Church Hill
LATEST NEWS
Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival: A living museum in St. Michaels
ST. MICHAELS — This last weekend the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was filled with the energetic buzz of dozens of families camping outside with unique watercraft for the 41st annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival. Sailors and builders from around the region showed off their small craft boats, including sailing, skiffs, rowing shells, kayaks, canoes, paddle boats, prams and one-of-a-kind boats. Vera England, a longtime attendee, said the event began in...
Caroline Economic Development Launches New Website
DENTON — Caroline County Economic Development has created a new website. Director Rob Zimberhoff helped to bring it to life. It is designed to better support the local business community. “We worked with contractor Maven and Smith, who really built this new website for us. We put lots and lots of hours into considering how it would look, the message we are trying to send,” Zimberhoff said. ...
Homegrown School Lunch Week celebrates local agriculture
Colonel Richardson Middle School hosted this year’s Homegrown School Lunch Week, a statewide initiative that showcases local farms and produce, along with dishes prepared by culinary school students at Caroline Career and Technology. Students, staff and guests tasted samples of everything from farm-to-tray pork to fresh applesauce, all made locally. Farm to School tastings, facilitated by Caroline County Future Farmers of America students, CCTC Culinary students, and Food Services staff,...
Road improvements, safety headline Department of Transportation's goals for Cecil County
CECIL COUNTY — The Maryland Department of Transportation visited the Cecil County Administration building this week to discuss a $18.9 billion six year capital budget investment in the state’s transportation network with the county as part of their annual statewide tour to update local officials and citizens on MDOT’s upcoming plans. Every fall, the MDOT presents its draft six-year capital program to Maryland counties and Baltimore City to gather input from local jurisdictions. The Draft 2025-2030 Consolidated Transportation Program (CTP) will be finalized later this...
Next-man-up approach still working for QA's
It was just another weekend for Queen Anne’s County High’s football team. It was another game tainted by injury. Wait, make that injuries. And yet despite losing two defensive starters and their starting quarterback, the Lions again found a way to log another victory last Friday, stretching their win streak to three with a convincing 43-6 rout of North Caroline. ...
Cecil Cares volunteers get the jobs done
CHESAPEAKE CITY — Volunteers fanned out across Cecil County on Saturday for the annual Cecil Cares initiative. There were clean up projects from Elkton to Conowingo, collections of food and hygiene items and painting projects all to show that Cecil Cares. Four other projects will be carried out Friday. Krista Gilmore, spokeswoman for Cecil Cares organizers, said each group was given the option of Saturday or Friday for completion. ...
Warriors battle but can’t extend win streak against undefeated Bennett
EASTON — Avery Brice was eager for Monday night. “I was very excited about this game tonight just to see where we were at as far as playing against top competition,” Easton High’s first-year boys head soccer coach said of facing undefeated and defending Bayside Conference champion James M. Bennett. After 80 minutes, the Warriors were where everyone else has been this season after playing the Clippers — behind on...
Museum preserves history with digital scanner
ST. MICHAELS — White gloves and intense focus are needed to run the new Danish scanner at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Some of the museum’s oldest artifacts from the 1780s are run through the contactless machine. No liquids of any kind are allowed in the Norman and Ellen Plummer Center for Museum Collections to protect the invaluable documents. In July, the museum got a world-class large-format scanner. It can...
Annapolis, Anne Arundel Leaders Visit Sweden for Bay Ferry Research
Armed with a new federal grant of nearly $4 million, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is pushing forward with its electric passenger ferry program. First stop: Stockholm, Sweden. In late September, the county was awarded funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for Fiscal Year 2024. The $3.895 million grant comes...
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.