Water running off your roof, downspouts and parking lots into the roadways and storm drains is bad for the Bay. So bad that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ranks urban runoff and storm-sewer discharges as Public Enemy Number Two for America’s estuaries.
Stormwater runoff could be bad for your business, too.
Annapolis looks less like a circus now that the U.S. Boat Shows — and their tons of waste — are packed up.
This year was the first time that recycling routed waste. At 25 ecostations across City Dock, visitors found greener choices for recycling. At each station, a green 50-gallon bin collected paper, plastic, metal and glass while a red bin collected trash for the landfill.
Homestead Gardens gets its stormwater under control
Sandra Olivetti Martin
A new river runs through Homestead Gardens. It’s a little out of the way, off to the side of the garden center with its plants, trees and shrubberies. But this river, which only runs when it rains, is at the center of making Homestead’s 12 acres a zero contributor to the pollution of Beard’s Creek, the South River and Chesapeake Bay.
Grants to restore shorelines multiply dollars and deeds
Sandra Olivetti Martin
Restoring the Bay is like cleaning house: We do it chore by chore.
Fortunately, the Bay multiplies much of the effort we put into it. Put water in motion and it keeps moving. Put $800,000 into shoreline restorations, and the grants multiply dollars and deeds.
The dozen new shoreline restoration grants in Maryland and four in Virginia are putting that money to work, multiplying the momentum.
More than 50 farmers sell at the county’s oldest market
Barbara Holcomb
At 31 years old, the Saturday Anne Arundel County Farmers Market is Anne Arundel’s oldest and largest. Over 50 farmers and producers sell not only fresh fruits, vegetables and meat but also a diversity of homemade goods, like soaps, pies, jams, ceramics, cards and beeswax items.
Tempt your taste buds with summer’s finest. Softball size tomatoes, basketball size cantaloupes, fresh baked cinnamon rolls along with golden sweet local honey are just a sampling of treasures found among Calvert County’s Farmers Markets.
Nothing may seem amiss, but the entire western half of Maryland is now a quarantine area. In 14 counties west of the Chesapeake and Susquehanna, Maryland Department of Agriculture has found evidence of the emerald ash borer. The destructive Asiatic beetle, which has conquered the west in nine years, kills ash trees from the inside out.
Go to summer school for TEAM DNR and you’ll be teaching come fall
Leigh Glenn
“I’m proud of you that you can name all the states in our watershed and not miss any,” said longtime TEAM DNR volunteer Penny Vahsen to fourth-graders at West Annapolis Elementary School. “Some students say California is part of our watershed.”
Not Candice Gaylon’s class this past school year. They’re up on buffers, erosion and water pollution.
Buying a Bay license plate or checking line 35 of your state tax form helps the Chesapeake
Aries Mathoes
What’s removed more than 1,000 tons of trash from the Bay, engaged 800,000 students and teachers and planted 500,000 trees and plants along the shoreline?
Your Bay license plates and income tax check-offs.
26 ways to get your old stuff into the right hands
Leigh Glenn
Is your house growing tight around the middle? Consider this alphabet soup as your diet to lean down.
Antiques and Art
These have potential value. Search online, include collector clubs.
Ebay may be a sales route and offers research leads.
Antique stores. Call ahead.
Building Materials
Donate new, surplus and salvaged supplies and fixtures. Pick-up available.
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