Behavioral Health Action Team to Meet
The Healthy St. Mary’s Partnership’s Behavioral Health Action Team will meet from 10 to 11am Friday, July 19, 2024.
Dodder or Devil’s Hair: It Kills
We have a parasitic plant belonging to the morning glory family that is a hazard to the High Tide bush in the marshes. Dodder has many names, including colorful folk names such as strangle tare, strangleweed, scaldweed, beggarweed, lady’s laces, fireweed, wizard’s net, devil’s guts, devil’s hair, devil’s ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, angel hair, and witch’s hair. Those known and used locally include devil’s hair, devils guts, goldthread, angel hair, and witches hair.
Back-to-School Vaccine Clinics Offered
Free back-to-school vaccination clinics for children ages birth to 18 years living in St. Mary’s County are being offered by the St. Mary’s Health Department.
A Power Competition in the Far North
Many experts agree that the competition between the United States, Russia, and China for global supremacy is moving into a new frozen theater in the far north.
Lace Up Your Sneakers & Join a Walking Group
Healthy St. Mary’s Partnership’s Walking Groups meet at Lancaster Park every Wednesday and at Leonardtown Wharf on one Saturday a month.
Lex Park Library to Host Food Safety Class
The Healthy St. Mary’s Partnership Environmental Health Action Team is promoting the Lexington Manor Passive Park Community Garden’s garden-focused food safety class July 28 with guest speaker Carol Allen of the University of Maryland Extension.
COSMIC Conducts Young Artist Competition
Do you know of a great young artist in Maryland? Are you one yourself? Compete for the chance to perform a solo in concert with COSMIC Symphony.
Hoyer: US Adds 206,000 Jobs in June
The US Labor Department released its June 2024 jobs report which showed that the US added another 206,000 jobs in June, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer said.
Beryl Opens Week; NATO Closes It
The week began for the US Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi sending out a HC-144 Ocean Sentry air crew to survey and assess damage in the wake of Hurricane Beryl along the Texas coast. While in Washington, DC, US President Joe Biden and leaders of other NATO member states gathered for their annual summit.
Maryland 1st Youth Master Angler
Eleven-year-old Lucy Perez has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ FishMaryland program.
