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This Week's Features:
Putting the FUN in FundraisingTwo traditional feasts give guests a good time and bring bounty to local charitiesBy Margaret Tearman, Bay Weekly Staff Writer Cleaning for a CauseLocal company cleans house for women with cancerby Carrie Madren, Bay Weekly Staff Writer
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The Burton Castle Is Under Siege
The forces of nature are crossing the moat
Good advice, but the smiles come hard. I’m beginning to think the Burton castle is under siege — and the moat is dry.
As they say, if it isn’t one thing it’s another; so it is at our household up here in North County. Wife Lois was preparing to join me in the war on outdoor pests, when she stubbed her toe. When it didn’t mend quickly, she finally went to a doctor to learn she has broken a couple of long bones in her foot and will be in a cast for ages.
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Target Artillery Fungus
It makes a mess that will set you scrubbing
Artillery fungus is a microorganism that can create a mess on the exterior of your house. I have seen the clapboard on the first story of houses so covered with these millions of spores that the sides appeared gray.
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Hail a Greener Cab in the Future
Following Canada, U.S. cities add hybrid taxis
This past May, as part of a larger effort to make New York the “greenest major metropolis on the planet,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an ambitious plan to switch over the city’s 13,000-vehicle taxi cab fleet from gas-guzzling traditional cars to fuel-sipping gasoline-electric hybrids.
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The Many Moons of July
Old names still ring true
The waxing moon arcs through southern skies, reaching full phase Sunday when it shines dusk to dawn. From culture to culture, July’s full moon comes with many names. Some are clear and others beg elaboration. But at one time, these names were another generation’s Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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Pretty Good for a Bad Day
How good cooking transformed a famine of crabs to a feast
It was 6:30am, and we were already over an hour late getting on the water. A tenuous weather report the previous night made us hesitate making the last of our preparations until morning to be certain we were clear of any thunderstorms.
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St. Mary’s River and City
Seclusion, History and Sailing Latitude 38.11 N; Longitude 76.25 W
As Virginia and the nation celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony, many Bay cruisers are heading south to tour these sites. There are many good gunkholes and interesting places to visit in the southern part of the Chesapeake along the way. One of them is St. Mary’s City on the river of the same name, a tributary of the Potomac. It’s the site of the fourth permanent British settlement in North America, whose first residents arrived in 1634 aboard the ships Ark and
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On Exhibit
Cal’s Steps in Focus
Sports Legends at Camden Yards hits it out of the park with their pictorial tribute to Maryland’s Iron Man.
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Way Downstream
Farmers can slow down global warming … Beware if you don’t pay your state taxes, but 64 of Maryland’s 132 biggest companies skip paying and punishment … Potato-cannon takes aim at cancer … Sailors in Hot Water: If you drive your boat after dark with no lights on, you can’t see Natural Resources Police … this week’s Creature Feature: You can skin a bear, but you can’t sell ’em.
Editorial
Chesapeake Bay Disease Has Infected Our Schools
Anne Arundel Pubic Schools seem to have caught a resistant case of Chesapeake Bay Disease. We think so because no matter how much money we keep pouring in, neither seems to get any better.
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Bay Reflections
Taking A (Fruit) Stand
Shopping for ripening perfection
by Pat Piper
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