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NYC appears to escape the worst as Irene roars in
NEW YORK (AP) — Tropical Storm Irene unleashed furious wind and rain on New York on Sunday and sent seawater surging into the Manhattan streets. But the city appeared to escape the worst fears of urban disaster — vast power outages, hurricane-...Tags: National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storms, New York, Disasters, North Carolina
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Irene damage closes area schools, stymies efforts to restore power
Schools throughout the region are closed today and hundreds of thousands of families and businesses remain without power as Marylanders clean up after Hurricane Irene.
The transportation grid was coming back to life, and stores were restocking shelves...Tags: Calvert County, Disasters, Massachusetts, Forests, Connecticut
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Most Baltimore area school systems closed Tuesday
Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Harford County schools will be closed Tuesday as those systems postponed the start of the school year for a second day in a row because of power outages caused by Hurricane Irene. Anne Arundel, which opened schools...Tags: Calvert County, Essex (Baltimore, Maryland), Hurricane Irene (2011), Wicomico County, Baltimore County
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Maryland Homegrown School Lunch Week begins Sept. 12
The Baltimore SunMaryland Homegrown School Lunch Week is Sept. 12-16. A kickoff celebration for the fourth annual is being held on Friday, Sept. 9 at the Benjamin Banneker Elementary School in St. Mary's County, from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The program is designed to help...Tags: Healthy Diet, Harford County, Maryland
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Another day of high water and rising rivers in Maryland
After heavy rains from remnants of Tropical Storm Lee washed away bridges and roads, overwhelmed sewage systems and may have contributed to at least one Baltimore-area death, the runoff threatened to overwhelm Maryland towns along the Susquehanna River...Tags: Tropical Storms, Disasters, Renewable Energy, Health, Dave Williams
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GOP, others find faults with proposed map
Maryland Republicans criticized a proposal Tuesday to redraw the state's congressional map, saying a Democratic-controlled panel seeking to bolster the party's position would separate communities with like-minded views and fuse areas with little in...Tags: Donna F. Edwards, Frederick County (Maryland), Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Fort Meade (military base), Baltimore County
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Hollywood in Bel Air
Harford County is hardly Tinsel Town. The closest places to Bel Air named Hollywood are in St. Mary's County on Maryland's very lower Western Shore and in Carbon County, Pa., not too far from Scranton, backdrop for the hit TV series "The Office." Yet Bel...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Harford County, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, The Office (tv program)
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Leonardtown chef sweeps National Oyster Cook-Off
A Southern Maryland chef swept the National Oyster Cook-Off on Saturday at the St. Mary's County Fairgrounds, a festival organizer said. Chef Loic Francois Jaffres, who owns and operates Café des Artistes in Leonardtown, took the contest's three top...Tags: Oyster Festival, Oysters
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Top 10 crabbing spots
We asked the experts, from biologists to tackle shop owners, to name the best places for crabbing in Maryland. Here are the Top 10 places we heard about:
Point Lookout, Route 5, St. Mary's County
Solomons Island fishing pier, Route 2, Calvert County...Tags: Calvert County, Travel, Bodies of Water, Tourism and Leisure, Maryland
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More than 11" of rain in Southern Maryland
Maryland WeatherThe first numbers are starting to come in for Hurricane Irene's impact on Maryland, and Southern Maryland seems to have been hit hardest on rainfall. BWI-Marshall Airport is reporting 4.6 inches of rain at 7 a.m. The heaviest rates were......Tags: National Hurricane Center, Weather Reports, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hurricane Irene (2011), Ocean City
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A month's rain in a week
Maryland WeatherThe slow-moving remnants of Tropical Storm Lee continued to unload on Maryland Wednesday morning, pushing rivers ands creeks toward flood stage, inundating many roadways and slowing the morning commute to a crawl. Barely a week into the new month and........Tags: Travel, Tropical Storms, Disasters, Bodies of Water, Tourism and Leisure
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Oyster farming off to a slow start in Maryland
— The dock built to hold water-filled tanks of baby oysters stands empty. The new marina for landing fully grown bivalves is being used for now by some crabbers.
Encouraged by a new state policy to boost private oyster farming, Jay Robinson and...Tags: Chincoteague (Accomack, Virginia), Calvert County, Human Interest, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Gold Corporation
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