by Shantee Felix | Nov 12, 2021
A 79-foot Norway spruce from Elkton is on a journey to holiday fame. This is the first time a Maryland tree has been chosen as the 2021 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The tree was cut down Thursday, November 11, at the residence of Devon and Julie Price, and...
by Tim Pratt | Oct 15, 2021
Bryan Walker has had his share of close calls. As a Senior Emergency Response Technician for the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA), Walker spends his days helping motorists on the side of the road – traffic often whizzing by...
by Shelley Miller | Oct 7, 2021
Most highway projects don’t require workers to rappel down a rock face. But the MD 135 slope stabilization work project isn’t ordinary. Since April, special teams hired by the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) have been...
by Meredith Devereux | Apr 28, 2021
April is Work Zone Safety Awareness Month, and I’m asking everyone to truly listen to the messages coming from state departments of transportation across the country on this topic. I started with the Maryland Department of Transportation in the 1990s in the Plats and...
by Tim Pratt | Apr 20, 2021
Deep in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) has made an important archaeological discovery. On Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, MDOT Secretary Greg...
by Tim Pratt | Apr 6, 2021
As fog burned off the wetlands at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge one recent morning, Dr. Julie Schablitsky trudged deep into the muck. Water inundated the roads. Phragmites grew alongside. Trees that are succumbing to rising waters – collectively called...
