Flat Iron Farm Lights This Weekend
Organizers of the Flat Iron Farm Christmas lights display enjoyed a great opening weekend. They’ll be back this weekend December 15 and 16 from 5 to 9pm each night.
WARM Needs Volunteer Drivers
WARM — Wrapping Arms ‘Round Many — St. Mary’s County’s winter emergency shelter program for homeless individuals, is in needed of volunteer drivers.
SMECO Employees Raise Funds for Cornerstone SoMD
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative employees recently held a fund-raising event and donated $58,000 to Cornerstone Southern Maryland.
Road Work at NAS Pax Planned This Week
Naval Air Station Patuxent River will perform road work on Shaw Road in the vicinity of Gate 3 the week of December 4. Road work is weather-permitting but is only expected to take one day to complete.
Reminder: Sign Up for Spark! Career Fair
The Patuxent Partnership reminds companies interested in participating in the Spark! Student Career Awareness Fair on February 1, 2024, that the deadline to sign up is approaching.
Osprey Crash Wreckage Turned Over to US Military
Japanese authorities have turned over pieces of the wreckage of the CV-22 Osprey that crashed last week to the US military. Japan also has suspended flights by its Osprey aircraft after the VTOL based near Tokyo crashed during a training mission.
Testing of Calvert Cliffs Sirens Dec. 4
There will be a full-cycle test of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant alert and notification sirens throughout St. Mary’s, Calvert, and Dorchester counties at noon December 4, 2023.
Pax History to Be Presented in ‘Before the Base’ Program
The Patuxent Partnership and the Patuxent River Council Navy League of the United States will present “Before the Base – Cedar Point Before the Patuxent River Naval Air Station” from 8:30 to 9:30am on Thursday, December 7, 2023.
Pax Search and Rescue ‘SAR Dog’ Deploys Newest Medical Expeditionary Capability
Pax River Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Bradley Christian deployed as part of the US Navy’s first En-Route Care System medical expeditionary capability aboard the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group last month.
TPP Dec. 13 Panel Topic: Marine Aviation
US Marine Corps COL Scott “Shady” Shadforth will be the moderator at The Patuxent Partnership, Association of Naval Aviation, and Marine Corps Aviation Association panel — “Project Eagle: The Marine Aviation Roadmap to 2040” — on December 13, 2023.
