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Volume 16, Issue 9 - February 28 - March 5, 2008
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This Week's Features:
Listening to Her Muse
The Muse’s demands paid off for Arnold poet Alexis Rotella, who won a grand prize in the 12th annual international Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Japan. Judges chose Rotella’s haiku about a fishing boat arriving safely back to shore over some 700 other entries — from poets in Argentina to Serbia to New Zealand and beyond.
by Carrie Madren
Seeking black history across the Bay
On the trails of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
by Ben and Cathy Miller
Reptile Rules
New state regulations protect creatures that hop, crawl and slither.
by Carrie Madren
Finding a New Way
Artwalk’s newest public mural rises after a long journey across the street.
by Carrie Madren
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Hold on for the QuickeningAs daylight hours grow, the land reawakensWith the growing hours of sunlight each day, we’re in the final throes of winter. Just in the past month we’ve gained more than a half-hour of daylight in the evenings, and that continues with an additional 90 seconds gained each day! Not so fast is the departing gloom of morning, but even so, the sun rises more than 10 minutes earlier than it did a month ago. Tidelog®
Everybody Likes a RobinBut would you like one to eat?At least it wasn’t a cat that killed Cock Robin in the most disturbing of the nursery rhymes Aunt Caroline and Grandma Burton read to me as a child. I knew which bird was a robin. It was probably the first bird I ever saw, certainly the first I could identify; there were oodles of them near Grandma’s farmhouse.
Get a Head Start on Early Spring VeggiesIt’s time to sow onions, leeks, celery and peppersIf you want to grow your own vegetable-garden transplants, now is the time to sow seeds of onions, leeks, celery, parsley and peppers in a small greenhouse or a sunny windowsill. Seeds of peppers and parsley take at least two weeks to germinate, thus requiring a head start. Seedlings of leeks, onions and celery grow slowly and need a long starting period before they are tall enough to be transplanted in the garden. O’Malley and the Air Up ThereAfter conspiring to raise our taxes, his approval rating is lower than a snake’s belly. Getting down into George W. Bush territory. Annapolis starts weaning stores and shoppers from plastic checkout bags … In Anne Arundel, litter is a seven-day-a-week job … Calvert County’s Teresa Chambers wins a round in her three-year fight to regain her job as chief of U.S. Park Police … University of Maryland students petition for a lighter carbon footprint … Maryland State Fair leaps into North America’s Top 50 … and last but not least, this week’s Creature Feature: In Southern Maryland, cats could be very, very happy if catnip becomes the latest cash crop.
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It’s Time to Go Big on The FlatsMarch 1 begins the finest light-tackle fishing for large rockfish — anywhere, anytimeCalled the Crown Jewel of Maryland Sport Fishing, Susquehanna Flats Catch and Release Season is anticipated by many as the finest light-tackle venue for large rockfish. It opens March 1.
Green Your DietMeat meals use more resources than plant mealsThere has never been a better time to go vegetarian. Mounting evidence suggests that meat-based diets are more than unhealthy. Just about every aspect of meat production — from grazing-related loss of cropland, to the inefficiencies of feeding vast quantities of water and grain to cattle, to pollution from factory farms — is an environmental disaster with wide and sometimes catastrophic consequences.
Walking in Fossil FootprintsCalvert curator backtracks the age of EarthDinosaur models, fossil shells, skulls and sharks’ teeth bristle in the office of Stephen Godfrey, curator of paleontology at Calvert Marine Museum, where this Voyage of Discovery has landed us. Beer Cans and Back RoadsI’m not a country song writer, but that’s my lamentby Mick Blackistone
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