Jack Russell / Fins And Claws

10/08/2026

10/08/2026

“Flushing action”!

10/04/2026

***TOMORROW*** Join us for the Island Treasures Auction

The Annual St. George Island Auction is TOMORROW at the Ruddy Duck on St. George Island from 2pm to 4pm. Come enjoy the community, discover this year's treasures, and bid on items and experiences donated by our friends and neighbors.

10/01/2026

Nearly 130 years before the American Revolution, a woman in St. Mary's County walked into the Maryland Assembly and asked for something no woman in the colonies had asked for: a voice and a vote.

Her name was Margaret Brent. She'd arrived in Maryland with her sister and built their own farm, "Sisters Freehold." When Governor Leonard Calvert was dying in 1647, he left his affairs in her hands with five words: "Take all, and pay all." The soldiers who had saved the colony were unpaid, hungry and close to mutiny. She sold Lord Baltimore's cattle to pay them.

Then, in January 1648, she asked the Assembly for two votes: one as a landowner, one as Lord Baltimore's attorney.

They said no.

The ask still made history. Margaret Brent is remembered as the first woman in America to seek the vote, generations before anyone would organize a movement around it.

And it happened right here, in St. Mary's City, where Maryland began.

Find Margaret and more of Maryland's firsts: destinationsouthernmaryland.com/discover/where-maryland-began

Image: Edwin Tunis, c. 1934, via Wikimedia Commons

09/23/2026

Junior, the unlikely single Osprey fledge from Island Creek in 2026, was the last of the Fishhawks from lower Island Creek to migrate. Chesapeake Bay Osprey reports are pessimistic about his future when he returns in two years. www.IslandCreekOspreys.net

09/21/2026

He literally owned Maryland and ran it for over forty years. But he never once set foot in it.

Cecil Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore inherited Maryland before an English ship had even landed there. His father, George, had been Secretary of State to the King, but he resigned in 1625 when he converted to Catholicism.

George had tried to found a colony of his own in Newfoundland, but the winter nearly killed everyone. He died in 1632, months before the charter for Maryland finally came through.

It fell to his son. Lord Baltimore took the land and made his colony a refuge for Catholics. He sent his younger brother across the Atlantic to govern and ran Maryland by letter from England for the rest of his life.

The biggest city in the state still carries his title, but he never saw it.

09/12/2026

Visitors to MD’s parks and public lands should take steps to prevent tick bites and treat tick bites quickly to protect themselves from Lyme disease, Alpha-gal syndrome, and other tick-borne illnesses. extension.umd.edu/resource/ticks-maryland/

09/11/2026

The community is invited to an open house featuring the St. Mary’s Co. Health Department Health Hub’s new youth mentoring partners 9am-3pm Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, in Lexington Park, MD. https://hub.smchd.org/