June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month. Fruits and vegetables are essential to our health and well being ~ they provide so many valuable nutrients that our bodies need including calcium, fiber, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, Vitamin A and Vitamin [...]
Setting Up The first thing to consider is your location. Some plants prefer full direct sun, while others prefer shade and partial sunlight. If you’re planting directly into the ground, it’s good to get the soil tested for heavy [...]
Business Growth Advantage Program Starts March 17. Apply today! Are you looking to move your business to the next level of growth? When your business is ready for growth, the Charles County EDD's Business Growth Advantage Program (BGAP) will give you the [...]
The weather is turning cold. More and more of us are returning inside, lighting fires to warm our bodies and reading new books to warm our minds. Warm your sweet tooth as well with this recipe for Vanilla-Peppermint Hot Chocolate. Plus, check out [...]
Winter is here, and what better way to mark the season than by making these beautiful, festive crafts! You can keep these scrap fabric decorations for yourself, or give them as a gift. Let yourself get creative...if you don’t have scrap fabric, [...]
Do you ever wonder what is special about November besides Thanksgiving and Black Friday? It is a month that feels like a stepping stone from Halloween to Christmas and always seems to fly by. Well, there in fact have been many interesting and [...]
Most of you, our customers, have never heard about the Novelist database we have on our CCPL website. This is a database that librarians use to help you find books to read. It might seem like magic how we can listen to you tell [...]
Are you an art lover or even an artist yourself? If so, you have something in common with some of CCPL’s finest. Join us for our Fall 2021 Staff Art Exhibit! This quarter we’re featuring all 3D works-- from ceramics to a mannequin [...]
The area we call home today was first populated by Indigenous peoples from the Algonquin, Iroquois, and Siouan Nations. Among these groups, the Piscataways (also known as Conoy) were prevalent in the Chesapeake region at the time of European contact. Today, Piscataway Peoples [...]
