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Article - News; by Kathy Knotts - 8/4/16

More to Check Out than Books

Your library card gets you access to fun destinations free

Your library card can open many doors in Chesapeake Country. Doors to museums, gardens, pools, parks, wineries and golf courses.
In Anne Arundel County, any Maryland cardholder can check out a family pass, good for one week and up to four people, for admission to Historic London Town and Gardens. You do not have to live in Anne Arundel County to use your card to get a museum pass.
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Article - News; , People; 8/4/16

Bay Weekly Spotlight on Business: Maryland Disc...

Treating the whole person for overall wellbeing

By the time patients come to the Maryland Disc Institute, they are sick and tired of being in pain.
“They’ve been to their primary care provider, a chiropractor or therapist and taken pain killers. Some have had injections without any lasting relief. They do everything else first, and then when that doesn’t stop the pain, they come to me,” says Dr. Kathryn Hodges.
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Article - News; , People; by Robyn Bell - 8/4/16

Riding a Hard-Driven Passion

Skateboarding rewards diligence, not age

Skateboarders of all ages are grabbing their decks for a new era of the perennial sport. In Calvert County, 18-year-old Joey Jett and 46-year-old Wayne Cox represent opposite poles in a new skateboarding brotherhood supported by Joe Smialek’s Prince Frederick shop Aggro Joe’s. With hard-driven passion, all three have turned their love for skateboarding into careers.

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Article - Green Living; , News; by Kathy Knotts - 8/4/16

More than Just a Pretty Garden

Through torrents and drought, rain gardens look good and do good for the environment, too

After a wet spring when rain was abundant in Chesapeake Country, we are now in the midst of a heat wave with chance blasts of short-lived rainfall.
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Article - Performing Arts; , News; by Robyn Bell - 8/4/16

Singing for Their Supper

World Artists make themselves at home in Annapolis

Betty Mcginnis dreamed big. She wanted to bring together not just her community but the whole world. That’s how World Artists Experiences was born as an all-volunteer effort to bring international arts to Annapolis.
That’s a nice way of saying that World Artists Experiences depend on human resources rather than money. Especially as you see and hear all performances for free.
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Article - Good Living; , Places; by Kathy Knotts - 7/28/16

Let’s Go to the Park

Ward Farm Recreation and Nature Park

Our summer on the cheap took us to a park still being born.
Ward Farm Park in Dunkirk is not yet open, except for some hikes and camps.
Naturalist Tania Gale led our group of seven children and seven adults on one of those hikes, pointing out plants and insects and filling us in on the history of the Ward family as well as what changes are coming.
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Article - Green Living; , People; by Fred Kelly - 7/28/16

Yellow Perch Are the Severn River’s Vital Sign

You can’t catch any fish if they ain’t there

Being the Severn Riverkeeper is not so much a job as a roller coaster ride. Having a biologist wife, Nancy, to teach me the science and a good friend, Sarah Caldes, to do the grant writing have made it a fun ride.
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Article - News; , People; by Robyn Bell - 7/28/16

World’s Largest Crab Feast Hosts World’s Largest Crab

Queen Clawdia will be steamed but not eaten

Only one crab can be Queen of the World’s Largest Crab Feast, and it might be the one to be steamed first.
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Article - News; , People; by Karen Holmes - 7/21/16

The Original Social Network

Ham radio enthusiasts stand ready to step in when all else fails

On a sunny Saturday morning in late June, in a field overlooking the Patuxent River in Lusby, men assembling two 25- and 30-foot steel towers, section by section. Atop the shorter tower is a contraption that looks like an upside-down umbrella.
What in the world is going on here?
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Article - History & Lore; , Regulars; by Christina Gardner - 7/21/16

Soft-Shell Crabs

They’re delicious, but what’s their story?

Maryland is renowned for its blue crabs. For many in Chesapeake Country, summer means feasting on the crustaceans in as many forms as possible with a favorite being softshell crabs. Our watermen somehow get the soft crabs to us. But how?
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