Halloween Fills St. Mary’s Square
A perfect Southern Maryland autumn day, sunny and dry, helped an ad hoc group of local businesses — calling themselves the Great Mills Business Association — throw a whale of a Halloween party at St. Mary’s Square on Great Mills Road.
STEM-ING 2021: TPP & NAWCAD Need Your Ideas!
NAWCAD and The Patuxent Partnership will host Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – Inspiring the Next Generation (STEM-ING) for the ninth year — this year it will be virtual and they are searching for ideas on what workshops to offer.
County Series Puts Focus on Small Businesses
St. Mary’s County will offer the next “Helping You Navigate Now” listening session for small retail and service organizations Oct. 26, 2020.
Pandemic Sending Residents Outdoors
The Maryland Park Service is reporting a total of 17.1 million visitors to date in 2020, already surpassing the previous record of 14.9 million total visitors in 2019.
Here’s a Way to Keep Maryland Beautiful
Applications for the annual Keep Maryland Beautiful grants program are now being accepted. Grants are being offered to help volunteer and nonprofit groups, communities, and land trusts support environmental education projects, litter removal, citizen stewardship, and solve natural resource issues in urban and rural areas.
Vote Centers & Drop Box Locations in St. Mary’s
The St. Mary’s County Board of Elections announces voting centers and drop box locations for the 2020 general election.
Volunteers Ready to Read to Children of Frontline Heroes
A new Reading for St. Mary’s Heroes initiative honors the service of frontline and essential workers of the COVID-19 pandemic, including health care providers, public health professionals, law enforcement, emergency medical services, firefighters, public works, teachers, grocery store workers, and others.
Save the Date for TPP So. China Sea Webinar
The Patuxent Partnership and St. Mary’s College of Maryland Center for the Study of Democracy will co-sponsor the “Rocks & Rules: America and the South China Sea” webinar. Save the date: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, from noon to 1:30 pm.
Entwined Histories of Lex Park & Lady Lex
Lexington Park began as a single housing project, named for the Lexington, the Navy’s first really big aircraft carrier. The ship went down in 1942, before the housing project was completed, and in 2018 was found two miles deep on the floor of the Pacific.
DNR Photo Contest Winners Announced
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has announced the winners of the 2020 Natural Resources Photo Contest, with the grand prize going to Zaphir Shamma of Gunpowder for his striking photo of an eastern screech owl nestled in a tree cavity.
