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April 14, 2021

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Public Affairs

FEMA Clinic at Easton’s Elks Lodge Cancelled Amid Caution About Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

The call by federal health agencies for an immediate pause on administering the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine resulted in the ... [Continue Story]

  • Waterfowl Festival Impact Study Shows Benefits of Annual Event, Community Support
  • UM Shore Regional Health Offers COVID-19 Vaccines at Chesapeake College
  • Delmarva Community Services Hires Andy Hollis As New Deputy Director
  • On the Waterfront: A Current Update with Frank Narr
  • Gilchrest Backs Trump Impeachment; Md. Lawmakers Call on Harris to Resign
  • WHCP Radio’s Mike Starling on Cambridge Year in Review

Spy Highlights

From and Fuller: Biden Opens Door for Deal on Infrastructure Bill and Georgia Voting Woes

Every Thursday, the Spy hosts a conversation with Al From and Craig Fuller on the most topical political news of the moment. This week, From and ... [Continue Story]

  • Emily is 22 Years Old and has Graduated 
  • A Spy Chat on Tina Jones’s Second Life
  • Reflections On Boating’s Holy Grail by Jeff McGuiness
  • From and Fuller: Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill and Paying Its Bills
  • Profiles in Spirituality: Reinviting the Church with Trinity’s Rev. Gregory Powell
  • The Talbot Boys Controversy in 2021 with NAACP’s Richard Potter

The Arts

Looking at the Masters: The Tribute Money by Beverly Hall Smith

Paying taxes is not a theme artists have chosen to paint. Masaccio, a famous painter in Italy in the Fifteenth Century, is one of the few to paint the ... [Continue Story]

  • The Avalon and Its Great (Safe) Reopening with Al Bond
  • The Avalon Answers the Call for Getting Community Vaccinated by Tim Weigand
  • At the Academy: A New Approach to the Student Art Exhibition
  • Zooming In on the Hollywood Idea with Liza Ledford
  • The Hill They Climb: A Virtual Choir Performs Interpretation of Amanda Gorman’s Poetry by Chris Slattery
  • The Legacy of Henry Highland Garnet with Poet and Playwright Robert Earl Price

Health

A “Critical” New Title for Chestertown’s Hospital with Shore Health’s Ken Kozel

Perhaps one of the more significant events in Chestertown's long history is expected to take place in a few weeks. While there is no official ... [Continue Story]

  • Choptank Health Leading on the Mid-Shore with School-based Health Care
  • UM SMC at Chestertown, Dorchester and Easton All Earned “A” Ratings for the Fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
  • End of Life Conversations by Dot Mayorga
  • Melissa’s Story –A Message Of Hope In The Face Of Depression And Suicide
  • The COVID Third Wave: New At-Home Tests Could Help Keep You Safe
  • Department of Health Offers COVID-19 Exposure Tracking App

Maryland News

Could First District Turn Blue? Report Offers Possible Map

After turning the state's Sixth Congressional District blue following the 2010 Census, Maryland Democrats could set their sights on the state's sole ... [Continue Story]

  • Maryland Faces ‘Extreme’ Threat of Gerrymandering, New Report Says
  • Hogan Moves to Open the Vaccine ‘Floodgates,’ Expands Access to Everyone 16 and Older
  • All Marylanders 16+ May Pre-register for COVID-19 Vaccine; Most Vulnerable Still Have Priority
  • Md.’s Vaccine Network Able to Do 500,000+ Doses Per Week, Acting Health Secretary Says
  • With Vaccine Supply Set to Soar, Hogan Announces Plan To Open Eligibility to All
  • Mizeur: Harris Stands with Violent Mob, Not Heroic Police Officers

COVID-19

Spy COVID-19 Daily Update April 13

The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data is updated about 10 a.m. each day; counties may update data ... [Continue Story]

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Ecosystem

Contractor Named, Work to Resume on Tred Avon Oyster Sanctuary

Work is set to resume by early April on the protracted restoration of oyster reefs in Maryland’s Tred Avon River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District announced Wednesday that it has awarded a $3.8 million contract to a Florida company to construct 34 acres of reefs in the river. The Tred Avon is […]

  • Conservation Group Study Questions Need for Extra Bay Bridge Span
  • Study Finds Some Water Quality Improvements in Choptank River
  • Josh Kurtz Named Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Maryland Executive Director
  • Chesapeake Bay Receives D+ for Second Year in a Row
  • The Shore Voice for Clean Water and, with your Help, Limitless Impact by Jeff Horstman
  • Md. Could Reach Bay Health Goal by 2025, But Success Hinges on Curbing Runoff

Mid-Shore Science by Al Hammond

Mid-Shore Science: Wetlands and Climate Resilience with Dr. Ariana Sutton-Grier

  Ariana Sutton-Grier is a distinguished scientist with expertise in coastal ecosystems. In particular her research has focused on the role these ... [Continue Story]

  • The COVID Third Wave: New At-Home Tests Could Help Keep You Safe
  • The Coming Medical and Agricultural Revolution—Genetic Editing
  • Rising Waters: Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay

Commerce

Mid-Shore Commerce: Returning to a New Normal With Thad Bench

As mass vaccination centers propel the nation’s rising immunization rate, businesses large and small are calculating a year’s worth of damage and ... [Continue Story]

  • King of the Road: The Amazing World of Choptank Transport on the Mid-Shore
  • Chesapeake Agriculture Innovation Center Announces Board Members
  • Qlarant Names Stuart Harlow as Chief Financial Officer
  • Mid-Shore Commerce: Exit Interview with Discover Easton’s Ross Benincasa
  • An Angel in Easton: Washingtonian Magazine Looks at the Prager Phenomenon
  • Commerce: Discover Easton Director to Step Down at Year End

Senior Nation

The Joys Of Outdoor Fitness by Susan Covey

Too often people associate fitness with strenuous exercise or time spent at the gym, when actually ... [Continue Story]

  • Ask Irma: After the COVID Storm at Londonderry
  • Senior Nation: “Go with What You’ve Got!” By Ross Jones
  • Senior Nation: How Strong is Your Grip?
  • Is Being 73 Too Old To Go To Grad School? By Bruce Purdy
  • Ask Irma: How to Survive the Holidays
  • Lessons from a Hospice Nurse: Making the End of Life’s Journey Easier by Dorothy Mayorga

Out and About (Sort of): Parole or Not? 2.0 by Howard Freedlander

Though I do not usually use another journalistic article as the major part of this column, I am making an exception this time. Allow me to explain ... [Continue Story]

Sky Fire by Jamie Kirkpatrick

We are blessed to live in a place where all the wonders of creation are so evident. For much of my life, I lived in big cities where the vertical ... [Continue Story]

Snapshots of Daily Life: Medicine by George Merrill

Possessing illegal drugs is a crime. Costs for some prescription drugs is a crime.  On both sides of the law we have a drug problem. As is the case ... [Continue Story]

Delmarva Review: Ribbon Room by Rustin Larson

Author’s Note: “Ribbon Room” not only chronicles a trip into the Iowa countryside to buy groceries, it is a record of a trip back in time for my inner ... [Continue Story]

Chesapeake Lens: “Signs of Spring” by Jay Fleming

“A Blue Crab sheds its exoskeleton while taking shelter in a shallow Eelgrass bed in Tangier Sound. Watermen look for indicators on land to help ... [Continue Story]

Spy Chats

The Fight for Racial Justice on the Shore: Pastor Cesar Gonzalez

One only needs to look at Chestertown or Talbot County these days to see a whole new generation of young leaders as the Black Lives Matter movement ... [Continue Story]

Bill Peak Spends Some Time with Author Alice McDermott

Bill Peak, the Mid-Shore's “library guy,” has just completed an interview for the Spy with Alice McDermott, who has been called “the Virginia Woolf of ... [Continue Story]

The Future of Waterfowl with Director Margaret Enloe

In a few weeks, one of the most successful public events in Maryland was scheduled to take place in Easton, and it was going to be a particularly ... [Continue Story]

Chesapeake Arts: The Poetry of Rodney Carroll’s Work

There is poetry in Rodney Carroll's descriptions of things he's passionate about. But you won't find his words in a book. Instead, you can experience ... [Continue Story]

The Spirituals Initiative with Kentavius Jones

When people on the Mid-Shore think of Kentavius Jones, the image of the former lacrosse star at Washington College turned professional musician is ... [Continue Story]

Election 2020: The Spy Bay Ecosystem Forum with Rob Etgen, Alan Girard, Isabel Hardesty and Tom Horton

 While COVID-19 continues to dominate the news cycle and the public's attention, there remains a number of other important issues that should be ... [Continue Story]

A Chat with YMCA’s Robbie Gill on Chestertown, Y Expansion and the Slow Return to Normal

There was a big celebration in Chestertown over the weekend. After years of wishful thinking and some very hard work, a groundbreaking event for a new ... [Continue Story]

The Life of a Cube: The Art of Scott Cohen

The original concept of Easton-based artist Scott Cohen's Life Cube project was actually a simple one. Write down a goal and execute on that vision. ... [Continue Story]

At the Academy: Andy Warhol’s Accidental Icons with Mehves Lelic

Long before iPhone and "point and shoot" cameras, artist Andy Warhol was one of the very few who recognized the power of using Polaroid cameras in ... [Continue Story]

The Library Guy: Celeste-Marie Bernier on Frederick Douglass’s Family

In honor of Frederick Douglass Day, Bill Peak’s guest today is Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier, Professor of United States and Atlantic Studies at the ... [Continue Story]

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