March 27, 2024

Fallabel Earns DoD Workforce Award

Fallabel

NAVAIR’s Eric Fallabel has received the 2020 Defense Acquisition Workforce Award for Individual Achievement in the Test and Evaluation.

Schedule Changes for School Meal Distribution

Summer Meals

Changes in the St. Mary’s County Public Schools schedule of curbside meal distribution, beginning with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the month of February, have been announced.

County Offers Relief Funds for Restaurants

Relief Funds Rastaurants

St. Mary’s County has approved a second round of relief funds for food service establishments as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact businesses.

St. Mary’s Sees Surge in COVID Cases

vaccines COVID

COVID-19 cases in St. Mary’s County surge after the holidays, the St. Mary’s County Health Department reports.

DNR Taking Orders for Tree Seedlings

Seedlings

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is accepting orders for the spring 2021 planting season for shrubs and trees from the state tree nursery.

Get Your Family Heirlooms Appraised

Heirlooms

St. Clement’s Island Museum will offer an Appraiser’s Fair on Jan. 23, 2021. Make an appointment to have a family heirloom appraised.

Lex Park COPs Unit Food Drive a Success

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Lexington Park COPs Unit collected food Dec. 19, 2020, at the Weis grocery store in Lexington Park. By all accounts, the event was a success!

Start the New Year With a 1st Day Hike

First Day

Maryland wants you to start 2021 off on the right foot. So take a 1st Day Hike!

Wanted: Creative 5th-Graders for Poster Contest

Trees

The Maryland Forest Service is looking for fifth-graders to enter its Arbor Day poster contest, “Trees Are Terrific and Forest Products Are Too!”

Museum Exhibit Tells Story of War of 1812

Jail Museum

A local model ship aficionado is displaying a temporary exhibit at the Old Jail Museum about the HMS Albion, the flagship of the flotilla of British ships that raided Leonardtown during the War of 1812 Chesapeake Campaign.