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Pedaling Annapolis’ New Bike-Sharing Plan

Three-year plan places 50 bikes at nine different spots around town

When Art and Music Meet

Instruments play a new tune at orchestra fundraiser

Peaceful Coexistence?

Annapolis tries adding bicycles to its traffic flows and woes

Twist and Stout

Beer and wine come to Quiet Waters

Pedaling Annapolis’ New Bike-Sharing Plan

Three-year plan places 50 bikes at nine different spots around town

Whether you live in, work in or enjoy visiting Annapolis, the $64,000 question is where to park. At city core, Church Circle is a central star, emitting streets like rays. From this spherical hub, you choose a street to search for parking. There are small streets, like Franklin and South, and more heavily traveled streets like West, Main and College Avenue. Many drivers go right for Duke of Gloucester Street and the Noah...

Article - Green Living, News, People, Places, Features; by Shelby Conrad; 9/20/18

When Art and Music Meet

Instruments play a new tune at orchestra fundraiser

Ten local artists tackled a different type of canvas for their partnership with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. Instead of choosing fiber to capture their artwork, they turned violins into masterpieces of a different sort. You can see the results Sunday, Sept. 23, when art and music join forces at McBride Gallery for the big reveal of The Painted Violins. The violins, donated by the Anne Arundel Co. Public School System, now...

Article - Arts and Culture, Good Living, News, People, Things; by Kathy Knotts; 9/20/18

Field of Dreams

Growing corn is a-mazing

A staple of the dinner table has now become a staple of fall festivals. At farms, garden centers and plant nurseries around the nation, the corn field is more about getting lost and having fun and less for picking and eating. Designs get more complicated by the year. The corn maze at Greenstreet Gardens in Lothian has become known for its inspired and timely designs. Every year the staff brainstorms design ideas for the corn...

Article - Gardening, Good Living, Green Living, History & Lore, News, People, Places, Features; by Kathy Knotts; 9/20/18

Peaceful Coexistence?

Annapolis tries adding bicycles to its traffic flows and woes

I was an outlier back when I commuted around St. Louis on my one-speed, thin-tired bicycle. This step up from my childhood Schwinn Starlet was a Francophile affectation. I’d been to Paris, and that was the look for me. So in my early 20s, I wore a belted blue trench coat and rode my bicycle to work and errands. This was urban riding in the old midtown of the city, over short distances on roads free of today’s congestion. My only...

Article - Letter from the Editor 9/20/18

Your Say: Sept. 20-26, 2018

Where Do I Find Milkweed? I really enjoyed your column and Ms. Barker Frankel’s article that I just read on monarchs in the paper of Sept. 13. We recently purchased property and have not seen any milkweed plants on it, which concerns me. In the past, our property used to be a tobacco farm and then morphed into a horse farm. I was wondering if you know of any local places that I could purchase native plants that you could recommend for monarchs. ...

Article - Correspondence 9/20/18

Twist and Stout

Beer and wine come to Quiet Waters

As you enter Quiet Waters Park, you’ll see welcome signs, trail signs, pavilion signs and signs prohibiting alcohol. If you want to have your wedding in the park, you’ll have to get the liquor license yourself. Other festivals and parades in the park have always been dry — until now. This month, Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks presents Twist and Stout, a fine wine and craft beer...

Article - Live Music, Good Living, News, People, Places; by Shelby Conrad; 9/20/18

Coast Guard Challenge

Innovation to make all safer, a few richer

This year’s accumulating stories of deaths and serious boating accidents on the Bay and our rivers have gotten to me. I no longer leave the dock without donning my inflatable PFD. It was expensive, but it’s comfortable, and I feel safer. There’s still the issue of getting out of the water, particularly if I don’t have time to send a distress call. If I am overdue, I can count on my wife notifying the authorities. But it...

Article - Boating, Fishing, News, Things; by Bob Melamud; 9/20/18

Way Downstream …

In Calvert County, the late Tom Clancy’s 537-acre Bay-front estate is on the market. Asking price, $6.2 million. Peregrine Estate, as the megabucks author of Hunt for the Red October and other best-sellers called it, is a 17,000-square-foot mansion, with a mile of waterfront and its own fossil-filled cliff. See panorama of the property set to high-strung music at cummingsrealtors.com, the company that would...

Article - News, People, Places, Things 9/20/18

This Week’s Creature Feature: The Red-winged...

This common bird has an attitude

Early each morning spring, summer or fall, in marshes all over the United States, male red-winged blackbirds sing their hearts out, telling all what piece of the ground they claim. The males guard the best area of dense reeds for nesting. If they are lucky, multiple females will agree with the choice. One dominant male will try to corral and nest with up to a dozen or so females. Red-wings are one of the few songbirds that have male-dominated...

Article - Creature Feature; by Wayne Bierbaum; 9/20/18

Trout Fishing in Maryland

Brook trout are native, but many imports are stocked in our streams

My first trout was long ago, but I remember it like yesterday. The early morning mist was still clearing off the small stream. The sun had just begun to make its presence felt as I fished a five-weight, seven-foot fly rod about 20 feet off to one side of the creek to avoid spooking fish. Rise-rings had been appearing periodically in the center of the creek off a fallen tree about 25 yards above me. I held my breath that the trout would continue feeding as...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle; 9/20/18

Pedaling Annapolis’ New Bike-Sharing Plan

When Art and Music Meet

Field of Dreams

Peaceful Coexistence?

Your Say: Sept. 20-26, 2018

Twist and Stout

Pedaling Annapolis’ New Bike-Sharing Plan

When Art and Music Meet

Field of Dreams

Peaceful Coexistence?

Your Say: Sept. 20-26, 2018

Twist and Stout

Coast Guard Challenge

Way Downstream …

This Week’s Creature Feature: The Red-winged...

Trout Fishing in Maryland

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