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Master Sailor Paid It Forward

Stovy Brown turned two generations windward

Elisavietta Ritchie

“No student who wanted to join the young sailors has ever been turned down for lack of funds,” says Stovy Brown, who has introduced two decades of Southern Maryland youngsters to sailing. To get kids to the water, Brown founded three groups: the Southern Maryland Sailing Association, Sailing Center Chesapeake and, in 1999, the Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, to support the other two training programs with funding, boats and equipment.

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– by Elisavietta Ritchie – 6/16/16

Living Up to a 100% Local Commitment

Chesapeake’s Bounty connects shoppers with local farms, fish and more

BJ Poss

Just a few weeks ago, in winter’s last stand, shoppers in light flannels and heavy vests scurried from the damp sidewalk into Chesapeake’s Bounty North Beach store. A smile from Veronica Cristo and an aroma of apple cider warmed the room. The wood floor creaked as they drifted through waist-high aisles of sweet potatoes, apples and stacked jars of local honey and jam, on their way to a table of dinosaur kale and bright green spinach.

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– by BJ Poss – 6/2/16

Preserving Veterans’ Memories

Stories that need to be told

Jerri Anne Hopkins

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day, our national day of remembrance of those who gave their lives fighting for the United States across the world. All over the country, patriotism abounds as festivities and events both large and small mark the day. Locally, the weekend marks the commissioning of a new crop of officers from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. The weekend is also the beginning of summer fun. Families spend the long weekend trying out barbeques, pools and the outdoors season.

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– by Jerri Anne Hopkins – 5/26/16

The World Is Their Oyster

Shady Side fifth-graders saving the Bay one handful of spat at a time

Tom Hall

Some Southern Anne Arundel County students are taking the adage bloom where you’re planted more than a few steps further. Fifth-graders at Shady Side Elementary are planting oysters to help restore the Bay’s oyster population. “We need oysters to clean the Bay,” said Lacey Wilde, 11, the daughter and granddaughter of working watermen.

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– by Tom Hall – 5/26/16

Sowing Seeds of Change

Agricultural program grows at Phoenix Academy

Nancy Breslau Lewis

Next time you cruise down Cedar Park Road in Annapolis during school hours, you may well do a double-take as you pass the field next to Phoenix Academy. You’re likely to see rabbits munching greens in a sturdily built hutch, hear nanny goats bleating or glimpse teens carefully weeding a row of curly-leafed kale. Three years after a Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education was launched at this K-12 Anne Arundel County public school, there’s plenty of evidence that impressive hands-on learning is going on both within and outside the school walls.

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– by Nancy Breslau Lewis – 5/26/16

Girl Scouts to the Rescue

They’re out to trap cast-off monofilament line

Robyn Bell

Girl Scouts Noel Pockey and Ashley Whicher are working to save the Bay from used fishing line. When anglers toss line torn from their reel, the unbreakable and almost invisible plastic monofilament a death warrant to critters. The line ensnares animals, birds and fish, trapping the life out of them. The entangled fishing line continues its havoc, putting swimmers and boat propellers at risk — until it finally degrades 500 years later.

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– by Robyn Bell – 5/26/16

Joe Barsin’s Blue Angels

Local artist takes you 15,000 feet for this Commissioning Week highlight

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Never in real life will you see the Blue Angels as Joe Barsin captures them in his iconic graphic on Bay Weekly’s cover. For the Annapolis artist’s eye encapsulates the whole of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Commissioning Week in a single soaring moment.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 5/19/16

From Legal Eagle to Water Guardian

As the South Riverkeeper, I am helping to make the river healthy for my children and yours

Jesse Iliff

Not too long ago, I was working in consumer-protection litigation. After law school, I took a job suing banks and shady lenders on behalf of consumers. That wasn’t where I really wanted to be. In law school at the University of Maryland, I had earned a certificate of concentration in environmental law. When I graduated in 2010, environmental law jobs weren’t as plentiful as I had hoped. So I sued banks instead.

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– by Jesse Iliff – 5/19/16

Young Sailors Take the Helm

Teens compete in the Annapolis Junior Keelboat Regatta

Tom Hall

The future of competitive sailboat racing is in good hands, judging from the teenage competitors in the Annapolis Junior Keelboat Regatta. “It’s really exciting to move up to the keelboats,” said Kate Riley, 16, a sophomore at Severna Park High and the only female skipper among the seven crews racing. “We didn’t win, but we got better and better and finished second in the last race.”

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– by Tom Hall – 4/28/16

Why I’m a Riverkeeper

Having fun, making a difference and driving the pump-out boat

Jeff Holland

Almost a year ago, the West/Rhode Riverkeeper completed a living shoreline project at the end of the Camp Letts peninsula on the Rhode River. Over the past few decades, the land had been eroding from storms, boat wake and sea level rise. Hundred-year-old trees were toppling over a sandy bluff, and the silt made the water look like a soy latte.

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– by Jeff Holland – 4/14/16

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