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Maryland Day

Our heritage, our legacy

Kathy Knotts

Anne Arundel County’s celebration of Maryland Day, officially March 25, shifts to a hopefully sunnier, warmer weekend this year. April 6 thru 8, we celebrate our shared stake in the territory and body politic planted 384 years ago on March 25, 1634, when Lord Baltimore’s colonists made land on a tiny island in a big river in an unknown world: Maryland Day.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 4/5/18

The Flight of John Wilkes Booth

From Ford’s Theatre through Southern Maryland to Virginia

Marjie Riordan

On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Over the next 12 days Booth scurried through Southern Maryland and into Virginia, evading his pursuers in the manhunt of the century. Southern Maryland was familiar territory to Booth, who visited under cover of real estate investment. During the long years of the American Civil War (1861-1865) he built a cadre of co-conspirators whose Confederate sympathies drove them to extreme measures.

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– by Marjie Riordan – 4/5/18

When Can We Go Out to Play?

Come April 20, the outdoor calendar starts filling up

Kathy Knotts

Spring is on the calendar. We had another lovely taste of warm weather last week. Yet the forecasters say not to pack away the winter gear as the thermometer struggles to reconcile with our expectations of spring. Prepare your sacrifices to the weather gods, for as April moves forward, more and more outdoor events call us out of hibernation. Here’s a look at some of the reasons to pray for warm weather.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 4/4/18

Return to Eden

How one little church restored a bit of nature

Warren Lee Brown

The woods behind St. Luke’s Church in Eastport looked pretty natural. But if you’d trained your eye to nature’s ways, you saw a tangle of invasive plants strangling the native trees and shrubs. Deeper in, a 42-inch wide underground pipe drained stormwater along with sediment, toxins, pet waste and other unpleasant things from 28 surrounding acres directly into Back Creek. Not so pretty. Or natural.

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– by Warren Lee Brown – 3/29/18

One Shell of a Party

South River on the Half Shell celebrates South River Federation’s 17 years of success — and helps fund many more

Kathy Knotts

Chesapeake Country has no shortage of Bay champions. We have conservation organizations and nonprofits from mega-sized to tiny, from those that tackle the entire Bay to those that work locally on its rivers and streams. South River Federation is a small but mighty hero of the Chesapeake.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 3/15/18

Why I Joined the Peace Corps

An immigrant expresses her gratitude through the Peace Corps

Liz Barron

I am serving my country abroad, and my country is America. I can’t quite believe it. The words conjure pictures of soldiers, brave and resolute in uniform, or ambassadors, smooth and sophisticated. I am neither, and I am a novice American. I was born in Ireland, a British citizen from Belfast. I moved to the U.S. in the early 2000s.

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– by Liz Barron – 3/8/18

Helping the Community with Coffee and More

Chesapeake Church provides 1.7 million pounds of food annually

Bill Sells

Drive past most any place of worship in the middle of the day in the middle of the week and you might see a few more cars than at a Chick-Fil-A on a Sunday. But make a pilgrimage to the Chesapeake Church any day, most any time of the week, and you would think you’ve parked in front of a new coffee boutique at a ski lodge or …

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– by Bill Sells – 3/8/18

How We Met:

Love stories from Chesapeake Country

When Susan Met Anthony … Susan and Anthony Nolan Playing Cupid gave me opportunity to talk with him outside work

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Weems Creek Bridge Reopens

Repair on budget and early

Bob Melamud

If you’re an Annapolis driver, you’ll be happy to hear that the repair work on the Weems Creek Bridge has been completed two weeks early. If you’re a Maryland taxpayer, you’ll be glad to know the work was finished on budget at $120,000. This may be all you want to know. But if you’re an engineer or a gearhead or interested in things mechanical, there’s an interesting backstory here.

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– by Bob Melamud – 1/25/18

Salt Stains?

Our roads have sweated through a real workout, and it shows

Bob Melamud

Cutting salt use on roads 30 percent without compromising motorist safety. That’s the target state, city and county road crews were shooting at. So what’s with all the large amounts of residual salt on our roadways? How does that square with the salt-reduction program? Two factors contribute to salt left on the roads: Very cold temperatures, and small snowfalls.

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– by Bob Melamud – 1/25/18

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