Thursday, May 17, 2012
Share your memories of your time at Bowie High School.
As the school year comes to an end and graduation is around the corner, it's time to share memories of your time in high school with friends, family and classmates. So share them on Patch! Add your photos from your time at Bowie High School to this post and have a place to share these memories beyond just the pages of your yearbook. Got a great picture from the homecoming game? What about that special pep rally or school play? We know you have those couple shots from prom. After you upload the photos, tell us who's in them. Congratulations class of 2012!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Governor calls budget package "good for all Marylanders." Republicans say burden to local governments may force county governments to increase taxes.
The Maryland House of Delegates gave final approval Wednesday to a package of three bills that increases taxes on some state residents, shifts part of teacher pensions to local governments and undoes the so-called "doomsday budget." The votes Wednesday afternoon capped the three-day special session called by Gov. Martin O'Malley in order to override more than $500 million in cuts made in a budget passed in early April. The Senate approved the same three bills Tuesday. As part of the package, legislators approved by a vote of 86-51 what amounts to a 50-50 split of teacher pension costs with local governments. The split will be phased in over the next four years beginning July 1 with the new budget year. That bill also includes a doubling of…
Monday, May 14, 2012
Nora Fields, 54, and her daughter Tanickie Gomillion will both graduate with master's degrees from Bowie State University on Friday, May 18.
After both becoming pregnant as teens and prioritizing family over education, decades later Nora Fields, 54, and her daughter Tanickie Gomillion, 38 will both graduate from Bowie State University on Friday with their master of arts degree in mental health counselling “I pulled her along to get her bachelor’s degree and she pulled me along to get my master’s degree,” said Fields in a press release issued by Bowie State. Fields decided to go back for her high school diploma when she was 28, and at 46 she attended an open house at Sojourner Douglass College in Baltimore. She asked Gomillion to go with her and both ended up enrolling that same day together. Both mother and daughter majored in psychology. The took classes together, studied …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
This week's top Prince George's County news.
Speed, Buzzard Contributing Factors in Sunday's Motorcycle Fatality David Christopher Norris, of Upper Marlboro, died Sunday after his motorcycle struck a buzzard causing him to veer off the road. Engine Overheats in NASA Goddard Building Containing Radioactive Material An engine at NASA Goddard overheated and smoked in a building containing radioactive material Thursday. Cafritz Hearing is Adjourned After six days, the Prince George's County District Council ended the evidentiary hearing for the Cafritz rezoning request. The developers want to rezone about 37 acres just south of College Park, in Riverdale Park, to Mixed-Use Town Center so that they can construct a Whole Foods Market, almost 1,000 residential units, and both retail and …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Students learned about science and nutrition while getting a lesson in bread baking.
Nearly 100 students from Yorktown Elementary School in Bowie learned how to make bread with Breadmaking EZ last week as part of a program to advocate for healthier students. Breadmaking EZ is funded through a grant from the Clinton Foundation and provides students with interactive, hands on, interdisciplinary lessons in science and nutrition. The program is active in 17 Prince George’s County Schools, but Yorktown was the first to use this special program.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Four Bowie teens were awarded a total of five scholarships by the city.
The City of Bowie honored four of its most promising, college-bound high school seniors this week by awarding them each with $1,250 in college scholarships. Applicants were required to their submit their cumulative high school grade point averages, SAT scores, teacher recommendations, resumes, and personal essays to the city’s Education Committee. The recipients of the scholarship were: Adesulu Adewole of Bowie High School, who plans to attend the University of Virginia and major in finance and accounting; Danielle DiGregory also of Bowie High, who was admitted to the Honors program at the University of Maryland and plans to major in business; Victoria Gray of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, who will attend Duke University and major in …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Plan to fix "Doomsday Budget" includes $247 million in tax increases and elimination of exemptions for single filers earning $100,000 or more and joint filers earning $150,000 or more.
UPDATE (5:59 p.m.)—Some Maryland residents will pay more taxes in the coming year under a plan worked out between Gov. Martin O'Malley and legislative leaders. O'Malley, accompanied by House Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller, announced the nearly $35.8 billion plan during a Wednesday morning news conference in Annapolis to discuss the upcoming special session. "To leave this budget incomplete, to leave this budget as it stands right now, would damage the very forward motion that all of us, together, have worked so hard to achieve for our state," O'Malley said. "Progress is a choice," O'Malley said. "Job creation is a choice. Building America's number one schools, making a college education affordable, …
Monday, May 7, 2012
The event will serve as a fundraiser for the BSU Athletic Department.
Bowie State University will host its first Bulldog Golf Classic on Thursday, May 10, to support student scholarships and purchase new athletic equipment. “Our goal to excel in academics and athletics is our number one priority. The investment in our students today will pay dividends in their lives in the future,” said Anton Goff, Athletic Director at Bowie State University in a statement. Public participation is welcome in this event, which is being held at the Country Club at Woodmore in Mitchellville, MD. Registration and a practice range will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. An awards ceremony luncheon will take place at 3:30 p.m. Individuals or parties of four can register for the tournament, and companies and …
Friday, May 4, 2012
Bowie is the first historically black college to open a facility specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex students.
Maryland’s oldest historically black college became the first one in the nation to open a resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex students and their allies. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Allies (LGBTQIA) Resource Center opened April 2 on the third floor of the MLK Building. The Resource Center will offer students a library of LGBT educational materials, counseling services, workshops, programs and workshops to raise awareness about sexual orientation issues on campus, reported The Sentinel. The center is currently overseen by Adrian Krishnasamy, an assistant professor in the department of communications and two students, although Bowie State is seeking funding to staff the center…
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Prince George's County middle schools will see extended school days and combined bus routes next year.
Benjamin Tasker and Samuel Ogle middle school students can expect to spend an extra 40 minutes longer each day in school next year. Beginning in August, middle schools students who are struggling will receive an additional 40 minutes a day of instruction in math, science and reading while those who do not require extra help in these areas will receive extra instruction in subjects like music or foreign languages, reported WJLA.com. Prince George's County middle school students would be in class for as long as seven hours and 20 minutes, much longer than their peers in neighboring Montgomery County and Washington, DC. School officials hope the longer days will improve student performance. Currently, Prince George’s County Public Schools …
Piotr Gajewski
7:08 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Dennis, It’s pretty easy to cherry pick accolades and stats. For example Maryland has the highest per capita income, highest per capita number of millionaires and the number one public school system. Rockville has been chosen by Bloomberg as one of top ten cities to start a business (I don’t think any Virginia cities made the list). Then there is the issue of what criteria are used. If low … more ›