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1999-2005: The newspaper and it's publisher achieved national fame for what has become known as the [[Newspaper Caper]]. The incident has become an important freedom of speech case.
2005: St. Mary's Today won the competitive contract to publish the St. Mary's County Government advertisements. This privilege was long held by the [[Enterprise]] newspaper. The Enterprise serves St. Mary's County and is owned by [[Southern Maryland Newspapers]]. That company is owned by [[Gazette Newspapers Inc.]] which is a division of the [[Washington Post Company]]. Then County Commissioner President [[Thomas F. McKay]] was not pleased with the decision according to a story published in the Washington Post.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101200074.html
|title=Switch in St. Mary's Ad Contract Riles McKay
