A Farm Family Combats Cancer in Kent County

CHESTERTOWN – More than 500 people were milling around outside the Dierkers’ tidy white farmhouse and the portable potties still had not arrived

Somerset County Leads State in Overall Cancer Mortality Rates

ANNAPOLIS – By the time doctors caught Norwood Beauchamp’s lung cancer, the disease had already spread to his lymph nodes

Dixon Decries Bypass Plans as `Worthless’

ANNAPOLIS – Treasurer Richard Dixon called recommendations to deal with traffic tie-ups around Manchester “worthless” and “meaningless” and demanded to see more valid options on how to deal with the problem

Shore Makes Out Well During Session, Members Say

ANNAPOLIS – The slow pace and grinding over issues during this year’s Maryland General Assembly had some Eastern Shore delegates and senators calling the legislative session “unusual” and “frustrating

Modified Sunday Hunting Bill Shot Down

ANNAPOLIS – An attempt to breathe life into a bill allowing Sunday hunting was killed Tuesday by a Senate committee

Spring Chickens,671

ANNAPOLIS – There don’t seem to be as many spring chickens on Maryland farms these days

Planting Predicted,724

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland farmers will try to cut their losses caused by low market prices and last year’s drought by planting less corn this year, according to an agricultural report released Wednesday

Leaping Lizards,852

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Sykesville Spat,414

ANNAPOLIS – Comptroller William Donald Schaefer pressured the Glendening administration Wednesday to name its alternative sites for a police training center originally planned for Sykesville in Carroll County

Barry Bad,502

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