Queenstown Bank Opens New Cambridge Branch With Community Focus and Ice Cream on a Hot Day
Under a bright midday sun and temperatures pushing into the upper 80s, community leaders, bankers, and longtime customers gathered Wednesday for the grand opening of Queenstown Bank’s new Cambridge branch, celebrating what officials called another sign of economic momentum in Dorchester County. The Dorchester Chamber of Commerce hosted the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the bank’s new […]
Maryland Must Finally Confront the Bay Bridge Crisis by Michael Sakata
More than 335,000 vehicles are expected to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge over this Memorial Day weekend. Those who have spent hours in gridlock, traveling to and returning from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, can attest that the Bay Bridge is unequipped to accommodate traffic volume of that magnitude. As a result, weekend travelers can be […]
Bay to Ocean Journal: Letter to a Mountaineer on a One-Way Trek by Amy Bernstein
Author’s Note: In recent years, I’ve developed a mild obsession with documentaries about people who are themselves obsessed with near-impossible physical feats—scaling the most forbidding mountains, surfing the tallest waves, climbing to the tippy-top of the world’s highest buildings, and so forth. I’ve come to understand that their brains are wired differently from the […]
Love is an Action Verb by Laura J. Oliver
Leah, my terrier mix, and my one-year-old granddaughter are similarly wordless in their expression of affection. My granddaughter, who has just learned to walk, toddles around toys and two large dogs on the living room floor to throw herself into her father’s arms when he comes home from work. And Leah is ecstatic when […]
Poplar Island: A Three-Act Play by David Schindel
The three preceding columns in this series were partly a cautionary tale of sea-level rise, and partly a short course on how water and sediment behave in the Bay. They may have left you with a sense of foreboding. Stay with me. This column will present a three-act play with a happier ending. Act […]