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Donate yours through Thanksgiving weekend at: Chesapeake Beach: Rolands • Dunkirk: fire station and Safeway • Huntingtown: fire station • Lusby: Post Office • North Beach: fire station • Prince Frederick: Calvert County Sheriff’s Department, fire station and Safeway • Solomons: Woodburns… In Chesapeake Country, local boy makes good. Bobby Sturgell, of Owings and the Happy Harbor family, awaits U.S. Senate confirmation as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Sturgell, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former Tomcat pilot, flew for American Airlines before going federal, first with the National Transportation Safety Board, now as deputy administrator of the FAA. Now the Calvert Republican — who ran against Senate President Mike Miller in 2000 — is President George W. Bush’s choice to replace retiring administrator Marion C. Blakey, Sturgell’s former boss… In Maryland, environmentalists pushing for global-warming action delivered 4,000 postcards and more than 12,000 signatures to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office. The Alliance for Global Warming Solutions — including groups such as Audubon Naturalist Society, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Environment Maryland, Sierra Club, Lutheran Office on Public Policy in Maryland, Maryland League of Conservation Voters and more — ask their members to write to the governor asking for commitments to reduce Maryland’s global warming pollution. The delivery comes in anticipation of the Commission on Climate Change recommendations due November 14 …
On Virginia’s Eastern Shore, some of the mysteries unearthed in the investigation into the Chesapeake Bay crater will become clearer this week with the publication of several dozen research papers at a geology meeting in Denver. But after drilling more than a mile into the earth’s core, researchers still can’t say exactly what hit the earth from outer space millions of years ago or what happened around the 53-mile-wide crater after the impact. Drilling turned up many fossils, along with rubies and sapphires — but no diamonds… Knucklehead in the News: Maryland Natural Resources Police charged a Pennsylvania man with possession of a black bear out of season — and littering — after finding the remains of a skinned bear in Our Creature Feature is another bear tale, but this one with a happy ending. It comes from the far north in Manitoba and begins with huskies and their human friends surprised by 1,200 pounds of hungry polar bear. As the narrator in this video tells you, there were expectations that someone would get eaten. No one did. See for yourself what happened at: |
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In Calvert County, the buzz is about old cell phones. The Calvert County Commission for Women and Verizon Wireless Hope Line Program are partnering to collect used cell phones and accessories to benefit victims of domestic abuse. Donations will be repaired and resold by Verizon, with the proceeds donated to the Calvert County abused victim fund.
In St. Mary’s County, college students put their green savvy to work as St. Mary’s College of Maryland prepares to buy 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Last semester, students voted to tax themselves a total of $45,000 a year to lighten the college’s carbon footprint. The college is purchasing renewable energy credits from firms including energy brokers Community Energy and Clean Currents as well as from the college’s local electrical utility, Southern Maryland Electrical Cooperative. The bulk of the renewable energy — 83 percent — will be 10,700 megawa
tt-hours a year of wind energy credits provided by Clean Currents…
a trash bag at a Maryland truck stop. According to police, Telford Hoover, 52, said he found the bear along a Pennsylvania road and wanted the meat. Why’d he dump it in Maryland? Because, he said, it had a Pennsylvania ear tag. Huh?…