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June 5, 2023

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Public Affairs

Ward 5 Candidate Profiles: Robert Aaron, Cleveland Rippons and Brian Roche

The city of Cambridge will be holding a special election next Tuesday for City Council Ward 1 and Ward 3. The Cambridge Spy is keeping with our ... [Continue Story]

  • Ward One Candidate Profiles: Laurel Atkiss and Chad Malkus
  • Maryland Motorists Will Have to Dig a Little Deeper at the Gas Pump Starting July 1
  • A Spy Guide to the Cambridge Special Election Candidates
  • Consumer Guide Criticized for Saying ‘Avoid’ Chesapeake Oysters
  • Cambridge City Council Declares June 2 as Gun Violence Awareness Day
  • Reluctant Cambridge Planning Commision Approves new Grocery Outlet Bargain Market

Spy Highlights

Washington College Opens New Doors for the Shore’s Young Writers: A Chat with Roy Kesey

For six years each summer The Cherry Tree Young Writers’ Conference at Washington College has opened its doors to 30 or more regional high school ... [Continue Story]

  • From and Fuller: Grading Kevin McCarthy After Debt Ceiling House Compromise
  • Design with Jenn Martella: “Barnacle Bungalow”
  • Spy Arts Diary: Classic Festivals, Gay Pride, & Old Glory
  • From and Fuller: A DeSantis Bumpy Start and Debt Ceiling Game of Chicken
  • Spy Profile: Behind the Brussel Sprouts with Lynn Sanchez
  • Design with Jenn Martella: Easton Historic Gem

Brevities

Spy Minute: Celebrating the Academy 65th with one Big Family Photo

On Saturday afternoon, Academy Art Museum’s gathered together hundreds of friends and artists to celebrate its 65th birthday this year. It was done on ... [Continue Story]

  • Cambridge Time Machine: Dropping in on the Local Diplomat
  • June 2023 Sky-Watch
  • Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Taking the Ferry to Trappe
  • Cambridge Time Machine: Going Over to the Straughn House
  • Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Shedding a Tear in Wye Mills
  • Cambridge Time Machine: Watching Out for Horses on Race Street

Community Notes

CWDI Launches Online Street Naming Survey

Cambridge Waterfront Development, Inc. (CWDI) has launched an online survey asking the community for input on naming a new street being added to ... [Continue Story]

  • Spy Footnote: From and Fuller to Appear of MPT’s State Circle Tonight
  • Firecracker Kid’s Triathlon to Be Held July 4th, 2023, in Cambridge
  • July 1 is Deadline for Caroline Foundation Grant Applications
  • St. Michaels Museum 2023 Season Announcement
  • Earth Data Selected for Water Quality Data Collection Project in Dorchester County
  • For All Seasons Joins Maryland Regional Navigator Program for Human Trafficking

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

Qlarant Foundation Profiles: Bay Hundred Community Volunteers

  Editor Note: This is the first of three articles that focus on the recipients of the Qlarant Foundation grant awards over the last year. We ... [Continue Story]

  • 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
  • For All Seasons: David’s Story

Maryland News

Moore Issues First Vetoes, Lets Cannabis Search Bill and Others Become Law without His Signature

Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Friday issued the first vetoes of his young administration and also allowed 10 bills to become law without his signature ... [Continue Story]

  • Low-income Marylanders Face Food Insecurity as COVID benefits End
  • Congressman David Trone Joins the Race to Fill Ben Cardin’s Senate Seat
  • Senator Ben Cardin won’t Seek Reelection in 2024
  • Spy Profiles: New Easton Police Chief Alan Lowrey
  • Chaos Erupts in House of Delegates in Final Moments of General Assembly Session
  • Senate approves Gun Bill, but not without Heated late Debate

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

Academy Art Museum Instructor’s Studio Sale

Something for Everyone! The public is invited to the Academy Art Museum for an Instructor’s Studio Sale on Saturday June 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ... [Continue Story]

  • Smooth Jazz Guitarist Ronny Smith Comes to the Mainstay
  • Main Street Gallery, Cambridge, Celebrates 12 Years and Presents its Summer Show with Karen Jury
  • Musician Carrie Rose Brings Breathing in Nature to Adkins Arboretum June 17
  • Auditions for Harvey at Church Hill Theatre
  • Authors & Oysters: Spy Columnist Jamie Kirkpatrick
  • The Garfield Center Announces Auditions for “The Addams Family” Musical

Senior Nation

Could Your Core Be Getting Frail? By Susan Covey

As you probably know, a weak core impacts everyday life...but maybe more than you think. If basic ... [Continue Story]

  • Ask Irma: What Are the Benefits of Socialization?
  • Grief at the Office: A Chat with Compass’s Sherrie Rhonda Knotts and Sherrie Young
  • At the Y: 92-Year-Old Water Fitness Dynamo Inspires Generations
  • Its Time for Seniors to Take a Break by Susan Covey
  • Senior Nation: Take Care of Your Heart
  • Ask Irma: A Personal Journey to Fitness

Delmarva Review: Baltimore Is Where by Kerry Graham

Author’s Note: "My love for Baltimore is fierce; I'm proud and protective of my city. I'm also impatient for us to improve, for Baltimore to be a ... [Continue Story]

Chesapeake Lens: The Nest by Bob Reynolds

Two chicks sort out the pecking order while mom preens. “The Nest” by Bob Reynolds. ... [Continue Story]

Thoughts on Crabs, Inflation, Wild Fires, Morning Smoke and Haze

The white-coated man behind the seafood case in the grocery store sees me eyeing the round, plastic containers of crab meat set in ice. Traditional ... [Continue Story]

Modeling Lifelong Learning by Angela Rieck

It started with a property line dispute and turned into a novel nine years later. When a neighboring farmer challenged the property lines of her farm, ... [Continue Story]

Debt Ceiling Can Kicked Down the Road by J.E. Dean

Are you celebrating the end of the debt ceiling crisis? You know, the predicted collapse of the U.S. economy triggered by the federal government ... [Continue Story]

Spy Chats

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]

A New Era for Sheltering Animals in Kent County: A Chat with Richard Keaveney

Kent County loves its critters and just proved it again with the opening of the Animal Care Shelter for Kent County on Worton Rd. After five years ... [Continue Story]

Two Artists, Two States and One Canvas: Artists Jill Basham and Kim VanDerHoek Meet in the Cloud

Two artists, two states, one canvas, and one acclaimed painting. You might have recently seen a write-up on their collaboration in the Spy. It was an ... [Continue Story]

A New Era Begins: A Chat with Talbot Schools Superintendent Sharon Pepukayi

While the new Talbot County Public Schools superintendent Dr. Sharon Pepukayi is indeed home-grown, with a long family history based in Bellevue, ... [Continue Story]

Hiking the Liberal Arts: A Chat with Washington College’s Rich Gillin  

What better place to study 19th-century English Romantic literature than to immerse oneself for a few summer weeks in England’s northwest Lake ... [Continue Story]

Helping Public Projects Thrive: A Chat with Rivers and Roads Ross Benincasa & Sam Shoge

The old joke about consultants is that they ask for a client's watch to tell them what time it is. This attempt at humor does accurately describing ... [Continue Story]

Bringing the World of Books and Writers to the Shore: A Chat with Shore Lit’s Founder Kerry Folan

If one goes back in time and looks at the history of some of the most important cultural institutions on the Mid-Shore, one will typically find that ... [Continue Story]

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