News
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin on March 20 announced $4,509,759 for two projects on the Eastern Shore to reconnect communities divided by infrastructure. These …
Northern High School in Owings, Maryland, had never had a career counselor. Not until Christian Wargo walked through its doors.
The Chestertown Tea Party Festival welcomes all this Memorial Day Weekend in celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the ‘Chester Town Resolves,’ marked annually by tossing British tea …
CAMBRIDGE – Delmarva Community Transit, (DCT) a division of Delmarva Community Services Inc., has a new look on their buses. “We incorporated the Maryland flag design into our …
CAMBRIDGE – A two-alarm fire severely damaged a home Friday, leaving two firefighters injured, one needing treatment at a hospital. Just after 6 p.m., Rescue Fire Company (RFC) was alerted …
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Sports
Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County will be hosting the Kitchens for Kitchens...
SILVER SPRING – For the first time since 1996, Cambridge-South Dorchester High School boys’ basketball will have a chance to play for the state title. On Tuesday, Head Coach Shawn …
CAMBRIDGE – The Vikings need to buy a new net, but that’s ok. Cambridge-South Dorchester High School boys’ basketball Head Coach Shawn Tucker snipped the last cord and waved …
Business
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s blue crab season officially opens April 1 in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries and the Atlantic Ocean and coastal bays. With the opening of a new …
ANNAPOLIS – Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller and Maryland Department of Labor Secretary Portia Wu on March 6 honored Equal Pay Day, calling attention to a new Department of Labor report …
Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE -- Almost two years after becoming Cambridge City Manager in April 2022, Tom Carroll submitted his resignation due to differences over the direction of the Cambridge Harbor waterfront development project.
ANNAPOLIS — Lawmakers are moving toward consensus on changes to Maryland’s juvenile justice system, discussing how to address crime by children ages 10 to 12 and get them into …
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s Democratic-led legislature passed the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future in 2021, vowing to pour billions of dollars into the state’s public schools to …
CAMBRIDGE – If Dorchester County had a Boat Builders Hall of Fame, Neck District natives Captain Jim Richardson and Harold Ruark could have been picked. These local legends’ legacies …
Neighbors
Ubuntu Studio only recently hoisted its colorful ‘Open’ flag on Race Street. But partner/owners Mike Bryan and Jermaine Anderson are both on familiar ground when it comes to highlighting African American culture in Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE – Celebrate Maryland Day 2024, March 25, at 2 p.m., with Cambridge author George Radcliffe Jr. in the Cambridge Library Meeting Room. Radcliffe is the author of “Call Me …
EASTON – ShoreRivers last week announced a brand-new initiative that will have direct benefits to Eastern Shore water quality: Tree the Shore. Thanks to a grant from the Chesapeake Bay …
Things to Do
NDHS hosted the Eastern Shore Band Directors Association (ESBDA) Maryland District V Senior Band Festival on March 12. Students, staff, and chaperones from 14 high school bands from across the Shore were welcomed as they performed adjudicated pieces for judges. NDHS earned an overall rating of Excellent (2nd highest rating possible) with a Superior rating (highest rating possible) in Sight Reading (the ability to play a piece of music the first time). Congratulations went to student musicians and Band Director Scott Bunting.

Dorchester Arts & Leisure

Kilmon, Milhollan lead Waterfowl, Inc. Deena Kilmon of Easton has recently been named executive director of Waterfowl Festival, …
Pastel by Katie Cassidy

Spectrum: Save the date for pastel workshop

CAMBRIDGE – Dorchester Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome Katie Cassidy for a two-day pastel workshop in September. …
Maggii Sarfaty painting from a past Paint the Town event in Chestertown, Md.

Chestertown: Let’s Paint The Town!

Chestertown is one of the various Eastern Shore towns that hosts a plein air event each year, putting all of Kent County, Md., on …
Schools
BALTIMORE – The Maryland Business Roundtable for Education announced March 18 that Tyonna Perkins from Cambridge-South Dorchester High School is one of the winners of “The 24: Maryland's …
Chesapeake College Chesapeake College campuses will be closed for Spring Break on Monday, March 18, and Tuesday, March 19. Student services will resume Wednesday, March 20. Thank you for your …
The hidden one-acre tract off Bayly Road was once an African American cemetery known to just a few local residents as Silent Hill. Long overgrown and forgotten, only three gravestones, all denoting veterans, remain from well over 100 original burial sites. But those interred there so long ago will soon be properly memorialized, thanks to the dedicated craftsmanship of Dorchester Career and Technology Center senior welding students, the generosity of C & K Lord, Inc. and Penn Stainless Products, and leadership from the Lower Shore Cemetery Preservation Organization, Inc.
Opinion
Opinion
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.
The Alabama Supreme Court, citing Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, has ruled that the frozen embryos used in IVF (in vitro fertilization) are children and entitled to all the protections …
Last week's Viewpoint page featured an open letter submitted by the Maryland House Republican Caucus expressing their concerns that a juvenile sex offender convicted of second-degree rape …
As Cambridge Waterfront Development, Inc. (CWDI) advances its mission to develop Cambridge Harbor, we plan to keep the public informed on our progress and what you can look forward to in the coming …
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.
The 446th session of the Maryland General Assembly has started, and a critical issue demands our collective attention. It is disheartening to learn that some of our local Eastern Shore representatives, influenced by special-interest groups like the Fraternal Order of Police, plan to challenge the Child Interrogation Protection Act, a vital law passed in 2022 to safeguard the due process rights of our young people.
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