BAY WEEKLY No. 52, December 26, 2019 - January 1

SERVING THE BAY COUNTRY OVER 70 YEARS

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chwartz Realty first opened its doors in 1949 in a one-room office in Deale, MD, and has been serving the Real Estate needs of Southern Anne Arundel County ever since.

Through the ’50s and ’60s, we sold primarily second homes and summer cottages oriented toward the Chesapeake Bay in a still sleepy South County.

Then in 1963 came Routes 258 & 256 connecting Deale, Churchton and Shady Side by an easy commute to Washington, DC, Annapolis and even Baltimore.

That in turn lead to more building and more sales to daily commuters. Also it was starting to look like a good place to retire.

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In the 1970s, the Sewer came to Franklin Manor and Deale, and Real Estate began to boom. The Baby Boomers hit the Bay. South County was “discovered” and property values took off. Schwartz Realty expanded with a new building at the corner of Routes 256 and 258.

South County is still growing but keeping its rural charm. We continue to work with all areas of the market from lower-priced first homes to higher-priced waterfront. And, for the last seven years we were voted:

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So Long It’s been good to know you e are none of us new to shutting doors behind us. As I write this letter, I am on the open side of the door. Once I finish it, I shut the door on Bay Weekly’s long chapter of my life. For I have saved this letter to you as the last thing I will write as editor of Bay Weekly. I’ll not be able to open that door again except through memory. Fond as I am of memory, it is — another truth you and I both from the know — only a substitute for Editor the real thing.

Nonetheless, memory and I have a lot to do with each other.

It and I often revisit the pasts behind other closed doors.

If I ever get to climb in a time machine — which is an apparatus I’ve wanted to try since I was a kid reading comic books under the covers after bed time — I’d go back in my life to the years when I was a youngish mother raising my own two kids.

I had divorced when they were little, Nathaniel 20 months and Alex seven years, and weeks after I had cried into the fountain of the Sangamon County Courthouse, I had to take Nathaniel with me to the settlement on the little bungalow I’d bought for the three of us. A wild thing, Nat was sure to add drama to the transaction, and my heart was already racing with the enormity of it all. But what was I to do? The Illinois State Fair Opening Parade marched between me and his Cookie Monster Cooperative Daycare Center.

In our 10 years in that house, the kids grew up.

From a sweet redheaded softie, Alex grew through a morning paper route and little brother-sitting (too often literally) and Dungeons and Dragons and an alternative hippie school to an immovable force ready to go off to the University of Illinois. (This year, he’s had that role reversed.)

Nat grew wilder until, pushing high school, he could brag that he knew every corner of Springfield, Illinois, from explorations on his oft-stolen Big Wheels and bicycles.

We had bad dogs and families of cats — including our best cat ever, BBK — and households full of friends that the incorrigible German beagle Slip Mahoney sometimes bit, when he was home from chasing the train or getting arrested at the Kroger meat counter.

Bill and I were finding we couldn’t do without each other, even as we flourished in separate lives.

He was a rising star in Illinois statehouse journalism, and I had found my words in the Brainchild Women’s Poetry Collective.

That’s where I’d head my time machine: To notvery-exciting Springfield, Illinois, to rejoin the real

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time of boys who smelled like dry dirt, when I was the woman who counted most in their lives (then their grandmothers) and I saw a dogwood tree through my kitchen window and hung all our wash on a line. Any day would do — after I set the wish-o-meter on an hour when the good times weighed in way heavier than the bad. I wouldn’t for example, want the dogcatcher visiting on the day I returned back home.

In the minutes I had there, I would be sure to suffice myself in every mundane image — the way light fell through that window and curls fell on Lexey’s forehead when his hair, as usual, needed cutting.

When all that was mine everyday, I was too busy to pay close attention.

When the time comes when you close a door, already the weight of time has crushed each sacred day beneath the succession of days, compressing the features that once were oneness — the dinosaur as flat as the fern — into a mass of carbon. Finally from that mass, the diamonds of memory are made.

That time will begin for me, as the editor of Bay Weekly you may think of as your friend, after I finish writing this letter.

The process of transformation is 27 years underway. Only in pale memory can I reexamine the moments that made up those years. I can’t feel what I felt when that first issue rolled off the press.

Yes, we were there, at Orville Davis’s Newsprinters International printing plant in Waldorf. (Over my shoulder Bill remembers, I didn’t mind taking the paper there to be printed because there was a good chance I’d buy a pool cue down there.)

That printing press or another — we’ve had five in all, though that includes our second run with our friends at Delaware Printing Company — photo-litho-graphed good impressions on the giant cylinders of paper that fed through its webs and came out ready-folded as your paper.

For us, time was moving too fast for one day’s impressions to stand out as different from another’s.

So I’m not going to tell you about all “the times when” … though throngs of them are crowding my memory in photomontage, yelling, “look here!” Even if I could, how would I choose one over another?

But I can tell you that above and beyond the tensions that can curdle your stomach, I have lived my role in deep satisfaction, as happy as when I was mother — if not always boss — of my little family homestead and mistress — though not often boss here either — of my destiny. Back then, thrive or fail they depended on me, and my work mattered deeply.

At Bay Weekly, the rules were the same. There’d be no paper to print if I couldn’t fill it with stories, and my work mattered deeply. All the better that there was nothing in the world I could think of that I wanted to do more than find stories that needed to be told. There was always a place to put them, and always you to read them. Now and again you’d write

Sandra Olivetti Martin EDITOR IN CHIEF J. Alex Knoll GENERAL MANAGER EDITORIAL ANALYST Bill Lambrecht ADVERTISING ANALYST Lisa Edler Knoll ADVERTISING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Audrey Broomfield Donna Day Susan Nolan PRODUCTION MANAGER Betsy Kehne

CALENDAR EDITOR STAFF WRITERS Kathy Knotts CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Diana Beechener Warren Lee Brown Bob Melamud Jim Reiter

to tell me one you particularly liked. What more could any writer want — except a paycheck to reward honest labor, and often I got that too.

Better still, as Bay Weekly has been a labor too big for one person, I got to do the work I loved best in the best of company. A college writing teacher in my earlier incarnation, I could — indeed I had to — inspire other writers and would-be writers to join our story-telling force. They inspired my favorite metaphor: Newspapering is a lot like baseball. I got to be team manager, and all those writers — thousands

over the years — were the talent: showing off what they could do, growing in skill, winning with the team.

Better still, because Bay Weekly is more than storytelling, I’ve gotten to work day in and day out with teams and players just as focused on their part of the game — ad sales, design, layout, business, delivery — as writers and I are on our storytelling.

As in any good team, we’ve become one another’s friends and extended family, overlooking one another’s love stories, child- and dog-rearing, successes and traumas.

Best of all, I think, is the ride we’ve all shared on the electric surge of energy that pulses through a newsroom like a force of nature so that as you work — always chasing the deadline — you’re high on the buzz.

I’m riding that buzz now, sharing the high with a newsroom of people, each playing her or his own position, each just this side of panic over whether we’ll meet our deadline.

That’s the door I’m about to close. I know my memory will repay me in diamonds. I just wish I could tell you about what I’ll find on the door’s other side.

Next week, as we finish our era with 1,360 issues, I’ll thank you for taking us this far and preview what lies ahead as Bay Weekly joins forces with Chesapeake Bay Media on January 3, 2020. ‫ﵭ‬

Editor and publisher editor@bayweekly.com, www.sandraolivettimartin.com

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Capital City Ditches Single-Use Plastic Annapolis goes greener — with your help dd the City of Annapolis to the list of localities working to reduce their plastic footprint. Mayor Gavin Buckley signed a pledge encouraging all Annapolitans to reduce or eliminate their use of single-use plastics.

“We all know that there is far too much plastic waste. It’s in our landfills, in our waterways, polluting our oceans.

We all have a responsibility to make the effort to reduce and eventually eliminate single-use plastics,” Buckley said.

The campaign asks residents, visitors and businesses to voluntarily reduce throw-away plastic, including water bottles, plastic bags, straws, carryout containers and balloons. Many area businesses already made the switch to more environmentally friendly alternatives during a campaign this fall. Beginning December, more than two dozen businesses had signed on.

Annapolis Green created and implemented the campaign on behalf of the city’s Office of Environmental Policy.

“The world is drowning in plastic.

Oceans and rivers are clogged with it,

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and a lot of the litter is made up of food and beverage containers,” said Elvia Thompson, Annapolis Green co-founder.

“We partnered with many Annapolis businesses at the start of this campaign because they can do a lot to keep our environment plastic-free by voluntarily changing some of their everyday practices to show their customers that they are good stewards of the environment. We are thrilled that Mayor Buckley is backing the campaign.”

Annapolis Green provided businesses with a toolkit and online resources, including free social media promotion, newspaper advertisements and marketing tools.

In 2018, Annapolis Green launched its Don’t Suck #SipResponsibly campaign, providing restaurants, bars and coffee shops with paper straws along with information about alternatives to plastic.

“When we started our campaign to do away with plastic straws, we saw a wave of support on the part of restaurant patrons,” said Lynne Forsman, Annapolis Green co-founder.

“Restaurant managers were quick to sign on with either a plastic straws upon request policy or a switch to paper or reusable straws, or no straw at all. They could see the tide turning against the 500 million plastic straws used and thrown away every day in the United States.”

Plastic Free Annapolis is supported by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ Coastal Zone Management Office.

But for a voluntary campaign like this to work, it needs your help. Start your new year with a resolution to ditch single-use plastic. Tell us your plan and how it’s working. Chesapeake Bay Magazine’s Bay Weekly is looking for stories for 2020: editor@bayweekly.com.

–Kathy Knotts

Pedaling for Good Works AACo Lifeline 100 donates $33,250 even local non-profits will start the year with a little something extra in their pockets, thanks to proceeds from the sixth annual Anne Arundel County Lifeline 100 Bicycle event last fall.

More than 800 cyclists of all ages and abilities pedaled around B&A and BWI Loop trails to help raise money for area charities.

Awards ranging $1,000 to $11,000 went to Anne Arundel Crisis Response System, Recreation Deeds for Special Needs, Tom Caraker Memorial Plaza, Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails, Friends of Kinder Farm Park, Rise for Autism iCan! Shine Bike Camp and Bicycle Advocates for Annapolis and Anne Arundel County.

One of those programs, Bicycle Advocates for Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, “provides a variety of programs that support safe biking,” says president Jon Korin. “We give out helmets to kids and adults in need; run safety programs and offer public bike repair stands, pumps and bike racks. Our Wheels of Hope partnership provides bikes to children and adults in need.”

Hosted by Anne Arundel County Police Department, Anne Arundel Department of Recreation and Parks and Bicycle Advocates for Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, the ride featured scenic views of Anne Arundel County.

Participants chose from 100-, 65-, 30- and 15-mile routes.

This year’s record-breaking proceeds of $33,250 is an increase from 2018’s $33,000.

Register for next year’s ride, scheduled for Oct. 4: www.lifeline100.com/register.

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The Value of Green Space Even small patches do heavy lifting little green can go a long way.

Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that even small

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patches of urban forest are effective for managing and infiltrating stormwater.

Assessing patches of urban forest in Baltimore, researchers found these areas — no matter how small — infiltrate stormwater at similar rates as rain gardens. Thus they, too, help curb pollution, runoff and nutrient damage to surrounding waterways that in turn feed into the Chesapeake Bay. Conserving these unmanaged green spaces matters.

“There is a perception that urban soils are very heavily degraded and not as useful for some of these environmental purposes,” wrote Mitchell PavaoZuckerman, assistant professor of Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Environmental Management.

“We found that 60 to 70 percent of the rainfall could actually be infiltrated on-site by these spaces.”

With assistance from Baltimore Green Space, the U.S. Forest Service and the geography department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Pavao-Zuckerman and a graduate student studied not only how well these patches of forest filter stormwater but also explored how we think about green spaces in cities.

“There is always that tension when new development happens between leveling everything and going back to add in rain gardens and green infrastructure versus leaving what’s there and building around it. These results speak to the ability of these spaces, small and large, to act like a rain garden. From an urban planning perspective, it costs more money to put something in than to leave something behind.”

“We want to be thinking about green infrastructure not just as a basin or a rain garden or a patch of trees, but as an actual network of infrastructure,” Pavao-Zuckerman wrote. “How things connect in with the rest of that system is really important.”

–Kathy Knotts

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of special 3D glasses as you pay, and the experience becomes psychedelic.

It’s fitting that the SPCA is sponsor because the show features phantasmagoric creatures of many a sort, particularly those that swim. You might shiver visiting the North Pole, and you can revel with midshipmen flinging their hats skyward.

Our favorites this year among the 70 stationary and animated displays were the red octopus and a green dragon that acts as though she might climb in your car.

This special show runs through Jan. 1 and costs $20 per vehicle. (Look for your coupon in Bay Weekly.)

Way Downstream …

In the glow along Chesapeake Bay n these deflating times, holiday lights offer a sure-fire pick-me-up, explosions of brightness that dazzle the senses and trigger images from a peaceful past.

We’ve seen no more compelling light presentation this season than the 25th annual Lights on the Bay holiday show at Sandy Point State Park, sponsored by SPCA of Anne Arundel County.

After dinner is a fine time, we’ve learned (open 5-10pm), and rumor has it that the extravaganza aids digestion and cues up sweet dreams. Ask for a pair

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This Week’s Creature Feature

2019 in Review We live in unpredictable times photo and story by Wayne Bierbaum

019 has been unusual for our local flora and fauna. The wet and cool spring delayed plant growth and bird nesting. The osprey along the Patuxent River were two to three weeks late hatching. The bluebirds in my yard tried to hatch a first brood in early April only to have their eggs freeze.

Later, they had two successful broods.

I had made spring plans to visit the Great Swamp in New Jersey, but it rained for the entire week, and the roads were flooded.

After the cool and wet spring, suddenly it was summer and dry and hot, then very, very hot. The heat was even more stressful for plants and animals.

Trees defoliated in the heat.

Fewer animals came out in the open during the day. Puddles, ponds and streams dried up, which was harsh for the fish and amphibians that lived there. Some farmers put out kiddie pools of water for the deer and other large animals. Walking in the woods was not as pleasant as usual.

Because of the hot weather that persisted into the fall, there was less food for migrating birds, and they seemed not to hang around to rest and feed but to fly on.

Despite the weather, I was able to

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Looking Back And thinking ahead ome 14 years ago, I began to write the Sporting Life column for Bay Weekly newspaper. While I had published a few freelance magazine articles as I neared retirement in Sporting Life my then-current career, a regular writing gig was a new endeavor.

Both I and my editor in chief at Bay Weekly,

by Dennis Doyle Sandra Martin, wondered how it would evolve.

Well, these many years later, I have to say, it has gone quite well — and in some ways that, for me, were completely unexpected. Not only was my skilled editor satisfied with my earliest efforts, I soon managed to win a couple of statewide writing awards for the column.

That those awards were due in great part to the guidance and efforts

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One of my first promises in one of my initial columns for the paper was that I intended to convey the natural glories of the Chesapeake to our read-

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Tidewater, in hindsight I really had no idea at that time of just how bountiful, vast and varied our wonderful state really is.

I also soon recognized that my personal sporting repertoire — because of the various time constraints of a fulltime job and child rearing — had narrowed. Suddenly, with the kids on their own, retired from my first career and with a wife, a sculptor who had her own horizons to pursue, I had an enormous opportunity to explore and learn.

With a new professional obligation to fully experience Maryland’s natural wonderland, I embraced and related an ever-wider range of angling techniques for the rockfish and white perch that teemed our shores. I covered the blue crabs that were just as prevalent and even more delicious and explored the wide varieties of other wildlife that I had never had enough time to get to really know.

As I was a neophyte at many of the activities I would undertake, I did my best to share the learning experience with our many readers and help them avoid the catastrophes, false starts, embarrassing and sometimes amusing situations that I often encountered.

Yellow perch, hickory shad, pickerel, croaker, spot, bluefish, largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie, canvasback ducks, blackheads, mallards, buffleheads, teal, Canada geese, snow geese: The list of wildlife unrolled endlessly.

It is truly fortunate that Bay Weekly will go on under the new auspices of Chesapeake Bay Media. This new partnership may in the near future include covering Maryland’s role in the rebuilding of the striped bass population and hopefully stand witness to a newer and wiser approach to restoring our woefully depleted oyster stocks.

Eventually it may also include observing the evolution of a blue crabmanagement strategy that can end the constant boom and bust practices of our past.

Only time will tell, but we’ll all be in this wonderful natural world together as we find out. ‫ﵭ‬

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And give each of us better lives would like to reflect on this past year and give thanks to Sandra Martin, editor of Bay Weekly, for giving me a soapbox and allowing me to Gardening for continue with a Health gardening column that Dr. Francis Gouin started. He was a great gardener and professor with a lot of wit and wisdom and one whose shoes

by Maria Price I could never fill.

I always felt a kindred spirit with The Bay Gardener, as compost was his big love. When I married my husband I told him I had a big pile of “black gold” in my backyard.

I’m not sure if he was disappointed when he saw my pile of compost.

I hope my 40 years of gardening experience is helpful to my readers. I’ve tried to impart the beauty of nature through the making of a garden for food, beauty and health. I hope you will be inspired to relish the plant world and hold it dearly as our climate instabilities wreak havoc on our world.

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My hope is that you will be inspired to start a garden and enjoy it — without the use of harsh chemicals.

Feel the pride of growing some of your own food, even if it’s just a salad garden in a pot. Pick a few lettuce leaves and a handful of cherry tomatoes and enjoy a homegrown salad and selfaccomplishment.

Your garden is a place of wellness, as well. It makes you move and get exercise without realizing it. Even a small pot of mint can bring you the pleasure of a hot cup of mint tea that will soothe your stomach and heighten your spirit.

I encourage you to grow native plants and help the environment by restoring native insect populations,

which help to restore our bird populations and more.

If you and I and everybody does a little bit to recycle via composting and feeding the soil so that you can grow healthier plants, just think of all the carbon that can be sequestered out of the atmosphere.

All those leaves, grass clippings, garden waste, animal manure, old Christmas trees and more can be turned into black gold. And it all can be made better with a cup of tea from the garden. Let’s look forward to more gardening for 2020. ‫ﵭ‬ Maria Price-Nowakowski runs Beaver Creek Cottage Gardens, a small native plant nursery in Severn.

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From Our Friends Note that some were written before the good news of our sale to Chesapeake Bay Media.

Writers his week of giving thanks I’m especially grateful for the opportunity to have been a contributing writer for Bay Weekly. In the past two years, I have learned a lot about topics ranging from Frederick Douglass to Pocahontas, Tangier Island to Thomas Point Shoal Light, stream restorations to the Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay. I often started work on a story thinking I knew something about the subject and once underway found out how much more there was to learn.

With your patient help I hopefully started to overcome decades of writing habits fit for bureaucratic audiences for a style suited for Bay Weekly’s readership including our friends and neighbors.

I’ll continue to keep a newly trained eye on events in the community that might be the basis for the next good story.

Now I am delighted to learn that the demise of Bay Weekly has been averted.

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n the late ’90s, after moving to Calvert County, I found a newspaper titled Bay Weekly — or was it New Bay Times? Anyway, I remember an ad seeking writers to write about occurrences in and around the Bay area. Several years prior, I had written a tongue-in-cheek article for a small South Carolina newspaper.

After publishing my piece, the editor told me he almost threw it away before reading it, since, as he put it, “No one can write humor.”

“Maybe next time,” he said, “I’ll pay you.” There never was a next time.

I sent an article about crabbing with kids to this paper, Bay Weekly, and, lo and behold, Sandra ran it, and, I even got paid! That was my first paid gig, and I still have the check today.

One of these days I’ll have it framed.

That was 20 years ago, and I have had nothing but fun submitting articles at my whimsy. Sandra gave me permission to be creative and, at times, over the top. For that, I want to thank her and all who have made this publication possible.

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–Allen Delaney, Prince Frederick

just read the announcement that Chesapeake Bay Media has acquired Bay Weekly.

This is an end of an era to me, sure, so I want to thank you for giving me a shot in 1995 with my first fly fishing article and for several years after that when you allowed me the space and freedom to create and write

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my Chesapeake Outdoors column.

Wishing you all the best as you embark of your new chapter.

–Chris Dollar, Editor at Large, Chesapeake Bay Media

he cheering could be heard all the way south to my Florida Gulf Coast home.

Such was the terrific news that Chesapeake Bay Media will continue our beloved Bay Weekly.

I had the privilege of being a contributing writer for Bay Weekly for a dozen or so years, allowing me to explore the stories of the people and communities, nature and resources of the Bay I had loved since childhood.

For a full quarter-century, Sandra Martin, Bay Weekly editor extraordinaire, helped shape those articles, reflections, commentaries, spreading and preserving the news everyone in Bay Country wanted to hear. Brava to Sandra and to Alex Knoll and Bill Lambrecht, the family team founders.

And I give a hearty hello to Chesapeake Bay Media.

P.S. I once wrote a piece for Chesapeake Bay Magazine on Wye River crabbing and I never spent the $100 they paid me. I have kept many of my Bay Weekly checks, too; I was so proud to do that writing.

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–M.L. Faunce, Gulfport, Florida

t’s been a few years. Hard for me to believe that a few stories of mine ran in the Bay Weekly over 20 years ago.

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I’m still amazed by that opportunity.

I read Sandra’s letter on the continuation of the Bay Weekly with Chesapeake Bay Magazine and wanted to send you a note.

Congratulations on 27 years and over 1,300 issues. It is amazing, especially in this media environment, and a testament to the hard work and passion of your group. I’m glad your cool paper will continue to live on. I hope you enjoy whatever comes next, and best of luck.

Thanks for giving me that chance 20 years ago and teaching me the value of fewer words and tighter editing.

Those lessons have been beneficial in this meandering legal career of mine.

Good luck on new adventures.

–Christopher Heagy, Baltimore

ongratulations!!! A great big sigh of relief just went soaring into the heavens from a LOT of people.

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–Bill Sells, Chesapeake Beach

’ve been meaning to reach out to you for a while, since I saw that Bay Weekly will be retiring at the end of the year. My heart is heavy, but as you say, every story has an ending. And Bay Weekly has had a great run. I hope all is going smoothly for you all in these last few months.

Thinking of you and all that you have accomplished with Bay Weekly over the last quarter-century. It is so impressive!

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–Katie Dodd Syk, Stockholm, Sweden

one to press,” in the news business usually brings to editors a sense of relief and also accomplishment — for about 10 minutes — before the process begins in earnest, all over again.

But in December it will be a sad gone to press for many when Bay Weekly makes its exit.

During my career in journalism on occasion I, happily, did some freelance writing for Bay Weekly. It was always a pleasure to work with Sandra, who directed such great coverage for readers, stories of interesting people and events in Annapolis and the towns and countryside of the Bay area, our glorious Chesapeake Bay. Many of the paper’s stories brought to mind how lucky we are to have that water, from the north, and the Bay’s multitude of rivers and creeks lapping up to sandy beaches, to the green rolling hills in Southern Maryland that slide down to meet the Bay. So thanks to you and your staff, smooth sailing and God’s speed!

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–Louise Vest, Halethorpe

Readers he primary reason that I read the Bay Weekly is because I love reading stories that relate to Anne Arundel and Calvert counties where I live and travel. The stories have always been informative, and they helped me appreciate the area where I chose to move 18 years ago. I love the editorial each week — if I read nothing else, I finish it before recycling the paper. I consider most magazine’s messages from the editor to be pablum, and I routinely skip them.

I wish I could put into words what it is about the Bay Weekly’s editorial that is so intriguing; I suppose I’ll just say that I love to read Ms. Martin’s well-written stories because they evoke some shared memory or emotion. They are relatable. I also love the paper’s features on my neighbors, the local wildlife, the environment, regional gardening and upcoming events. We have enough stories on crime, politics, and religion on other media platforms, and I love that the paper avoids these topics.

Finally, I love that I can pick up the Bay Weekly from most of the shops and restaurants that I frequent. I can pick up a paper at the Chesapeake Market and Deli around the corner from my house in Rose Haven. I often pick up the paper from Whole Foods in Annapolis. And I also get the paper from my local Twin Beaches Library in Chesapeake Beach. Wherever I am on a Thursday, I’m excited to find the latest issue ready to inform me about what’s happening in the week ahead.

I want to let you know how relieved I was to learn that Chesapeake Bay Media will be adding the Bay Weekly to its media portfolio. I am grateful to learn of the new plans for Bay Weekly and wish Chesapeake Bay Media and

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its team as much success as the paper enjoyed during in its 27-year run.

–Tina Chen, Chesapeake Beach

delivered on deadline, many many thanks. What Bay Weekly has done for the vast area of its coverage is bring many reading hours of good local stories, many chuckles, and created an overall good feeling of community.

This is to say nothing of the writers that may exist today because of the understanding you had of youth and words and how you allowed them to express their findings in your pages.

A good staff goes a long way in creating an outstanding and thoughtful publication, but what brings it all together and makes it happen is the editor. Sandra Martin has proven to be a spectacular chief.

Clichés are the bane of any editor, but often they are very apt: Enjoy your new time to smell the roses!

With regret that you leave us, but with gratitude for what you did.

and Nancy McK. Smith, Port Republic

–Esperison ‘Marty’ Martinez, Annapolis

–Rosemary Byrd, Rose Haven

hank you for your leadership in making the Bay Weekly such a welcome source of news in the larger Annapolis community. We are so sorry that you are stopping publication. The newspaper brings needed unbiased news to the community where there are very few other sources and none of the same quality. We use the newspaper to teach English in a real context of business and community, daily life, so it serves us in two ways.

You are known for your caring and commitment to the community as well as your excellence in journalism. We need your newspaper to know what is happening, objectively communicated.

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h goodie, so happy to read this news!

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–Mary Felter, Annapolis

s a part-time Annapolitan, I rely on Bay Weekly to keep me apprised of everything — from the health of the Bay, to weekend festivals, to lectures at SERC. One of my greatest pleasures is going to the Amish market, picking up lunch and the Bay Weekly and plotting adventures with the help of 8 Days a Week. Thanks so much for your wonderful publication.

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–Karen Green, Annapolis

ow excellent that you walked Bay Weekly over to Chesapeake Bay Media! I have loved our old contributors, your new writer and photographers and your all-along people. I found Bay Weekly many years ago in the library foyer. Now I can continue to look there.

I kept your Nov. 7 issue for the ads, so labeled. It’s in my bookshelf.

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–Margaret Gwathney, Annapolis

his is an apropos time of year to take a moment to thank you for all you do and have done over the years for the Annapolis community. Congratulations on your alliance with Chesapeake Bay Media.

All the best to all of you.

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–Ed Herold, Annapolis

aw the news of your success with the next step, surely a bittersweet event but in the big picture, hopefully, the best for your team in today’s media world.

Please convey my sincere thanks to your editor for her enthusiastic support to our annual holiday homeless drive for Linda’s Legacy over the years ... and best wishes to each of you as you move forward with new opportunities.

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–Bob Kight, Annapolis

ongratulations on the welcome news about the future of Bay Weekly!

Truly wonderful!

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am happy for Sandra and all of your team that Bay Weekly lives on. You offer a closer link into the Annapolis community, telling the varied stories of those who quietly contribute daily, often in the simplest ways.

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–Cynthia McBride. McBride Gallery

xcellent news! I’ve loved your paper right from the start.

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–Vicki Meade, Annapolis

o glad to hear your great news of the phoenix-like rebirth of Bay Weekly! I’ve been meaning to write and congratulate you on a great run since I read your announcement. Now my procrastination allows me to send you a different kind of congrats.

We’ve always felt connected to your various incarnations, and with great sadness (and a not-inconsiderable amount of relief) we closed our own doors on Halloween this year.

Best to you all in your various pursuits, and good on Chesapeake Bay Media for recognizing your unique value.

Yours in the written word,

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–Liz Prouty, Second Looks Books

t’s time for me to say thank you.

I moved to this area from Prince George’s County 22 years ago. Discovering your newspaper was such a blessing. I’ve enjoyed Bay Weekly for many reasons — everything from Alex Knoll’s Sky Watch articles to Wayne Bierbaum’s articles and pictures about the nature of our region. Most of all, though, I’ve appreciated the 8 Days a Week feature. I can’t tell you how many neat times I’ve had attending events and such listed in your paper. Truth is, I’d never even have known about most of those events if it wasn’t for Kathy Knotts compiling them for us.

Thank you for bringing a lot of good stuff into my little world these many years. A community newspaper makes a community better. Please know you’ve served us well.

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–Dave Sacks, Annapolis

–Mollie King, Owings

or all the years embedded in the 1,359 issues you and your staff have

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hanks for your great effort and work over these many years when I’ve been a beneficiary of your newspa-

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per, which each week has kept arriving in my mailbox in Baltimore Especially thanks for covering those first Potomac River Swims for the Environment, including my poem, On Swimming an Estuary, and for the attention you paid to our waterways up and down the Chesapeake.

When I think of Bay Weekly, I think of community, heritage and stewardship.

–Joe Stewart, Baltimore

was pleased to read the news that Chesapeake Bay Media is making Bay Weekly part of its publishing business. I look forward to many more interesting articles in Bay Weekly.

What a wonderful Christmas gift!

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–Steven Tadlock, Severn

an’t tell you how happy I am to have learned about your two organizations coming together. It’s a wonderful thing for our community!

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–Elvia Thompson, President & Co-founder Annapolis Green

ear friend, Sandra Olivetti Martin: Yes, friend! We bought a cottage in Masons Beach, Deale, 14 years ago.

Our main residence is in Fairfax, but, I have relied on Bay Weekly to find activities, restaurants, yard sales, parades, consignment shops, beaches, yard maintenance, individuals that make a difference, especially our garden guru (his passing left an emptiness as we had several caring phone conversations). It provided me the history of the Bay region and gave me places to go and people to meet.

All this, and it was free.

I personally do not know what I am going to do without this incredible resource to guide me. Go if you must.

But know that we have appreciated each and every word.

Thank you for making us feel at home and introducing us to what makes the area special.

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–Lenore and Ray Walsh, Deale

ending you much gratitude and best wishes for as soft a landing as possible for everyone.

Will truly miss the great stories and insights arriving at local stores each Thursday.

I was delighted to learn Bay Weekly will continue — yahoo and congrats!!

I’m so very pleased to hear that your community has helped Bay Weekly and its staff get to this point.

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–Susan and Greg Walker, Annapolis

ay Weekly has been my Thursday morning routine for oh so many years now! Over the years it has also been fundamental in promoting many of my programs either through Natural Resources with Kings Landing Park in Huntingtown or with my many theatre projects with Chesapeake Youth Players, The Chesapeake Theatre Company, The Scurvy Crew and now recently The Community of Christ Players. I applaud you all as you pass on the flame: Bravo and Brava!!

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–Jackie Waymire, Deale

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Seasons of Hope We had our first in 1993; 2020 begins another

by Bill Lambrecht

he year was 1993, and change was afoot. Sandra Olivetti Martin had finished managing a weekly in Washington and had turned to freelancing. Alex Knoll had earned his M.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois and joined us in Chesapeake Country. I was just off the campaign trail after covering the

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winning election of Bill Clinton.

There was hope in the air (unrelated to Clinton talking all the time about Hope, Arkansas, where he was born.)

So we took a leap.

“You started a newspaper? Are you out of your minds?” we heard from friends who knew business.

Quite possibly we were. But looking back more than a quarter-century later, it can be said that doubters became loyal readers, and new friends came to us along the way. Many new friends.

While I continued in the wilds of daily journalism, Sandra, Alex, Betsy Kehne and our ever-evolving staff built a local institution. Our goal at the start was fostering a community of interests knitted together by the environment, culture and economics of Chesapeake Bay. That is what happened, for the most part, even as the newspaper

started looking a tad old-fashioned.

But readers and advertisers stayed with us. Bay Weekly survived and flourished thanks to the editing and storytelling of Sandra — the best writer I know — and the steadfast ability of Alex — the most resilient fellow I know — to put the paper together, get it on the streets and pay the bills.

Now, in the hands of Chesapeake Bay Media — publisher of the elegant and appealing Chesapeake Bay Magazine — Bay Weekly lives on.

Again, there’s hope in the air.

Co-founder Bill Lambrecht, our first editorialist and writer of prize-winning stories throughout the years, has returned to our pages this year with a run of suprising Way Downstreams, reprising his early invention. On

industry cratered amid changing reader habits and the rise of big-tech advertising outlets. A decade or so ago, the idea of a family-owned newspaper

December 20 he ended a 45-year career in daily journalism — 35 years in Washington, D.C. In January he joins University of Maryland as a visiting professor and investigative reporter.

Goodbye to My First Child I grew up alongside you

by J. Alex Knoll

uild it and they will come. That’s what we said — my mother Sandra Martin, my stepfather Bill Lambrecht and myself — back in these same end-of-the-year days in 1992, 27 years ago. If it worked for Kevin Costner, it would work for a family of journalists wanting to start their own free community newspaper.

So we built it, and come they did, writers, readers, advertisers, friends, loved-ones for the better part of three decades.

We talked to friends in the business, toured a colleague’s family newspaper in the Midwest, scribbled out projections and just a few months later launched the first issue of New Bay Times. It was chock-a-block full of stories that remain some of our best. There was the interview with Miss Ethel, the 104-year-old matriarch of Shady Side. There was the tragic tale of kayak-enthusiast Phillipe Voss, who went paddling on the Bay alone not to return alive. I wrote a thorough piece on the state of crabbing on the Bay, which you could read today and not know it was nearly 30 years old.

There was never a shortage of stories about the people, places, events, issues, history of Chesapeake Country — though each week we scrambled to gather them in time to fill that edition’s pages.

Ahh, those were heady days.

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If Content is King, Advertisers are Divine Then the bills started coming in, and from a family of writers I emerged as the one to run the business, in charge of finding us the advertisers to pay for it all.

The first person to sign on was Bob Platt, whose restaurant Pirates Cove I’d waited tables at the summer before, earning my last paycheck without my own signature.

“Bob,” I told him, “my folks and I are starting a free community newspaper. Would you be interested in advertising in it?”

“Alex,” he answered, “I’d be upset if I wasn’t your first advertiser.”

And so he was, remaining a supporter of our efforts ever since. Pirates Cove, now under the ownership of Michael Galway and Anthony Clarke, has maintained that support.

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this paper possible. It is a flattering final salvo, and to those advertisers and anyone who’s ever spent a dime with Bay Weekly, thank you!

But if you have some back issues of Bay Weekly around the house, take a look through them, especially if it’s one of those thin 20-pagers, and you’ll see the heroes who have kept Bay Weekly alive. These are the weekly advertisers, with us year-round, when business is good and when it’s not-so, investing their own hard-earned dollars in the belief that our readers are their customers.

The Right People at the Right Time If the advertisers invested their dollars, our staff invested their hearts and souls. It’s been a cast of hundreds from writers, delivery drivers, sales reps, freelancers, proofreaders, interns and more. Some were with us no more than a few days. Some lent a hand for a matter of months. Some stayed with us for years, none to be outdone by my right hand for the past 25, Betsy Kehne.

From those earliest days, first New Bay Times and then Bay Weekly drew the people we needed to continue week by week. If any came expecting big money, they were in the wrong business. And come they did. If not wealth, we offered them something they valued. For some it was an adventure. For some it was a bridge to the future. Some found their voice.

Others found sanctuary. And then there was the sense of awe and accomplishment each Thursday as the latest issue sprung from our collective efforts into a hold-in-your-hand testament to success.

That shared weekly success built camaraderie.

Working in often-tight quarters, collaborating over the lunch table or sharing the trials and tribulations of our lives only strengthened the bond.

We’ve had some great teams over the years, like a gloried baseball franchise that claims a World Series title once or twice a decade.

But at this moment in time, with first the prospect of Bay Weekly’s demise and now its imminent transition, we couldn’t have had a more stalwart crew. All have stayed with us and helped shape this climactic chapter. My great, great thanks for your support to Bay Weekly to Betsy Kehne, Kathy Knotts, Susan Nolan, Audrey Broomfield, Krista Pfunder, Donna Day, and of course my mother and business partner, Sandra Martin. Thanks as well to my wife Lisa Edler Knoll, Bay Weekly’s decade-long advertising director who still maintains accounts, and Bill Lambrecht, my business partner, co-founder and stepfather, whose calm head has always been a steadying force.

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The Last Chapter Keeping a free community newspaper profitable was never easy. Year after year we eked it out, sometimes in the black, sometimes a little deeper in the red.

Time takes a toll, and this summer we realized it was time to write our last chapter.

Rather than just shutter up, we would share our story through the end of the year, hopefully recouping some of our losses in our busiest season. It would also, we hoped, allow our staff time to make their arrangements. And, just maybe, news of our retirement would deliver someone to carry on Bay Weekly’s legacy.

The endline we established was this week’s December 26 issue. We’ve made it with our team intact. They will carry on Bay Weekly’s legacy with the folks at Chesapeake Bay Media, publishers of Chesapeake Bay Magazine.

Thanks again to our advertisers who stepped up to the call. And thanks to Sue Kullen and her Friends of Bay Weekly GoFundMe campaign and the generosity of so many Bay Weekly readers and … well, friends.

Without either, we may not have made it to this finish, certainly not without getting deeper in the hole.

Letting Go The father of three, I’m now watching my firstborn leave home after 27 years. I cry tears of sadness at the parting and tears of joy at how strong and wonderful Bay Weekly has grown to be.

Twenty-seven years at the helm of Bay Weekly has honed my skills as a journalist and taught me how to run a vibrant business. It has brought me friends and extended my family. It has given me a lifetime of lessons. It has made me a better person.

Bay Weekly afforded me the freedom to walk my other two children — Jack, 19, and Elsa, 18 — to and from school, wait with them and for them at the bus stop and be involved in their lives.

Goodbye, my child. Goodbye, Bay Weekly. I will always love you.

20-Some Odd Years Later I never could get away from Bay Weekly

by Betsy Kehne

hy don’t you come intern at Bay Weekly?” editor Sandra Martin said from behind her instructor’s desk at University College, where she taught editing to me and a classroom of students. It seemed an innocent enough suggestion to this then20-something-year-old in search of a career back in the mid-1990s.

“It’ll be a stepping stone,” Martin said. With visions of The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and glossy magazines dancing in my head, I signed on to work nights and weekends as a writer. Soon after, I resigned from my nine-to-five day job to produce advertising and layouts for this small but feisty newspaper in a shoebox-sized office in Deale, Maryland. Little did I know that I’d still be with the paper in 2019.

Bay Weekly was indeed a stepping-stone for my contemporaries. Many coworkers, friends — even my brother Don, a writer from the early days — moved on to interesting organizations or big dailies. But for me, Bay Weekly grew into a home away from home.

Perhaps publisher Bill Lambrecht won my heart every Tuesday night by appearing with a Volkswagen Bug-sized smoked ham or turkey to share for dinner. The Martin-Lambrecht-Knoll family of Bill, Sandra, Nathaniel, Alex and Lisa kept us well fed in those early days. Good thing, too. Our stomachs had to be full and happy while producing the good news of Bay Weekly.

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Now 25 years older, I’m left wondering where the years went. I’ve burned through five computers, three office chairs, one card table and two wooden desks in four different offices.

I’ve enjoyed quite a few walks with beloved office

dogs, including Max and Moe, the yellow labs. By far my favorite pooch, Max weighed as much as me but was as gentle as a ladybug.

If I mention Max, I must mention his polar opposite: Nipper the Jack Russell terrorist, who either bit or tried to bite half the population of Anne Arundel and Calvert counties. (I still have a tooth mark in my boot from a tussle with dear Nipper.)

Today, Chester the much calmer, sweeter pit-lab mix naps under my desk, keeping me company.

Bay Weekly has been — and continues to be — a place of learning and challenges. Every day is filled with hard work tempered by a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. The result is tangible: a newspaper materializing at our fingertips at the end of each week.

But wait … I know, I know. I’ll admit this because you’ve seen them, and you’ll remind me when I bump into you at the grocery store. We’ve put a few excruciating mistakes into print. But more often the pages of Bay Weekly are filled with stories about local folks that I never would have had the pleasure of meeting anywhere else. They’re also filled with local businesses and the people who run them. Our clients have trusted Bay Weekly to promote their businesses and create their advertisements. Some of you go back to the earliest days of Bay Weekly while others are newer additions. It’s nice to count all of you among my friends and neighbors.

So here we are at the beginning of a new era. Bay Weekly is about to continue its life under the guidance of the good folks at Chesapeake Bay Media. We all love the news, legend and lore of Bay Weekly, stories that introduce each of us to our neighbors and remind us how amazing life is on the Chesapeake Bay — and most importantly, why we need to work to preserve it.

Here’s to the next 25 years of Bay Weekly.

Production manager and mainstay Betsy Kehne moves with Bay Weekly to Chesapeake Bay Media in 2020.

Time to Spread Our Wings And trust

by Lisa Edler Knoll

any analogies come to mind when processing the end of Bay Weekly Part 1 — the first 27 years.

How do you define letting go of your baby when it is a business? Emotions run from grief to excitement and relief.

I haven’t been part of the team since the beginning, but I did get swept up in the early years — 1996 to be exact — when I met and subsequently married co-owner Alex Knoll.

Lately, I have sat on the sidelines watching him struggle over the future of his life’s work. So for me, it’s bittersweet to know Bay Weekly will live on, only with new parents.

When first introduced by mutual friends in Washington, D.C., Lex (his nickname) was a young entrepreneur who was regarded as an up-and-comer in the Annapolis area. He fished with legends (Bill Burton), was highlighted in The Washington Post, had VIP tickets to concerts, plays and fundraisers

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throughout Anne Arundel and Calvert counties and lived in a tilted log cabin with a leaky roof in Woodland Beach.

When we decided to get married, I was told I had to move to Annapolis because he was rooted and I had flexibility. So I moved from Georgetown and landed in the Annapolis neighborhood of Murray Hill. We married in 1997.

When I was laid off from my branch manager job in Towson while on maternity leave with our son, Jack, Lex encouraged me to join the family business. I was an experienced sales manager and knew the product (at the time I was writing a weekly food column for the paper with the byline Gabby Crabcakes). He offered me flexibility and opportunity. At the time, I welcomed the temporary role. Selling ads for the paper let me work with businesses far and wide and got me involved in many civic and networking organizations. My temporary job lasted almost 15 years.

I’ve been fortunate to make amazing friends along the way — Sara Poldmae, owner of Meadow Hill Wellness, Teresa Schrodel, of Medart Galleries, and Stacey Greenstreet, of

Greenstreet Gardens, to name a few.

We have laughed and cried and amassed amazing behind-the-scenes stories. We moved from Deale to Annapolis and fought through the Great Recession.

We have loved and lost furry friends — Max, Moe and Nipper. Now we worry what awaits Chester when he no longer gets to be the office dog.

The New Year will be full of change in the Knoll household. We have so much to be thankful for. Son Jack is now in college and daughter Elsa, eagerly awaits acceptance letters. The nest never seemed emptier.

Now it’s time to spread our mid-life wings and see where the wind takes us and trust Bay Weekly will be in good hands for many years to come.

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Reporting for Bay Weekly I was a young writer in adventureland

by Carrie Madren

came to Bay Weekly in 2004, early in my career, following a desire to write and see my words published. After a summer internship, I worked on staff as a senior writer and assistant editor, and for four years, contributing to one of the most thoughtful, interesting, well-written local publications I’d known.

From that summer internship, I knew I actually loved writing when afternoons flew by as I typed away at my desk, shaping my stories and doing detective work to find accurate facts.

Sitting alongside editor Sandra Martin in her office, we’d line edit my work as she patiently taught me to look critically at my text. Each time my articles were published, I savored the small thrill of seeing my byline in print above my hard work. I was hooked.

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I learned to seek fascinating sources, to report facts with precision, to uncover people’s stories and to tell those stories in vivid color. I enjoyed collaborating with our small team — plus a group of talented freelance writers — that worked closely together every weekday, often putting in long hours to produce the best possible issue.

I also loved the small office in Deale, housed in a bright cottage across from a creek, all of us working within ear-shot of each other and the late afternoon sun slanting in.

Reporting for Bay Weekly took me on all kinds of adventures — from mucking around phragmites-filled marshes to joining a Riverkeeper on patrol, interviewing one of the last surviving members of the legendary country music Stoneman Family, touring a single-stream recycling plant, fishing alongside veterans, tracking box turtles in the woods with a naturalist, photographing renowned photographer Marion Warren, reviewing operas and comedies, wading into

rivers to check water quality (using Bernie Fowler’s famed Sneaker Index) and more.

I met legislators, actors, librarians, artists, scientists, authors, shopkeepers, conservationists, musicians and Chesapeake citizens who took the time to share their stories, allowing me, in turn, to share their experiences, wonder and wisdom with our 50,000 readers. I learned to let my own curiosity guide me in asking questions, and my own interest as a reader to steer my writing. I also taught readers knowledgeably about diamond-

back terrapins, smart cars, environmental policies, the Nutcracker ballet tradition, harmful bacteria in Chesapeake waters and 17-year cicadas.

Bay Weekly’s annual special issues became part of my own year’s rhythm. Early signs of spring meant I could indulge in summer dreaming as we planned the annual 101 Ways to Have Fun in the Summer. Early autumn leaves had me humming Christmas carols as I gathered details on every holiday event in the region for our Season’s Bounty guide.

I took lessons from Bay Weekly home with me, too: largely, to love what’s local, as I came to appreciate the simple joy of knowing the beekeeper who harvested your honey, the artist who painted the town mural you see everyday or the local farmer who grew your carrots.

Looking back, I feel grateful to Sandra, Alex Knoll and the rest of the staff for taking a chance on a new writer, and for the opportunity to be one of the many voices in Bay Weekly’s long narrative.

Carrie Madren, who came to us as Carrie Steele, now lives in Falls Church, VA, and is seeking to return from freelancing to fulltime writing and editing now that son Cade is in kindergarten. I had the pleasure of overlooking her love story with husband Tyras and seeing her as a beautiful bride. If you want to hire her, I’ll put you in touch.

If You Want to Know It All Work for a newspaper

by Diana Beechener

o you know how to hide crematorium ashes when training a cadaver dog? Do you know how to bake a Smith Island cake? Do you know where to go for the best nativity play in Calvert County?

I do, and it’s all thanks to Bay Weekly.

I was just supposed to write the calendar.

That was the job I signed up for when I met with Sandra Martin in a small Deale office. Five days a week, writing up local events and organizing them into a document. It was essential work, but Sandra, as always, had bigger plans for me.

I started off small, writing a few creature features. I remember bringing home about five copies of the paper with my name in print to show my parents.

From there, I took baby steps, writing small stories and eventually getting a cover story under my belt. I remember every agonizing moment of Sandra editing my first feature story. She slices away superfluous words and paragraphs like a surgeon. And while I felt every one of those cuts acutely, I grew to realize the story was always stronger thanks to her touch.

I had a knack for animals, or maybe I just loved dogs more than most. I wrote about cadaver dogs, search dogs, guide dogs, bad dogs. If it had four legs and a tail, chances are I covered it for the paper. I even managed to get my own dogs into the paper a few times.

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ly became a part of my family. I wrote essays about my love of the Orioles, tributes to the grandmother I lost while working at the paper. I even appeared in my wedding dress in one of Sandra’s columns. I have happy memories of rushing to Fresh Market to pick up lunch with Betsy between deadlines, and lovingly picking out chocolate treats for the late, great proofer Dick Wilson (who constantly saved me from embarrassing typos). The paper and those who made it what it is, are woven into the story of my life.

Bay Weekly also gave me a chance to do something I truly love: Talk movies incessantly. I lept at the chance to become the paper’s Moviegoer when the spot opened up, and even when watching terrible movies in the dead of January, I’ve never regretted that decision. Bay Weekly allowed me to find my voice as a reviewer and become a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association. Now when I ramble about the cinematography of a movie, it’s because I’m a professional, not just a weirdo with a love for deep-focus lenses.

And while I’ll always cherish my memories of finding every possible dog tale I could tell and writing scathing reviews that generated angry phone calls from Seth MacFarlane fans, the main thing I’ll always remember about my time at Bay Weekly is the experiences I was granted. I must have lived a hundred lives, spending the day with perfect strangers trying to understand their lives or causes.

It’s an amazing feeling to bounce from screen-painting seminars to tracing the footprints of African American communities via street names. I saw Aretha Franklin sing live, I interviewed captains

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from the Deadliest Catch and survived a murder mystery weekend (twice). I also got the honor of visiting Walter Reed’s Mologne House, where I watched a group of women play music for grievously wounded soldiers. You could never predict where your week would go, just that you’d get a good story out of it.

And to think I was only supposed to write the calendar.

Diana Beechener continues as Moviegoer as Bay Weekly moves to Chesapeake Bay Media.

Eight Years at Bay Weekly We’ve been a united group

by Donna Day

t’s been one of my best career times working for Bay Weekly over the past eight years. Nearly all work and writing of my previous endeavors had been solo performances. In this position, I have known what it is to work with a united group. That was a gratifying experience. To work in a congenial, cheerful group with such exacting goals and far-sighted ideals was a pleasure!

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Editor Sandra Martin and her son Alex Knoll were the most empathetic although precise of publishers, and it was delightful to work with them.

I hope that spirit of goodwill and precision will continue in this publication’s new home as Bay Weekly launches new friendships with the community in Eastport and beyond.

The irrepressible Donna Day — Bay Weekly ad representative for Annapolis and Severna Park and writer, too — continues as author of mdInns.com, a web business regarding Maryland Inns. In print, she is the author of Inns and Colonial Homes of Historic Maryland, His-

toric Inns and Famous Homes of Maryland, Famous and Fine Restaurants of the Chesapeake.

All in the Family My job and my family are both parts of me, and at Bay Weekly each got equal respect and compassion

by Kathy Knotts

ay Weekly has a long wooden table where we all gather round to eat lunch together nearly every day. We celebrate birthdays and special occasions with cakes and pies. We tell our stories that can only be shared in person. That table has witnessed a lot of milestone moments for our office. Back in the fall, though, it witnessed our most heartbreaking meeting.

My stomach lurched that day we were told that the paper was closing at the end of 2019. Bay Weekly was more than just my workplace — it was the site of my renewed love for writing and storytelling. It was where I found the courage to go out and explore this new place we were calling home. It was where I was relearning my craft and shaping my identity as a working mother.

I came to Bay Weekly shortly after moving to Maryland. Our boys landed in new schools, and our family had some adjustments to make in this new state.

Working here changed me in ways I only see now.

Eating lunch together was something I had to adjust to. Perhaps I had spent time in too many newsrooms where everyone ate with one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the phone?

I began to see lunchtime as my chance to check in with other people and avoid holing up in my own office with only the computer screen to interact with.

Working with an editor who took the time to go through my stories line by line editing, cleaning up and clarifying my stories was eye-opening. I had never had someone sit down with me like this. Most of my prior employers only performed a cursory spellcheck and then sent it to layout. Sandra expects even the shortest calendar listing to be written with the clearest and most concise word choices. She taught me how to construct and build a story and guided me in finding the heart of a subject.

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ly-run and understands how families run.

I was able to put my small children on the bus each morning and be there when they arrived back home in the afternoons. A sick child was not grounds for losing my job; I was encouraged to take care of things as I needed to. My job and my family are both parts of me, and they demand equal respect and compassion.

Bay Weekly has given me a chance to exercise a somewhat atrophied writing muscle and put me in contact with simply the best people in Chesapeake Country. I have learned to love this area through the

stories Bay Weekly tells. And I am overjoyed that I will get to continue telling those stories.

Greek philosopher Heraclitus gave us the phrase, “Change is the only constant in life.” It’s true, and sometimes it’s painful. But how we handle the change is what reveals our character. And I can only hope that I will continue to reflect the high character I believe Bay Weekly embodies as we adapt, adjust, change tack and ride the next swell we face — together.

Staff writer and calendar editor since 2015, Kathy Knotts moves with Bay Weekly to Chesapeake Bay Media in 2020.

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paper as I sat on a bench at a local restaurant waiting on my order. (I remembered the paper as one where I read horoscopes and did crossword puzzles.)

I was in the midst of a crisis of sorts, working long hours in retail with no end in sight, barely seeing anyone, even my own boyfriend, sleepwalking through my life. Then, poof! there it was in front of me, the apparent job of my dreams, with vacations and flexible hours.

There was no way that they would want someone like me, I was sure.

Still, my boyfriend persuaded me to go for an interview, telling me that the worst that could happen is that they would say NO. One day in September 2015, I headed to the Bay Weekly office to meet with the staff. The rest is history.

Bay Weekly gave me a supportive environment in which to grow and spread my wings. They had so much belief in me even from that first day — at the time more than I had in myself.

That belief motivated me to chase my

My Bay Weekly I grew and spread my wings in this supportive environment

by Audrey Broomfield

ay Weekly newspaper has shaped me into the woman I am today.

I come to you now as a successful young woman and member of the community actively involved with local causes and a member of two boards.

(For which I pay a price: This is the first year in many that I have worked most holidays and not spent as much time with friends or family.)

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Bay Weekly’s Been a Fast-Paced Train But we always slowed for a lunch

by Susan Nolan

The actors talk over each other and give sharp answers without the pleasantries of please and thank you. In such an environment, it would be easy to lose all graciousness.

However, that is simply not true of Bay Weekly.

t lunchtime, we pull out a tablecloth, spread “ it on the conference table and we all eat together,” I said. “It’s delightful.”

I had been working at Bay Weekly for a month, and whenever anyone asked me about my new job, I told them about how we shared our midday meal and talked about our editorial calendar, sales strategies, and weekend plans. As often as we spoke of work, we discussed family, home repairs, favorite vacation spots and recipes.

Around the lunch table, relationships were forged.

I have always been blessed with good colleagues.

Every office I’ve experienced has been warm and welcoming — or I would not have stayed. As my Facebook page will attest, I’ve met some of my best friends at work. Some, if not all, of my previous jobs involved at least an occasional communal meal.

As to why I felt the need to report on the Bay Weekly lunch — and specifically, the tablecloth — did not know. Perhaps, I thought the tablecloth gave us a little more civility, sophistication and surprising elegance. We were breaking in the middle of a fastpaced day during an action-packed week.

I once heard Shonda Rhimes, writer and producer of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, say that writing for a weekly television show is like laying track for an on-coming train. Working at a newspaper is like that, too. We are always on deadline. The train is time bearing down on us and we work at an almost impossible pace to stay ahead of it.

People are not always gentle with each other when on deadline. Tempers flare. Voices rise. Doors slam. I think of old black-and-white movies with scenes that take place in smoke-filled newsrooms.

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own dreams and make bigger plans for myself, starting with going back to school full-time to obtain my bachelor’s degree. That support helped me through my darkest times as well and gave me the strength to continue on through the loss of two parents.

When I took art classes, Bay Weekly used my art for its Coloring Corner. When I took an interest in a story, I often got to write it.

With my flexible hours, I was able and encouraged to reinvest my time not only in my family but in the community as well and realize that my voice and influence mattered and that people wanted to know me.

When I look back at pictures of myself before I found Bay Weekly, I barely recognize the unhappy woman staring back at me. That’s why I can easily define what Bay Weekly has done for me. For that, I will be forever grateful.

A sales representative and Jill-of-many-trades since 2015, Audrey Broomfield moves with Bay Weekly to Chesapeake Bay Media in 2020.

At Bay Weekly, we lunch together. We talk. We laugh. We work. We invite others to join us.

Now, some of our Bay Weekly friends are leaving us, and we will have to make a real effort to get together over soup, sandwiches and microwave-heated leftovers. I hope we will.

Those of us staying will be moving to share office space with Chesapeake Bay Media. It’s my hope that we will take those lunch breaks together, and that our Chesapeake Bay Media colleagues will join us.

Customer service representative, writer and collaborator since 2016, Susan Nolan moves with Bay Weekly to Chesapeake Bay Media in 2020.

My Life Needed an Angel Bay Weekly filled the bill

by Krista Pfunder

little over a year ago, I found myself in a tough spot. Due to sudden, unforeseen life changes, I needed to reinvent myself and start over.

At the top of the list was getting a job.

I saw an ad for a writer at Bay Weekly and submitted my resume. I was a regular reader of the paper and had been a reporter in a former life, so it seemed like it could be a good fit.

After what I thought was a promising conversation with the general manager, I looked forward to the interview we had set up.

One thing kept sticking out in my head: He explained that the staff was so close that they chose to all eat lunch together every day.

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Would they welcome me into their obviously tight circle? Would I fit in?

On the day of my interview, I was happily greeted by the office dog — something I have come to learn is a good sign.

I got the job and have been part of the team ever since.

But it’s more than a team. It’s a family.

Instead of my personal life getting easier, it got much, much harder. I scrambled to keep up.

I doubt any other editor and general manager would tolerate the impact of the craziness of my life during that time. They supported me; worked with me and encouraged me as I rebuilt my life from the ground up.

All of my coworkers stepped up in unbelievable ways to help — office dog included, who could probably get a side gig as a therapy pup. From covering an assignment for me when I couldn’t to just listening to me work out my thoughts, they got me through. I cannot imagine enduring the past few months without them.

They say that angels are put in your life when you need them. I saw proof of that with my Bay Weekly family.

And as for those staff lunches?

Let’s just say that on days I’m not in the office, I see if I’ll be anywhere near the office around noon.

Staff writer since 2018, Krista Pfunder moves with Bay Weekly to Chesapeake Bay Media in 2020.

Bay Weekly Has Brought — and Meant — the World to Me And to many of us

by Mark Hendricks

hen I learned of Bay Weekly’s eminent closing I, like many of you, met the news with melancholy.

This paper is like a family member to many in its readership; we take for granted that it’s always going to be there.

I know I cannot give Bay Weekly total justice, but at least I could convey how special the publication is to me.

After all, this is the very same paper where I wrote about the eventful story of my daughter’s birth and becoming a father. It is only fitting that, in this last piece, I can share that my daughter is going to become a big sister in the spring of 2020. Woah!

I’ll admit that I’d rather not pen a goodbye letter or similar-sounding epitaph; it is much easier to write of bird migration and autumn foliage, which Sandra always assigned me.

If you have ever wondered what it is like working with an editor, I must let you in on the secret of the anomaly of Sandra. She’s great, easy to work with and plays to her writers’ strengths. That is not to disparage my relationship with other editors I have had the pleasure of working with. I’ve been blessed to write for many great people. However, there is a down-to-

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earth quality that Sandra possesses that I find comforting and impossible to replicate. The mighty Chesapeake flows through her veins. To say I have been spoiled is an understatement.

Now all the stories the paper has covered over these last 27 years make my brief time with the publication seem like a sojourn. For Sandra, Bill and Alex it has been a life in journalism. Of those humble beginnings Sandra explained, “we worked like demons were poking us with pitchforks.” They worked overlapping day and night shifts in those early years.

The dedication and care they have shown to this region has been well represented in the many stories they shared with us.

Twenty-seven years is a long time.

In that time the paper has lived through four presidents, three name changes and provided a forum to over 500 writers! Thousands upon thousands of Chesapeake Country residents read the paper religiously. I met a diverse coalition of patrons who refer to Bay Weekly as “their paper.” From those who pick up their issue at the library to the politicos strolling down Main Street in Annapolis, this paper has been the go-to news source for all things Chesapeake to so, so many.

Most impressive is that it never cost those readers a dime. A free, independent newspaper cherished by people of all walks. That alone deserves to be lauded.

Sandra’s most memorable moments as editor of this fine paper not surprisingly involved an assortment of characters from their office.

“So we were a true newsroom, with the news swirling around us,” she says. “While we were pouring our concentration into the paper, intrusions of all sorts rained down on us: We’d be presented with a box of rescued baby ducklings and expected to figure out what to do with them.”

That’s taking journalistic research to a whole new, um, veterinarian level.

Additionally there was “the Vietnam vet biker with stringy hair and a pot belly who made regular calls on our female staffers — leading to more visits by territorial boyfriends.”

She told me of an intern who went missing only to learn he could not change a flat tire, and of staffers fainting at the site of shed snakeskin found under the kitchen sink.

Hopefully I can convince Sandra to share these comedic stories of what goes on behind the scenes. Or maybe write a sitcom?

In closing it has been a pleasure sharing stories of nature and seasonal change in Chesapeake Country. As a photojournalist, it is those moments that get me most excited, and I hope it has inspired you to experience the wonderful flora and fauna of the watershed.

I also want to send a big thank you to Sandra, who was always open to my ideas and always pushed me to inspire readers. It was an honor writing for you. I look forward to your memoirs.

Bay Weekly is small-fry among the papers and magazines — including Chesapeake Bay Magazine — to which conservation photojournalist Mark Hendricks contributes. He is also the author of the book Natural

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Enjoy an all-singing, all-dancing musical revue with Broadway showstoppers and special guests; presented by Annapolis Shakespeare Company. 8pm, $65 w/discounts, RSVP: www.annapolisshakespeare.org.

KIDS Winter Wildlife Discover the animals that make the wintry waters of the Chesapeake their home. 11am3pm, Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, $9 w/discounts: www.calvertmarinemuseum.com.

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Talk about the art of writing and share your work (ages 11+). 4-5pm, Deale Library: 410-222-1925.

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Teen Hang Out Hang out and play with tech toys like the Switch and VR headsets, or bring your board games or play PS4 on the big screen; pizza and snacks provided. 6-7:30pm, Southern Library, Solomons: 410-326-5289.

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The Budweiser Clydesdales join the festivities (noon-3pm) leading up to the Military Bowl. The iconic horses’ visit includes food trucks, beer tents, games and activities; benefits Patriot Point. 11am5pm, downtown Annapolis: 410-703-3062.

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Mindfulness Hike Escape the busy week and slow down, breathe and take in nature’s beauty; dress for weather. 2pm, Beverly Triton Nature Park, RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/jha2gtu

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KIDS Noon Year’s Eve Celebrate the arrival of 2020 with a countdown to noon with music, noisemakers, snacks and balloon drop at various library locations. 11am, Deale Library & Annapolis Library at Monarch Academy; 11:30am, Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library, Severna Park Library, Discoveries: The Library at the Mall & Edgewater Library: www.aacpl.net.

December 28 & 29 A Christmas Carol 2pm, Annapolis Shakespeare Company, Annapolis, $65 w/discounts, RSVP: www.annapolisshakespeare.org.

KIDS Count Down to Noon Year Make noise for the new year, plus stories, activities and an apple juice toast. 11:15am, Calvert Library, Prince Frederick: 410-5350291; Southern Branch, Solomons: 410-3265289; Twin Beaches Branch, Chesapeake Beach: 410-257-2411.

Sunday December 29 Annapolis Parade & Menorah Lighting Cruise with a menorah on top of your car to Annapolis City Dock where the Chabad of Anne Arundel County kindles a large menorah and serves hot latkes (6pm). Call for a menorah for your car. Meet at 5pm for parade, Safeway on Housley Rd., Annapolis: 443-321-9859.

New Year’s Balloon Drop Usher in 2020 at the skating rink and be home in time to watch the ball drop; find a coupon in Seasons Bounty for BOGO admission. 6-10pm, Skate Zone, Crofton: www.sk8zone.com.

Watkins Festival of Lights Hayride 7-8:30pm, Old Maryland Farm, Watkins Regional Park, Upper Marlboro, $8, RSVP: 301-218-6770.

New Year’s Eve in Annapolis Welcome the New Year first at the family-oriented celebration starting at 3pm with music, face painting and other activities for children at Weems Whelan field behind Maryland Hall, with fireworks at 5:15pm; shuttles provided from Park Place garage. Then head into downtown for live music and dancing until the countdown to the second fireworks to welcome 2020. 8pm-midnight, Susan Campbell Park, City Dock, Annapolis, FREE: 410-263-7997.

Monday December 30 KIDS A Winter Project Winter is the time for working on boats; build and decorate your own toy boat (ages 5+). 11am-2pm, Calvert Marine Museum, $9 w/discounts: www.calvertmarinemuseum.com

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First Day Hike, Merkle Enjoy the first day in the forest on a 3.5-mile hike on the Poplar Springs Trail; no strollers, but leashed dogs welcome. 11am, Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary, Upper Marlboro, RSVP: 443-510-9920.

First Day Hike, Beverly Triton Start the new year with a ranger-led hike exploring wildlife and the great outdoors; dress for weather. 11am, Beverly Triton Nature Park, FREE, RSVP: 443-202-0179.

First Day Hike, Quiet Waters Hike two miles thru this scenic park and get a glimpse of the new Quiet Waters Retreat; bring water; strollers and leashed-pets welcome. 1pm, Holly Pavilion parking lot, Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, FREE, RSVP: 410-222-1777.

Polar Bear Plunge North Beach Dive into 2020 and earn a certificate for braving the elements at North Beach’s annual chilly swim. Watch or join, warm up at a bonfire, with hot cider and marshmallows to roast; benefits Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church Ladies of Charity. 12:30pm sign-up, 1pm plunge, North Beach Bayfront pavilion: 301-855-6681.

Thursday January 2 Resume Workshop Job counselor Sandra Holler teaches resume and cover letter writing; bring a printed copy for editing. 1-3pm, Calvert Library, Prince Frederick, RSVP: 410-535-0291.

KIDS Tech Lab Use tech toys to explore science, technology, engineering, art and math concepts (ages 58). 6:30pm, Calvert Library, Prince Frederick, RSVP: 410-535-0291.

Plan Ahead Twelfth Night Revels Jan. 3 thru 5: Celebrate Twelfth Night in 17thcentury tradition with the Community of Christ Players who lead you in candlelight carols, music, humor, drama and dancing; feast on Twelfth Night cake and warm wassail after the show; benefits Food for the Hungry. FSa 7:30pm, Su 5pm, Mt. Harmony Church, Owings, $15 w/discounts: www.mtharmonylmumc.org.

Shakespearean Christmas Jan. 5: Elan Concerts presents its Twelfth Night festivities featuring sopranos Elissa Edwards and Catherine Hancock, with Christopher Baum on lute and theorbo and orator Katrina Atsinger. Concert 3pm & 5pm, reception 4pm, Hammond-Harwood House Museum, Annapolis, $50 w/discounts, RSVP: 410-263-4683.

Little Women Greta Gerwig brings Alcott’s classic up to date in this charming adaptation of the book o March (Saoirse Ronan: Mary Queen of Scots) sits in a New York publisher’s office, listening to a man tell her what women want THE to read.

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Jo bristles. In the 1860s, there’s not much prospect for women but marriage and death. But she was raised differently. Along with her three sisters, she learned to think for herself, act independently and view herself as an equal to any man. It’s a shame, then, that no man views her as his equal.

Jo has found equality only with her sisters in the family home. Always the headstrong one fighting for independence, she is the family firebrand. Older sister Meg (Emma Watson: The Circle) is more traditional and wants a marriage and family. Little sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen: Sharp Objects) is the kindest and painfully shy with all but her siblings. The youngest of the March sisters, Amy (Florence Pugh: Midsommar), is a materialistic artist, obsessed with marrying well and becoming financially secure. Though they clash in goals and dreams, the March sisters are a unit against the outside world.

As Jo tries to find her way in a man’s world, she relies on her sisters and her mother for strength when she falters. Does Jo have a future as a writer and independent woman?

Thoughtful, sweet and often funny, Little Women is a brilliant modernization of a beloved classic. In adapting Louisa May Alcott’s story of the March women, director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) relied on Alcott’s writings about the book as well as the text itself. She has managed to shape a more modern

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Little Women explores the lives of the March sisters — Meg (Emma Watson), Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Amy (Florence Pugh) and Beth (Eliza Scanlen) — in 1860s’ New England, in the aftermath of the American Civil War. story without losing the charm and emotion of the original.

Gerwig explores each of the sisters and what they represent, honoring them all and outlining their place in society.

Her most interesting tweak is what she does with the character of Amy. Traditionally portrayed as a worthless brat, the youngest March sister isn’t dismissed by Gerwig. Her Amy represents the many women who chose to work within the system unfairly constructed by men, using their charms to their advantage since they had no other skills valued by society. This fascinating take adds richness to an already lovely story.

Breathing life into the vibrantly realized March sisters are a team of some of the top young actress. Ronan is a vibrant force of nature as Jo. She stomps into rooms, taking up space and refusing to behave like a delicate flower. Her every action is an act of rebellion against the suggestion she be a nice young lady.

Pugh distinguishes herself as Amy March. Her careful performance highlights her character’s intelligence and strong personality. She is a mirror of Jo, just as resentful of the restrictions placed on her by society, but choosing to exploit the system rather than decry it. It’s a bold take on a character frequently dismissed as shallow.

Whether you’ve got little women in your family or want to watch a happy movie with your family over the holidays, Little Women is a winner.

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Blake has a personal stake in the mission’s success. His brother is among the men sure to die if he doesn’t get the message to them.

Director Sam Mendes is an old hand at high drama. In this film, he sets himself another challenge: The whole movie is shot to look as though it’s one take. If you’re a fan of World War I, filmmaking tricks or British character actors, 1917 should be well worth the ticket.

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International superspy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) is used to being the coolest person in any room. That changes when nerdy underling Walter (Tom Holland) in the science department of the spy agency accidentally transforms Sterling into a pigeon.

Now, Sterling must get used to life as a bird and still foil evil.

Will Walter be able to change Sterling back? Or has that bird flown the coop?

If you’ve got kids, chances are this is what you’re seeing Christmas weekend. It’s a cute premise, but the jokes seem flat. Tom Holland and Will Smith might be able to fight off the doldrums with their considerable charm, but I fear they can’t save the story. Slapstick humor and lots of hijinks should keep kids entertained, however.

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His job is to defend the large number of inmates on death row, many of whom were convicted in racist trials.

His first case is Walter McMillan (Jaimie Foxx), convicted of murdering a young woman despite evidence proving he couldn’t have done it. Stevenson fights the people of Alabama, the justice system and even his client, who has given up hope of seeing justice.

Is it possible to take on the system and win?

Based on the true story of Stevenson’s crusade to stop racist, unjust death row convictions in Alabama, Just Mercy should be a great watch. Both Jordan and Foxx are terrific actors, and it will be a treat to watch them sink into serious material. Sure to be stirring and ultimately uplifting, it may not be a flick for families with young kids.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark during World War II. In 1943, Hitler ordered all Danish Jews to be arrested—a first step in his plan to send them to concentration camps. But the Danish resistance movement leapt into action and smuggled virtually all of them to safety via © by Rob Brezsny fishing boats bound for Sweden. As a result, 8,000+ Danish Jews survived the Holocaust. You may not have the opportunity to do anything quite as heroic in 2020, Aries. But I expect you will have chances to express a high order of practical idealism that could be among your noblest and most valiant efforts ever. Draw inspiration from the Danish resistance.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she was 31, Taurus writer Charlotte Brontë finished writing her novel Jane Eyre. She guessed it would have a better chance of getting published if its author was thought to be a man. So she adopted the masculine pen name of Currer Bell and sent the manuscript unsolicited to a London publisher. Less than eight weeks later, her new book was in print. It quickly became a commercial success. I propose that we make Brontë one of your role models for 2020, Taurus. May she inspire you to be audacious in expressing yourself and confident in seeking the help you need to reach your goals. May she embolden you, too, to use ingenious stratagems to support your righteous cause.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): 2020 can and should be a lyrically healing year for you. Here’s what I mean: Beauty and grace will be curative.

The medicine you need will come to you via poetic and mellifluous experiences.

With this in mind, I encourage you to seek out encounters with the following remedies. 1. Truth Whimsies 2. Curiosity Breakthroughs 3. Delight Gambles 4.

Sacred Amusements 4. Redemptive Synchronicities 5. Surprise Ripenings 6.

Gleeful Discoveries 7. Epiphany Adventures 8. Enchantment Games 9. Elegance Eruptions 10. Intimacy Angels 11.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There are years that ask questions and years that answer,” wrote author Zora Neale Hurston. According to my astrological analysis, Cancerian, 2020 is likely to be one of those years that asks questions, while 2021 will be a time when you’ll get rich and meaningful answers to the queries you’ll pose in 2020. To ensure that this plan works out for your maximum benefit, it’s essential that you formulate provocative questions in the coming months. At first, it’s fine if you generate too many. As the year progresses, you can whittle them down to the most ultimate and important questions. Get started!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Roman Emperor Vespasian (9–79 AD) supervised the restoration of the Temple of Peace, the Temple of Claudius and the Theater of Marcellus. He also built a huge statue of Apollo and the amphitheater now known as the Colosseum, whose magnificent ruins are still a major tourist attraction. Vespasian also created a less majestic but quite practical wonder: Rome’s first public urinals. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you Leos to be stimulated by his example in 2020.

Be your usual magnificent self as you generate both inspiring beauty and earthy, pragmatic improvements.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When Virgo author Mary Shelley was 18 years old, she had a disconcerting dreamlike vision about a mad chemist who creat-

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libraborn mystic poet Rumi (1207– 1273) wrote that he searched for holy sustenance and divine inspiration in temples, churches, and mosques—but couldn’t find them there. The good news? Because of his disappointment, he was motivated to go on an inner quest—and ultimately found holy sustenance and divine inspiration in his own heart. I’ve got a strong feeling that you’ll have similar experiences in 2020, Libra. Not on every occasion, but much of the time, you will discover the treasure you need and long for not in the outside world but rather in your own depths.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Among his many accomplishments, Scorpio rapper Drake is an inventive rhymer. In his song Diplomatic Immunity, he rhymes sacred temple with stencil.

Brilliant! Other rhymes: statistics with ballistics; Treaty of Versailles with no cease and desist in I; and — my favorite — Al Jazeera (the Qatar-based news source) with Shakira (the Colombian singer).

According to my analysis of the astrological omens in 2020, many of you Scorpios will have Drake-style skill at mixing and blending seemingly disparate elements. I bet you’ll also be good at connecting influences that belong together but have never been able to combine before.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) embodied a trait that many astrology textbooks suggest is common to the Sagittarian tribe: wanderlust.

He was born in Prague but traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia. If there were a Guinness World Records’ category for Time Spent as a Houseguest, Rilke might hold it. There was a four-year period when he lived at 50 different addresses.

I’m going to be bold here and hypothesize that 2020 will NOT be one of those years when you would benefit from being like Rilke. In fact, I hope you’ll seek out more stability and security than usual.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Fifteenth-century Italian metalworker Lorenzo Ghiberti worked for 28 years to turn the Doors of the Florence Baptistry into a massive work of art. He used bronze to create numerous scenes from the Bible. His fellow artist Michelangelo was so impressed that he said Ghiberti’s doors could have served as “The Gates of Paradise.” I offer Ghiberti as inspiration for your life in 2020, Capricorn. I think you’ll be capable of beginning a masterwork that could take quite some time to complete and serve as your very own gate to paradise: in other words, an engaging project and delightful accomplishment that will make you feel your life is eminently meaningful and worthwhile.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re wise to cultivate a degree of skepticism and even contrariness. Like all of us, your abilities to say NO to detrimental influences and to criticize bad things are key to your mental health. On the other hand, it’s a smart idea to keep checking yourself for irrelevant, gratuitous skepticism and contrariness. You have a sacred duty to maintain just the amount you need, but no more—even as you foster a vigorous reservoir of receptivity, optimism, and generosity. And guess what? 2020 will be an excellent time to make this one of your cornerstone habits.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) finished writing The Divine Comedy in 1320. Today it’s considered one of the supreme literary accomplishments in the Italian language and a classic of world literature. But no one ever read the entire work in the English language until 1802, when it was translated for the first time. Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming months, Pisces. According to my visions, a resource or influence that has previously been inaccessible to you will finally arrive in a form you can understand and use. Some wisdom that has been untranslatable or unreadable will at last be available.

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Update Last year during the holiday season, former NASA engineer Mark Rober of Santa Clarita, California, created a glitter bomb exploding package in response to having a package stolen from his front porch. This year, Rober has a new and improved version: When it is touched, the BBC reported on Dec. 17, the box explodes in glitter and emits an unpleasant odor along with a soundtrack of police chatter. As a coup de grace, it also takes a video of the thief and uploads it to the cloud. One of the sponsors for Rober’s project is Home Alone actor Macaulay Culkin. Rober calls it a labor of love: “I have literally spent the last 10 months designing, building and testing a new and improved design for 2019,” he said.

Irony Two workers with the Chicago Park District were spreading salt on an icy lakefront bike path on Dec. 11 when their pickup truck hit a slick spot and slipped into Lake Michigan, the Associated Press reported. It was halfway into the water before it got stuck on a breakwall. The workers were able to escape the truck and move to the shore uninjured. Park District spokesperson Michelle Lemons reminded Chicago residents that the path slopes toward the water and lake levels are high.

“It might not look like it’s dangerous, but it could still be a sheet of glass,” she said.

No Good Deed Virginia Saavedra, 37, ran to a home in Sophia, North Carolina, on Dec. 11, telling the resident she had just escaped being kidnapped by a stranger. When the man let her sit in his truck to warm up while he called 911, Saavedra allegedly stole the truck, according to the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office. Officers responding to the 911 call spotted the truck and engaged in a 26-mile high-speed chase before trapping the truck. The Associated Press reported Saavedra then rammed a patrol car before trying to flee on foot. She was eventually charged with more than a dozen crimes, including felony assault with a deadly weapon on a government official.

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Around 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 18, an unnamed 17-year-old girl jumped a fence at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in Fresno, California, and climbed into the cockpit of a private airplane parked there. She put the pilot’s headset on and was able to start one of the engines of the small plane, but instead of flying away, she steered the plane into a chainlink fence, causing substantial damage to the aircraft, the Fresno Bee reported.

Airport officials said she appeared disoriented when officers reached the plane, but no others were endangered in the incident. She was booked into juvenile hall on charges of theft of an aircraft.

Government in Action A sharp-eyed Twitter user spotted an unexpected country on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Tariff Tracker list: Wakanda. The fictional country from the Black Panther film made the list of free trade agreement partners.

USDA spokesperson Mike Illenberg told NBC News on Dec. 18 the agency had used Wakanda to test the tracking system and had forgotten to remove it from the list. “The Wakanda information should have been removed after testing and has now been taken down.”

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Holiday Shenanigans • A group of Santas participating in SantaCon — a bar-hopping tradition in New York City — brought muscle along with Christmas cheer to a Long Island Railroad train on Dec. 14. According to the New York Daily News, two men were fighting on the train around 6 p.m. when one of them, a 45-year-old, stabbed the other, 22, in the leg. Neither of the men was dressed as Santa, but the Santas on the train subdued the suspect until the train reached Queens. The victim was taken to a hospital, and the MTA arrested the stabber.

• Security officers at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania got in the holiday spirit with confiscated items seized during the screening process, reported United Press International on Dec. 12. Apparently having a lot of time on their hands, the officers built a Christmas tree using items such as scissors, knives, lighters and other goods. Lithuanian Airports called the tree an “educational masterpiece” and warned: “If you don’t want your personal, yet prohibited, belongings to land on our next year’s Christmas tree — better check out the baggage requirements before you pack for your next flight.”

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With his body was a notarized letter, signed by Mathers and dated Dec. 2, 2008, stating that his wife didn’t kill him.

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Julie Ruttinger, great-great-granddaughter to Fidelia, inherited the confection from her father, Morgan Ford, who kept it in an antique glass compote dish in his china cabinet until his death in 2013. It doesn’t much look, or smell, like a fruitcake anymore (“Smells like old people,” Morgan once said), but Ruttinger is determined to keep Fidelia’s legacy alive. Each year, Fidelia made a cake that was meant to age until the next Christmas season. But in

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BAY WEEKLY CLASSIFIEDS BUSINESS SERVICES Commercial parking available for rent. Gated and secure. 4424 Beech Rd., Marlow Hieghts, MD 20748. $300 per month for 1-3 vehicles. $500 per month for 2-6 vehicles. $750 per month for 7-10 vehicles. Or 1 bus = $300, 2-3 buses = $600. Call Lou: 301-423-4424 or email actire@actireco.com FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Need help with a Federal EEO Case? Can’t afford an attorney? Professional, affordable help is here. I am a Federally Certified EEO Counselor/ Employment Law Specialist. I have helped numerous current and former Federal Employees navigate the EEO system.

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HELP WANTED Caregivers Needed! If you have a caring heart we want to talk with you! Seeking high quality, reliable, outgoing individuals. Flexible schedules. ComForCare Home Care: 443-906-6283.

Now Hiring! Canvas shop seeks experienced and reliable workers for top pay. For a confidential interview text 240-216-9774 or email rl@bayhrbr.com.

Response Senior Care seeks part-time CNAs (with current license).

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Call 410-571-2744 to set up interview.

St. Andrew the Fisherman Episcopal Church seeks music director/ musician for Sunday mornings, 8:30-10:30am, $125 per service. Call Alice at 410-956-5140.

MARKETPLACE Armoire, Louis XV, excellent condition. $3,000 obo.

Shady Side, 240-882-0001, aabunassar@jadbsi.com.

For pictures see website: www.bayweekly.com/ node/49955 Collection of Barbies from ‘80s and ‘90s. Collectors Christmas and Bob Mackie editions in original boxes. $4,000 obo for lot.

Call 410-268-4647.

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Chevy 454 complete engine, 30k miles. $2,200.

410-798-4747.

French country oak dining table. Parquet top, pullout leaves, 2 armchairs. $975 obo. 410-414-3910.

Honda generator model 5000X with wheel kit. Low hours, always garaged. $2,149 new, asking $750.

301-261-3537.

Loveseat & queen sofa plus four extra cushions, coffee & end table. No smoking or pets ever. $995 obo, 410-757-4133.

2008 Nissan Altima 2.5SL. 4-door, 150K miles.

New transmission & tires.

Excellent condition, clean, smoke-free. Loaded options. Gray. $6,250. 732266-1251.

Queen-size, dark bedroom set. Triple dresser.

Moving. $850. 410-507-4672 Refrigerator, 18' Frigidaire upright with top freezer. Icemaker available (not included). Stays cold, freezer function excellent.

Very good condition. New $599, sale $195. Call Lou: 301-423-4424 or email actire@actireco.com

MARINE MARKET Commercial fishing guide license for sale. $2,500. Call Bob: 301-8557279 or cell 240-210-4484.

Kayak, 18' x 26" approximately 45 lbs. Luan natural hull, Okume top. Single hole, one-person. $1,800, 410-536-0436.

Onan diesel marine generator, 7.5kw. Excellent condition. $2,000 obo.

Call Bob: 301-752-5523.

Rybovich Outriggers. 36’ triple spreaders. Center rigger. Very good condition.

Call 301-752-5523. $900 obo.

Universal Atomic 4 – Fresh overhaul, new carburetor, etc. $2,500, trades accepted or will rebuild yours. 410-586-8255.

Powerboats 2005 185 Bayliner with trailer. 135hp, 4-cylinder Mercury engine. Good on gas, new tires on trailer, bimini. Excellent condition, low mileage. $10,500. 301351-7747.

Grady White 1990 Seafarer 228G with 200hp Yamaha. Low hours, on lift.

Sunbrella 2016 full canvas top, curtains, windows. Plus full canvas cover. Always maintained. 202-365-5497 or 202-342-0001.

“It worked! My boat sold thanks to Bay Weekly!”

–T. Chambers, Annapolis 16' Mckee Craft 2005 center console and trailer. $7,000.

1984 31' fishing or pleasure boat. 12’ beam, two 454s. All records, ready to sail. Slip available. $11,000 obo. 973-494-6958.

1975 42' Grand Banks classic trawler (all fiberglas), two John Deere diesel, 8kw Westerbeake diesel generator, 200 hours, VHF depthrecorder & stereo. $65,000. 443-534-9249.

Mako side console perfect for crabbing! Newly repowered 2017 Tohatsu 90hp, Garmin echomap, bluetooth stereo and more.

Comes with trailer. Ready to go! $8,500. Call Ryan: 443-875-4591.

1985 Mainship 40' – twin 454s rebuilt, 250 hours, great live-aboard. $9,000 obo. Boat is on land. 443-309-6667.

2007 Protatch aluminum pontoon, 5x10 marine plywood deck, trailer, two Minnkota marine trolling motors, livewell, bench seat plus two regular seats, canopy. Capacity 900 lbs. $6,900 cash. 301-503-0577.

1986 Regal 25' – 260 IO, 300 hours, V-berth, halfcabin, head, $1,950.

Other marine equipment.

410-437-1483.

22' 2000 Tiara Pursuit cuddy cabin Sold in only 4 weeks with Bay Weekly.

1996 MacGregor 26X. Many new parts & upgrades. Recently refurbished Yamaha 30hp 2-stroke. Well loved, maintained.

Trailer Included. $9,995.

Bimini, tonneau and side curtains.

4.2 Merc Bravo III outdrive with 135 hours. Stored under cover.

$15,500

703-980-3926

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1999 Wellcraft 22WA

1988 Carver 28 Voyager

“I sold my 2009 Lexus with Bay Weekly in only four weeks and for just $500 below my $13,000 asking price.”

Very nice with FW sink and toilet, SW washdown and live-well. Well maintained 200hp Mercury w/2 new powerpacks. EZLOAD trailer w/electric winch. Located in Huntingtown. $n,500.

Call Rick: 410-610-1981

–R. Jones, Solomons

$15,900 Upper and Lower Station Twin 350 Crusaders New Bimini Top & Upholstery inside & out. New Carpet.

AC with Reverse Heat, Depth Gage, VHF, GPS Sam 703-609-5487 samhess993@gmail.com

1996 Harley Davidson Custom Sportster 1200 EXCELLENT EX EXCELLENT CELLENT CONDITION!

Here’s your chance to own

$3,995 Call Ron: 301-247-1214

1996 33' Sea Ray Model 330 Sundancer

Ready to Sell $10,000 or best offer

410-867-1828

1977 40' Jersey Sportfish

a beautiful 1947 Chris-Craft 19' racer.

with twin re-powered 375 turbo cats.

With Generator 400 hours, new enclosure & more.

59,900 OBO: 410-610-0077

410-849-8302

Red & white with custom galvanized trailer.

Current market value $65,000 OBO For details, call

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–T. Chambers, Annapolis

16' Mckee Craft 2005 center console and trailer. $7,000.

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2003 Stingray 20' cuddy cabin with trailer. Excellent condition. Good family boat.

Ready to go in the water. $6,000; 443-510-4170.

2008 19' Trophy walkaround. Great condition, just extensively serviced. $15,000; 301-659-6676.

1956 Whirlwind Boat 14' fully restored with trailer. Solid Mahogany. Originally $4,300, reduced to $2,300 obo. Can send pics. Call 301-758-0278.

1985 26' Wellcraft cabin cruiser. V-berth and aft cabin, galley and bath. Great little weekend boat. Asking $9,000.

202-262-4737.

Sailboats 1973 Bristol 32' shoaldraft sloop – Gas Atomic 4, well equipped, dinghy.

Needs TLC. Great retirement project. $5,000 obo.

410-394-6658.

1982 Catalina 25 pop-top, fin keel. Well-kept.

Upgrades, sails, furler, tiller pilot, Tohatsu 9hp outboard, $3,999 obo. Located in Edgewater. 201-939-7055.

Coronado 25' Sloop – Excellent sail-away condition. 9.9 Johnson. New batteries, VHF, stereo, depth, all new cushions. $4,500 obo. 703-922-7076; 703-623-4294.

The Inside Word

by Bill Sells

How many words two letters or more can you make in five minutes from the letters in TROPHIES?

1980 Hunter 27', Tohatsu 9.5 outboard. Sails well but needs some work. Sleeps five. $2,000 firm. 443-618-2594.

'67 Kaiser Evening Star – Draft 3'8", 25'4" LOA 5000#, 10' cockpit, fiberglass hull, mahogany cabin, bronze fittings, 9.9 Evinrude, transom lazarette, main & jib, 4 berths, extras, boat needs TLC. Rare. $2,000 obo. 410-268-5999.

Sabre 28' 1976 sloop: Excellent sail-away condition; diesel, new battery, VHF, stereo, depth-finder, new cushions. $7,500. Call 240-388-8006.

Bay Weekly — Finding New Owners for Good, Old Boats Since 1993.

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OFFICE CONDO FOR SALE or LEASE Spa Road & Forest Drive 1,315sf, 4 offices, 2 restrooms, conference room, reception and work area, kitchenette, courtyard.

Ample parking, centrally located to downtown Annapolis and Eastport

Sale Price $353,735 • Lease $2,750 a month SCOTT DOUGLAS 301.655.8253 • sdouglas@douglascommercial.com

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11⁄2 blocks from the bay in beautiful Chesapeake Beach. 5BR, 3FBR, custom kitchen, baths and spacious master BR.

⁄2-Acre Lot - $90,000

Best Fishing & Sailing 5 min. from your door!

REDUCED TO $374,999

Offered by Owner Rear View

Rebuilt from foundation up in 2008

Call 443-618-1855 or 443-618-1856

Kent Narrows WATERFRONT 6770 Old Bayside Rd.

Serving the Annapolis Area and the Eastern Shore!

Day Break Properties

KEVIN DEY REALTY

410-610-5776

Mid-Calvert Co. 6.06 wooded acre building site.

Septic aproved. No HOA. No Covenants. Private but convenient to schools, shopping, churches.

Dares Beach Rd. near the end. $89,900.

JC Solutions Jeanne Craun BROKER/OWNER

410.610.7955 (cell) craunjc@gmail.com

$257,000 Buyer brokers welcome.

MR. ALBERT 410-886-2113

Details

Huge Bay Front Contemporary!

4 bedrooms with full baths, 2 gas fireplaces, Den with 1/2 bath, basement. 2-car garage.

100 ft. pier with 20,000 lb. lift.

$899,000 Mid-Calvert Jeanne Craun Associate Broker

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Rm, 2 baths + laundry. Sun room. Large garage. Pub. sewer, pvt well. Low taxes.

Built 2001. Orig. owner. Non smoker. 4 marinas within 5 min. A quiet place of peace and natural beauty with sunsets to behold!

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ALL STAR MARINE FOR SALE $5,500,000 Price Reduced: $4,700,000 On Sue Creek near Middle River on Chesapeake Bay, Mins. from I-95.

400+ covered high/dry storage racks. 250+ ft. of floating piers for worry-free docking. 3 fork lifts.

5.16 +/- acres zoned commercial Spacious office & retail store.

Call Lou Grasso at (301) 751-2443 email ldgrasso@themarinaspecialists.com

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$389,900

JASON DEY 410-827-6163 301-938-1750

and courtyard. Douglas Commercial Real Estate: 301-655-8253.

Tilghman Island on the Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Beach 1

Office Space Prime Annapolis office condo for sale or lease – Great location. 1,315 sf with handicap access and private courtyard. 4 offices, 2 restrooms, conference room, reception area, kitchenette

6. Trailer 7. Castle 8. Diamond 9. Business 10. Necklace

Beautifully appointed 3-story Waterview Home.

Escape the cold $229,000. Second home.

Florida 55+ community in Royal Palm Beach. Spacious villa 3BR, 2BA, one-car garage. Diana Byrne Realtor: 561-707-8561, Douglas Elliman, www.delray beachrealestatepros.com

Limo Ring House Yacht Condo

For Sale Building lot: 3.3 acres, Berkeley Springs, WVa. New septic in ground. Great hunting! $39,000 obo. 410437-0620, 410-266-3119.

Lot for single-family home. Riva MD. 155' waterfront. 30 miles from DC, easy commute. $480,000. Leave message, 410-212-2331 or pttkou@gmail.com.

Eastern Shore getaway.

Updated, waterview Victorian has 3-4 bedrooms, 2 baths. Walk to beach, boat launch, crabbing & fishing.

Minutes to St. Michaels & Oxford ferry! $265,900.

Susan Lambert, Exit First Realty, 301-919-0452 or 301-352-8100: TA10176904

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For Rent Furnished apartment, Chesapeake Beach.

Laundy, private entrance, walk to beach, Marina.

Utilities, cable, wifi included. Month to month $1,500. 202-359-9832.

Blue Knob Resort, PA. Studio condo, sleeps 4.

Kitchen, bath, fireplace & balcony. Completely furnished. $22,600. Owner finance. No closing costs.

Not a time-share!

Ski, swim, golf, tennis.

410-267-7000.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

– Maya Angelou

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SERVICE DIRECTORY Sunroom Wicker Furniture

Beall Funeral Home

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Family-Owned and Operated

Coach & Courier … since 1995

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High Quality Window Cleaning Exceptional Customer Service for 35+ years

Power Washing Serving Annapolis & Anne Arundel County

Pre-Arrangements, Cremation, Out-of-Town Arrangements, Complete Funeral Services and Personalization Services

Each Service as Personal as the Individual

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New • Remodeling • Repairs Pumps • Toilets • Water Heaters • Water/Sewer Connections • Gas Pipe • Bath Remodeling Licensed & Insured

Andrew Lanham

formerly Bayside Plumbing

410-320-0348

CERTIFIED BACKFLOW Installation & Testing

10% OFF

At your service 6512 NW Crain Hwy

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for former customers of Bayside Plumbing with Biz Card or invoice.

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Ask about the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s

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1815 Bay Ridge Ave Annapolis

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specializing in

BMW I Mercedes I Volvo Audi I VW I Mini Factory Level Diagnostic Equipment • Full Service Maintenance & Repair

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Free hull wax with bottom paint job Call for Details!

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410.268.7789 114 Ridgely Avenue Annapolis, MD 21401

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