ShoreRivers Safe Swim Report: 8/13
With summer swimming in full swing, ShoreRivers has kicked off its seasonal Bacteria Monitoring program, ensuring safer waterways for recreational use. Each year, a dedicated team of community scientists collects water samples from popular swimming and boating sites, which are analyzed in ShoreRivers’ labs following strict EPA protocols. The results, published weekly each Friday from […]
Food Friday: Zucchini Time 2026
Welcome to the longest, hottest, stinkiest summer on record! Mr. Sanders and I drove to Boone, North Carolina for a few days of cooler weather earlier this week. It was delightful to suddenly realize that wearing a sweater could improve our summer-sour-puss outlook on life. We enjoyed a couple of 65° mornings, light sweaters, fabulous […]
Anthony Fauci by Al Sikes
My minds excavator cannot pinpoint the moment. The moment when I first heard the phrase “be politic”. I do recall the interpretation: in the end success will occur if there is some level of agreement. In other words, you cannot use verbal explosives and reach a satisfactory conclusion. Agreement requires some level of agreeable behavior. […]
Cambridge Time Machine: Let’s Go Over to East New Market Today
This remarkable photograph from the Library of Congress captures East New Market at a time when the Dorchester County community was changing from what had once been described as a thriving fishing village into one of the Eastern Shore’s many small crossroads towns. Preserved by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, the image […]