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While the crowd was small, the recognition was significant during the Veterans Day and U.S. Marine Corps cake-cutting ceremony Monday. The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 233 first organized the annual Veterans Day ceremony about five years ago and added the cake ceremony three years ago when members realized the event aligned with the Marine Corps’ Nov. 10 birthday, Mayvee Smith, president of the auxiliary, told Southern Maryland News. “It’s not really done in the community,” said Smith, who was also the master of ceremony after Indian Head Mayor Brandon Paulin could not attend. “This gives the community a chance to see.” This year, the Marine Corps celebrates its 251st birthday. “I married the Marine Corps,” Smith said during the ceremony. “I divorced it too, but in doing that, I never walked away from my Marine Corps friend.” The cake ceremony honors the youngest and oldest U.S. Marine Corps members where the oldest member passes a piece of cake to the youngest member to represent the passing of experience and knowledge. This year, the youngest Marine Corps member in attendance was Joe Coaxum, 58, of Waldorf, who fought in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. The oldest member in attendance
Get ready to bundle up for your weekend plans as we’ll see unseasonably cool highs along with gusty NW winds that will make it feel even colder. A Freeze Warning goes into effect at midnight and holds until 8 am Saturday for Stafford, and Spotsylvania Co. and Fredericksburg, VA, along with Charles Co., MD and […]
COLTONS POINT, Md. — The St. Clement’s Island Museum has announced that its new museum building will officially celebrate its grand opening on March 25, 2027, coinciding with Maryland Day, as construction continues at the historic waterfront destination. In a recent Facebook update, museum officials reported additional progress...
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. — Calvert County Public Schools reported promising improvements in school safety at last week’s Board of Education meeting. Representatives for the district’s Student Safety and Well-Being Advisory Committee presented a 2026 draft report that highlighted a 43% drop in bullying incidents that led to a referral and a 27% reduction in reported school safety incidents between the 2021-22 school year and the present.
A University of Maryland student who once graduated at the top of her class at Parkdale High School has been detained by immigration authorities, according to her boyfriend, who says she and her mother are now being held in Louisiana after attending a routine immigration check-in in Baltimore. Maria Flores Garcia, a public health major who dreamed of becoming a doctor, had built a life defined by academic achievement since arriving from El Salvador as a child — a story now upended by her detention.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Before Juice Buzz had a storefront, co-founder Jeanette Kent was making juice for friends and family. She had taken up juicing as part of a broader change in how she ate and lived while dealing with autoimmune health issues. Around the same time, Dana, a certified health coach with a master’s degree in nutrition, was developing a juice business of her own. The two teamed up to build Juice Buzz.
At 1:45 p.m. on Sept. 29, WSSC Water told emergency managers it expected some customers to start losing water pressure by 3 p.m., most by 4 p.m., and all of its customers to lose water service by 5 p.m., according to a Nov. 6 memo from Montgomery County’s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (OEMHS) to the County Council.
