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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 8/19/10

Pain-Free Prognostication

A new website takes the sting out of your summer by predicting jellyfish migration patterns

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water — it is.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has created a website that forecasts the location of sea nettles throughout the Chesapeake and its tributaries.

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Article - News; by Marilyn Recknor - 8/19/10

Beating the Summer School Blues

Government officials learn how to prepare for such unexpected and budget-busting events as this year’s record snowfall

You expect the people working for your local government to be in the know and up to the minute on all the issues you care about. So to get a head start in working for you, officials from Maryland’s 23 counties and Baltimore city go to summer school. From August 18 to 21, while you’re soaking up the last rays of summer, they’re taking classes at the Maryland Association of Counties’ Summer Conference.

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Article - News; by Margaret Tearman - 8/12/10

Buoying the Health of the Bay

These high-tech floats monitor conditions on the Chesapeake, sharing its findings and the Bay’s history with cruisers on the water and on the Internet

A flotilla of big, yellow buoys bobs in Chesapeake Bay. The smart buoys of NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System do more than help boaters steer a safe passage — though they do that, too.

With their monitoring equipment and advanced satellite technology, these smart buoys give scientists, boaters, educators — anyone interested in the Bay — daily real-time data about the estuary.

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Article - News; by Janie Suss - 8/12/10

Osprey Down

Exhausted learning to fly, this young fish hawk needed many helping hands

At 7:45am on Tuesday, July 21, my phone rang. Rosemary Roberts, who lives down the road in Chesapeake Beach, announced she’d found an osprey in the middle of the road. “It can’t fly. It needs help,” she screeched. Roberts had read my book, Oscar and Olive Osprey (www.oscarandolive.com) so she was sure “the osprey lady” would know what to do. I didn’t, but I knew who would. ...

Article - Creature Feature; by Diana Beechener - 8/12/10

Last Call for Your Pet Tales

Show off your animal relations

We know you have pets.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, 77.5 million dogs and 93.6 million cats around the country share our homes. On top of that staggering census, the Humane Society reports that we also spend generously on our pets — at least $200 per year on vet bills alone. Why not show off your furry money pits?

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Article - Green Living; by Diana Beechener - 8/12/10

Do Your Part to Mow Down Air Pollution

Maryland Department of Environment makes it easier — and cheaper — to ditch your dirty old mower

Find a greener way to care for your lawn Saturday, August 14, at the Great Maryland Lawn Mower Event in Baltimore’s Camden Yards. The first 1,000 people who bring their gas guzzling power mowers to the event can exchange them for a discount in purchasing one of two environmentally friendly electrical Neuton mowers. ...

Article - News; by Lane Page - 8/5/10

Cretaceous Park

You don’t have to travel out of state to meet a dinosaur

Hot enough for you?

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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 8/5/10

Maryland’s Black Bears

You can hunt them, paint them or spend $5 to support them

It’s about that time of year when Maryland’s black bears go from being predators to prey.

On August 2, Maryland Department of Natural Resources began accepting applications from hunters who hope to shoot a bear in the season opening October 25.

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Article - News; by Vicki Marsh - 8/5/10

There’s Ice Cream in Heaven — and in West River

At Heavenly Ice Cream, butter fat is next to godliness

“There’s ice cream in heaven.”

Really?

You bet says, Harry Felder, owner of Heavenly Ice Cream.

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Article - News; by Margaret Tearman - 8/5/10

World Trade Center Mystery Ship Berths in Maryland

Archaeological find is biggest news Jefferson Patterson Park team has ever been part of

Something good has come out from under the World Trade Center. Near the site of so many grim finds, excavators working on the new trade center unearthed a treasure — an ancient wooden ship buried beneath modern lower Manhattan. Its remains were discovered about 20 feet under street level, in an area that had not been dug out for the original World Trade Center.

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