Volume XVII, Issue 23 # June 4 - June 1, 2009

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This Week’s Features …

Trash Pickin’

What these kids found grossed them out … and taught them a lesson in recycling

Students from Huntingtown High School’s Advanced Placement Environmental class sorted through 18 bags of garbage from the cafeteria and classrooms. They were shocked — in part at the amount of recyclables thrown in with the trash.

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Spotlight on Theatre

A jaw-dropping cast of operatic talent makes up 2nd Star Productions’ Man of LaMancha.

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Maryland Is Farming for You

A Bay Weekly conversation with Buddy Hance,
Maryland Agriculture Secretary

Consumers and farmers are holding a reunion. Our appetites for fresh, local food — food with a history we can trace back to its farmer and field — have grown so hearty that farmers can sell a bushel of sweet corn for a better price than a bushel of feed corn. How we got from there to here is told from the inside perspective of our Chesapeake neighbor, Maryland’s newest Agriculture Secretary, Earl F. Hance

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8 Diamond Jim Swims Again

You’ll earn $10k if this fish bites on your hook — and you land him

Diamond Jim was caught, tagged and released into Chesapeake Bay last week with a message to you: Fishing is rewarding, in more ways than one.

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Food Ways/ Food Wise

This economy’s bringing back the backyard gardener

Betty Knapp majored in journalism. But she doesn’t need a newspaper to read the state of the economy. The plant propagator and proprietor of Loch Less Farm, in Owings, has a direct measure: Customers are buying vegetables before flowers.

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Fishy Tales

The fate of Betty-Anne

She’s been good to me, but she’s starting to creak.

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Regular Favorites …

Letter from the Editor

The Sporting Life
by Dennis Doyle

Bay Gardener
by Dr. Frank Gouin

Sky Watch
by J. Alex Knoll

Days a Week
calendar of events
by Diana Beechener

Music Notes
by Ashley Goodman

Flickerings:
movie reviews and
showtimes

Free Will Astrology©
by Rob Brezsny

News of the Weird©
by Chuck Shepherd

Ink Well Xwords©
by Ben Tausig

last week's Xwords solution

last week's Sudoku solution

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