Adjutant General of Maryland Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen of Leonardtown is in charge of the Maryland Army National Guard, Maryland Air National Guard, Maryland Emergency Management Agency, and Maryland Defense Force. “It’s not your grandfather’s National Guard,” he says, recruiting for the Maryland National Guard.

Lexington Park began as a single housing project, named for the Lexington, the Navy’s first really big aircraft carrier. The ship went down in 1942, before the housing project was completed, and in 2018 was found two miles deep on the floor of the Pacific.

Tracy Barkhimer, president of Tracy A. Barkhimer Acquisition Strategies & Consulting, LLC (TABAS&Co) of Scotland, MD, was recently named to the National Small Business Association Leadership Council, the nation’s oldest small-business advocacy organization.