Year: 2020

Sen. Arthur Ellis (D-Charles) (Maryland General Assembly)

Agritourism bill clears Senate, but clock is running down

UPDATE #2: It sounds like the agritourism bill may be dead this year after all due to the early adjournment. Sen. Arthur Ellis (D-Charles), the bill’s lead sponsor in the Senate, provided a statement to TLR on the bill’s status. “Unfortunately, because [the General Assembly will] shut down this Wednesday,

High Noon announcement

Public Service Announcement: Free Student Lunches in Bryans Road

With Charles County’s schools shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, students in the Bryans Road area who rely on the schools for their lunches are in need of alternatives. High Noon Southern Fine Cuisine & Seafood at the Bryans Road Shopping Center will be providing free lunches including

Jacqueline Younger, program coordinator at YESS! of Charles County, who participated in Saturday's community services pop-up in Bryans Road. (Photo by Paul Lagasse)

United Way “pop-up” spotlights community services needs

At their most fundamental, planning and economic development are about ensuring that citizens have access to the basic necessities for life. Food, clothing, and shelter are the traditional trio, but in a modern community those necessities also include things like clean water, electricity, health care, and transportation, and access to

Del. Edith Patterson (D-Charles), left, and Del. Debra Davis (D-Charles) (Maryland General Assembly photos)

What happened to the agritourism bills? Two weeks later, we still don’t know for sure

Two weeks after a seemingly noncontroversial bill was suddenly withdrawn from the Maryland House of Delegates by its own sponsors, no clear explanation is available for why the decision, which could jeopardize a companion bill in the Senate, was made.

Proposed change to benefit assessments could help break rural infrastructure logjam, PGM believes

With the attention of the Board of Charles County Commissioners on Tuesday focused primarily on the surprise last-minute withdrawal of the House agritourism bill the day before its first hearing, a proposed code change went by relatively unnoticed that, if approved, could potentially have a comparable impact on rural development.