by Amira Hairston | Jul 21, 2022
Captain Trash Wheel has been removing trash and debris from the Patapsco River for more than four years, but even after collecting more than 29 tons of garbage, there’s more to be done. Queue up shoreline cleanups at Masonville Cove, located on the Patapsco in South...
by Meredith Devereux | Jul 8, 2022
James Wolf saw grassy patches at his son’s school “begging for some trees.” So, the community group he’s a member of, Friends of Hampden, applied for a grant to do something about it. This spring, volunteers planted Redbud, Black Gum and White Oak trees at...
by Tim Pratt | Apr 22, 2021
As Sandy Hertz walked the perimeter of a small pond in Wicomico County one recent afternoon, a deer startled and bounded into the woods. Geese protected large eggs at the water’s edge. Frogs croaked and ribbited. And down a hill by the pond’s spillway, a tiny turtle...
by Meredith Devereux | Jul 21, 2020
It’s not often a lightbulb moment involves a real lightbulb. But that’s exactly what happened to Vernon Hartsock. When he was 5, his father handed him a lightbulb, two wires and a battery. When Hartsock, the kind of kid who took everything apart to see how it...