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Way DownstreamAll over Maryland, our general election ballots will ask us to vote on an amendment to the state Constitution to protect public land. Question One requires the legislature to okay any land the governor might put up for sale. The amendment responds to Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s considered sale, two years ago, of public land, including parkland in St. Mary’s County and Kilgore Falls in Harford County, to a private developer. A Maryland League of Conservation Voters poll found that 81 percent of voters support the amendment. “A vote for this constitutional amendment is a vote for protecting our parks and open spaces from sprawling development,” said Marcia Verploegen Lewis, director of Partners for Open Space … In Shady Side, that cool 10 grand in the raffle at October 14’s West River Heritage Day Oyster Festival won’t be invested locally: It was won by an Oklahoman, David Lepak, who was visiting in-laws on the peninsula. Good thing that one of the 50-50 drawing winners decided to give back his share of the loot. That would be Anne Arundel County Sheriff George Johnson, or perhaps a clone, considering that he’s seen everywhere these days as the Democratic nominee for AA county executive … On the Eastern Shore, yet another king-size development storm has kicked up as a result of a plan to build a huge new community at St. Michael’s that would increase the size of the quaint village by 40 On the island of Antigua, they’ve got plenty of fresh fish to adorn with Caribbean spices. But on Saturday Nov. 4, islanders, authors and celebrities will be treated to world-famous Chesapeake Bay cooking when chef and author John Shields lays out a spread at the Antigua Yacht Club Marina Restaurant during the Caribbean Literary Festival. For more information check out www.caribbeanliteraryfestival.com <http://www.caribbeanliteraryfestival.com/> (and let Bay Weekly know if you want to take us along) … Our Creature Feature is a haunting tale from India about loyalty in the animal kingdom. When an But since then, an angry troop of 14 or so marauding elephants has been returning almost nightly, destroying crops and homes in search of their fallen family member. “We have not slept for three days, and the few of us left are lighting huge bonfires to keep the elephants at bay, without success,” a villager told Reuters. |
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percent. It may hinge on the state’s acceptance of a much-criticized artificial wetland design that would allow construction closer to the Miles River, which flows into Chesapeake Bay …
elephant strayed from the bush recently and drowned in an irrigation ditch, rural residents in Jharkhand state did the right thing: They gave her a quiet and dignified burial.