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A startup company developing technology geared to boaters has picked Annapolis as its corporate home, a move officials with a new city economic development agency vow will be the first of many such business wins. VesselVanguard will officially join the ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Members of the new Chesapeake Conservation Corps planted trees in Annapolis to celebrate their first year. The corps pairs young adults with watershed organizations, local governments and other community-based organizations where the volunteers get hands-on environmental, leadership and ...

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The poultry industry helps drive the economy of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, but poultry litter — chicken manure — has been blamed as one of the greatest contributors to pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. So, large producers, farmers and state officials ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley is assembling his team of environmental advisers to weigh the state of the Chesapeake Bay. O’Malley will attend Tuesday’s BayStat meeting, which gathers his secretaries of agriculture, environment, natural resources and planning, along with other ...

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Underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay, a key indicator of the health of the waterway, decreased last year with high water temperatures and poor water quality eyed as factors, researchers said Thursday as they released the results of an annual ...

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RIVA — A cold winter hurt the Chesapeake crab population, killing nearly a third of the bay’s adult crabs, an annual winter dredge survey found. However, state officials said Tuesday that the population is still at its second highest level ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley is assembling a group to study pollution from septic systems. O’Malley plans to sign an executive order Monday establishing the study, which will examine the extent to which septic tanks from large developments are polluting ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland environmental advocates are pleased lawmakers put $23.5 million in a fund to fight pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, despite a tough budget year. Still, advocates reflecting Wednesday on the General Assembly session say there were plenty of ...

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SALISBURY — It was the largest public works project in the state’s history and, at the time, the world’s longest overwater structure. It allowed Maryland’s eastern and western shores to trade goods and services. Life before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge ...

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