New Bay Times Archives

Volume VII Number 41
October 14-20, 1999

• On Our Cover: The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin heads into Chesapeake Bay to visit, clean and repair the Bay's channel markers. Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard.
• Dock of the Bay In Fall, Maryland Feasts on Oysters * Breakdown: The Real Action is Between the Boat Shows * Mosquito Watch: 'As-Needed' Spraying Goes On * Let It Shine: AA Women Reflect Hero Fanny Hamer's Light * De-Greasing the Bay * Needed: 100 Volunteers for Herring Bay * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, Smithfield Foods escapes double jeopardy for polluting Chesapeake streams. ... In New Jersey, weighing wetlands against cranberries In Minnesota, frogs suffer from thin skins In Florida, weighing manatees against powerboats plus, last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: On the web, skunk owners - Oops - organize.
• Big Boat Rides The James Rankin Buoys up Boaters -- In a changing universe, boaters put their faith in buoys. Here's how those 'stars' get set in our Bay heaven. by Christopher Heagy
• Bay Bites Rudy's Tavern - Good Food, Good Fun, No Frills.
• Editorial Saviors and Sinners in Chesapeake Surveys
• Letters to the Editor When "W" Stands for Weapons, Too; Burton's Reasoning Fishy; Classic Coverage
• Bay Reflection Farewell: Busch's Chesapeake Inn
• Burton on the Bay Pondering Feline Frieda's Future -- Will San Francisco thinking set our pets free?

Volume VII Number 42
October 21-27, 1999

• On Our Cover: In 1926, Tilghman Island waterman Bob Bradshaw took Alice Butler by boat to a speck of land off Black Walnut Point. With waves pounding, the two climbed a flight of stairs to the upper deck of Sharp's Island Lighthouse. There, with the expansive Bay as witness, Bob proposed to Alice. Thus began her love affair with the Chesapeake Bay and a commitment to marriage that lasted 60 years. Painting by Annapolis artist E. Lynne Kibler reproduced courtesy of Alice Bradshaw.
• Dock of the Bay From Ocean City to the Pacific, Unity Walked America * Bits & Pieces: Volunteer Detectives Cover the Herring Bay Watershed * Maryland Film Fest Plays Maryland Hall * plus, Way Downstream, In Montgomery County, $100 million county bucks will preserve a Legacy of Open Space ... In California, a football fan faces a penalty for smacking a loud barn owl out of a palm tree during a tense televised play In San Diego, the Audubon Society says the Navy's new $350 million sonar system worries whales while seeking enemy subs In Oregon, water routed from the Prineville municipal sewage treatment plant makes Meadow Lakes Golf Course green, but some neighbors cry foul plus, last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In Washington state, the Department of Fish and Wildlife lowers the boom on butterfly releases, the latest gimmick at trendy weddings.
• Living Treasures Chesapeake Country Grand-Mothers: Three Bay lovers whose lives have shaped our times
  Bay Teacher Mildred Finlon; by M.L. Faunce
  Bay Activist Elinor Cofer; by Kim Cammarata
  Bay Memoirist Alice Bradshaw; by M.L. Faunce
• Bay Bites Chart House Restaurant -- One More Good Reason to Go.
• Editorial Loitering Zones a Risky Gambit
• Letter to the Editor With Winter Nigh, Stay High and Dry
• Commentary Front Line of Literacy: In the First Grade Room
• Burton on the Bay Not Fishing Weather
• Chesapeake Outdoors Rockfish Aren't the Only Fish in Chesapeake Bay
• Not Just for Kids Pumpkin carving clinic

Volume VII Number 43
October 28 - November 3, 1999

• On Our Cover: Kids contributor Emily Sikorski tries on the family Halloween pumpkin while big sister Hollie and big brother Joey wish they were small enough to get in. Photo by Jacquie Sheehan.
• Dock of the Bay Whale of a Tale: Luther Lohr Finds 70-lb. Fossil * Bits & Pieces: Beware-Deer Crossing * Liberty Lost: Farewell to an Old Tree * News of the Weird: Still Crazy After All These Years * plus, Way Downstream, In New Zealand, reverse shark attack ... In Illinois, 20,000 red-winged blackbirds done in by Furadan In New Mexico, diapers mop up 50 gallons of spilled hydraulic fluid In China, no more Wild Yak Brigade - and fewer chirus plus, last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In Minnesota, watch out for wild turkeys - they're not insured.
• Artful Transformations Halloween invites us all to transform ourselves into any of the personas lurking beneath our daily facade. For artists - especially the outsider artists whose work you'll see at the American Visionary Art Museum - transformations and visitations are everyday experiences.
  Possessed ~ Angels and Other Aliens Invade Baltimore; editor Sandra Martin takes you on a tour of the American Visionary Arts Museum.
  11 Re-Possessed ~ Writer Christy Grimes introduces Chesapeake Country's own visionary artist - Shady Side Artist-in-Residence Bob Kelbaugh
• Between the Covers: Helen Chappell's The Chesapeake Book of the Dead; Reviewed by M.L. Faunce
• Bay Bites Wagner's Steamboat Landing: Seafood with a View
• Editorial Editor's Letter: On Saints, Souls and Spooks
• Letter to the Editor Good Work on Grandmothers; Reader Pleased on Every Count; Call for Holiday Stories
• Bay Reflection Transformation
• Burton on the Bay The Only Good Oyster
• In Season Marbled Salamander
• Not Just for Kids Some Boo-etry!

Volume VII Number 44
November 4-10, 1999

• On Our Cover: Pigeon fancier Al DeToto, in his Deale loft, feels the heft of a racing pigeon. Members of Hillside Racing Pigeon Club, he and his buddies are amateur geneticists, depending on selective breeding to develop fast birds with sure homing instincts. Photo by Christopher Heagy.
• Dock of the Bay Dear Principal: AA Kids Say the Darndest Things * For Guinness Sake, Bay Shuckers Snubbed in Old Sod * Grabbed by Nature at Jug Bay: If the Hawk Doesn't Get You, Toadstools Will * Flu's Nothing to Sneeze at: Vaccinate Now * plus, Way Downstream, In Washington, D.C., Maryland Rep. Wayne Gilchrest wants to regulate jetskis ... In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Ridge is labeled a cheapskate and his $500 million pro-environment "Growing Greener" package dubbed "Growing Meaner" In Arizona, banking Nevada and California water And in California, tax money goes up in smoke on marijuana plus, last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In Wyoming, Kitty, a calico cat, recycled to a good home.
• Pigeon Racing: Local Fanciers and Fliers Soar in Chesapeake Country by Christopher Heagy -- What makes a good pigeon? Good breeding, good food, good training - and the sure instinct to find its way home from strange, faraway places. 11 Re-Possessed ~ Writer Christy Grimes introduces Chesapeake Country's own visionary artist - Shady Side Artist-in-Residence Bob Kelbaugh
• A Bite Between the Covers: Cooking Secrets Mid-Atlantic & Chesapeake Bay, by Kathleen Devanna Fish -- Reviewed by M.L. Faunce
• Editorial Statues Make Good Neighbors
• Letter to the Editor Three Questions; Ban Wacky Handgun Ban; Call for Holiday Stories
• Bay Reflection Good-Bye Babe
• Burton on the Bay Why Pick on Rose? He's No Worse than the Next Guy
• Chesapeake Outdoors A Diamond in the Rough
• Not Just for Kids Snakey times

Volume VII Number 45
November 11-17, 1999

• On Our Cover: Maryland 2000 is working now to make Maryland an even better place in the next century and millennium. What they're doing are statewide projects in the arts: Maryland Images; in education: Knowledge on the Edge; in historic preservation: Save Maryland's Treasures; in human services: Food For the Future; and in the environment: Marylandscapes. Here a pair of Johnnies dig a Marylandscape garden at ARC of Anne Arundel. Presiding over all is Louise Hayman, who explains Maryland 2000 in this week's feature. Photos by Christy Grimes and Bill Lambrecht.
• Dock of the Bay Support Mother Nature: Buy Bed and Breakfast for a Beast * World-Champion Harmonizers Bring Gold to Chesapeake Country * Flight and Alight * Student Shutterbugs Sought to Capture Maryland's Millennial Century * Fall Fishing: They're Still Biting * From First Ladies to 'Muppets,' It Takes Everybody to Care for Every Child's Mental Health * plus, Way Downstream, In California, Marin County is the second U.S. county to ban jet skis ... In West Virginia, feds spent $2 million to figure out how to recycle computers In New York Times, Home Depot acclaimed green hero by Rainforest Action Network In Washington, D.C. the death of Sen. John Chafee means apocalypse "soon or apocalypse now" for Environment and Public Works Committee And in California, ganging up on Channel Islands' wild pigs plus, last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In India, displaced elephants go on deadly "drunken rampage."
• NBT Interview: Louise Hayman Preparing Marylanders for the 21st Century with Bill Lambrecht -- With the millennium only 57 days away, there's lots more we could be doing than worrying about one big mess or planning one big night. Here, from the director of Maryland 2000 - our state's millennial project - comes some inspiration
• Bay Life Aid to Retarded Citizens Plants a Millennial Garden
• Bay Bites Double T Diner: Too Much of a Good Thing
• Theatrics Moonlight Troupers' The Boyfriend, Second Stage Playhouse's Chapter II
• Editorial For Y2K Fears, An Antidote: Maryland 2000
• Letter to the Editor Build a YMCA for Cal-Arundel; More Love for Lighthouses; Call for Holiday Stories
• Bay Reflection A Time To Be
• Burton on the Bay Down the Dodo Trail -- Farewell to One More Species
• Chesapeake Outdoors Less Loony This Year
• Not Just for Kids Snakey times

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