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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: Perry Hall, Garrett County, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Somerville
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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: Global Expansion, Ecosystems, Conservation, Global Warming, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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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: Ecosystems, Annapolis, Conservation, Real Estate, John Tyler
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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: Ocean Surfing, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Perry Hall, Annapolis, Somerville
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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: Conservation, St. Mary's County, Endangered Species, Prisons, Energy
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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: High School Sports, Comcast Center (arena), 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, Witnesses, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Teaching and Learning
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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: Music, Colleges and Universities, University System of Maryland, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, University of Maryland, College Park
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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: Barbara A. Mikulski, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Snow Storms, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Congress
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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: Garrett County, Montgomery County (Maryland), Meteorological Disasters, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Craig Fugate
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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: Bodies of Water, Hurricane Sandy (2012), U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Aquaculture, Tangier (Accomack, Virginia)
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May 18, 2013
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Dec 17, 2012
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