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Prince George's County police are investigating a dead body found in a pool off of Brooklyn Bridge Road in Laurel, police said Wednesday. - Dave Strahle, 90-year-old West Laurel resident, voluntarily landscapes entrance to community. The Bond Mill Elementary Destination Imagination team earned 12th in World competition and fifth in Instant Challenge. Three Bond Mill students took second place in their categories at the Prince George's County Kids for Science Fair. Cub Scout Pack 1673 to hold meeting for interested boys. Longtime West Laurel resident, community activist and teacher, Jennie Lee Kalie, died May 28.
- After Tom Linsenmeyer committed suicide in 2001, his brothers and sister decided the best way to keep the student athlete's memory alive would be a run for charity.
- West Laurel Civic Association holds fall general meeting Oct. 27. Sandee and Rich Leibson are retiring to Florida. Woman's Club of Laurel holds yard sale Sept. 14. Laurel Friendship Club will hold its annual fall craft show Oct. 19.
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- A major part of the Washington Surburban Sanitary Commission's system is Rocky Gorge Dam, which was renamed in 1967 after T. Howard Duckett, one of the founders of the WSSC. Construction of the dam was necessary to keep pace with the expanding population in the region.
- Six years and one month after Reaching Hearts International Church in West Laurel was destroyed by arson, the Seventh Day Adventist Church has announced, along with the Baltimore division of the ATF, a $25,000 reward for information on the 2007 fire.
- The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived side-by-side in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.
- All northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Laurel have reopened Sunday evening after a person fell from an overpass onto the roadway earlier in the day, police said.
- When one or both of the to-be-engaged couple has children, it might be good to get everyone involved in the proposal.
- Laurel's Bond Mill Elementary has a rich tradition of participation in the Prince George's County Public School's Write A Book competition. Students write, illustrate and bind their own storybook creations.
- Laurel Mayor Craig Moe said this week that he was approached by representatives of St. Vincent Pallotti High earlier this year about the future of the athletic playing fields at Alice B. McCullough Field, which is one block from the downtown Laurel private school.
- Laurel venues were packed for the Ravens-Redskins rivalry game Dec. 9.
- Cpl. James Beasock will be checking out the West Laurel light displays and picking his favorite three. The West Laurel Recreations Council will host its holiday party Dec. 14 and the WSSC deer hunt is Dec. 21.
- Tom's 11th Annual 5k Reindeer Run, held in memory of Tom Linsenmeyer and to benefit Sarah's House, will be held the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, beginning at 9 a.m. The race begins at the West Laurel Community Building, 16501Brooklyn Bridge Road. Registration is from 8 to 8:45 a.m. The 5k course travels through the West Laurel community.
- As construction on the State Highway Administration's Intercounty Connector inches closer toward completion, some residents of West Laurel are voicing opposition to a portion of the development on Interstate 95 South, citing that the development is infringing on their neighborhood.
- Bond Mill Elementary School in Laurel elected a new slate of Student Council officers. The newly elected Student Council president is Haley Zack; vice president, Kayla Hendershott; Secretary, Sarah Webb; and Treasurer, Madison Endres.
- St. Mary of the Mills School and Scotchtown Hills Elementary hold community walk to combat homelessness, area schools participate in "Clean Up, Green Up" event, Prince George's County Public Schools hold community meetings on superintendent search, interim superintendent Alvin Crawley holds community meetings on the operating budget for fiscal year 2014.
- The West Laurel Civic Association fall general meeting is Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m., at the West Laurel Community Building. Laurel Senior Friendship Club is sponsoring a craft show Oct. 13 at Laurel-Beltsville Senior Activity Center. The family of Trevor Vardy are pleased to announce that he is tumor free after a year of surgery and chemotherapy.
- West Laurel Civic Association will have Sen. Ben Cardin and Rep. Donna Edwards as speakers at the fall general meeting Oct. 18.
- Former vice president Al Gore's Climate Reality Project is the topic of a program at the West Laurel Civic Association's meeting on Thursday, June 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the West Laurel Community Building, 16501 Supplee Lane (off Brooklyn Bridge Road).
- West Laurel resident Brooke Barcheski and Jeremy Moore were married May 26 in Bethesda. During the reception and the couple's first dance together, the bride got caught up in her train and crashed to the floor. While the crowd was gasping, the bride jumped up and did a freestyle dance before rejoining her new husband.
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- Laurel's calendar of events includes auditions, bingo, Tom's Reindeer Run and some upcoming holiday events.
- The 'Occupy' protests wouldn't have gotten so much public attention if they hadn't been covered by the mainstream media.
- Demonstrators plan to camp out in the Inner Harbor, joining similar rallies in Los Angeles and Washington
- Prince George's County Council members still refuse to approve sewer and water application needed for a Seventh-day Adventist church to be built in West Laurel.
- Updates on Hurricane Irene as it passes near Laurel Aug. 27 on its way up the Eastern Seaboard to New England.
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