Let’s Talk About It: Reaching Mid-Shore Kids with Beth Anne Dorman and Former Ravens Matt Lawrence
[youtube id=”V8aQC1oWJ04 The Spy continues our special series on Mid-Shore mental health this month with For All Seasons CEO Beth Anne Dorman and her special guest Matt Lawrence, the legendary Baltimore Ravens player and now founder of Lawrence International. Tasked with the challenge of reaching younger and younger children about mental health, Beth Anne knew […]
Harley Peet Brings Home the James Beard Award for Bas Rouge
Last night, the James Beard Foundation announced the winners of its Restaurant and Chef Awards, and Harley Peet, who the Spy profiled two months ago, took home the “Best Chef” for the Mid-Atlantic for his remarkable work at Bas Rouge in Easton. Read the full story here.
Out and About (Sort of): Higher Education on Edge by Howard Freedlander
As the school year has ended for U.S. colleges and universities, I hope that academic leaders closely examine their culture of tolerance and codes of conduct. Their decisions will be telling, if not determinative of the future. Protests, encampments, anti-semitism and poor behavior have marked schools throughout the country. Local police have had to intervene. […]
Mystery Artist: Who Knows Anything about this Mid-Shore Painting and Painter
In an upcoming Spy interview with Greg Zimmerman about the future of the site where the Talbot County Health Department is currently is located, he send along to us a remarkable painting of the same spot but almost 100 years earlier. It now hangs in the Maryland Room at the TAlbot County Free Library in […]
Nine Lives
I may have finally found what I want to be when I grow up. A clear passion for a profession was not in my purview, ever. Most of my high school friends knew what they were going to study at college, but I didn’t have a clue. Teaching wasn’t one of the career paths suggested […]
Maryland gets middling results for states in annual report on children’s well-being
Maryland ranked in the middle of the pack when it comes to the overall well-being of children, but improvements are still needed, according to a report released Monday. The 2024 KIDS COUNT Data Book ranked Maryland 22nd among states, one place lower than last year and three spots lower than the report from two years ago. “Over the […]
Library to host 9th Annual Chesapeake Children’s Book Festival Extravaganza
For the ninth year in a row, the Talbot County Free Library will host Chesapeake Children’s Book Festival as a kick off for the annual Summer Reading Program. “The day of the Chesapeake Children’s Book Festival is always one of my favorite days of the year,” said Talbot County Free Library Director Dana Newman. “All […]
Bumper Crop
We tend to think of the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a vast and liquid environment where we live and work and play in a lovely and relatively safe corner of the world. But amid the grandeur and natural wonder of this place which we often call “the land of pleasant living,” there are also small-plot […]
Kids Count: Maryland fell behind majority of states in childhood health indicators
Maryland fell behind a majority of states on markers of childhood health, as kids experience higher rates of obesity or being overweight and tens of thousands of children still do not have health care, according to a report released Monday. The 2024 Kids Count Data Book, which is based on data from 2022, ranked Maryland […]