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This Week's Take
By ERIK MICHELSEN AND CHRIS TRUMBAUER, For The Capital
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 04/23/11
At the beginning of the 2011 Maryland General Assembly session, many of us in the environmental community believed we...
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Critic: Rural voice must be part of study group
by Alan Brody | Staff Writer
MILLERSVILLE – Hoping to revive one of his signature environmental initiatives that met resistance from state lawmakers this year, Gov. Martin O'Malley on Monday signed an ...
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In the shadow of bustling Annapolis shopping centers, a watershed is trashed
By TINA REED, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 04/03/11
Annapolis residents Dina and Danny Campbell usually spend Saturday mornings relaxing or h...
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By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 03/16/11
The South River continues to struggle with nutrient, sediment and bacterial pollution that makes the water unlivable for many animals and sometimes unsafe for human...
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By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 02/11/11
For Bob Costa, the third time may be the charm.
The Republican state delegate from south county is in his third year of trying to help homeowners in neighborho...
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By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff WriterCapital Gazette CommunicationsPublished 02/06/11Reversing two lower courts, the state Court of Appeals has backed an Anne Arundel County Board of Appeals decision denying permits for two houses in the Critical Area along...
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By ERIK MICHELSEN, For The Capital
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 12/31/10
When Maryland turned in its road map for cleaning up the Chesapeake to the federal government earlier this month, many of us held out considerable hope that i...
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By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 26, 2010; 8:43 PM
The boat engine roared, the bow lifted, and Jennifer Carr was launched up the South River as an icy wind pulled at her scarf and whipped her pigtails.
It was Carr's first ...
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By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 15, 2010; 10:33 PM
Meet Maryland's first class of the Chesapeake Conservation Corps, a sort of Peace Corps for the Chesapeake Bay.
Among 16 young adults introduced Monday at a cerem...
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Green project marked by cooperation with community
By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 11/14/10
This weekend crowds swarmed the new Giant Food store in Edgewater, the anchor of the Village at Lee Ai...
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By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 10/26/10
After seven years at the helm of the South River Federation, Kincey Potter has earned a little rest.
She likely won't get it.
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Significant cuts needed in local rivers
By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 09/25/10
The federal government unveiled the Chesapeake Bay's "pollution diet" Friday, listing strict limits for local rivers...
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South, Severn and Magothy to be held to lower standards
By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 09/24/10
Local riverkeepers and environmental activists are fighting a change in the way the government classifies th...
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County considers takeover of South River lands
By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 09/19/10
The South River Greenway is a vast swath of undeveloped land, home to trees and streams and birds and fish and bugs.
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Conservation group: South River Farm Park plan may do harm
By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer
Published 08/26/10
The county's South River Farm Park juts out into the river between Selby Bay and Limehouse Cove. Its shoreline along the Sou...
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Target creeks on South, Severn rivers
By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer
Published 08/06/10
The federal government is sending $900,000 to restore streams on the Severn and South rivers.
The government Thursday awarded a grant jointly ...
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This Week's Take
By ERIK MICHELSEN, For The Capital
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 07/31/10
Not literally, of course, but in the figurative sense that we need many more folks charged with enforcing the laws to protect the Chesape...
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Edward "Ned" Hall III, 94, of Annapolis, died July 25.
A long-time Anne Arundel County conservationist, and a grandfather oak of the Anne Arundel environmental community, died on July 25 at the age of 93. Ned and his wif...
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Health officials urge caution when swimming, skiing
By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published 07/17/10
High bacteria counts recorded in county waters after the recent rains underscore the potential dangers of ...
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Church Creek twice the standard for nitrogen
By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer
Published 06/27/10
The annual South River Snapshot underscored troublesome conditions up and down the watershed and pinpointed similar hot spots for key pollutants...
