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SportsUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals Jim Fischer Orange Township has hired Nathan McNeil as its new fire chief. A recently retired U.S. Air Force veteran, McNeil previously was deputy fire chief at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico and at Clear Air Station in Alaska. His 22-year active-duty military career included stations in Texas and Missouri, plus multiple deployments overseas. Township trustees approved his hiring April 5. “It’s not different at all,” McNeil said of military and civilian fire service, “in that they have the same purpose, which is to serve a community.” �...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. MPT presents 17th annual Chesapeake Bay Week® April 18 - 24 Maryland Public TelevisionApril 7, 2021 GMT OWINGS MILLS, MD, April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Maryland Public Television (MPT) will celebrate the Chesapeake Bay region once again this month with its 17th annual Chesapeake Bay Week ®, a slate of more than 30 documentaries and programs highlighting the beauty, importance, and fragility of the nation’s largest estuary. During the week of April 18 - 24, MPT-HD will offer more than 25 hou...

Chesapeake Bay groups have mixed reactions to the state putting the brakes on an oyster restoration project.

Concerned about infrastructure standards not keeping up with the reality of climate change, Sen. Sarah Elfreth has introduced a bill that calls for updating the data used to inform regulations and updating it every five years.

Students were just settling in on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s University in Western Maryland when researchers wearing protective gear began scooping up weekly samples from the pipes outside their dorms. Before long, scientists, working with the local health team, had made a discovery from the toilet water: shed particles of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus. Without a single student getting a nose swab, public health officials knew that a student at the small, private university — potentially more than one — was carrying the virus. They just had to identify them. Administrat...