Havre de Grace police are used to fielding calls when strange things are found floating down the river or in the bay.
On Saturday, those calls poured in to the police department in droves as residents of the waterside city reported seeing a strange creature paddling in the waters where the mouth of the Susquehanna River meets the top of the Chesapeake Bay.
This wasn’t a dusky shark, like the one once caught by a fisherman off the Promenade, or an Atlantic sturgeon, like the 8-foot long specimen that once washed up on the shore at Rock Run, or even Chessie, the mythic, serpentine Chesapeake Bay sea monster.
It was a manatee, also known as a sea cow, evidently on tour from Florida and drawn by curiousity and warming water into the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay.
A Havre de Grace police officer was able to take photos and video of the manatee ...Continue Reading
Tags: chesapeake bay, Havre de Grace, manatee, Susquehanna River
The following was received from the office of Del. Rick Impallaria:
First, I want to thank all of you for your kind words of support during this stressful session, and for allowing me to keep you informed on matters of importance to all Maryland citizens.
This is our last day of session this year, and fortunately the lunacy will end at midnight. Unfortunately, late last week this bill passed both houses, the Senate by only one vote. I refer to Senate Bill 554, the Chesapeake Bay “Nitrogen Reduction” Act of 2009 and its cross-file, House Bill 176, the “Bay Restoration” Act of 2009.
Despite their fine-sounding names (and they are the same bill), designed to disguise their real effect, this bill will not really help to clean up the Bay. What it does do is to put the blame for excess nitrogen in Bay waters on homes with septic systems ...Continue Reading
Tags: annapolis, chesapeake bay, delegation, impallaria
Much like the Hatfields and McCoys, this feud is over territory and owners’ right, but, rather than Kentucky backcountry, this fight takes place on the waters of Havre de Grace’s Yacht Basin.
First came the complaints of nuisance and negligent boat owners causing problems with fellow mariners at the Yacht Basin. Then came assertions of unequal treatment, unfair punishment and even unlawful operation and expenditure of taxpayer money at the city marina. Next we heard about improperly designed and incorrectly installed railings, parking spaces and other equipment.
And now we have a dead body.
Missing since late February, 53-year-old Donald Walter McGlothlin was found Monday on Swan Creek by a pair of fisherman. He had died from drowning and hypothermia, or perhaps some combination of the two.
Mr. McGlothlin was also one of the few residents of the Tydings Park Marina – he lived ...Continue Reading
Tags: Brian, chesapeake bay, dagger, dagger press, fishing, Havre de Grace, marina, police, tydings, yacht basin
