Embracing cell phones at the beach
When I’m out hiking or enjoying the great outdoors in some form, I tend to scoff when I see people out in nature yacking on their cell phones. But at Assateague Island National Seashore, the park is...
View ArticleMultimedia: The White Marlin Open
The 35th Annual White Marlin Open in Ocean City kicked off Monday and runs through the final weigh-in this afternoon. High gas prices and the shaky economy nipped participation in the popular fishing...
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Be a turtle for the DNR! Carry your house where you go!
Anybody got a really big truck? The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering (.pdf) a 5,000-square-foot house outside of Cambridge for free, to the first shmoe who comes along willing and...
View ArticleNeed to get somewhere? Catch the ferry
Last night was The Daily Record’s 14th annual Top 100 Women event, a program designed to honor those Maryland women who have had a positive impact in their communities. Several weeks ago, I traveled to...
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Senator’s colorful language stirs environmental ire
Environmentalists are livid over some remarks by state Sen. Richard Colburn, a Cambridge Republican. Now they’re calling for a formal and public apology. It happened during a meeting on Feb. 15 between...
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Mid-Atlantic boardwalks dominate top 10 list
I guess when you think about it, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey are pretty boardwalk-heavy compared with other U.S. shorelines … but we’ll take what we can get. Especially when it means...
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Sonic skips D.C., chooses Baltimore
We’re all quite atwitter here in The Daily Record newsroom. Sonic, the drive-in home of shakes, foot-long hot dogs and waitresses on roller skates, is coming to the Baltimore area. The Oklahoma-based...
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Fish aren’t biting? Check for rock snot
Q: What do you get when a rock crosses with didymo? A: Rock snot. As I learned from covering the algae story in Monday’s paper, scientists came up with this clever nickname for the dribbles of goo that...
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Got pumpkins?
What’s scarier than an ominous Jack O’Lantern on the steps of a darkened house? How about no pumpkin at all? Some farms in Delmarva have suffered damage to their pumpkin crops because of recent heavy...
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In Ocean City, go with the flow?
The temptation on this story is to go with something like, “Ocean City not flush with visitors” or “O.C. tourism down the drain.” But we’re stronger than that. We resisted. At least, we resisted for...
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