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As COVID-19 has racked the country, food insecurity has become a difficult side effect nationwide. And Delaware is no exception. According to Feeding America’s 2020 study on the impact …
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Sports
Over a decade ago Kylie Curtis’ dream of playing soccer at Crisfield High School was nearly impeded by one major obstacle: there was no girls’ team. The 2012 graduate was 10 years …
Maryland shutdown State tournaments for high school sports during World War II and regular season play was limited. However, Crisfield High School teams were back in full swing in 1947 governed by a …
Equality in sports has been a hot topic in the world of athletic competition since the early 1900s. Women have been competing for the right to play organized sports just as vigorously as they compete …
Business
Member Exclusive
PRINCESS ANNE — The Washington Hotel and Sugar Water Restaurant continue toward opening under new ownership May 15 as the Somerset County Board of License Commissioners showed is support …
Member Exclusive
PRINCESS ANNE — A contract with First State Inspection Agency Inc. was approved this month by the Town Commissioners so inspection of rental units can resume in the coming weeks. The …
Neighbors

Blooming celebration at Todd Family memorial garden

PRINCESS ANNE — The Todd Family Community Garden is blooming this spring with 200 red tulips — a visual reminder of last year’s “Plant a Promise” educational effort …

Registration open for virtual Alzheimer’s, Dementia Caregivers Conference

SALISBURY — MAC’s 2024 Virtual Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers Conference, “Dementia: Navigating the Journey,” will be held Wednesday, April 24. CEU registration …

Somerset County libraries mark National Library Week April 4-8

PRINCESS ANNE — “Ready, set, Library!” National Library Week is April 8-13 and Somerset County libraries encourage patrons and new readers to visit the libraries in Princess Anne, …
Things to Do
Senior Rangers learn about Maryland parks through weekly sessions with the next local program starting 1 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at Janes Island State Park.

Senior Ranger program at Janes Island recruiting adults 55 and older

CRISFIELD — If you’re age 55 or older and always wanted to be a park ranger then here’s your chance. Janes Island State …
Join the annual Hawk Walk at UMES on April 27, 2024.

Take a free Hawk Walk sponsored by UMES health students April 27

PRINCESS ANNE — Challenger yourself, your family and friends with a healthy 2.5 mile walk followed by a free health screening during …
Chestertown Tea Party Festival.

The Chestertown Tea Party Festival: a Memorial Weekend tradition

The Chestertown Tea Party Festival welcomes all this Memorial Day Weekend in celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the ‘Chester Town …
Schools
WESTOVER — School discipline reports comparing student referrals and suspensions for the recently completed semester versus the same period last school year show an uptick in the number of …
PRINCESS ANNE — Planting season has arrived on Delmarva for gardeners and small farmers and with it the need to think about small engine machine operation and maintenance. Offering support …
WESTOVER — Students from Crisfield, Mardela and Snow Hill high schools joined forces to film a youth-focused anti-tobacco commercial for the month-long observance of Take Down Tobacco Day which …
Opinion
As one of your Dover City Council members and chair of the Safety Advisory and Transportation Committee, I felt compelled to publicly express both my sadness and anger over the recent level of gun violence, to include drive-by shootings, in our city.
Less than a week after her husband’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, Jackie Kennedy granted an interview with esteemed political writer Theodore White for Life magazine, one of the leading national publications of its day.
Society has a complicated relationship with adolescents. We want to protect them as children and yet launch them into adulthood. Adolescents face risks from testing out independence, navigating peer relationships, developing an identity and making mistakes in these processes.
When, in July 2022, the world-renowned Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art abruptly had its doors closed and the immense art collection kept from public view, Delmarva — not just Salisbury, Wicomico …
I am a concerned Ocean Pines, Maryland, citizen who is appalled by the unsightly litter along our roads and waterways in our otherwise beautiful Eastern Shore. It’s time to actually do something to deal with this issue.
When the opening day of the 2024 Maryland General Assembly session was called to order, Delegate Sheree Sample-Hughes was the speaker pro tempore in the Maryland House of Delegates, the second-highest position for a member of the House Democratic Caucus.
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