Features:

No Worries, Mate

I came over to Portsmouth to see my friends from Brasil and to write a story about a drowned sailor and a lost sailboat. But that was never the real story.

by Steve Carr

The World’s Fattest Burgers

The new USDA report doesn’t taste nearly so good. by Matt Makowski

Following the Volvo Ocean Race

Leg 8: Six Boats Continue to Gothenburg. by Kat Bennett

Way Downstream ~ Dead croaker and rockfish litter Potomac shores … Two friends of the Bay join Chesapeake Bay Trust … Gov. E’s tangled line on LNG at Sparrows Point … Genetic testing identifies 326 black bears in Garrett and western Allegany counties … Chesapeake Bay is stamped as one of USPS’s 40 Wonders of America … Plus, last but not least, this week’s Creature Feature: Stingray Point, Va., lives up to its name as cownose rays finish off 775,000 oysters in five days.

Editorial • Reflection • Letters to the Editor

Dr. Gouin’s Bay Gardener ~ Dead-Head Your Flowers for Lasting Blossoms: Short circuit the seed cycle.

Gunk-Holing In Wonderland ~ Back Door to St. Michaels. by Alice Snively

Bill Burton ~ Back Door to St. Michaels. by Alice Snively