South River Source

  From Anne Arundel County Public School spokesman Bob Mosier: Southern High School art teacher and department chairman Michael Bell has been named Anne Arundel County’s winner of the 2013 Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award by The Washington Post. Bell is one of 21 winners of the honor, awarded annually by the newspaper to outstanding [...]

Southern High School’s Future Farmer’s Association (FFA) Horse Judging Team recently traveled to Blacksburg,VA for the Virginia Tech Invitational Horse Judging Contest. There were 78 teams and 216 contestants participating in four divisions of the contest. Southern’s seven member team performed exceptionally well, placing second in the team division and first in the individual category. [...]

Around 4 p.m. on Friday, a three car accident on Solomons Island Road near Southern High School caused major backups and sent four people to the hospital. Anne Arundel County Police spokesman Lt. Doyle Batten said that Timothy Alan Hartman of Mechanicsville was taken to the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with life threatening injuries. [...]

Southern High School’s ‘Meet the Coaches’ Night will start at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. All parents and athletes in spring sports must attend the event. There will be information about tryouts, and necessary paperwork. Schedules and rosters can be found online at Southern High Athletics or Digital Sports. Athletics forms: All necessary forms and paperwork [...]

As part of our regular line-up of stories, South River Source will begin spotlighting one South County business a month. This series will allow our readers to get-to-know some of the locally-owned businesses in our area. This month, we spoke with Bandon Yost, vice president of the service division at Colonial Electric Co. Colonial Electric [...]

Brian Himes, a science teacher at Southern High School in Harwood, is helping over 100 teens and faculty members prepare for a cold, cold dip in the Chesapeake Bay on Feb. 1 for the Polar Bear Plunge to benefit Special Olympics. This is the second year for Southern students and faculty to participate. The water [...]