NEWS
August 6, 2007
Mt. Washington firehouse call is close to home Firefighters assigned to Engine 45 and Truck 27 on Glen Avenue in Mount Washington didn't have far to go battle a blaze yesterday -- it began inside their firehouse. The incident began about 1 p.m., when a firefighter noticed smoke coming from a second-floor recreation room at the station in the 2700 block of Glen Ave. and alerted others, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a Fire Department spokesman. Cartwright said the fire, apparently the result of an overloaded circuit or a frayed wire, set a couch on fire, causing smoke to fill the recreation room.
FEATURES
By Jonathan Pitts | October 6, 2007
Fear not, leaf peepers of Maryland. Although there was less rain than usual across the state this summer, the drought conditions will take only the slightest edge off the glories of your favorite time of year. "So many factors impact fall foliage - temperature, humidity, soil conditions - that they tend to cancel each other out," says Kenneth Jolly, a forestry expert with the state's Department of Natural Resources. "To the average person, things won't seem much different. Expect the same lovely array of colors [across the state]
NEWS
By Rona Kobell | December 23, 2007
NANTICOKE-- --The distance between the two Methodist churches in this Eastern Shore village is little more than a mile. Yet for decades, it seemed as if a great gulf separated them. One church was black. The other was white. Though the two communities in the watermen's town got along fine, come Sunday, people went their own way. White families flocked to Nanticoke Road for prayers at the picturesque Nanticoke United Methodist Church. Black families followed the narrow roads east to the equally pretty Asbury United Methodist Church on Hickman Lane.
NEWS
September 1, 2007
Mary Lynn Pretl Dougherty, an animal lover who owned Kildee Kennels on the Eastern Shore, died of lung and pancreatic cancer Aug. 23 at her home near Centreville. She was 55. Born Mary Lynn Pretl in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton, she attended St. Dominic parochial school and the Institute of Notre Dame, where she was a 1970 graduate. Family members said her free spirit often clashed with the school's rules and regulations. They also said that her devotion to needy animals became apparent at an early age. She sheltered stray kittens and injured birds.
NEWS
August 2, 2007
Theodore A. Haapala Jr., a retired information services engineer and Navy veteran, died of heart failure July 24 at Memorial Hospital in Easton. The Greensboro, Caroline County, resident was 66. Mr. Haapala was born in Worcester, Mass., and spent his early years in Maynard, Mass., and Ipswich, N.H. He later moved to the Eastern Shore, where he graduated from Preston High School in 1959. During his 20-year naval career, he served as a chief petty officer aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Virginia.
NEWS
January 6, 2007
Maryland: Inauguration O'Malley plans series of events Gov.-elect Martin O'Malley plans a week of inaugural events, including a parade and a performance by Kool and the Gang, according to a schedule his transition team released yesterday. Before being sworn in Jan. 17, O'Malley plans a seven-day tour of the state, including stops in suburban Washington, Southern Maryland, Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore. He plans to attend prayer breakfasts, hold town hall meetings and eat lunch with Annapolis Mayor Ellen O. Moyer at Chick and Ruth's Deli.
NEWS
By Michael Dresser | May 25, 2007
Gasoline prices in the region are at near-record levels. Hotel rates are up 13 percent since last year. The roads, bridges and tunnels are going to be crawling with police. And more Marylanders will be on the road this Memorial Day weekend than ever before. That's the forecast from AAA Mid-Atlantic and Maryland police agencies as they look forward to a weekend of near-perfect spring weather, lavish consumer spending and clogged transportation corridors. Mahlon G. "Lon" Anderson, a spokesman for AAA, told a news conference yesterday on Kent Island that the auto club's polling shows it should be a banner weekend for travel to Ocean City and other resorts close to the Baltimore-Washington region.
NEWS
By Chris Guy | September 24, 2007
PRESTON --Twenty years ago, when Mimi and Bill Willis were still considered newcomers in this Eastern Shore village, they whiled away late-summer evenings on the front porch - chatting, rocking, listening to warm-weather sounds and counting the reasons they'd left the congestion of suburban Washington. ... Not anymore. Like their neighbors who live along Main Street, they have long since retreated indoors to block out the din of cars and trucks rumbling through - 11,149 vehicles a day, by the State Highway Administration's count.
NEWS
October 24, 2007
Man gets probation for melee on airliner A 35-year-old Arizona man was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation for punching two America West crew members aboard a flight from Phoenix to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in March, according to federal prosecutors. Bryan Leon Spann also was ordered to undergo a substance-abuse evaluation, complete an anger-management program, write a letter to the two flight attendants and donate $1,500 to the Air Charity Network, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office said.
NEWS
By Rona Kobell | January 15, 2007
VIENNA -- John Smith slept here. Or somewhere near this Nanticoke River town, where the wind twists through vast marshes and gulls wail overhead. Never mind that the great Chesapeake Bay explorer's visit was short, or that it occurred 400 years ago. Vienna is banking on the lore of Smith's voyage to bring tourists into this sleepy Eastern Shore hamlet a mile off U.S. 50. The town is planning to build a John Smith discovery center along the Nanticoke, an...