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Melwood, a non-profit organization that creates jobs and opportunities to improve the lives of people with disabilities, is ready to celebrate this summer.more
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Sheyenne Fullen speaks to group. (Courtesy Photo)
Melwood Celebrates a Half-Century of Helping
Originally published June 12, 2013Melwood, a non-profit organization that creates jobs and opportunities to improve the lives of people with disabilities, is ready to celebrate this summer.more
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June 12, 2013 -
Some locals may consider Largo to be downtown Prince George’s County with its town center and hot restaurants such as Carolina Kitchen. Others say it is Hyattsville, home to an arts district, government buildings and court house. But according to county planners, the rapidly growing area home to many professional African Americans has no designated downtown area. more
June 12, 2013 -
The Prince George’s County Public Schools Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Search Committee held a town hall-style conference call on June 10 to get community feedback on the necessary qualities for a new schools leader. Charlene Dukes, chair of the search committee and president of Prince George’s Community College, moderated the 90-minute call. more
June 12, 2013 -
Prince George’s County resident LaTara Harris was named AT&T’s new regional director of external affairs for AT&T in the Mid Atlantic. She will focus on local legislative and regulatory affairs in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia.more
June 05, 2013 -
The Prince George’s County officials are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for a string of arson fires in the Laurel area.more
June 05, 2013 -
Newly appointed Prince George’s County School Board Chair Segun Eubanks said his first task is to integrate a highly qualified superintendent and a reconstituted school board and to develop a new agenda geared towards student achievement and parental and community involvement.more
May 29, 2013 -
Amina Hamid 20, and Charles Mayberry, 19, both of Oxon Hill, pled guilty May 24 to a charge of pandering after admitting to luring a young woman into prostitution, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced in a statement.more
May 29, 2013 -
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III made a trip to South Bowie May 28 to explain and rally support for a new law scheduled to take effect June 1which gives him the power to appoint the new schools head administrator, name three members to the school board and determine the school board chair and vice chair.more
May 22, 2013 -
The following are excerpts from First Lady Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Bowie State University on May 18.more
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