Canine athletes compete in Flying Disc Dogs Open and Ultimate Air Dock Diving
Krista Pfunder Boughey
The two swimming pools at Hog Dog Productions Farm in Millersville are the scene of intense canine competition.
The field was packed at last weekend’s canine dock diving and Frisbee event at the 33-acre farm. Forty-eight dogs leapt into dock diving in the competition pool and 65 pups into Frisbee competition.
Stories to warm your heart and tickle your funny bone
Meet Bay Weekly Delivery Dogs Amber and Mr. Kimble
Two new dogs joined the Bay Weekly family last summer, Amber and Mr. Kimble. They both came to live with drivers Jim Lyles and Peggy Traband in Deale from Collie Rescue in North Carolina.
Local nonprofit lifts spirits while providing much-needed help
Brad Dress
Last September, Michelle Dashiells needed a little hope.
She had recently divorced her husband, leaving her a single mother raising two children, a 13-year-old boy with special needs and a six-year-old girl. The 41-year-old mother also struggled with a bone-degenerative disease — she has almost no cartilage in her bones and can’t lift things — as well as arbitrary seizures and a neurological disorder that causes memory loss.
As the Woodwind drifted from the sunlit waters of the Annapolis marina, seven young sailors prepared to sail the 74-foot schooner into the Chesapeake Bay and back.
The crew — a mix of preteen boys and girls garbed in bright-green T-shirts — hailed from Brendan Sailing, a local school teaching life skills to children with learning differences. Many of the children have autism, ADHD and dyslexia.
Humans may have changed the river over the centuries, but that river can change us, too
Kathy Knotts
Longing for a vacation but don’t have the time or budget to go far and stay long? A stay-cation fits the bill.
Within a day’s drive of Annapolis you can find leisure, recreation and delights that fill your summer fun list and don’t require airfare, time off work or hotel stays.
Pickleball provides the tennis-type workout without all the stress on the knees from running
Bill Sells
What are they doing? That’s what I wondered — as you might, too — about the volleying game going on at North Beach Community Center’s gymnasium. Your eyes tell your brain that something seems off about the game underway here — and across the nation.
Ping-pong has lost its table, racquetball has knocked down its walls, badminton has become bird-less or the tennis court has shrunk to a quarter of its size. It’s quite the pickle to describe exactly what this game is.
Giant tires, propane gas tanks and shopping carts bogged down with mud.
Trash-picking volunteers found this trash and more in the littered waters of the Potomac River at the 31st annual Watershed Cleanup. The Alice Ferguson Foundation initiative sent out 9,745 volunteers between mid-March and late-May. They scooped 376,933 pounds of trash into garbage bags.
Bay Weekly was among the animal lovers Sunday at the annual Anne Arundel SPCA of Walk for the Animals at Quiet Waters Park. We said hello and snapped photos of canines and their humans to include in this year’s Pet Tales edition, hitting the streets August 1.
Deep in the woods of Millersville, 10 volunteers surrounded a sprawling, lush-green monarch garden. Insect life teemed among towering milkweed plants. A black swallowtail butterfly fluttered down, landing atop a green milkweed to spread its wings.
The disparate 10 had gathered to learn how to grow monarch gardens at local elementary schools.
37 years ago Brian Earley braved the waters of Chesapeake Bay to commemorate his late father, starting a tradition that lives to this day
Brad Dress
Thinking only of a promise he made to his late father, Joseph, a determined Brian Earley stripped his black Towson University jacket from his shoulders and barreled through the rain and wind to the beachy shore.
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