Features:

Battling Alien Invaders
Making war on phragmites and other flora that take no prisoners; by Carrie Steele

Primary Colors
Black Annapolitans strive to turn voting rights to political power; by Sandra Olivetti Martin

A Quick and Easy Guide to Dressing for the Maryland Renaissance Festival
Dress up for fun by ransacking your wardrobe, renting or buying; by Kat Bennett

Way Downstream ~ The Lost Town of Herrington stays lost … Price Pirate accused of six violations of Maryland maritime laws and regulations in June collision with Deale charter boat Jil Carrie … Song of the Whale sails so quietly that crew can hear the whales sing … plus, last but not least, this week’s Creature Feature: Army Corps of Engineers goes to work in the Arkansas homeland of the miraculously resurrected ivory-billed woodpecker.

Departments:

Editorial Letters to the Editor Bay Reflections

EarthTalk ~ Encountering an old toxin in a new place

Crab Catch ~ Female crabs: To eat or not to eat; by M.L. Faunce

Dr. Gouin’s Bay Gardener ~ Renovate your lawn with compost

Where We Live ~ What one degree did to Atlantic storms; by Steve Carr

Bill Burton ~ Chronic Wasting Disease knocks on our door

Tidelog® Sky Watch ~The Harvest Moon’s grand illusion; by J. Alex Knoll

8 Days a Week ~ Bay Weekly’s guide to good times; by Carrie Steele

Music Notes

Music Scene

Curtain Call

Flickerings ~ Burns on The Exorcism of Emily Rose: “A strange marriage of law and spiritual disorder intriguing in concept but flawed in execution.”

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