To date, more than two dozen lawsuits have been filed challenging the authority, power, goals, plans, initiatives, and actions of President Trump’s ... [Continue Story]
Spy Highlights
From and Fuller: Ukraine Meets Trump 2.0 and Reviewing the State of the Union
Every Thursday, the Spy hosts a conversation with Al From and Craig Fuller on the most topical political news of the moment. This week, From and ... [Continue Story]
- From and Fuller: The State of Resistance – Is Washington the New Moscow?
- From and Fuller: A Trump Honeymoon without Checks and Balances
- From and Fuller: The Real Impact of DOGE
- From and Fuller: Trump Gazaland and the Muse DOGE Peeks into Federal Payment Systems
- From and Fuller: Trump chaos and RFK Jr. confusion
- Have another? By Roger Vaughan
Public Affairs
Chester River Wine and Cheese celebrates 10 years
Countless pounds of cheese, thousands of bottles of wine, and a million smiles later, Chester River Wine and Cheese Company is celebrating 10 years in ... [Continue Story]
- Chestertown Lions Club promotes family reading with One School, One Book program
- Exclusive wedding open house event at 12pm on February 23 at historic Brampton Inn
- A new president and immigration policies changes: A chat with ChesMRC’s Matthew Peters
- Maryland deploys icebreaker to clear channels for watermen
- Sheila Austrian wins Ward 1 council seat
- Rebuilding Together: A bold new chapter as Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore
The Arts
Bookplate author event: Rachel Kousser and ‘Alexander at the End of the World’
The Bookplate are continuing their 2025 season of author lectures on March 19th with author Rachel Kousser for a 6pm event at Sultana’s Lawrence ... [Continue Story]
- Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld
- Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism by Anke Van Wagenberg
- March at the Mainstay!
- Spy Concert Review: Jordan Tice Showcases New and Old at the Stoltz Listening Room
- Spy Concert Review: Ellis Paul at the Stoltz
- Latest sculptures from the Peter and Hanna Woicke Collection arrive
Chesapeake Ecosystem
New polling finds strong Eastern Shore support for offshore wind
A new poll finds solid support among Eastern Shore residents for offshore wind, with strong majorities convinced wind projects will benefit jobs, improve health conditions and ... [Continue Story]
- Bay Journal: Nonprofits, states scramble as Trump administration pauses funding for many Chesapeake restoration programs
- Invasive catfish, west coast oyster shells fueling Chesapeake renaissance
- Intense Maryland Energy Debates in Annapolis Fill a Single Afternoon
- ShoreRivers now accepting summer internship applications
- Turn your Christmas tree into a home for local wildlife
- ShoreRivers welcomes new board members, executive committee
On the Hill at Washington College
Chesapeake Changemakers and Natural Maryland Exhibits Coming to Washington College’s MuSE
Washington College’s Center for Environment and Society (CES) announces the opening of two new exhibits at MuSE: A Community Museum, in downtown ... [Continue Story]
- Rare first edition of Isaac Mason’s autobiography on Life as a Slave comes to Kent County
- Top 10 birds migrating through MD’s Eastern Shore
- Drafting Dissent: The Use of Drawings in Cuba’s Recent Activist Scene; now at Washington College Kohl Gallery
- Art, activism, and history events open to public at Washington College this February
- Washington College hosts Maryland Corps for Day of Civic Engagement
- Educators Invited to Apply for Innovation Plant Curriculum Fellowships
- Acclaimed poet James Allen Hall awarded 2025 NEA Literature Fellowship
- Robert Blackson Takes Helm at Washington College’s Kohl Gallery
Health
Let’s Talk about It: Dare to Lead Training Shapes Mid-Shore Leaders with For All Seasons Beth Anne Dorman
The opportunity to participate in For All Seasons’ Dare to Lead™ training last month opened my eyes to learning who I am as a leader and how I want my ... [Continue Story]
- Mid-Shore Health: Getting to the Heart of Heart Disease with Dr. Ian Davis
- Let’s Talk About It: A Different kind of Valentine with For All Seasons CEO Beth Anne Dorman
- Mid-Shore Health: The role of forensic nursing with survivors of sexual and physical assault
- Qlarant Foundation takes a big step forward with first executive director Amanda Neal
- Mid-Shore Health: The war against lung cancer with Drs. Rashmi Benda and David Oliver
- UM Shore Medical Center at Shore Community Outreach Team Wins Statewide Rural Health Award
Education
Wood Foundation awards $100K grant to Radcliffe Creek School
Radcliffe Creek School (RCS) was recently awarded a generous grant from the Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation to support needs-based scholarships for deserving students. The ... [Continue Story]
Maryland News
Services tax added to ‘menu of options’ as state grapples with budget deficit, looming federal cuts
Legislators are preparing for a new round of battles with businesses intent on again stopping a proposed sales tax on some services. The ... [Continue Story]
- Maryland has reported high child fatalities for years. Now they say they’ve overreported.
- Delegates renew medical aid-in-dying bill, but Senate hurdle remains
- State ramps up effort to bring fired federal employees into the state fold
- CMS waiver approval process could be a hurdle for proposed Developmental Disabilities cuts
- Senate warns of $500 million more in budget cuts, ahead of likely ‘disastrous’ federal action
- How did we get here?: Analysts, officials unsure how disability agency overspent
Brevities
Chestertown Flashback celebrates Women’s History Month with Eleanor Rochelle Ringgold
March is Women’s History month, so for our first flashback photo of the month we have a c. 1970 photograph of a Kent County woman in military service, Eleanor Rochelle ... [Continue Story]
Food Friday
Food Friday: Broccoli
Ah, broccoli is having a resurgence in popularity. Every where I turned this week I ran into another story, another recipe. It’s probably food writers yearning to be set free ... [Continue Story]
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the Masters: Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the most prolific and popular Ukiyo-e artists in Japan. The word Ukiyo-e means pictures of the floating ... [Continue Story]
Design with Jenn Martella
Design with Jenn Martella: Coastal Cottage in Rock Hall
Since my most recent Houses of the Week have been historic or Eastern Shore vernacular houses, I felt as the Monty Python movie proclaimed “ ... [Continue Story]
Food and Garden
Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the photo!
Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured below? The answer to last week's mystery is the tulip poplar, Liriodendron ... [Continue Story]
- Wine of the Week: Rosa delle Calle Toscana IGT Rosato
- Adkins Arboretum announces 30th Annual Spring Native Plant Sale
- Wine of the Week: Rosso Della Motta Vino Rosso
- Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the photo!
- Wine of the Week: Larion 2022 Bianco Veneto IGT
- Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the picture
Delmarva Review
- Delmarva Review: The “Best of” Anthology
- Delmarva Review: Leitmotif by Rita Plush
- Delmarva Review: Arrogance by Katherine J. Williams
- Delmarva Review: A System of Seeing by Colin Jeffrey Morris
- Delmarva Review: The End of the Story by Patty Somlo
- Delmarva Review: Something More Than Winter Weighs (Upon Me) by John Muro
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: “Across the Narrows” By David Sites
Kent Island on one side, the Eastern Shore on the other. ... [Continue Story]
Commerce
The Upper Shore STRT1UP Roadshow Pitch Competition Returns April 15, 2025
Attention entrepreneurs and innovators in Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne’s counties—the Upper Shore STRT1UP Roadshow is back! This exciting event, hosted ... [Continue Story]
- Kent County’s first cannabis dispensary opening soon with social equity license
- Three Cheers: Moo Productions Celebrates 20 Years of Creativity in Worton
- The Chestertown Spy Agrees to Stop Bugging Readers by Wednesday at Midnight
- Silver Linings Jewelry Launches New Business on High Street
- What you Need to Know about Maryland’s Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program
- Discovering Discover Easton’s Plans for 2023: A Chat with Director Holly DeKarske
Community Notes
The Upper Shore STRT1UP Roadshow Pitch Competition Returns April 15, 2025
Attention entrepreneurs and innovators in Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne’s counties—the Upper Shore STRT1UP Roadshow is back! This exciting event, hosted ... [Continue Story]
- Main Street Chestertown Unveils Downtown Master Plan to Shape Future Growth and Revitalization
- Vietnam Veteran’s Commemoration March 29
- Tax diffential remedy between county and town making headway?
- Moore’s bill to rein in Blueprint school reform plan draws fire at hearing
- Rock Hall Candidates’ Meet and Greet February 26
- Public Hearing Scheduled for Proposed Millington Solar Project February 19
Arts Notes
Generations Band Together at the Mainstay
On Sunday, March 30 at 4 PM The Mainstay is pleased to present the only public full presentation of Generations Band Together. This performance ... [Continue Story]
- Oxford Community Center announces 2025 Jazz Series lineup & exclusive season ticket packages
- March Bookplate calendar!
- 2025 Juried Art Show at Adkins Arboretum—Discovering the Native Landscapes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore on View through April 25
- Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra announces preview evening at the Academy Art Museum
- Allegro Academy adult singing course
- TAP presents Sci-Fi drama The Man From Earth, April 17-27
Education Notes
KCPS seeking community support for SB0843
Kent County Public Schools is asking everyone to support its efforts to seek more money from the state to build a new Kent County Middle ... [Continue Story]
- Receski receives Golden Anchor Award
- Kent County Public Schools final survey: 2025-26 calendar
- Underground Railroad’s maritime history highlights 2/24 program in St. Michaels
- High Priority: KCPS seeking community support for HB0736
- Moore, Pelto receive Golden Anchors
- Governor’s education bill slows growth of per pupil funding, worrying advocates
Health Notes
The Upper Shore STRT1UP Roadshow Pitch Competition Returns April 15, 2025
Attention entrepreneurs and innovators in Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne’s counties—the Upper Shore STRT1UP Roadshow is back! This exciting event, hosted ... [Continue Story]
- Aging & Wellness Symposium set for April 12 at Heron Point
- An internationally-recognized expert on aging to speak in Easton, Chestertown
- For All Seasons offers suicide bereavement support goup facilitator training
- Choptank Health welcomes Rachel Lange, PNP, to pediatric practice
- Developmental Disability budget cuts delayed for now, but still loom for next year
- For All Seasons announces staff appointments
Opinion
OP-ED: Mayor and Council: Trust in you has evaporated By Robert Miller
The re-introduction of Chestertown Resolution 06-2023 is more than strange. The resolution is more insult after injury on the citizens of Chestertown ... [Continue Story]
- Kent County and a serious healthcare hit? By Tom Timberman
- Op-Ed: Making American Great Again?
- The Political is Personal: Reflections on DEI by Margaret Andersen
- New report reveals value of resource conservation for Shore businesses by John Horner
- History of US Territorial Acquisitions By Tom Timberman
- Presidential pasts and an impending future by Steve Parks
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Testimony to Kent County Commissioners Regarding SB 0931 and HB 1036
I would like to offer to Spy readers my February 25, 2025 testimony to Kent County Commissioners Regarding SB 0931 and HB 1036 for your ... [Continue Story]
- Letter to the Editor: Republican voters will suffer under President Trump & Andy Harris
- Letter to the Editor: Response to offshore wind poll
- Letter to the Editor: a right-wing coup against the federal government
- Letter to the Editor: Maryland’s Legislature is failing rural communities By Janet Christensen-Lewis
- Letter to Talbot County Council: Keep employee handbook DEI statement
- Letter to Editor: Representative Harris snubs the ‘Beagle Brigade’
Columnist J.E. Dean
Is Andy Harris representing Maryland or Donald Trump? By J.E. Dean
First District voters who have supported Andy Harris as a “man of principle” better think again. Last week Harris had two decisions to make. First, ... [Continue Story]
- How to Destroy American Higher Education by J.E. Dean
- Trump 2.0: The good, the bad, the ugly and the insane by J.E. Dean
- Trump’s dangerous tariff game is making the world a more dangerous place by J.E. Dean
- In praise of Inspectors General by J.E. Dean
- President Biden should have walked out by J.E. Dean
- Trump asks Congress to abdicate its constitutional responsibility by J.E. Dean
Columnist Craig Fuller
Conversations with Craig Fuller: Ambassador and Author Frank Lavin
My friend and former White House colleague Ambassador Frank Lavin has a book coming out in March about his experience in the White House and ... [Continue Story]
- Midair collision over the Potomac: Week two update by Craig Fuller
- A midair tragedy last night in Washington by Craig Fuller
- The Classic Motor Museum starts a new trip in St. Michaels: Craig Fuller talks to Mike Iandolo
- MPT, the Chesapeake Bay and Viewers Like You: A Chat with Station Manager Steven Schupak
- So Much Money, So Little Time by Craig Fuller
- One Amazing Story by One Amazing Individual by Craig Fuller
Columnist Howard Freedlander
Out and About (Sort of): Stars in Different Realms by Howard Freedlander
What did Willie Mays and Donald Sutherland have in common? Nothing. Except an overriding desire to excel in each’s craft. Mays was a true wonder ... [Continue Story]
- Out and About (Sort of): Slavery of Thought by Howard Freedlander
- Out and About (Sort of): Higher Education on Edge by Howard Freedlander
- Strike for Democracy by Howard Freedlander
- Out and About (Sort of): American Voter by Howard Freedlander
- Out and About (Sort of): Hospice Heroes by Howard Freedlander
- Out and About (Sort of): An Apolitical Document Fails by Howard Freedlander
Columnist Laura Oliver
The Inside Story By Laura J. Oliver
The first time my mother brought my father home to the farm, my grandmother said of this charming college classmate in the yellow sportscar, “He’s ... [Continue Story]
Columnist Al Sikes
A few Thoughts. And a Different Ending by Al Sikes
Writing in 2025 comes with major challenges. In the radically changed communications world in which we live where is the tipping point? How many words ... [Continue Story]
Columnist Angela Rieck
The complications of weight loss by Angela Rieck
The FDA recently announced that Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide GLP-1 medication (Ozempic and Wegovy) is no longer in short supply. Before this ... [Continue Story]
Senior Life
It’s American Heart Month by Susan Covey
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. Every year, one in four deaths are caused by heart disease. The ... [Continue Story]
- Enjoy the health benefits of Thanksgiving Day by Susan Covey
- Upper Shore Aging Hosts the Re-Dedication of the Amy Lynn Ferris Adult Activity Center
- Herb Cain Appointed Executive Director of Upper Shore Aging
- Water, Water Everywhere…For Drinking, Playing And Exercising!
- Upper Shore Aging Honors Volunteers
- Talbot County Commission on Aging to host a Senior Resource Fair
