Posted by Lexi Leader on August 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
With 13 burglaries and two robberies, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is adding more uniformed officers and plain-clothed surveillance personnel in Lexington Park. The department is also looking for help from the community to locate what they believe are as many as half a dozen perpetrators.
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Category Leader Exclusives, Lexi Leader · Tags Cap’n Pat’s, detective tom hedderich, Ledo's, Popeyes, Sheriff Tim Cameron, Showtime Deli, st marys county sheriff's dept, Subway, Tackle Box, Tim Cameron, Vape Jungle, Wendy’s
The changes at Cedar Point at the onset of World War II transformed St. Mary’s County from an isolated farming community to a newly shaped culture. In 1940, the population of St. Mary’s rested at 14,626, a figure that had remained relatively constant since the first census in 1790. But by 1950, that figure jumped to 29,111.
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Posted by Lexi Leader on June 11, 2018 · Leave a Comment
FOX 5 Zip Trip will be at Lancaster Park in Lexington Park, MD, June 15, 2018. Everyone is welcome to attend, get on TV, meet some of the heroes and neighbors of Lexington Park — including County Commissioner Todd Morgan and NAS Patuxent River CO Jason Hammond.
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Category Lexi Leader · Tags Carl Franzen, Fox 5 Zip Trip, Gerald Fair, Helen Daugherty, Joan Gelrud, Lexington Park Business & Community Association, Lexington Park civic association, Lexington Park MD, LPBCA, Margaret Sawyer, Mark Dillow, Mark Pinekenstein, Phil Riehl, Pride in Park, Quincy Williams, Showtime Deli, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, viki volk
By all accounts, the 1940s were the boomtown years in St. Mary’s, when workers by the thousands from all over poured into the county to build the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.
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Category Leader Features, Lexi Leader · Tags Andrea Hammer, cedar point, Hiram Millison, Jack Daugherty, Julia King, oral history, Philip J. Bean, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center
In the late 1930s and early ’40s, rumors had circulated that the military was interested in the Cedar Point peninsula in St. Mary’s County. But days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, government officials and surveyors began the process of condemning the land. The patchwork of farms and settlements would soon be smoothed over to make way for the Navy.
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SlackWater tells the story of how Southern Maryland, in particular St. Mary’s County, was transformed after the advent of World War II — from an isolated agricultural community to a newly shaped culture, one that reflected the social and economic changes of a larger nation.
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USDA is shrinking the eligibility area around Lexington Park, MD, for rural home loan as of June 4. Loans committed before that date can be applied to current eligibility areas, which include many top Lexington Park neighborhoods.
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With interest rates still at historic lows and the supply of homes for sale at record lows as well, buyers are leaping early into the spring home sales season, including making sure their financing is ready to go when they find the home they want.
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Posted by Lexi Leader on February 14, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Lex Park Arts Park will welcome visitors to its second annual Cherry Blossom Festival beginning at noon Sunday, April 8, 2018. If the weather is just right, a couple hundred cherry trees could be in full bloom.
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Posted by Lexi Leader on December 23, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Maryland Society of Professional Engineers inducts the society’s former president, Patrick Mudd, into its College of Fellows.
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Category Leader Exclusives, Lexi Leader · Tags Carl Franzen, Gerald Fair, Helen Daugherty, Joan Gelrud, Lexington Park Business & Community Association, Lexington Park civic association, Lexington Park MD, LPBCA, Margaret Sawyer, Mark Dillow, Mark Pinekenstein, Maryland Socieity Professional Engineers, MDSPE, Pat Mudd, Phil Riehl, Pride in Park, Quincy Williams, Showtime Deli, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, Tory Pierce, viki volk