July 14, 2026

SMECO Linemen to Compete in Gaff-n-Go Rodeo

Linemen

Mark your calendars. Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative linemen will compete at the 2026 Gaff-n-Go Rodeo in Doswell, VA. The public is invited to attend.

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Hegseth: ‘We Have Only Just Begun’

“Four days in, we have only just begun to fight,” DefSec Hegseth said Wednesday about the US-Israel bombing in Iran. “The only limits we have in this is President Trump’s desire to achieve specific effects on behalf of the American people.”

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St. Mary’s Launches New Platform for Accessing Meeting Documents

Platform

St. Mary’s County government has launched a new digital platform to enhance public access to meeting documents and to strengthen transparency in its operations.

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Weed Warriors: PTLT Needs You!

Weed Warriors

Join the Patuxent Tidewater Land Trust for Weed Warriors winter work removing invasive plants from 9am to noon Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Myrtle Point Park.

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Free Trees Available for MD’s Backyard Buffer Program

Backyard Buffer

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering free tree seedlings to landowners statewide who have a creek, drainage ditch, stream, or other waterway on or near their property through the Backyard Buffer program.

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Pax Issues March 4 Night Noise Advisory

Noise

Communities surrounding Naval Air Station Patuxent River are advised that a nighttime noise-generating testing events are scheduled to take place from 6:30 to 8:30pm March 4, 2026.

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Message from the Cap’n – The Greatest Haul

Cap’n Jack recounts the St. Mary’s River’s biggest haul of rockfish of his lifetime. It was in Chicken Cock Hollow across from St. George Island in the early 1960s.

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County Update on CodeRED Cyberattack

CodeRED

St. Mary’s County Department of Emergency Services provided an update on a previously reported cybersecurity incident involving the CodeRED Emergency Notification System.

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VMDAEC Offers Scholarship Opportunities

Scholarship

The Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives Education Scholarship Foundation is accepting scholarship applications for eligible high school seniors graduating in 2026 who will be starting college or trade school in fall 2026.

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Walsh to Moderate TPP/MCAA JGS Panel

Walsh

Up next for The Patuxent Partnership and Marine Corps Aviation Association John Glenn Squadron will be a panel on “USMC Aviation – Soaring to New Heights with Project Eagle.” The event will be March 12, 2026, at the Pax River Naval Air Museum in Lexington Park.

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