Food Friday: Home-baked carbs
Timing is everything. We have figured out how to cope with winter temperatures – we have been fueling ourselves with home-baked carbs. And next week, just in time for the mercurial temperatures to hover in the 50s, we’ll be smug and satisfied, schmearing good Irish butter across the firm crumb of our rustic boule bread, […]
City Council receives update on plans for Cannery Way
[youtube id=”JeyPkye76Ug” /] On January 27, the Cambridge City Council heard a presentation by Alpha Genesis Community Development Corporation about its plans to transform Cannery Way into a more active area, and also to rehabilitate the historic building at 428-432 Race Street. According to the plan presented, Alpha Genesis would concentrate on enhancements to the […]
A new president and immigration policies changes: A chat with ChesMRC’s Matthew Peters
As the new Trump Administration begins to roll out its approach to border control and immigration policies, one group on the Mid-Shore is watching closely what those new initiatives might mean to the unique communities they serve is the Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center based in Easton. For over 12 years, the organization has been helping […]
Maryland’s Green Gamble: The high cost of idealism by Clayton Mitchell
Maryland’s foray into the progressive “green agenda” has led to a cascade of lamentable energy policy decisions that are both short-sighted and economically burdensome. The impending closures of the Vienna and Brandon Shores electrical generation plants provide a stark example of the perils inherent in abandoning pragmatism for idealism. These facilities, pillars of reliability in […]
Wine of the Week: Vernaccia di San Gimignano
Ciao Tutti! This weekend at Piazza Italian Market, we will taste a customer favorite, the Vernaccia di San Gimignano ($14.50, 13.5% ABV) from the Fontaleoni winery in Toscana and imported to the US from DeGrazia Imports, Italy’s fabled exporter of exceptional wines. Toscana’s geography, of the Apennines to the north, the Metalliferous Mountains and Mt. […]
Cambridge Time Machine: Nathan’s house downtown
The townhouse at 315 High Street is a formal city residence erected simultaneously with the adjacent commercial block after the huge July 1892 fire that leveled much of High Street. The earlier dwelling was a second quarter of the 19th century brick structure, of which only the foundation remains under the townhouse. The land Meyer […]
Horn Point Laboratory scientists present Winter Community Science Series
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory presents a series of Community Science Talks in February and March. Horn Point scientists will engage the audience with interactive talks about their environmental science research, and its impact on the Eastern Shore and around the world. The talks are free, and take place […]
SU announces new CHHS dean
Salisbury University has announced Dr. Matthew Laurent as the new dean of its College of Health and Human Services (CHHS). Laurent comes to SU after seven years at Tarleton State University, having served in roles ranging from Health and Human Performance department head in 2014 to dean of the School of Health and Clinical Professions […]
Chesapeake Music receives another NEA Challenge America grant
Chesapeake Music is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Challenge America award of $10,000 in support of its youth outreach programming in 2025. “We are thrilled and grateful to receive another round of funding from NEA to continue this important work we began this […]
No survivors found in crash between military helicopter and jet over Potomac
The Maryland context From Maryland Matters The victims included at least five Marylanders who were returning home from a hunting trip on Flight 5342, according to social media posts on local labor union sites. Four members of United Association Steamfitters Local 602, based in Capitol Heights, and one member of UA Plumbers and Gasfitters Local […]