1999 NBT Archived Issues

New Bay Times Archives

Volume VII Number 16 April 22-28, 1999

On Our Cover: The people behind the paper celebrate six full years of getting New Bay Times off our hands and into yours.
Dock of the Bay Green for a Day: Celebrating Earth Day Globally, with Everything from Dirty Socks to Mad-Genius Racing * If Its Spring, This Must Be Solomons * AA's Orphan Roads: With Adopt-A-Road Gone, Communities Clean Up * In Annapolis, 100 Take Back the Night * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, female crabs may find sanctuary In Pennsylvania, 60,000 turn out for Philadelphia Earth Day clean-up In Colorado, first Canada lynxes fail to adapt In low-tech Denver, whacking weeds with Kashmir goats and last but not least, for this week's Creature Feature, reptile smuggler Tommy Crutchfield goes back to jail.
NBT's 6th Birthday Special -- From Us to You by J. Alexander Knoll -- The Story Behind the Story: How New Bay Times Gets into Your Hands
Bay Bites The food front in Chesapeake Country: India's: After the Fire, Still Fiery
Editorial The Weekly Miracle of New Bay Times
Letters to the Editor Feeding Furiously, Cedar Waxwings Spotted; Chickens as Military Scapegoats?; Mountain Reader Misses Tides
Commentary For Earth Day -- A Short Reading List that Hugs the Earth
Burton on the Bay An Earth Day Lesson -- From the Beavers that Stumped D.C.
Earth Journal Spring Sketchbook
Not Just for Kids Celebrate Earth Day with a poem, Kingfisher to color and more!

Volume VII Number 17 April 29 - May 5, 1999

On Our Cover: Set back from Church Street in Prince Frederick and veiled in towering trees, the stately house called Linden has its roots in another century. To see its future - as The Calvert County Historical Society has done - you must look behind peeling paint and desolation. Photo by Margo Turner.
Dock of the Bay Lost at Sea: First-Hand Stories of Risk & Rescue * Backyard History: New Museum Digs up Local Past * BEE There: Groan-Ups Spell for Literacy's Sake * Dig with Care, History's Everywhere * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, if you give a fish a ladder, it can climb From the Netherlands, will International Green Police rise from this freedom-loving nation? In the Ukraine, 13 years after Chernobyl, 4,000 have died and last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: Flubber afloat in Washington State rivers.
Opening History's Doors by Carol Glover -- Step inside Calvert's Big, Old Houses on Maryland's 62nd House & Garden Pilgrimage; by Margo Turner -- 13 Memories of Life at Linden: The new home of the Calvert County Historical Society is aged with memories
Bay Bites The food front in Chesapeake Country: Country Charm at Harrison's
Editorial Down on the Farm: Owens' Plan a Bargain All Around
Letters to the Editor Small Area Planning; Marina in Calvert Pioneered Shrink-Wrap Recycling; Just Another Beaver Story; Happily Back and Wanting to Run
Commentary As Small Area Plans Take Shape, Remember the Big Plan
Burton on the Bay The Bottom Of the Barrel
Chesapeake Outdoors Rock: Another Opening in Another Show
Not Just for Kids Say Hey! 'Tis the Season to Play Croquet!

Volume VII Number 18 May 6-12, 1999

On Our Cover: Peggy Minner's New Year's resolution to open her heart as a foster mother has filled the West River home she shares with husband Henry III and son Henry IV. Here, Minner hugs foster daughters Aubrey and Amanda, who, along with brother Austin, are about the make the Minners a clan. Photo by Mary Catherine Ball.
Dock of the Bay Mother Love: Foster Parent Peggy Minner Opens Heart, Home * Earth Journal: Coming up Roses * Tour of Champions: On the Road with Calvert's Big Trees * Around Town: A Day with the Circus * In Calvert, NAACP Keeps Young * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, Seniors form Environmental Corps In Mexico City, the air's gone to the dogs In Britain, Rocker Andrew Ridgeley, formerly of Wham!, now heads Surfers Against Sewage In India, endangered Tibetan antelope keeps its skin and last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In South Africa's Johannesburg Zoo, Max the gorilla helps nab robber Mofokeng.
The Motherly Muse Three First-Time Authors Share the Inspiration Behind Their Stories. Carolyn Stearns' Where Has All the Water Gone? - by Donna Ayres. Marianne Taylor's My River Speaks: The History and Lore of the Magothy River - by Kim Cammarata. Leo Bretholz and Michael Olesker's Leap into Darkness - by Sandra Martin
Bay Bites The food front in Chesapeake Country: Middleton Tavern: Old Friend to All Comers
Editorial To Spell Bay Country ReLeaf, Say T-R-E-E-S
Letters to the Editor Small Area Planners: Minds Closed?; Where to Apply for Passports to History
Bay Reflection Remembering Mama
Burton on the Bay Meeting the Enemy -- When children turn to murder, we're all to blame
Chesapeake Outdoors Sometimes the Fish Wins
Earth Journal Coming up Roses
Not Just for Kids Pet Flash, a priceless gift for Mother's Day, one boy's dream role, and more!

Volume VII Number 19 May 13-19, 1999

On Our Cover: Come join New Bay Times at our sixth birthday party, a celebration of the blessings of life in Chesapeake Country. Eat, listen (the picture below shows off Surfside 7's riverside location and last year's live music), be - all for free. And don't fail to bid high on dozens of wonderful goods and services and getaways at live and silent auction all to benefit some of Chesapeake Country's best neighbors - trees.
Dock of the Bay Real Tomatoes: Plant in May, Feast in August * NBT's Lambrecht: A Three-Time Winner * The Killer Bee: Despite Otter Brilliance, NBT's News Mongers Got Stung * A Lily for Our Lady, Anne Arundell * Chesapeake Country's Last Great 20th Century Land Campaign: The Missing Link * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, Shenandoah River fish highly seasoned with mercury In Minnesota, no more personal watercraft in Voyageurs National Park In Washington State, recycling's up thanks to The Collectors and last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In California, Even the owls hang out at Starbucks.
Special for NBT's Birthday Bash for the Trees: What Does a Tree Look Like? A Fantasy for All Ages -- story by Carolyn Stearns -- Illustrations by Betsy Kehne
Bay Bites The food front in Chesapeake Country: What's Cookin' at NBT's Birthday Bash
Editorial Spring Fling: Join NBT in Showing Support for Our Chesapeake Bay and Working to Plant Some Trees
Letters to the Editor Thanks, One Paper To Another; Birthday Greetings from Day 1 Reader; Use Paper to Toast Trees
Commentary Tree Confessions: Payback from Rescued Trees
Chesapeake Outdoors To the Rescue Shad Get a Little Help from Some Friends
Not Just for Kids A tree-fact treat, a leaf puzzle, and more!

Volume VII Number 20 May 20-26, 1999

On Our Cover: Fairhaven School's not your typical school. Founders, friends and students dedicated to each person's finding their own drummer built their democratic alternative from the ground up. Now everybody inside has to figure out just what education they want - and how to get it. Photo by Mark Burns.
Dock of the Bay Our Birthday Bash for CA$H: Too Much Fun; 8,000 Trees * Noah's Bark: Odd Creatures Crash SPCA Day * While Calvert Blesses Great and Small * plus, Way Downstream, Virginia scolded over horseshoe crabs In Pennsylvania, $68 to be spent to preserve farmland In Kentucky, a hawk saved from Lynyrd Skynyrd In Massachusetts, pit bull on wanted list for killing trees and last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In Colorado, running like a headless chicken.
Would You Send Your Kid to Fairhaven School? story by Christopher Heagy - As Chesapeake Country's newest school ends its first year, it seems that being there is as tough as getting there ...
Bay Bites The food front in Chesapeake Country: Skipper's Pier: Good Food and Much More.
Editorial With Homicide Killed, Friday Nights Are Free
Burton on the Bay No Orioles in Baltimore -- Bit by bit, we're squeezing the life out of Chesapeake Country
Letters to the Editor Oysters Cheer Trees; The Chairman Speaks
Bay Reflection Farewell Watertower -- A Teacher and Her Young Journalists Turn a Corner
Chesapeake Outdoors Big Fish and Young Fish
Not Just for Kids Spelling out poems, word puzzles and more.

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