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Rock Ridge VFW cruises in 9-0 win over West Duluth
VIRGINIA—As district playoffs approach, the Rock Ridge VFW baseball team looks to be coming into form. On Monday, Post 1172 played a complete game from start to finish with excellent pitching, strong defense and solid hitting as they defeated visiting Post 137 from West Duluth, 9-0. On the pitcher’s mound to start for Rock Ridge was Blake Bailey, who went 5.2 innings of no-hit ball to lead things for Post...
Service Year program graduates first class of workers with skills, experience
One will go to the military, another will continue his education and a third plans to continue on with an organization that works to combat the poverty-to-prison pipeline. They were just some of the 231 members who were among the inaugural class of Maryland Corps and Service Year Option graduates who were applauded Tuesday at […] The post Service Year program graduates first class of workers with skills, experience appeared first on Maryland Matters.
Proven showmen on their own, one CMR girl reigns supreme
All five girls had already won the best among senior 4-Hers during the week’s CMF Farm Show, winning their respective species class. Monday morning, they competed in the second-annual Supreme Showmanship class where they not only had to show their stuff for Judge Ruth Boden in the livestock, they normally show but in the other three specie classes too.
Collating equity in Maryland's 5th district
What began as a topic of conversation less than a decade ago, the Southern Maryland Equity in History Coalition has since expanded into a grand sum of 31 organizations working together to elevate the history of Black, Indigenous and other people of color across Southern Maryland. Although the local history of Black and Indigenous people in the region is referenced in books, members and organizers of the coalition have sought to make it more accessible through a comprehensive and easily searchable website. Their mission is...
Maryland Educators Aim to Boost Ag in Schools and on the Street
Maryland is gearing up to make agriculture a central topic in schools and with the general public. Ag leaders and educators gathered to share this common vision Tuesday at the first Agriculture Education Summit, hosted by the Maryland Department of Agriculture in Annapolis. In his opening remarks, Ag Secretary Kevin...
Serge Clement: Mid-Major Standout Joins George Mason as Assistant Coach
George Mason University's head basketball coach, Tony Skinn, has announced the addition of Serge Clement as an assistant coach to the men's basketball program. Clement, recognized as a top mid-major assistant, brings a wealth of experience after successful stints at Hofstra and Marist. Clement led Hofstra to three consecutive 20+...
Maryland Dove assumes a new captain after 34 years
After 34 years of captaining the “floating ambassador” of Historic St. Mary’s City, Will Gates retired last weekend and turned over the command of Maryland Dove to his protégé and former student, Angela Laaro. Laaro, a generational St. Mary’s County resident who volunteered at the Maryland Dove in her youth, accepted the change-of-command July 13 and will lead as the new shipmaster of the wooden vessel. “I'm excited to share...
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Patient of the Week: Woodland Box Turtle
In captivity, we know that a lack of dietary vitamin A is the most common cause. In the wild, organochlorine pesticides in their environment can change the way these turtles metabolize vitamin A, leading to a functional lack of the vitamin. This creates abnormalities in the lining of the ear that predisposes these turtles to developing these abscesses.
R-MA President David Wesley Under Scrutiny in Wake of Flight Scholarship Accusation, Lost Air Force Jr. ROTC Accreditation
This reporter became aware of surfacing allegations against current R-MA President and retired Air Force legal staff General David Wesley from a heads up from Norma Jean Shaw, now residing in the deep, southwest corner of Virginia, to a May 16-posted Letter to “The Shaw Report” website. That letter was from former R-MA Commandant Ivan Mieth’s daughter, Tawanna Mieth Williams of Amissville. In her letter to The Shaw Report, from which we received permission to republish, Ms. Mieth-Williams publicly, and NOT anonymously, cited the following scenario:
McLean Community Center Public Art Project – Mural
McLean Community Center (MCC) is accepting qualifications from artists or artist teams for two public art projects it is commissioning in McLean. The two public art projects are part of the center’s 50th Anniversary celebration, which will take place in 2025. The second project is a typographical sculpture to be placed on the rear plaza of MCC, which is located at 1234 Ingleside Ave.
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