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Volume VII Number 8
February 25 - March 3, 1999

On Our Cover: One hundred forty-one years after an on-board fire sank the steamboat Columbus at the mouth of the Potomac, the Army Corps of Engineers chanced upon its remains. From there, the old boat took quite a journey, ending up on the shores of the Patuxent River. On our cover, the old meets the new, with the Columbus superimposed on Chesapeake Bay as photographed by a satellite orbiting nearly 450 miles above.
Dock of the Bay Making a $5.8 Million Public Point Happy Campers Plan Their Park Vacations Now, Toll-Free Planning to Save Calvert's Heritage Rock in the Rough? This Prize-Winning Rockfish Is a Diamond plus, Way Downstream, On the Eastern Shore, burning chicken manure for energy Behind Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River dams, 3.1 million tons of sand, coal and chemicals wait to pollute Chesapeake Bay In Virginia, Episcopalians turn into environmentalists In Maine, too few salmon to catch and release and last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: Now playing in Hawaii, The Invasion of the Alien Tree Frogs.
Maryland's Attic: 12,000 Years of History in Storage on the Patuxent by Carol Glover -- When you've got 12,000 years and five million bits and pieces of history to store, your attic needs to be a bit bigger than most.
Bay Bites The food front in Chesapeake Country -- Adam's: The Place for Ribs - and Good Ol' South County Hospitality
Editorial Protest 104: Don't Muck Up Our Bay
Letters to the Editor Five Awards: Congratulations!; More Sweet Talk; Help 3 Owners Share One Boat; Frustrated in Severna Park
Bay Reflection The More, the Merrier
Burton on the Bay Ain't Politics Grand?
Chesapeake Outdoors Waterfowl by the Thousands
Not Just For Kids Happy Chinese New Year! Celebrate with a maze fun and a word scramble. Check out our junior reporter's movie review of Rugrats.

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