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Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Lifesaving Society of B.C. and Yukon May 18, 2021 - 12:00 PM A seven-year-old Salmon Arm boy was one of 15 recipients of a bravery award from the Lifesaving Society of British Columbia and Yukon last weekend. The lifesaving society presented Cody Krabbendam with a silver medal for bravery at a virtual ceremony that took place on Saturday, May 15, and he also received the George A. Brown Memorial Award and scholarship for the most heroic rescue performed by a pre-teen, according to a release from the society. Krabbendam was with family and friends at ...

April 6, 2021 Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative’s (SMECO) Board of Directors has appointed 10 members to the 2021 Nominating Committee scheduled to meet on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at SMECO’s headquarters in Hughesville or via teleconference. The committee will select a slate of candidates for the five Board positions to be elected this year. Elections will be held to fill one position in Calvert/Anne Arundel counties, two positions in Charles County, and two positions in St. Mary’s County. The 2021 Nominating Committee members follow: Calvert County: Kimberly Freeland, Prince Fred...

OPINION COLUMN: Mansfield and 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry Kevin McNatt and Andrew Todesco MANSFIELD - The U.S. census of 1860 shows no African-Americans living in Mansfield at the outbreak of the Civil War. But town clerk records show that nine “colored” men enlisted from Mansfield. So who were these men who responded to the call to arms? During the war the federal government set enlistment quotas for each state. They would have to produce a certain number of volunteers for the war effort. In turn the Commonwealth imposed a quota on every city and town. Early in t...