April 18, 2024

Inaugural Cherry Blossom Festival Draws Hundreds

cherry blossom

The inaugural ArtsPark Cherry Blossom Festival proved a week late for the annual rite of cherry blossoms bursting in Lexington Park, but the green lawns and budding spring trees filled the long-gone Lexington Manor neighborhood with adults, children, dogs, Frisbees, and artists of all stripes and types.

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Share Home Remedies With Slackwater

SlackWater

The SlackWater Center at St. Mary’s College of Maryland would like to learn more about use of home remedies, in the past and in the present.

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Robotics Can’t Start Too Soon

robotics

Robotics can develop STEM skills from pre-K classrooms through high school, according to the RES Rockets, and they should know.

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Generous Gift Boosts Robotics Team

Robotics Team Margaret Brent MS

Thanks to The Patuxent Partnership members, AVIAN LLC and RPI Group, Margaret Brent Middle School’s robotics team has new robotics equipment … and just in time for this year’s VEX IQ challenge.

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Cybersecurity Programs Start in January at SMHEC

Higher Education

Southern Maryland Higher Education Center recruits a new MA degree and graduate certificate program in cybersecurity.

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Lexington Park Joins Public Mural Revival

Lexington Park first public mural

St. Mary’s Community Development Corp. to launch a competition for an artist to paint the first public mural in the “Lexington Park Comes Alive!” series.

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Friendly’s Replaced With New Shops in Great Mills

new shops in Great Mills

Open for business. New shops in Great Mill’s new two-story at Route 5 and Indian Bridge Road across from Great Mills Trading Post.

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’70s in St. Mary’s: Formative, Transformative

Slackwater Charlie Hewitt '70s in St. Mary's

The 1970s in St. Mary’s County: These years were fundamentally formative and even transformative, and the landscape we negotiate today is the landscape born of that era.

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The Flattops Evolve: Into a Tree Museum

tree museum

While Joni Mitchell sang about a tree museum, Lexington Park, Maryland, grew one. Now St. Mary’s Community Development Corp. wants to save it.

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Amber Drive Transforming into FDR Boulevard

FDR Blvd

The Lexington Park Master Plan calls for more road connections beyond FDR Boulevard — 16 connectors needed downtown.

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