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
Posted by Java Joe on June 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The F-22 Raptor has deployed to the Pacific as part of a theater security mission, swapping in for the Air Force’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Expedition 60/61, F-22 Raptor, F-35, FFG(X), Fincantieri, frigate Alpino, German drones, Lockheed Martin, MQ-9 Reapers, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Senate defense policy bill, Top Gun
Posted by Lexi Leader on June 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Important deadlines for the upcoming 2018 Gubernatorial Primary Election are approaching. The deadline to register to vote, change party affiliation, update an address, and request an alternate polling place for this election is 9 pm Tuesday, June 5, 2018.
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Category Leader Features · 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, Phil Riehl, Pride in Park, Quincy Williams, Showtime Deli, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, viki volk
The Patuxent Partnership is hosting an educational event for participants to learn more about AIRWorks and Model-Based Systems Engineering. The event is planned for 8 to 10 am Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center.
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Category Leader Features, Pax River News · Tags AIRWorks, Bonnie Green, David Cohen, Gerald Swift, Hiring Our Heroes, Military Corps Career Connect, Patuxent Partnership, Pax partnership, RADM Shane Gahagan, STEM, The Patuxent Partnership, TPP
Dozens of people who have lost a loved one to suicide — a high school classmate, a fiancé, a son, a friend, a parent — as well as those who may have thought about suicide themselves and others wishing to offer their support to raise awareness and help prevent suicide came to the College of Southern Maryland Leonardtown Campus on May 5 for an Out of the Darkness Campus Walk.
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Category Community News · Tags American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Barbara Link, College of Southern Maryland, college-southern-maryland, CSM, Greg Reuss, Jennifer Fossell, Jennifer Van Cory, Kat Olbrich, Kevin Hunter, Latasha Baker, Martha Maratta, Melinda Ruppert, Out of the Darkness, suicide prevention, Susan Maskaleris
Posted by Java Joe on June 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US Pacific Command has a new name. It will now be called US Indo-Pacific Command in the latest move to counter Chinese economic and military pressure in the region.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags C5I Edge Systems, F-35, forward firing gun, Geico Skytypers, MacAulay-Brown, military pet owners, minidrone, pilot retention, Pioneering Decisive Solutions Inc., Smartronix, tariffs, US Indo-Pacific Command, US Pacific Command, V-22 Osprey
Posted by Lexi Leader on June 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment
During a recent field trip to the Drayden African American Schoolhouse by ninth- and 10th-grade Kings Christian Academy students, Dr. Janice Walthour provided the group an arithmetic lesson.
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Category Leader Features · Tags Carl Franzen, Drayden African-American Schoolhouse, Gerald Fair, Helen Daugherty, Janice Walthour, 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
State and local dignitaries as well from colleagues from Maryland’s community colleges, and the College of Southern Maryland’s faculty, students, and foundation came together as Dr. Maureen Murphy was installed as the fifth president of the college in a ceremony May 22, 2018.
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Category Community News, Leader Features · Tags College of Southern Maryland, college-southern-maryland, CSM, CSM President Dr. Maureen Murphy, Cynthia Bambara, Denise Gilmer-Knudson, Dr. Bradley Gottfried, Dr. Mary Beth Klinger, Dr. Maureen Murphy, Michelle Brosco Christian, Michelle Simpson, Mike Green, Nancy Hempstead, Oluwaseyi Kintunde, Tara McManaway, Ted Harwood, Theodore L. Harwood II
Posted by Lexi Leader on June 2, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Tickets are now on sale for the first-ever Choose Civility: Southern Maryland Longest Table event to be held at 6 pm June 21. The public is invited to share a meal and conversation with someone they don’t know, exchange stories about life in St. Mary’s County, and discover both common ground and new ideas.
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Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Features · Tags Carl Franzen, Choose Civility Southern Maryland, Gerald Fair, Helen Daugherty, Joan Gelrud, Laura Boonchaisri, 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, The Longest Table, viki volk
Posted by Lexi Leader on June 1, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Maryland Department of Agriculture will sponsor a summer collection program for empty plastic pesticide containers according to specific guidelines. The nearest location to St. Mary’s County which accepts out-of-county pesticide containers will be the Frederick County Landfill at 9031 Reich’s Ford Road in Frederick. Collection dates will be June 19, July 24, Aug. 21 and Sept. 18, 2018.
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Category Leader Features · 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 Department of Agriculture, pesticide containers, Phil Riehl, Pride in Park, Quincy Williams, Showtime Deli, St. Mary's County recycling, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, viki volk
