My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning. My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too, but I can’t remember getting E-coli. […]
Police Survivor’s Story to Air on Fox 45, Legislators Ask Governor O’Malley to Fund Scholarships for Fallen Heroes
Prompted by information first made public on The Dagger, Fox 45 News (Channel 15) will air a story on tonight’s 10 p.m. broadcast about the plight of Lynne Parry, widow of Baltimore Police Detective Sergeant Mark F. Parry. Lynne’s son was denied college tuition assistance intended for police survivors when the Edward T. Conroy Memorial […]
Tales From The Harford County Farm Fair: A Tornado, A Rampaging Bull And Other Summer Fun
I guess it’s just a function of probability and statistics, but the Harford County Farm Fair seems to be a lightning rod, sometimes quite literally, for summertime calamity. When you have that many tens of thousands of people crowded together in a confined area during the heat of summer with an equal number of beasts of […]
NYC Is Just A Hop, Skip And Train Ride Away From Aberdeen Along the Rail Line
We get to the park and ride at 6:06 a.m. Wednesday, June 25. It costs nothing to park. Printing out tickets is a breeze – swipe your card, confirm, print. Departure is at 6:35 a.m. and it is ON TIME. Yay! We sit in the café section of the Amtrak that has big open booths. […]
Roam Through Nature/History At Redication of Eden Mill Nature Center and Historic Mill Museum
The land, the water and the wildlife have been there forever, at the confluence of Big Branch and Deer Creek in Pylesville, but the forward-thinking nature center designed to provide environmental education as well as preservation, interpretation and management of the ecological and cultural resources of the site is a relatively recent amenity. Eden Mill Nature Center and Historic Mill Museum is […]
Harford County People Love Nurturing Trees
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Maryland Forestry Board recently announced the winners of the 2007 PLANT – People Loving And Nurturing Trees – Awards. A dozen Harford County entities received PLANT awards this year, including local governments, schools, community organizations and even military installations. People Loving And Nurturing Trees (PLANT) is a statewide award program to […]
A Memorial To My Dad
May 2004, just a week before the WW II Memorial in Washington D.C. was to be dedicated, I took my Dad down to see it. At 85, he was a little unsure on his feet so I borrowed a wheelchair so I could push him around the Mall. My Dad was excited to be going […]
Where There’s Water, There’s Life
Bob Pappalardo’s drive to work used to take about 20 minutes, and ran along the quiet, winding North Foothills Highway from Boulder, Colorado to the small town of Lyons and the sandstone buildings of the University of Colorado. It was a fine commute, except when it snowed. Today, Pappalardo, a senior research scientist at NASA’s […]
