On Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at 2:50 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Flora Corner Road, for the reported motor vehicle collision involving a school bus with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find a pickup truck in the roadway and St. Mary’s County...
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Memorial Day weekend marks a great time to enjoy Maryland blue crabs and crab meat. To guarantee you are purchasing fresh local crabs and crab meat, the Maryland Department of Agriculture encourages you to check the container’s label to confirm that crab meat being purchased was caught in Maryland. While dining out, ask the restaurant...
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On May 25, 2023, at 9:20 a.m., a School Resource Officer (SRO) was notified that a 16-year-old student sent a private message on social media to another student, which contained a threat to commit mass violence at Mattawoman Middle School. The student who made the threat attends a different Charles County Public School. The...
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Sheriff Troy D. Berry is pleased to announce the graduation of Charles County Sheriff’s Officers Lieutenant Anthony Celia, Lieutenant William Welch, Lieutenant Ryan Taylor, and Sergeant Jessica Minor from Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety 545th School of Police Staff and Command. The School of Police Staff and Command is an intensive leadership and management...
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The Marine Corps recently received the first of eight MQ-9 Reapers, which was delivered under a joint contract with the U.S. Air Force. The Navy’s Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Air System program team (PMA-266) at Pax River leveraged the U.S. Air Force’s Agile Reaper Enterprise Solution (ARES), an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract,...
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On May 23, 2023, at 12 p.m., a school resource officer was notified about an assault that occurred at Gale Bailey Elementary School during which two students struck another student several times. The students stopped fighting as teachers approached and the student was seen by a school nurse. In accordance with Maryland law, the...
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Don’t be alarmed if you see firefighters from Bay District Volunteer Fire Department (BDVFD) going door-to-door in your neighborhood on Sunday, June 4th or Sunday, June 11th, 2023. We will be installing smoke alarms free of charge in neighborhoods on Sunday June 4th and Sunday June 11th. Firefighters will be going door-to-door offering to...
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Summer is in full swing at the Calvert Marine Museum with fun camps, cruises on the river, and the return of concert season! For more information please visit: www.calvertmarinemuseum.com Wednesday through Sunday, the month of June – Wm. B. Tennison Public Cruise 2 p.m.: Relax and enjoy a leisurely one-hour sightseeing cruise on the...
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UPDATE 5/24/2023: The Prince George’s County Police Department, along with the U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF), are seeking the public’s assistance in finding the teenager who attempted to murder another teenager on a school bus earlier this month. The suspect is a 15-year-old male who goes by the name...
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The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), Southern Maryland’s largest employer and the region’s largest source of STEM jobs, will hold a job fair to fill more than 100 mid-level positions. The hiring event will run from noon to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14, at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland SMART...
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NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. Tactical Airlift Program Office (PMA-207) delivered the first of two C-40A aircraft to Marine Transport Squadron (VMR) 1, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 41, in Fort Worth, Texas, May 19. “Delivery of this aircraft meets a critical Marine Corps requirement for organic long-range logistical airlift capability,” said Col...
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St. Mary’s Ryken (SMR) announces the hiring of Tony Stefko ’95 as Head Baseball Coach. Coach Stefko comes to the team with over 38 years of combined playing and coaching experience. He will assume the coaching position effective immediately. “As an alumni and former player at St. Mary’s Ryken, I have followed the program since my...
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The United States Postal Service (Postal Service) and United States Postal Inspection Service (Postal Inspection Service) today announced expanded actions to protect Postal employees and the security of the nation’s mail and packages as threats and attacks on letter carriers and mail fraud incidents have escalated concurrently with a national rise in crime. The...
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The St. Mary’s County Government Department of Emergency Services will host an in-person SKYWARN® Tropical course on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Commissioner’s meeting room, located in the Chesapeake Building at 41770 Baldridge Street in Leonardtown. Taught by a National Weather Service meteorologist, the SKYWARN® Tropical course...
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The ten graduating seniors of the Charles County Youth Orchestra, Jasmin Ali, Christine Baker, Joseph Bonney, Kaylee Davis, Riley Dunbar, Helena Kijesky, Nathan Londres, James Olmsted, Lara Oribello, and Jaya Robinson were honored at the CCYO concert on Sunday, May 21. Two CCYO seniors plan to major in music next year in college. Riley...
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Calvert Elementary School student Sydney Gleeson is the proud winner of Artsonia’s Artist of the Week contest, a voting competition held on Artsonia.com, the world’s largest collection of student art portfolios exhibiting over 100 million pieces of student art. Gleeson received nearly 2 thousand online votes for her winning art titled, ‘Dragon Eye Drawing.’...
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On Sunday, May 21, 2023, at approximately 7:45 p.m., NAS Patuxent River firefighters responded to building 2818 for an automatic fire alarm. While units responded, the incident was upgraded to a working fire dispatch which alerted additional firefighters from Bay District, Hollywood and Valley Lee Volunteer Fire Departments. First arriving units found smoke conditions...
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By Sheila Mullowney, NAVSEA Warfare Centers Headquarters Corporate Communications: The Navy will be getting a long-needed, state-of-the-art combustion laboratory at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Indian Head Division, thanks to a new federal funding program aimed at upgrading defense laboratories. The Central Laboratory Investment Program (CLIP) was established by the Office of the Under Secretary...
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On May 16 at 1:07 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office were patrolling the 3500 block of Crain Highway in Waldorf when they observed two occupied Hyundai vehicles in the parking lot of a business. A computer check revealed both cars were reported stolen in nearby jurisdictions. Officers initiated a traffic stop,...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department is investigating after a student at Non-Traditional Program 9-12 South school in Cheltenham brought a loaded gun onto school property. The 17-year-old student will be charged as an adult. Thursday, May 18, 2023, at approximately 9:15 a.m., the department was notified that Prince George’s Schools security personnel recovered...
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St. Mary’s County Public Schools and the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office formally approved the continuation of the successful School Resource Officer and Adopt-a-School programs last week. J. Scott Smith, Superintendent of Schools, and Sheriff Steve Hall signed A Community Partnership for Safe and Secure Schools agreement and Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday, May...
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All ages are invited to enjoy new outdoor activities while visiting St. Clement’s Island Museum, Piney Point Lighthouse Museum, or the U.S. Colored Troops Interpretive Center in Lexington Park on the second Saturday of the month throughout the year. These activities encourage visitors to explore nature and the outdoors through curiosity and play. Modeled...
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St. Mary’s County Government (SMCG) is pleased to announce the planned purchase of Willows Recreation Center. This facility is set to become the new home of the St. Mary’s Gymnastics Academy, offering competitive and recreational gymnastics. In addition to gymnastics, space will be available for daytime and evening programming that includes a pickleball court,...
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For most of her life, Carrie Richardson wanted to be a teacher. “I always knew,” said the principal of Mary H. Matula Elementary School who was recently named the 2023 Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) Principal of the Year. Yet, after landing on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park in her...
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Memorial Day: A Day to Remember the Fallen
Monday, May 29, 2023, is Memorial Day. This day is a national holiday, for remembering and honoring men and women, who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country. Waterloo, New York, was declared the official birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966. The holiday had many origins,...
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