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Lighthouse Offering Junior Historian Program
The Piney Point Lighthouse Museum invites children ages 7 to 12 to discover local history and the outdoors through fun, hands-on activities at the Junior Historian Program. The program runs for four days per session, with three hours of activities each day.
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Space Camp: From Lab to Launchpad
June 22-26 marked the inaugural edition of the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Space STEM Camp, as a continuation of the free STEM Camp series for high school students from the tri-county region, sponsored by The Patuxent Partnership.
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2 Cases of Measles Reported in So. MD
Maryland Department of Health confirmed that two cases of measles have been identified in residents of Southern Maryland.
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Pax Sets July 23 Nighttime Noise Advisory
Communities surrounding NAS Patuxent River, Caroline County, and the Northern Neck of Virginia are advised that nighttime noise-generating testing events are scheduled to take place from 8:30 to 10:30pm July 23, 2026.
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SMECO Ballots Are Being Mailed
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative members’ 2026 Annual Meeting notices and ballots will be arriving in the mail in July.
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Lighthouse Offering Junior Historian Program
Jul 23, 2026
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Space Camp: From Lab to Launchpad
Jul 23, 2026
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2 Cases of Measles Reported in So. MD
Jul 22, 2026
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Pax Sets July 23 Nighttime Noise Advisory
Jul 22, 2026
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SMECO Ballots Are Being Mailed
Jul 22, 2026
Leader Exclusives
TechPort Launches 3D Virtual Tour
Take a 3D, 360° Interactive Virtual Tour of the Community’s Innovation Hub — TechPort in the heart of the new aviation technology park at St. Mary’s County Regional Airport.
Unemployment Claims Soar
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer says unemployment claims ought to set off alarm bells with the release of advance claim figures for Dec. 5 that show initial claims were 853,000, an increase of 137,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 4,000 from 712,000 to 716,000.
This Oven Doesn’t Cook Turkey: It Kills COVID
A heat sanitization box designed to assist frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed by entrepreneurs at TechPort, UAS proved instrumental in the FDA’s announcement on dry heat as an acceptable sanitation of certain respirators.
Official Pentagon News Links
This will be the last Morning Coffee column for the foreseeable future. This post includes links to news sources maintained by the Pentagon and the military services.
Morning Coffee Off the Burner Indefinitely
Morning Coffee will be off the burner until LexLeader can again feel confident it is providing factual reports on the news around the internet focused on the Naval Air Station Patuxent River economic community and US military news around the world. Links to the sources Morning Coffee has relied upon for 15 years are posted here.
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