$50 million Worth of Solar Panels Headed for ‘Highly Visible’ State Lands
About $50 million worth of solar panels will appear on Maryland Department of Transportation parking lots and brownfields in coming years, paid for with money from a state renewable energy fund that has been in the news recently. MDOT has inked a deal with the Maryland Energy Administration to tap the Strategic Energy Investment Fund […]
Harriet Tubman Museum Soft Re-Opening March 28
The Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center will celebrate the soft re-opening of its newly reimagined museum space on Saturday, March 28, following nearly a year of closure due to severe water damage sustained in May 2025. The damage forced the Museum to temporarily close its physical location at 424 Race Street. Despite the setback, […]
Our Town Vienna: The Cost of Energy
By Kathryn Masten From our back porch in Vienna, the winter landscape looks almost storybook — frosted fields, a still stream, and the kind of quiet that makes you feel held. During the Eastern Shore’s recent deep freeze, as our home stayed warm and bright, I found myself thinking back to the February night five […]
Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!
Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is the stonefly, order Plecoptera, pictured in photo #2. The stonefly, order Plecoptera, sometimes called a winter stonefly or snowfly, is a small but remarkable insect most often noticed in late Winter and early Spring. The name […]
Thoughts on the 2026 State of the Union Speech By David Reel
On February 26, 2026, President Trump delivered his State of the Union (SOTU) speech before a joint session of Congress. In doing so, Trump fulfilled the requirement in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution – “the President shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of […]
Seventy By Katherine Emery General
At the end of March, I will turn seventy. When I turned fifty, it felt like standing at a summit. Fifty was bold. It was celebratory. My husband (whose birthday is the day before mine) and I marked it with a trip to Europe, full of walking, shopping, discovery, and possibility. Sixty arrived differently. […]