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This Week's Features:Bay Weekly’s 11th
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Groundhog Day, February 2, has far more significance than Punxatawney Phil might lead you to believe. Falling midway between winter solstice and spring equinox, February 2 is one of the four cross-quarter days and a holy day long pre-dating Christianity.
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“All men are equal before fish,” wrote former President Herbert Hoover in his book on fly fishing. No Izaak Walton can argue that. It’s a given; be at the right place at the right time with the right bait, and it makes no difference to the fish who is at the other end of the rod.
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If you filled your compost pile with leaves last fall, most likely nothing is happening now. Dry leaves are difficult to keep moist, so you’re probably not keeping your pile wet enough for it to work. You can clean up your composting efforts by pouring dirty dishwater over the pile. Dirty dishwater dumped over the compost pile during the winter months will help get decomposition started and keep it going.
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Long gaggles of Canada geese were already trading about in the pre-dawn Eastern Shore sky, and in numbers that took our breath away. A cold front was moving in, and the birds were nervous. I knew it was going to be a memorable day, but I didn’t know then just how memorable.
It’s true that humans do a lot more damage to shark populations than vice versa. Marine biologists report that sharks are in rapid decline around the world. In the North Atlantic Ocean, shark populations have declined more than 50 percent over the past 20 years alone, with some species now nearing extinction.
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Earth Journal by Gary Pendleton |
Ahh, the lovely month of February, shall we sing its praises? It’s short, and that about covers it.
Lawyer and writer Scott Turow tells Marylanders the story of his opposition to the death penalty … Learn who’s who on your primary ballot from Maryland League of Women Voters … League of Conservation Voters says Gilchrest remains the Bay’s best primary candidate … Our mild winter is too cold for pelicans … In Annapolis, Safeway won’t separate its shoppers from their plastic bags … In Anne Arundel, feds to spend $1.6 million to house the homeless … plus, last but not least, this week’s Creature Feature: In Colorado, a donkey elected mascot for the Democratic National Convention.
It didn’t look like it would happen, but it seems now that Maryland will have a say in who gets nominated for president, given the likelihood that the game won’t end on Feb. 5 when 22 states vote in the closest we’ve seen yet to a national primary. Alas, the withdrawal of John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani effectively ends prospects for brokered conventions, which would have been highly entertaining.
Commercials are America’s best-attended school
by Pat Piper
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