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With traffic growing, state begins another study of Bay Bridge capacity
Another summer, another agonizing season of Bay Bridge traffic. Admired, cursed and studied, Maryland's sole Chesapeake Bay crossing is being eyeballed again as state engineers try to determine how many years remain in its girders and suspension cables...Tags: Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Chesapeake Bay Bridge, E.J. Pipkin, Annapolis, Washington, DC
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Agencies aim to restore bay's depleted oysters, a creek at a time
It's planting time in the Chesapeake Bay, just as it is on land for farmers and gardeners across Maryland. Instead of seeds, though, hundreds of millions of speck-sized baby oysters — known as spat — are being planted this spring in Harris...
Tags: Seafood, Foods and Beverages, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Renovation, Environmental Pollution
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Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel makes recovery
Trapped in a steel cage barely big enough to hold her, the large squirrel was not happy, pawing at the bars and trying them with her teeth. Matt Whitbeck and Cherry Keller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were glad to see her, though. The furry...
Tags: Zoology, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Natural Resource Industry, Annapolis
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Tubman getting much-deserved honor
We commend President Barack Obama for designating the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument ("A monument to Md. abolitionist," March 26). Just days after the centennial of her death, Harriet Tubman is finally receiving the national...
Tags: Barack Obama, Harriet Tubman, Martin O'Malley, Preservation Maryland, Conservation Fund
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Honoring Harriet Tubman
President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil...
Tags: Barack Obama, Feminism, Harriet Tubman, Wars and Interventions, Transportation
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Obama establishes Tubman park on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama set aside 480 acres on the Eastern Shore on Monday as a national monument to honor Harriet Tubman — a victory for advocates who have long sought to memorialize the abolitionist's role in leading dozens of slaves to freedom....
Tags: Barack Obama, National Parks, Harriet Tubman, Republican Party, Justice System
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Obama to sign off on Tubman monument on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama will sign a proclamation Monday creating a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument on the Eastern Shore, a designation long sought by advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The designation protects the land...
Tags: Slavery, Barack Obama, Harriet Tubman, Martin O'Malley
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Harriet Tubman park to be on Maryland land she worked as a slave
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman's struggle to help roughly 70 slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad was remembered on Saturday at the groundbreaking of a Maryland state park in her honor. An escaped slave herself, Tubman toiled in bondage...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Wildlife, Harriet Tubman, Tourism and Leisure
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Dog rescue operator charged in Balto. Co. with animal cruelty
The operator of an animal rescue has been charged with neglecting nearly two dozen dogs, including three that had to be euthanized, according to the Baltimore County State's attorney's office. Baltimore County police arrested Anthony Joseph Geer, 29,...
Tags: Prosecution, Lawyers, Justice System, Parkville, Baltimore County
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National Archery in the Schools Program hits the target
John Leck will never forget the look on the face of the paralyzed boy sitting in his wheelchair. When the arrow left the bow that had been strapped onto the eighth-grader's arm, a mixture of wonder and excitement was apparent as he watched it sail...
Tags: Natural Resources, Little League Baseball, Teaching and Learning, Hunting, Wildlife
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Story of Laurel's first bank robbery has interesting conclusion [Commentary]
I read with great interest your article Jan. 31 about Laurel's first bank robbery by John Morgan. Sadly, this was not our last bank robbery and just as sadly, not the last 19-year-old to go to prison from our county. A quick review by the state archivist,...
Tags: Laurel, Anglicanism, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Calvert County
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Is the Bay Foundation ignoring the threat behind the Conowingo Dam?
Why does the Chesapeake Bay Foundation refuse to take seriously the threat posed by the Conowingo Dam's inability to hold back Susquehanna River pollution? With respect to the effect of Susquehanna River pollutants, the bay foundation has taken an...
Tags: Rivers, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Bay Bridge
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