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Del. Steve Schuh was elected Friday to chair the Anne Arundel County delegation to the General Assembly. Schuh, a Republican from Gibson Island who is also a candidate for county executive, takes over from Del. Nic Kipke, a Pasadena Republican. Kipke was named House minority leader.

Q: My wife and I are interested in hiking on the island of Spitsbergen this summer. Can you tell me where I can obtain information?A: Tourism in Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard group, halfway between Norway and the North Pole, is subject to regulations intended to protect its natural environment.More than 50 percent of the islands, over which Norway has sovereignty, consists of protected nature reserves, national parks, bird sanctuaries and vegetation areas. Adventure trips, nature tours and hiking are all available.

Even the most jaded observer must acknowledge there's something admirable about the desire of so many living on Smith Island to see their community survive and prosper. Residents of this marshy (and shrinking in both population and real estate) archipelago on the lower Eastern Shore have had to overcome much in recent years, particularly as their chief means of livelihood, harvesting the seafood bounty of the Chesapeake Bay, has declined. But it's one thing to admire the hard work, independence and faith of Smith Island's residents - who number a mere 276, according to the 2010 Census - and it's another to deny the reality of their circumstances.

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen arrived on this isolated South Pacific island on Easter Day in 1722 and gave the island its name, but Polynesians had already been living there for more than 1,000 years. It is a territory of Chile, which lies 2,000 miles to the east. While the island has only a few thousand residents year round, it draws tens of thousands of tourists each year who come to see its mysterious monuments. 1 Roam Rano Raraku : This volcanic crater in the Rapa Nui National Park was, for 500 years, a quarry from which the island's inhabitants dug the boulders that they used to make the mysterious sculptures called Moai.

FLAT ROCK, N.C. -- Last year, the national limelight shone on Flat Rock Playhouse when it launched Burt Reynolds' one-man show. This year, the media is focusing on the official North Carolina state theater for an even more famous visitor."

Muck dredged from the bottom of the Magothy River may be used to repair the badly eroded banks of Dobbins Island.The uninhabited island, also known as Dutch Ship Island, once formed a peninsula in Sillery Bay west of Gibson Island. But time and the tide have sliced away the earth, cutting the island off from the mainland."You could probably still walk between the island and the mainland at low tide," said Robert Agee, an aide to state Transportation Secretary O. James Lighthizer.At the request of Magothy residents, Agee said, state and federal officials are considering a plan to halt the erosion by using dredge material to rebuild the island's banks and, if possible, create a wetland habitat for wildlife.

Pristine shell-strewn beaches, fragrant tropical flowers and not a single traffic light on the entire island.Year-round sunshine tempered by breezes from the Gulf of Mexico.Best tarpon fishing in the world.Streets that make a statement -- really: Dam If I Know, Dam If I Care and Dam If I Will.No wonder Katharine Hepburn adores the ice cream in Boca Grande. Her handwritten note posted in the Loose Caboose says: "That ice cream is perfect -- Wow!" Of course, you might not see it amid the general accumulation of stuff -- the fuzzy alligator wearing sunglasses, the antique vacuum cleaner on the wall or the sign: "Stop -- Look -- Listen -- Proceed when train is coming."

In the beginning, there was the land and the water. And it was good.But then there came to Miller Island offers to sell some of the land nearest the water.And that was not so good.Since last March, when Allan and Sharon Godlewski bought the 30-foot-wide parcel next to their waterfront home on Fourth Street, a war has erupted on the island that has pitted neighbor against neighbor, prompted a series of heated community meetings, spawned at least one lawsuit, brought in the Baltimore County government and provided everyone with a lesson in human nature.

In another case of an Anne Arundel County community's joining forces to combat what it sees as a threat to its neighborhood, Pasadena-area residents have organized opposition to the possibility of the state's dumping dredge spoil off their shores. The group, Citizens Against the Pasadena Dredge Island, is fighting the state's consideration of a site in the Patapsco River off the peninsula for a 1.5-mile-long island of dredge spoil. With about a dozen people on its steering committee, the group is circulating petitions and urging residents to discourage the Maryland Port Administration from studying the site, north of Bodkin Point in the mouth of the river.

A proposed buyout of Smith Island homeowners to help them escape future damage from tropical storms and rising waters has been dropped amid vocal resistance from residents of the low-lying community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The Somerset County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday not to offer buyouts with any of the $8.6 million in federal aid the lower Eastern Shore county is in line to receive to help it recover from the ravages of...

Tim Wheeler 's report on the future of Smith Island and the state's idea to buy residents out so they may relocate tells a heartbreaking story of people whose attachment to the island goes back many years, 400 years in some cases ("Smith Islanders debating a state buyout proposal," May 13). If the buyout is taken by just some residents, it may make life untenable on the island for those who want to stay. They have organized a letter-writing campaign to fight the buyout idea. It is very important to fight climate change on the local level.

Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the surging Chesapeake Bay. Yet with the island slowly shrinking and sinking into the bay, the state is considering using $2 million of the federal storm recovery aid it's received so far to buy out...

Ravens offensive guard Ramon Harewood is spending part of the off-season back home in Barbados, where later this week he will host a football camp for children on the island. The "Big Mon Elite Athlete Development Camp" is set to begin Thursday and will include appearances by Harewood's Ravens teammates, including Ray Rice, Torrey Smith, Michael Oher and Bryan Hall. "The strong academic foundation and diverse athletic training I received growing up in Barbados has enabled me to achieve success on many levels as an adult and it is an honor to share what I have learned with the younger generation," said Harewood, who grew up in the town of St. Michael, Barbados, where he played volleyball, track and field, cricket and soccer before transferring to Morehouse in Atlanta to play football.

Four young men, including a Kent Island firefighter, were killed in a head-on car crash on Kent Island Wednesday afternoon, the Queen Anne's County sheriff's office said. Firefighter medics who rushed to the scene recognized the fireman who was killed, officials said. Eli Dabich, 73, a chemistry professor at the Naval Academy, was injured and flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where a spokeswoman said he was in serious condition as of Thursday afternoon. All of the teenagers killed were from Kent Island.

For last year's 20th anniversary season at Camden Yards, the Orioles and its concessionaire, Delaware North Companies Sportservice, brought in local favorites Gino's Burgers and Chicken and Stuggy's to the yard along with Dempsey's Brew Pub and Restaurant , a year-round restaurant located in the stadium's warehouse, and the Roof Top Deck in centerfield, an instant fan favorite. And then the Orioles did what they did. This year is more about tweaking, upgrading and responding to requests from fans — including, the Orioles acknowledge, vegetarians who were still making do with french fries and pizza.

CASCO BAY, Maine -- The day-trippers wheel their bikes off the ferry and ask for directions. I answer the way we do on an island without street signs. Go up past the boatyard, beyond the store, and take your next left. They thank me and head off. Then, at the last minute, one turns to offer me a cheerful salute: "Congratulations on your independence." I've been fielding such good wishes from strangers and friends ever since the media outed the small island where my husband and I have had a summer home for more than 25 years.

AJACCIO, Corsica -- Corsica has a big attachment to its most famous son. He is the object of an obsession that seems to go beyond mere commercial exploitation. In addition to all the Bonaparte bric-a-brac on sale, the plastic busts, pictures, plates, etc., his visage, with its pouty lips and brooding eyes, his name, ++ is everywhere.For instance, the Hotel Napoleon is on the rue Napoleon, just off the cours Napoleon where the Bonaparte cinema and Galleria Bonaparte flourish. Around the corner, near the Little Corporal Restaurant and the Restaurant Pizzeria Napoleon, stands a statue of Napoleon I gazing down to the quai Napoleon, where the boats are moored.

As 20 Harley-Davidsons growled across the asphalt at the Maryland Cruise terminal Monday morning, "Easy Rider" met "The Love Boat. " After a briefing from their tour leader, the bikers inched their machines up the ramp and into the yawning hold of the 2,200-passenger Enchantment of the Seas. Next stop: Labadee, a private port resort on the north coast of Haiti. Motorcycle cruising might be the ultimate surf-and-turf dream, a chance for bikers to ride off a passenger ship and onto sun-drenched Caribbean back roads.

A woman's body found Saturday afternoon along the Kent Island shoreline has been identified as that of a local woman who had been missing for three weeks, the Maryland State Police said Sunday. Police said doctors at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore identified the body through dental records. The cause and manner of death are still under investigation. A man who was fishing off a pier saw the body in the water near the shoreline and called police about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, according to state police.