Opening a business is hard work. It takes dedication, determination and a strong spirit. Each year is a chance to celebrate the business and all those involved in making it a success.
Please join us in recognizing the 2023 Business Anniversary Program milestone honorees.
Is your business celebrating a milestone in 2023? Fill out this form to let us know!
Morgan E. Russell, Inc. is a hauling and excavating contractor providing cleaning services. They offer competitive rates and guarantee a professional and dependable service customized to meet the needs of your property.
This family-owned and operated business incorporates multiple generations of enthusiastic art aficionados with extensive knowledge and the ability to help you find your new favorite piece of art.
Busy Bee Nursery was founded in 1973 at St. Paul's Parish Hall in Prince Frederick as a nursery school. In 1984, the new location was built, and the daycare program was founded in addition to the nursery school. Since that time, the daycare has expanded to add before and aftercare and now has more daycare children than nursery school children. Busy Bee Nursery is a by the Maryland State Department of Education as a group daycare center.
The Calvert School of Dance continues to serve the community as a professional dance studio. Students have gone on to receive scholarships to Tremaine, Gus Giordano’s in Chicago, Hartford Ballet, Annapolis Ballet Theater, North Carolina School of the Arts, UMBC, Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Broadway Dance Center, Steps in NYC, Boston Ballet, Towson University, University of Maryland, New York Dance Alliance and Philadelphia School of the Arts. Their dance philosophy is that dance and gymnastics training is an important part of a well-rounded education.
Located right in the heart of St. Leonard, The Tavern features delicious food and drinks. Bring your friends to play a few rounds of corn hole or shoot some pool. They also have live entertainment throughout the week so be sure to check out the calendar of events.
Family-owned and operated, Brother's Johnson offers portable toilet rentals for special events and construction sites, mobile event restrooms trailer rentals and septic services. Brother's Johnson provides service to the Maryland Tri-Counties (Calvert, St. Mary's and Charles), as well as the Washington, DC Metropolitan area and beyond.
Davis & Palumbo, LLC proudly serves Maryland with five locations in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles & St. Mary's counties. As a general practice firm, they have the resources to handle a wide variety of legal matters.
As soon as you enter the doors to Prime Time, you’ll understand why families have trusted them for 35 years. It’s a place where children feel secure. Where play is a priority, but where that play is carefully designed to develop children’s social skills and prepare them to enter school ready to learn and succeed.
Weems Custom Building, Inc. is a custom home builder located in Prince Frederick. President Dale Weems has over 30 years of experience in many phases of the construction business. For the last 18 years, he has been a General Contractor providing such services as custom home building, extensive remodeling, major additions and decks, as well as designing and replacing kitchens and baths. His experience also includes framing, roofing, siding, finish carpentry, custom cabinetry, carpentry, drywall and painting.
Solomons Veterinary Medical Center was founded by Dr. Nancy Ball in 1993. The practice has undergone changes and improvements throughout the years in keeping with the many ongoing advancements in veterinary medicine. They focus on providing the highest quality medical and surgical services for your companion animals.
Founded by Brian McDaniel in 1998, Crow Entertainment LLC provides DJs, lighting and photo booths for special events. They offer a variety of production items such as monograms, slide shows and special lighting FX. They also offer live music for wedding ceremonies and cocktail hour.
In the Crow Entertainment LLC studio, they have a home entertainment division called Crow Digital Services where they can digitize home movies, films, albums and more. They are a full-time, fully insured family-owned business.
JCGC started out as a program in conjunction with the local Parks and Recreation division, offering basic gymnastics and tumbling to the children of Calvert County in area schools and community centers. As the population of Calvert County and surrounding areas grew, owner Jennie Hinton saw a need for more significant gymnastics instruction and an interest in competitive gymnastics. This led Jennie to leasing space in a local industrial park where she set up two gyms; the upper gym with the 40x40 spring floor, tumble track and assorted tumbling equipment, and the lower gym with an arrangement of gymnastics equipment such as vault, uneven bars, balance beams and parallel bars.
Calvert Systems is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business with Assistance and Advisory Support (A&AS) to the United States Government. Specializing in Flight Operations, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO), Space, and UAS/CUAS.
Northern High School Graduates Walter and Noelle Stickell started their business Garage Doors and More, LLC out of their home and moved to their first location in Owings in 2006. In 2021, they moved to a new larger location in Prince Frederick. Their work includes commercial and residential. This includes installation and repairs of all commercial and residential sectional doors, rolling sheet doors, rolling steel doors, curved doors, truck door repairs and operators.
Outback Porta Jon is a family-owned and operated full-service septic company serving the southern Maryland area and further since 2003. They offer a wide variety of services from septic installs, repairs, pumping, porta Jon rental, vactor truck service, luxury portable restroom trailer rental, hand wash stations, grease trap installation and pumping, septic and drain field inspection and more. They want to thank their wonderful customers for 20 years and look forward to the next 20!
In 2013, Cathy and JR Cosgrove became 4th generation owners when they purchased Horsmon Farm from Cathy’s parents with the plans of expanding the existing mum and pumpkin operation to having beef cattle, pigs, hay and offering educational farm visits to the public. The farm has been owned by the Horsmon family for 98 years.
When Cathy and JR took over operations, Cathy saw a need to increase the public's awareness of what farming was, is and will be like in Calvert County. The same year, they began offering hayrides and the next year a maze made from Sudan grass, the hay they grow for their cattle, was added. Every year, new farm-related and educational attractions are added to help bring the public closer to farm life.
Now, the farm welcomes guests of all ages, school groups and daycares with fun, educational activities, including a hayride that gives a tour of the farm, the Sudan Grass maze that promotes sustainability, a pumpkin patch to show the life cycle of pumpkins, visits with farm animals to teach about animal husbandry, a farm Trail to learn about soil conservation practices, school group lesson that teach about food origins and much more.
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