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September 22, 2023

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Public Affairs

New Regional Hospital Takes Big Step Forward: Certificate of Need Now on the Books

University of Maryland Shore Regional Health’s plans for construction of a new Regional Medical Center (RMC) in Easton have moved a step forward as ... [Continue Story]

  • Increased Tolls May Be on the Horizon for Bay Bridge
  • CAN Notes: City Council Discusses Poverty Rates, A Revised Curfew, and Property Regulations
  • CAN Meeting Raises Continued Concerns Over YMCA Plans to Move to Cambridge Harbor
  • CAN Notes: Planning Commission Meeting; YMCA Overlay Tabled
  • County Leaders Renew Push for Oversight on Education Spending
  • Death Rates for People under 40 have Skyrocketed Due to Fentanyl

Spy Highlights

From and Fuller: Shutdown Blues, McCarthy’s Fate, and Trump Poll Numbers

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]

  • From and Fuller: McCarthy Begins Biden Impeachment and Romney Turns Down Second Term
  • Design with Jenn Martella: Contemporary Cottage
  • Spy Exit Interview: Londonderry’s Irma Toce is Leaving the Building
  • The Arc’s Vision for Helping its Core Constituency: A Chat with Greg Snyder
  • From and Fuller: Biden’s Low Poll Numbers and Democratic Strategies to Win in 2024
  • Empowering Cambridge: The Evolution of Pine Street Enrichment Program

Brevities

Cambridge Time Machine: Walking Down Poplar Street

Poplar Street was laid out on a July 1706 map and received its name by 1799. It was reshaped by two fires: an 1892 fire destroyed buildings on the ... [Continue Story]

  • Important Updates on Frederick Douglass Day
  • September by Kate Emery General
  • Cambridge Time Machine: Heading Down Locust Street
  • Sweet! Black Water Bakery is Expanding
  • Washington Post Profiles Eastern Shore Artist Jason Patterson on State Flags
  • Cambridge Time Machine: Having a Meeting with the Bank’s President

Community Notes

One Mission Cambridge Finds Cambridge is Better When Working Together

One Mission Cambridge has been helping meet the physical and spiritual needs of men, women, and children in Cambridge one resident at a time since its ... [Continue Story]

  • CBMM set to host Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival XL
  • CAN Notes: Matt Leonard to Address CAN on September 7
  • Roberta B. Holt Scholarship Fund Celebrates 10 Years
  • CAN Notes: City Council Highlights from August 14 Meeting
  • Mid Shore Foster Parents Attend Shorebirds Game
  • Col. Tench Tilghman Chapter Plans Celebration September 16

The Arts

Eylie Sasajima Wins Washington College’s Sophie Kerr Prize

Eylie Sasajima ’23 earned the prestigious honor with a portfolio of poems, academic work and creative non-fiction. The Prize caps a college career ... [Continue Story]

  • At the Academy: Nancy Mitchell and Sheryl Southwick Talk Art and Poetry
  • Easton Filmmaker Tori Paxon to Premiere “Foolproof”
  • Mid-Shore Arts: DCA’s Melissa Cooperman and Her Photography
  • The ‘Measure’ of Shore Shakespeare by Steve Parks
  • Mid-Shore Arts: The Reluctant Art of Jennifer Leps
  • Spy Arts Diary: Jazzing Up Labor Day Weekend by Steve Parks

Ecosystem

Westward Ho! Easton’s Rails to Trails Expansion with Project Manager Kody Cario

One of the few bits of good news that the town of Easton experienced during the rough days of COVID was the explosion of the use of the current ... [Continue Story]

  • Election 2022: Environmental Forum For Talbot County Council Election
  • ShoreRivers Safe to Swim Weekend Report
  • Md. Lawmakers Check In with new Agency Leaders on Bay Cleanup Progress
  • Keeping the Soul of Cambridge’s Packing House with ESLC’s Carol Bean
  • Bay Ecosystem: A Chat with Riverkeeper Annie Richards
  • Ecosystem: Gary & Justine Reinoehl Love the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center

Health

One Mission Cambridge Celebrates First Anniversary

One Mission Cambridge recently celebrated its first anniversary with a picnic at its location at 614 Race Street in Cambridge. Over 100 people came to ... [Continue Story]

  • Qlarant Foundation Profiles: Bay Hundred Community Volunteers
  • Washington Post: Dozens have Leaped to their Deaths from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
  • Marylanders Encouraged to get New COVID Vaccine
  • Maryland Hospitals Face Most Critical Staffing Shortage in Recent Memory
  • Dorchester County Reports First Monkeypox Case
  • Pathways of Support by Talbot Hospice: A Chat with Megan Murray

Maryland News

Gunsallus sworn in as Easton Town Council President

Newly elected Easton Town Council President Frank Gunsallus was sworn into office at the Town Council meeting held on Monday, September 18, 2023. ... [Continue Story]

  • QAC to Experiment with Ramp Closures to Head Off Route 50 Beach Traffic
  • Maryland Gives Dorchester County Time to Clean Up Its Financials
  • Moore Says Maryland Must Reckon with Structural Challenges
  • Lawmakers and Regulators Contemplating Changes to Cannabis Law
  • Maryland Politics: Van Hollen Endorsees Angela Alsobrooks for Senate
  • Biden taps O’Malley to lead Social Security Administration

Commerce

What you Need to Know about Maryland’s Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program

As prices for everyday necessities continue to rise, families with limited means are having to make tough choices on where to allocate their money. In ... [Continue Story]

  • CWDI Completes Cambridge Harbor Demolition Phase
  • Discovering Discover Easton’s Plans for 2023: A Chat with Director Holly DeKarske
  • Mediation Room 8: Benefits of Using Mediation in Divorce 
  • CULTA Announces Partnership with National Cannabis Brand Old Pal
  • The Mediation Room 7: Bad Debt – Getting Beyond It
  • The Mediation Room: The Role of Lawyers in Mediation

Art Notes

Massoni Opens Grace Mitchell Exhibition September 21

A powerful look from Grace’s perspective on stewardship and the protection of the watershed. New work and favorites from her previous collections will ... [Continue Story]

  • Chesapeake Music Welcomes the Abeo Quartet for an October 7th Concert
  • Academy Art Museum Announces the 26th Annual Craft Show
  • Ashley Watkins and Veronica Tomanek to Offer Musical Journey at Trinity in Oxford on September 24
  • Save a Few Dates: The Avalon Theatre Fall 2023 to Spring 2024
  • Dominick Farinacci brings TRIAD to Oxford by Becca Newell
  • Chesapeake Film Festival Prepares for September 30 Opening

Senior Nation

Upper Shore Aging Holds 20th Anniversary Celebration for Adult Activity Center

Upper Shore Aging recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Amy Lynn Ferris Adult Activity ... [Continue Story]

  • Senior Nation Fitness: Joyful Abandon
  • Londonderry CEO Irma Toce Announces Retirement
  • Bay Country Chorus at Bayleigh Chase
  • Senior Nation: Water, Water Everywhere for Drinking, Playing And Exercising by Susan Covey
  • Could Your Core Be Getting Frail? By Susan Covey
  • Ask Irma: What Are the Benefits of Socialization?

Annie’s Story by Angela Rieck

Many of my readers have read (perhaps ad nauseum?) about my dog, Gus. But I have another dog, whose story I have kept quiet to spare my readers…this ... [Continue Story]

More Empathy Would Make America a Better Place by J.E. Dean

Earlier this month, I couldn’t help but notice the number of trucks that passed by transporting riding lawnmowers. There were dozens of them, each one ... [Continue Story]

The National Scandal by Al Sikes

West Virginia University (WVU), uncomfortably, has given us a sneak preview of what America has in its future. A Wall Street Journal story on cuts ... [Continue Story]

Glow by Jamie Kirkpatrick

It’s all about the light; it always has been. Take last Saturday, for example: it was a gorgeous day; the temperature was delightful, half way between ... [Continue Story]

Planning Your Digital Death and Other Happy Thoughts by Hugh Panero

It used to be easier to plan for your demise. All you needed was a will, a list of your significant bank account numbers and essential passwords, a ... [Continue Story]

Spy Chats

CFF Spotlight: A Passion for Oysters with Filmmaker Dave Harp

It didn't take long for Dave Harp and his long-time cohorts, Tom Horton and Sandy Cannon-Brown, to come up with the title of their new documentary ... [Continue Story]

Mid-Shore Arts: Something a Little Off the Menu at OOTF

Gail Patterson is not a typical doctor, just as Out of the Fire is not your typical local restaurant. What these two have in common, though, is what ... [Continue Story]

For All Seasons Launches Revolutionary ‘Open Access’ Mental Health Program with No Waitlists

In October 2022, For All Seasons launched an innovative method to eliminate its waitlist and allow individuals and families to begin mental health ... [Continue Story]

Expanding the Possible on Port Street: A Chat with Arc Advisor Ross Benincasa

It's one thing to talk about affordable housing as a campaign issue or as a matter of policy, but it's quite a different when a great example is ... [Continue Story]

Local Wine and DrinkMaryland in Centreville: A Chat with Mid-Shore Wine Coach Laurie Forster

Centreville plays host to DrinkMaryland on Saturday, June 17th. From noon until about 5 PM, attendees can enjoy wine, beer, food, music and have a ... [Continue Story]

AI in the Classroom: A Chat with Washington College Writing Director Sean Meehan

Various Artificial Intelligence systems have been around for years. Look no further than web search engines like Google, content recommendations like ... [Continue Story]

A Special Arc Arrives to Help Meet the Mid-Shore’s Affordable Housing Challenge: A Chat with CEO Jonathon Rondeau

A few years ago, the “affordable housing” issue facing most Mid-Shore communities would rarely make the top ten concerns for voters, but that’s not ... [Continue Story]

Meet the New Director of The Water’s Edge/Bellevue Passage Museums

From the Spy's point of view, the Mid-Shore has never experienced a more exciting era for historians as local efforts to find and recover community ... [Continue Story]

The Philosophers of the Douglass Family with Scholars Celeste-Marie Bernier and Bill Lawson

Have you ever wondered what lies behind the formidable figure of Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist and social reformer? Beyond the usual ... [Continue Story]

So You Want to Be an Oyster Farmer? A Chat with Jason Wilford

From selling ad space to shucking oysters, the career change of one man proves that life's greatest pearls often lie outside of the comfort ... [Continue Story]

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