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Wedding Memories

We asked, and you delivered, with great nuptial photos and wedding day memories.

Stacie ‘Jaya’ and Ivan Balaguer Married April 9, 2011, in Punta Cana Dominican Republic

Go Play in the Park

Enjoy smart family fun at Anne Arundel County’s big regional parks

Sarah Cruz

Summer is all about kicking back and enjoying extra time together as vacations begin and the weather warms. But so many summer activities can mean trouble for the family budget. With some smart planning, a fun-filled summer doesn’t have to break the bank. In Anne Arundel County Recreation and Parks, I’ve found good, affordable fun for the whole family, even the dogs.

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– by Sarah Cruz – 7/6/17

It’s Just a Click Away

Water Trail map directs you to the treasures of the Magothy

Kathy Knotts

Paddling in the digital age comes with a new set of advantages. Now, when setting out for an adventure on the Magothy River, paddlers can use an online trail map of 30 points of interest plus nine “hidden gems.” The digital water trail map links you to 17 videos of the river’s creeks and coves and suggests what to see and how to navigate through those waterways. Many coves are hard to find unless you know where to enter.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 6/8/17

Meandering through the Secret Gardens of Annapolis

Once a year, Hammond Harwood House opens the gates to the capital city’s private gardens — and invites you to look inside

Jackie Graves

They are there, hiding behind impossibly small doors tucked into the crowded summer streets of Annapolis. Or perhaps they appear as unexpected splashes of color coyly winking at strollers past a secluded courtyard.

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– by Jackie Graves – 5/25/17

Baseball’s Superfan

Dave Newman catches some 40 games a year in his quest to see one in every Major League stadium

Bob Melamud

In our affection for America’s iconic trio — baseball, hot dogs and apple pie — we are not all equal. I am fond of baseball. You might well be fonder. Crofton’s Dave Newman is fondest. Newman was born a baseball fan — specifically a New York Yankee fan. The Brooklyn Dodgers and Giants had fled to California. The Mets had not yet arrived. New York was a Yankee town, and Dave’s a Yankee family.

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– by Bob Melamud – 5/25/17

Let the Oysters Keep Coming

That’s the goal of Pirate’s Cove’s Pigs & Pearls Fundraiser to benefit the West & Rhode Riverkeeper

Jeff Holland

They say it was a hungry man who was the first to eat an oyster, but I disagree. I say it was a smart man, one who figured out how to set a bunch of oysters on a flat rock by a fire, cover them over with wet leaves and let them steam until they popped open, then slurped down all those succulent bits of salty goodness. Come to think of it, that was probably one smart woman who figured that out.

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– by Jeff Holland – 4/20/17

A Feat of Mind Over Body

Mary Davis transformed herself from a pack-a-day smoker to a winning bikini competitor

Alka Bromiley

Today’s Mary Davis is not the Mary Davis she once was. Chiseled and ripped, with no body fat that shows in a bikini, the 35-year-old mother and businesswoman is a trophy-winning competitive bodybuilder. This month she competes in the Organization of Competitive Bodybuilders Catonsville Conquer to add two more trophies to her legend. In last October’s competition, she came in second as a Novice, the only category she could enter as a newcomer to the sport.

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– by Alka Bromiley – 4/6/17

Sharpen Your Moves

A night on the dance floor in Davidsonville is good exercise and a great bargain

Karen Holmes

Back in the woods, off a winding country road in Davidsonville, a bunch of happy people are cutting the rug in the former mess hall of a decommissioned Nike missile base. It’s good times as usual with the Davidsonville Dance Club, which hosts weekly Saturday night dances, evening lessons during the week and occasional weekend workshops. Founded in 1980, the club’s membership is about 250, equally balanced between men and women.

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– by Karen Holmes – 3/23/17

Generation to Generation

Maryland Day: Our heritage, our legacy

Kathy Knotts

How did you get here? Are you a ninth-generation Marylander, tracing your emigrating ancestors back to the Ark and the Dove? Or a first-generation transplant, here for new opportunity? With a few indigenous exceptions, all of us Marylanders — regardless of how recent or how ancient — are immigrants, refugees, explorers or colonists.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 3/16/17

Bay Weekly's 2017 Health & Wellness Guide

Expert tips for the new year and beyond

Continue Your Fitness Journey at Poston’s Fitness for Life Fitness trainer Bob Poston, right, with one of his regulars.

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