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Oyster recovery "amazing" in Shore creek

2013-02-03 12:15:00

Now for a bit of good news - and from an environmental group at that. Drew Koslow, the Choptank Riverkeeper, reports that while walking the shore of Harris Creek in Talbot County, he saw an "amazing" abundance of oysters growing in the intertidal zone,...

New visions for Baltimore County's inner suburbs emerge at conference

2013-01-10 14:59:00

Communities nationwide are beginning to abandon "infill" development models that sacrifice open space in inner suburbs as a means of relieving development pressure on outer suburbs. These communities are embracing new models that stress increasing...

Congressional candidate profiles

2012-11-01 13:48:00

MEET THE CANDIDATES � When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...

Elkridge residents flex muscles in advocating for local causes

2012-06-21 23:21:00

Dorothy Acker and her 12-year-old daughter, Audrey, regularly search for new books at the Elkridge library — on a recent trip they were looking for titles on Audrey's middle-school summer reading list. The Elkridge library is closest to their home,...

County school system seeks east-to-west redistricting

2011-09-01 15:00:00

Howard County public school officials are calling for a comprehensive redistricting of elementary schools, saying a "cascade of movement" is needed to deal with an unanticipated trend of overcrowded schools in the east but undercrowded schools in the...

County looks for balance in new general plan

2012-04-03 08:19:27

In the next month, Howard County officials are hoping local residents will help vet a recently released draft of the county's new "Plan Howard 2030" general plan in a series of open houses and through an online comment portal. The document, an update...

The keys to the car

2012-04-09 11:30:00

One of the truisms of U.S. transportation planning has long been that each year, there will be more cars on the road. The logic of this is simple — as the population grows so does their need to get to places, and motor vehicles are by far the most...

A war on pollution, not rural Maryland

2012-01-17 10:50:00

Don't be surprised if longtime "poop warriors" along theChesapeake Bay'sthickly populated Western Shore are not sympathetic to claims that builders in still-rural parts of the watershed should have unlimited use of septic tanks. Those backyard sewage...

Haiti suffered in 1842 quake, too

2010-01-13 16:22:13

Situated as it is on the edge of an active joint in the Earth's crustal plates, Haiti is no stranger to earthquakes. Baltimore Sun librarian Paul McCardell has pulled some clips from the Sun's archives of stories we published in......

'Fed' scrawled on Census worker, found hanged

2009-09-24 07:35:12

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Military bringing 'boon' and bust to Md.

2005-06-10 00:00:00

ON JUNE 3, on its front page, this paper - along with most others in the region - carried news that went to the heart of why we're not making good environmental progress. None of the articles mentioned the environment. They proclaimed only good news:...

Feeding the world, poisoning the planet

2000-09-24 00:00:00

First of five articles AASEN, Netherlands -- Leopold Hendrick admits a visitor through the locked doors of the world's first bureaucracy dedicated to tracking and taxing animal waste, a kind of manure IRS. The government administrator apologizes for...

Students at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn., prepare to hang a banner as other students sign a pledge that they will fill out their census forms this spring.

2010-03-15 04:45:41

The pro-census poster, which some have embraced and some have labeled sacrilegious, features Mary and Joseph.

2009-12-24 00:00:00

(Pictured above) Mexican-American astronaut Jose Hernandez makes his first trip into space on Aug. 28. He will be among the astronauts when NASA shuttle Discovery travels to the International Space Station. Four The number of Hispanic surnames ranked among the 15 most common in 2000.

2009-08-28 15:11:01