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Recreation and Outdoors calendar
Canoe/kayak Today, May 19: USA Canoe/Kayak Whitewater Slalom Team Trials and Deep Creek Open, Adventure Sports Center International, Deep Creek Lake, Garrett County. Admission: free. Children's Adventure Series and Kids Day at The Races, 11 a.m.-2 p.m....Tags: Garrett County, Sailing, Museums, Perry Hall, Baltimore County
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Smith Island denial
Even the most jaded observer must acknowledge there's something admirable about the desire of so many living on Smith Island to see their community survive and prosper. Residents of this marshy (and shrinking in both population and real estate)...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Global Warming, 2010 Census, Ecosystems, Global Expansion
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Smith Islanders debate buyout offered by state
Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the...
Tags: Oceans, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Water, John Tyler, Ecosystems
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Recreation and outdoors calendar
Surfing regionals Through today, May 12: The Eastern Surfing Association's 2013 Mid-Atlantic Regional Surfing Championships will be held in Ocean City off the beach near 48th Street. For hours, registration and more information, call 800-399-6820 or...Tags: Garrett County, Sailing, Patapsco, Somerville, Baltimore County
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Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy
A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of the once-rare national bird has grown so...
Tags: Punishment, Biology, Conservation, Prisons, Waste Management and Pollution Control
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No. 1 Dunbar boys rout Washington, 70-41, in Class 1A semifinal
Dunbar could do just about anything it wanted against Washington in Friday's Class 1A state semifinal. The Poets had a large advantage in size, speed and strength. In other words, they were just too much. The Jaguars, from Somerset County, scored...
Tags: Comcast Center (arena), High School Sports, Poetry
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UMES police say '20 to 30' people may have witnessed stabbing
During a packed town hall meeting at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Tuesday, campus police said as many as 30 people may have witnessed the death of student Edmond A. St. Clair over the weekend and asked students with information to come...
Tags: Prosecution, University of Maryland, College Park, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Witnesses
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State police investigating response time in UMES stabbing death
University of Maryland, Eastern Shore officials on Monday said state police are investigating assertions that campus officers took an extended period of time to respond to the fatal stabbing of a student during homecoming weekend. Edmond A. St. Clair,...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, University System of Maryland, Music, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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Md. will receive $8.6 million more in Sandy aid
Maryland communities affected by Super Storm Sandy will receive $8.6 million in federal funding under an emergency spending measure approved by Congress last month. The money, which is in addition to the roughly $1.5 million in assistance the federal...
Tags: Snow Storms, Hurricane Sandy (2012), U.S. Congress, Justice System, FEMA
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Lawmakers press for disaster aid for Garrett Co.
Members of Maryland's congressional delegation asked the Obama administration Thursday to reconsider its decision to deny federal disaster aid to Garrett County residents walloped by an October snowstorm. In a letter to Federal Emergency Management...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Garrett County, Craig Fugate, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Mikulski to lead Senate Appropriations Committee
In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The Baltimore native and Maryland Democrat, who had...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Barack Obama, Montgomery County (Maryland), U.S. Senate, Eric Wargotz
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Still recovering from Sandy, Crisfield braces for next storm
— Hazel Cropper, for years the fastest crab picker in this city built on its seafood industry, worries about the storm drain a few feet from her living room. As volunteers assessed the damage Superstorm Sandy caused to her home, the 74-year-old...
Tags: Chris Christie, Barack Obama, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Bodies of Water, U.S. Senate
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