Articles by Sandra Olivetti Martin

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 6/9/11

One More Way to Enjoy Summer on the Bay

Use the right sunscreen as you have your fun

The best times of summer are the hours we spend outdoors. I bet you’re planning plenty such hours. Aiding and abetting your plans are Bay Weekly’s 8 Days a Week and 101 Ways to Have Fun: Your Indispensable Guide to Summer on the Chesapeake. Both are packed with things to do on land and on water, where breezes tame the worst of Chesapeake Country’s heat and humidity, and when they fail, you can jump in. On land this...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 6/2/11

Are You Having Fun Yet?

101 Ways and counting

I haven’t yet worn out my personal copy of 101 Ways to Have Fun: Your Indispensable Guide to Summer. But its pages are already dog-eared to mark the many spots I want to revisit. Fireworks, for example. With three nights of fireworks, July 4’s celebrations must be memorized — or checked and re-checked — lest you show up at the right place on the wrong date. So I’ve devised a mnemonic. My ABDCs remind me Sunday, July 4 is the...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 5/26/11

Play it Safe on the Water

Accidents put such a crimp on summer fun

Memorial Day weekend puts us back in the water, where some of the best fun of summer is to be had. In its liquid embrace, our nature changes. From land-locked pedestrians, we become swimmers and skimmers. We recover a bit of the fluidity we had in our beginnings, in utero and in evolution. It feels good — as long as we’re afloat. But liquidity can go all wrong in a instant. As I saw last weekend, when husband Bill Lambrecht and I took an...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 5/19/11

Get Ready to Have Fun

Summer’s just around the corner — and with it comes 101 Ways to Have Fun 2011

Here at Bay Weekly, we’re eager as elves at Santa’s workshop the week before Christmas. It’s not just that a big project is nearing its celebratory conclusion, though that’s certainly part of the energetic anticipation we’re feeling. 101 Ways to Have Fun: Your Indispensable Guide to Summer on the Bay has kept us focused long and hard, and we’ll be tucking it in our regular issue on May 26, just a week away. ...

Article - Places; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 5/19/11

A Bright — Green — New Future for the Smithsonian on...

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater breaks ground on a new high-tech lab

There’s a new Smithsonian going up. Instead of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this Smithsonian is rising out in the country southeast of Edgewater. It’s so new that rising jumps the gun. The first spadeful of soil was turned only two weeks ago. But two years hence, the Mathias Lab will give the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center a place to work that’s as “high-tech sustainable” as the research scientists are doing there. ...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 5/12/11

The Fate of Naptown barBAYq Is In Your Hands

Your job: Party hearty

About now, the men and women of Parole Rotary must be regretting their dedication to good works. True, doing good is even more intrinsic than weekly meetings to Rotary, with its motto of Service Before Self and its logo wheel that keeps turning because some 1.2 million members worldwide keep pushing. But by now, the Parole Rotarians have figured out that staging a signature festival, particularly inaugurating one, is a lot of trouble. Not more trouble...

Article - News; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 5/12/11

Give a Kid a Chance

The cause behind the Naptown barBAYq

No one really knows why kids get cancer. But they do, some 14,000 of them a year. Go to Parole Rotary’s Naptown barBAYq May 13 and 14, and you’ll be helping “give a chance of living a nice long life” to the 200 kids cancer sends each year to The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore. Like Tracie Lewis. The fifth-grader at Severna Park’s Folger Mckinsey Elementary School has been a patient at...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 5/5/11

Oh Mother!

Splendid though our stories are of Mother’s influence, I bet you can top them

Margaret Tearman’s bright idea for Bay Weekly’s annual Mother’s Day story has kept me chuckling since its light popped on in her brain months ago. In the instant of illumination, she wrote her Mother Made Me essay, and that was all it took to sell me on the idea. The Bay Weekly family of writers reacted the same way. Within minutes after I sent out the call for stories on that theme, I had five early reservations and one completed story. ...

Article - Food and Drink; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 5/5/11

10 Reasons to Make it a Date

The Parole Rotary Foundation’s inaugural Naptown barBAYq contest and festival is sure to wet your appetite

Anticipation is such an alluring spice that I can smell it already. By the very early hours of Saturday, May 14, you’ll smell it too. The smokey scent of the Parole Rotary Foundation’s inaugural Naptown barBAYq contest and festival will curl into Arnold, Edgewater, Crownsville, beckoning you to the grounds of the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Here’s why you — and all you others beyond the reach of that...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 4/28/11

William Donald Schaefer, 1921-2011

I’m sorry to see you go

Like newspapers — I mean the print variety — politicians are news one day and fish wrap the next. That was not the case with William Donald Schaefer. On a Maryland scale, Schaefer was God in his heavens. We might not think of him everyday, but if we ignored him too long, the thunder would roar — and lightning might strike. So I got in the habit of reckoning his existence. When he was out of office between 1995 and 1999, I could feel his...