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The Season of Angels

Time for Annapolis to gaze at the heavens again

Shelby Conrad

It’s almost that time of year in Annapolis. There’s a distant rumble … the skies are clear, so we know it’s not thunder. We turn our eyes to the horizon, scramble to the highest position close by and search the sky for contrails. It’s the season of angels — Blue Angels.

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– by Shelby Conrad – 5/17/18

Reconciliation

How handwriting analysis helped me forgive my mother — and myself

Jane Elkin

A Mother’s Day story by Jane Elkin On March 3, 2004, I boarded a plane for New Hampshire to sit vigil at my mother’s deathbed. Waiting at the gate, I wrote this page in my diary. It’s the lyrics to Nella Fantasia (In My Fantasy), a Sarah Brightman song that haunted me for two months and was the last music my mother ever heard, my final gift before singing at her funeral.

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– by Jane Elkin – 5/10/18

Fur, Fluff and Fun

SPCA’s annual Walk for the Animals

Susan Nolan & Audrey Broomfield

Dogs of every shape, size and breed — along with their equally diverse human companions — took to the trails at Quiet Waters Park May 6. The overcast skies and cool temperatures made it a pleasant morning for the 27th annual Anne Arundel County SPCA’s Walk for the Animals.

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– by Susan Nolan & Audrey Broomfield – 5/10/18

The Both Hands Project

Unique charity helps locals adopt a child and support a widow

Kathy Knotts

Kadee Corley waits for her phone to ring. The call she expects will change her life, and the lives of her husband Bryan and their seven-year-old son Bryce. Forever. They are waiting to hear if the next member of their family is ready to come home. To Odenton. From Bulgaria. “We struggled trying to get pregnant with our first child, and after three miscarriages we finally had our beautiful son,” says Kadee.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 5/3/18

Go the Distance to Do Good

Rack up the miles for good bodies, good causes

Kathy Knotts

Whether you’re trying to get into better shape, logging steps and miles on your activity tracker or seeking some friendly competition, this weekend has got you covered. Each of three walk/run races helps you do good for your body and for a great cause. 27th SPCA Walk for the Animals

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– by Kathy Knotts – 5/3/18

Dock of the Bay: May 3-9, 2018

Severn River Bridge; Pigs & Pearls update; Helly Hansen NOOD; Boater Safety; Rivers Edge Restaurant; Goldman Environmental Prize

Easing Backup on the Severn River Bridge Additional eastbound lane now open If the Bay Bridge is the gateway to the Eastern Shore, the Severn River Bridge, five miles to the west, is the gateway to the Bay Bridge. At peak driving times, that gateway turns into a major bottleneck.

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The Life — and Afterlife — of a Chesapeake Legend

Like their owners, wooden boats don’t live forever. But the 1948 Trumpy yacht Counterpoint survives piece by salvaged piece

Kate Fitzgerald

The Trumpy yacht Counterpoint waited dry-docked at Herrington Harbor North for the right person to come along and shine her up, clean her decks and splash her into the water again. That person would have to match the dedication and vision of her former owner, William Watkins, who passed away in 2015.

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– by Kate Fitzgerald – 4/26/18

A Day Like Christmas!

Nearly 200 athletes compete and celebrate in Calvert Special Olympics

Bill Sells

Share a moment with the student athletes of Calvert County’s Special Olympics, and you may well burst into joyful tears at one more smile, one more hug, one more high-five, one more explosion of laughter.

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– by Bill Sells – 4/26/18

Mascot to a Great Cause

Why I don a plush, pink pig-suit at Pirates Cove’s Pigs & Pearls fundraiser

Betsy Kehne

Pink’s generally not my color of choice. But on a spring day at Pirates Cove Dock Bar, a girl’s gotta say, why not put on a pig suit? I am the Pigs & Pearls mascot: a five-foot-five-inch bipedal pig — pink of course — with a white belly. It’s not a sight you’ll see for long, kind of like a shooting star.

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– by Betsy Kehne – 4/26/18

Dock of the Bay: April 26-May 2, 2018

Good News from the Bottom of the Bay Grasses surpass 100,000 acres When you get back to the water this spring, expect to see things growing in it. Rooted grasses rise in columns from the bottom. Horizontally, long fronds swim in the current. Those Bay grasses are firsthand evidence of good news proclaimed this week.

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– by – 4/26/18