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Article - Creature Feature; by Emily Myron - 5/30/13

Tom and Audrey Osprey

The Chesapeake’s new reality TV stars

Tom and Audrey have become the Chesapeake’s newest and most popular reality TV stars.
This charismatic duo, living on the Eastern Shore, is popular with more than locals. The Chesapeake Conservancy’s Osprey Cam has been watched in 48 different countries since its launch at the end of March.
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Article - News; by Ashley Brotherton - 5/30/13

Staying Alive

The City of Annapolis is CPR-certified. Are you?

Politics aside, Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen is someone you want around. At least if you go into cardiac arrest. Cohen is so good in administering CPR that he bests paramedics.
Along with Cohen, city spokeswoman Rhonda Wardlaw and 100 other city employees were CPR-certified through the City of Annapolis Fire Department for National CPR Week.
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Article - News; by Ashley Brotherton - 5/23/13

Know Before You Go

Don’t let road work spoil your trip

Memorial Day is the official start of summer and the unofficial start to traffic madness as everyone bolts to the beach.
The summer weather is also prime time for road work, making for a congested combination.
Beat the summer traffic with the Maryland State Highway Administration’s e-Road Ready brochure, which lists all the work zones by county, and their expected finish date: www.roads.maryland.gov/oc/RoadReady2013.pdf.

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Article - People; 5/23/13

Paying Tribute

On Memorial Day we pay a debt that binds us in perpetuity

The blood shed in our Civil War was barely dry when we paid the first installment on this great debt of remembrance. But the losses were fresh and sharp, like amputations that cut away limbs, that would have been sent into the future by families, neighborhoods, communities, counties, states and our divided government. New estimates suggest 720,000 died fighting that war.
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Article - News; by Ashley Brotherton - 5/23/13

Bid for Kids

Online auction helps kids in need

Make memories with your kids at a National’s game. Learn how to ski. Surprise the women you love with a Pandora bracelet. Show off your hockey puck autographed by Capital Nicklas Backstrom — all while helping Calvert County children in need.
Children’s Aid Inc. gave over 160 kids backpacks filled with schools supplies thru Operation Backpack. The charity also helps struggling parents pay for kids to play sports.
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Article - News; by Ashley Brotherton - 5/23/13

Hot Sox Field Still Making History

Ghosts and baseball lovers unite

If you see a ghost at Anne Arundel County’s newest ball field, don’t shriek and run away. Instead, ask the ghost about his story, because it’s sure to be a great one.
The county has just bought Wilson Park, the home of Hot Sox Field, from a family who inherited the Galesville farm of a freed slave ancestor, Henry Wilson.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Michelle Steel - 5/23/13

Getting to Know Northern Ring-Necked Snakes

In my Calvert country neighborhood, my kitties help me meet the neighbors

I grew up climbing trees and playing with Matchbox cars.
Scary spiders and slithery snakes? I didn’t bat an eye. Daddy’s girl was tough.
So when the kitty brothers Stripey and Babey bring home squirmy rewards, I’m the one among my family of hubby and two almost-grown boys to take care of it. Two ring-necked snakes have made it inside with kitties’ help.
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Article - News; by Diana Beechener - 5/23/13

The Comeback Kids

The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team proves it ain’t over yet

When soldier Saul Bosquez lost his left leg below the knee during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007, he discovered his game was not finished, just delayed.
“My great grandpa lost fingers in a tractor accident, but I didn’t know anyone that had been injured like I had,” Bosquez told Bay Weekly.
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Article - People; by Emily Myron - 5/16/13

Giving It All Away

Free deposits and free withdrawals keep this bank solvent

Last year, Bruce Michalec’s bank gave away $1.25 million. It was his busiest in 27 years, but 2013 is on track to break the 2012 record. That’s because hunger and need are the forces that drive the growth of Anne Arundel County’s central food bank.
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Article - People; by Ashley Brotherton - 5/16/13

The Bay’s Green Giant

SERC scientist triples blue crab population

Chesapeake Country has a Green Giant. Tuck Hines may not be green as Kermit or big as Andre the Giant, but his work to save the Bay’s blue crab population has earned him Washingtonian Magazine’s gigantic title.
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