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May 20, 2022

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Public Affairs

Cambridge Council Work Session Gets into the Nitty-Gritty of New Mayor Role

Perhaps the real point of a town council "work session" is to, in fact, get into the nitty-gritty of a certain subject. Having the time to ... [Continue Story]

  • After Leak of SCOTUS Opinion on Abortion, MD Lawmakers & Candidates Pledge Action
  • St. Michaels Commission Election to Take Place Tomorrow
  • Waterfront Project to Be Branded as Cambridge Harbor
  • Cambridge Council Highlights: Work Session Set for May 16 on the Future of Mayor’s Role
  • Maryland Wins Approval to Design New Bay Crossing Near Existing Bridge
  • Cambridge Council Highlights: President Lajan Cephas on the Death of A’Corie Young

Spy Highlights

From and Fuller: GOP 2020 Deniers and Democrat Progressives Impact on Early Primaries

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]

  • 40 Years of the Oxford Community Center and its Fine Arts Festival: A Chat with Liza Ledford
  • COVID-19 May 16, 2022
  • Publisher Notes: The Spy Welcomes Laura J. Oliver
  • Spy Long-Form Sundays: A Chat with Legal Scholar Tom Metzloff Regarding Roe v. Wade
  • COVID-19 May 13, 2022
  • From and Fuller: The Impact of a Trump Return to Twitter

Election 2022

Election 2022 Profiles: Heather Mizeur for Maryland’s 1st Congressional District

Today, the Spy continues its informal series on profiling candidates running for office in 2022. Over the next eight months, we will be offering long-form interviews with ... [Continue Story]

  • In GOP Governor Race, Schulz Campaign Calls Cox ‘Unstable’ and ‘Unfit For Office’
  • Election 2022 Profiles: Tom Hutchinson for House of Delegates (37-B)
  • Mizeur Releases Economic Plan for 1st District
  • Election 2022 Profiles: Dave Harden for Maryland’s 1st Congressional District
  • Hoyer Endorses Wes Moore for Governor
  • Election 2022 Profiles: Johnny Mautz for Maryland State Senate

After the First Year: Cambridge Council Looks Back

News After Year One: A Chat with Cambridge Commissioner Brian Roche (First Ward)

Over the next few weeks, the Cambridge Spy and WHCP Community Radio will talk to all the Cambridge City Council members as they reach their first anniversary in these ... [Continue Story]

  • After Year One: A Chat with Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw
  • After Year One: A Chat with Cambridge Commissioner Chad Malkus (Fifth Ward)
  • After Year One: A Chat with Cambridge Commissioner Jameson Harrington (Third Ward)
  • After Year One: A Chat with Cambridge Council President Lajan Cephas
  • Ending the Rachel Maddow-Muddled Misery of Mt. Misery
  • Statues and Fields

The Arts

40 Years of the Oxford Community Center and its Fine Arts Festival: A Chat with Liza Ledford

How times fly. It seems like it was only the other day when the Oxford Community Center opened its doors after a total renovation. That was ten years ... [Continue Story]

  • The Avalon Takes Art Teacher Anna Madachik to the Met with CEO Daniel Weiss as Host
  • Spy Review: The David Mayfield Parade Marches Through Stoltz Listening Room
  • The Tred Avon Players Count Down to ‘And Then There Were None’
  • Spy Review: MSO’s ‘Gloriously Radiant Finale’ by Steve Parks
  • Spy Review: National Photography Juried Show at the Academy by Steve Parks
  • Review: McMurtry Was Worth The Wait at the Avalon by Mark Pelavin

Health

For All Seasons: David’s Story

 Six years ago, For All Seasons’ client David was barely hanging on. He explains, “It was bad, and I needed help. I reached out for help, and I ... [Continue Story]

  • COVID Answers with Choptank Community Health #6
  • COVID Answers with Choptank Community Health #5
  • COVID Answers with Choptank Community Health #3
  • COVID Answers with Choptank Community Health #2
  • Fifty Years of Memory: A Chat with Dr. Terry Deitrich
  • COVID Answers with Choptank Community Health #1

Maryland News

Changing of the Guard: Tablada to Replace Grumbles as State Environment Chief

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced on Monday that Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Environment Horacio Tablada will succeed current ... [Continue Story]

  • Local Leaders Urge MDTA to Replace Bay Bridge With New 8-Lane Span
  • Maryland’s 24 Jurisdictions Wrestle with how to Locally Implement Police Accountability Boards
  • Hogan Vetoes Abortion and Paid Family Leave Bills, Allows Climate Measure to Become Law
  • Election 2022 Profiles: Peter Franchot for Governor
  • Hogan, Legislative Leaders Tap Surplus to Boost Local Road Maintenance
  • Rural, Suburban and Urban Leaders Join Bid to Restore Lost Road Repair Funds

Ecosystem

A Real Bummer: New VMRC Report Suggest Continued Downturn for Blue Crabs

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) has announced the results from the 2022 Baywide Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey which indicates a ... [Continue Story]

  • How Does the State Plant 5 Million Trees? It’s Complicated
  • The Fight Against the Chestertown Mosquitoes: A Chat with Darran Tilghman
  • Maryland Receives First Batch of Federal Funding to Restore Chesapeake
  • Troika and ShoreRivers Teams Up: A Chat with Laura Era and Rebekah Hock
  • Chesapeake Ecosystem: Sewer Repair and ARPA Funding in Cambridge
  • Washington College joins Forces with American Bird Conservancy

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

The Mediation Room: What is Mediation Anyway? By Steve Forrer

Editor's note: For almost as long as we have been publishing the Spy newspapers, we have been in awe of the various nonprofit organizations like ... [Continue Story]

  • WHCP-Spy Podcast: How to Brand a Waterfront with Matt Leonard
  • EEDC Appointments Holly DeKarske Interim Executive Director
  • Mid-Shore Real Estate: Filling the Professional Rental Market Niche with Derick Daly
  • Kent County Chamber of Commerce Appoints Sarah King as New Executive Director
  • Mid-Shore Launches New Website for Employers
  • Chesapeake Neighbors to Work with Mid-Shore’s Rivers & Roads on Affordable Housing

Senior Nation

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]

  • Senior Nation: It’s Time to Start Walking by Susan Covey
  • Ask Irma: How to Say Goodbye
  • Senior Nation: The Spring Reset Might Start with Boxing
  • Love Your Heart! National Wear Red Day Set for February 4th
  • Senior Nation: Start The New Year Off On The Right Foot! By Susan Covey
  • Ask Irma: Londonderry at 30 Years Old

An Inconvenient Group by Angela Rieck

I live in two tourist towns…so I understand the trade-offs. In return for delightful restaurants and shops, we share our town with guests. It means ... [Continue Story]

Looking at the Masters: Renoir at Chatou

Renoir at Chatou         August Renoir (1841-1919) and other artists began to develop a new style of painting in the late 1870’s that was later ... [Continue Story]

It’s Going to be an Uncomfortable Summer for Republicans by J.E. Dean

You’ve heard it before. What is taking the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol so long to complete its investigation? I ... [Continue Story]

Out and About (Sort of): Going Back by Howard Freedlander

Reunions are tests of time. Our everyday lives can and do interfere with our connections to family, friends and institutions. But time also offers a ... [Continue Story]

Dreamtime by Jamie Kirkpatrick

My wife and I attended a party a few nights ago…a big party under a tent…a gala! Five-hundred guests, chatting, eating, drinking, dancing. We had a ... [Continue Story]

Spy Chats

Mid-Shore Lives: Memories and Life Lessons at 93 with Jack Noble

More than a few people have suggested that the Spy interview Talbot County native John (Jack) Noble, and after following up on those recommendations ... [Continue Story]

The End of an Era at Oxford’s Latitude 38: A Chat with Wendy Palmer and Gretchen Gordon

“Gretchen Gordon and Wendy Palmer were in their very early twenties in 1991 when they borrowed $25K each to buy Masthead, a restaurant on Mill St. in ... [Continue Story]

Writers Peter and Evan Osnos Come to Chestertown

On May 7, the Bookplate bookstore and Retriever Bar will continue their Authors & Oysters series of author events as they host father and son ... [Continue Story]

Love, Death and Photography: The Journey of David and Diane Pace

Editor's Note: The following is a collaboration with old friends, the Spy Newspapers, Santa Clara University, and the former director of the San Jose ... [Continue Story]

Horn Point Lab’s Plan to Capture Carbon and Rebuild Reefs: A Chat with Dr. Elizabeth North

You would think that with the billions of dollars available for climate change research, finding grant support to find a scalable solution to protect ... [Continue Story]

Profiles in Philanthropy: John Wyatt Wants Kids to Read in Dorchester County

Almost from the day the Spy started in 2009, we have been fascinated by the impact of certain philanthropists on our small communities of the ... [Continue Story]

Twenty Years of Supporting the Mid-Shore’s Women & Girls: A Chat with Alice Ryan

When one thinks about the Women & Girls Fund, and what they have accomplished during their twenty years of existence, it is quite understandable ... [Continue Story]

Artist Stephen Haynes and his Portraits of the Nonexistent

One of the inevitable questions that every artist will be asked in the years to come is what impact the Covid pandemic had on their work. This ... [Continue Story]

A Trappe Point of View of Lakeside: A Chat with Councilperson Brian Schmidt

Over the last three years, Trappe Town Council member Brian Schmidt has had a first-row seat, or some would say, on the frontlines of an ongoing ... [Continue Story]

The Garden Club of Talbot County takes a Modest Bow: A Chat with Caroline Benson & Virginia Sappington

For many driving a car in Easton, there is wide agreement that the five corners intersection at Idlewild Park is a tad stressful, at least by ... [Continue Story]

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