Eel Fishing on the Patuxent in the late 1950’s and 1960’s

By Thomas Terry  

One of my favorite childhood pastimes was eel fishing on the Patuxent River on Mr. Vernon Arnold’s property.  Mr. Arnold lived a couple of miles to the east of our farm along the road that went by the Entzian’s property and cousin Walter Stewart’s portion of Grandpop Poula’s Keep Reading

WEBSITE WILL INCREASE GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY AND EXPAND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Annapolis, Md. – A website launched today will increase government transparency and expand public participation in President Obama’s Executive Order on Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration. The website will serve as the clearinghouse for all Executive Order information, including news, documents and events from the various federal Keep Reading

The latest edition of the Patuxent fact sheet contains handy stats, facts and figures about the State’s longest and deepest instrastate waterway. Compiled and produced by local biologist Nick Carter for the participants in the 2009 Patuxent Sojourn you can download a copy of it hereNick Carter Keep Reading

op-ed by Fred Tutman, Patuxent Riverkeper: THE OBAMA PLAN FOR THE CHESAPEAKE:
I’ve been getting calls all week that range from ecstatically hopeful to sage cynicism about the latest Executive Order issued by President Obama which sets the stage for a new course for restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay. While I am pretty excited about the potential of this new approach myself, I am also intrigued to see how this new beginning Keep Reading