed. Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation officials closed the bridge due to deteriorating conditions. The bridge crosses the Patuxent River. The bridge was one of three [...]

Anne Arundel County Police Chief Larry W. Tolliver resigned as chief of Anne Arundel County Police on Tuesday. Tolliver has been on the job for about 10 months. He was appointed on July 26, 2012 by then-County Executive John Leopold. Chief James Teare served in the position prior to Tolliver. Leopold stepped down in February [...]

Gov. Martin O’Malley signed “Graces Law” on Thursday, providing victims of cyberbullying legal avenues to stop online bullying. The law is named for Grace McComas, who was just 15 when she committed suicide after being bullied and harassed online. That was in April of 2012.  Her family  set up a memorial Facebook page where you [...]