Charlotte Hall Vets Take a Fishing Trip       The Lothian Ruritan Club held its annual Take A Veteran Fishing trip on August 15. The club arranged for three charter boats to take 12 veterans who have served in the U.S. armed forces and currently reside at the Charlotte Hall Veteran Home for a three-hour fishing trip. The day began with an Anne Arundel County police car escort from Veterans Home to Skippers Pier restaurant. The Deale Fire House flew an American Flag from a ladder...

      August 25 marks the 400th anniversary of the first landing of enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America. They arrived on the White Lion, an English privateer ship sailing under Dutch authority, at Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia, now part of Fort Monroe National Monument, a unit of the National Park System.             The anniversary is being used as a day of healing and reconciliation at Fort Monroe and...

       In our case, the answer was not much.      For instance, what big dog does NOT make a good military working dog?        That was one of the few we got right on a Defense Department quiz [https://bit.ly/2ZcAtdH] that landed in our inbox — on which we scored an F.        About how many dogs are signed up in the military? Where do they get trained? And how long has the military used what used to be...

     After a soft rain in mid summer there is frequently a chorus of tree frogs saying how great the rain was. The loudest and deepest voice is the gray tree frog; the next loudest is the barking tree frog. The green tree frog has a higher, lighter voice and makes a chirping sound.       The calls after a rain could also be for reproductive means. After a heavy rain there are more areas for them to lay eggs. The eggs will hatch into tadpoles in a mere seven to 10...