Opinion: Solar Project Threatens Decades of Planning for Centreville Growth Corridor by Carol Bean

ESLC advocates for a balanced approach to solar siting — one that protects productive farmland, respects local plans, and directs large-scale energy infrastructure to appropriate locations. That balance is being tested once again here on the Eastern Shore. A proposal before the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) seeks approval for a solar project covering […]
Bay to Ocean Journal: Institutional Door by Catherine Carter

Author’s note: the poem began with one of those everyday struggles with a heavy door, the kind that doesn’t want to open and then apparently isn’t going to close and then suddenly bangs shut, maybe catching people in it, when it occurred to me that a whole lot of not-so-literal “institutional” doors are designed […]
Spy Review: Perfect Arrangement – A Perfectly Arranged Dramedy by Steve Parks

There’s nothing perfect about the arrangement that serves as the comic premise of Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement—except perhaps that it is perfectly suited for Pride Month. Directed by Joe Fox for Groove/Factory—the company formed by the merger of E.T. Wilford’s Groove Theater and Cece Storm’s Factory Arts Project—Perfect Arrangement begins as a surreal farce […]
Chesapeake Lens: “Nature’s Harmony” by Julia Phot Tanner

An Eastern Kingbird flies over a budding swamp milkweed, host plant for monarch butterflies. “Nature’s Harmony” by Julia Phot Tanner.
