https://chestertownspy.org Nonpartisan and Education-based News for Chestertown Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:44:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/02/these-republicans-are-right-dont-blame-governor-wes-moore-for-marylands-long-projected-budget-deficit/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/02/these-republicans-are-right-dont-blame-governor-wes-moore-for-marylands-long-projected-budget-deficit/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:49:27 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/02/these-republicans-are-right-dont-blame-governor-wes-moore-for-marylands-long-projected-budget-deficit/ In a recent debate on closing Maryland’s budget deficit, Minority Leader Jason Buckel, a Republican Delegate from Allegany County, made an important point: “The man upstairs has only been there for two, three years. I don’t blame him for our economic failures of the last 10,” referring to Democratic Governor Wes Moore, who was elected […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/02/these-republicans-are-right-dont-blame-governor-wes-moore-for-marylands-long-projected-budget-deficit/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/10/letter-to-talbot-county-council-keep-employee-handbook-dei-statement/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/10/letter-to-talbot-county-council-keep-employee-handbook-dei-statement/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:00:12 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/10/letter-to-talbot-county-council-keep-employee-handbook-dei-statement/ I’m writing to ask the Council not to remove the Inclusion Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from the Employee Handbook.  I cannot understand why asking people to treat others with dignity and respect is something that anyone would find objectionable.  Isn’t the first thing we teach our children, be kind, treat your classmates with […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/10/letter-to-talbot-county-council-keep-employee-handbook-dei-statement/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/02/letter-to-editor-representative-harris-snubs-the-beagle-brigade/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/02/letter-to-editor-representative-harris-snubs-the-beagle-brigade/#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2025 12:11:01 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/02/letter-to-editor-representative-harris-snubs-the-beagle-brigade/ Politics can be as unpredictable as the weather.  And a recent vote by the Eastern Shore’s Congressman, Andy Harris, proves that point. Though Harris represents an agricultural region and chairs the ag subcommittee on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, the legislator recently voted against a federal program that protects the American food supply from the […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/02/letter-to-editor-representative-harris-snubs-the-beagle-brigade/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/31/letter-to-editor-will-you-vote-your-values/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/31/letter-to-editor-will-you-vote-your-values/#comments Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:25:03 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/31/letter-to-editor-will-you-vote-your-values/ As a leader and developer of senior leaders for 40 years with my company, Renaissance Leadership, I came to see how much character defines effective leaders.And how much character is driven by a person’s core values. So, in what is likely the most consequential election of our lifetime, how can you be sure you are […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/31/letter-to-editor-will-you-vote-your-values/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/10/letter-to-editor-delmarva-pride-festival-fun-food-support-and-free-advice/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/10/letter-to-editor-delmarva-pride-festival-fun-food-support-and-free-advice/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:39:53 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/10/letter-to-editor-delmarva-pride-festival-fun-food-support-and-free-advice/ The four-day Delmarva Pride Festival, running Thursday through Sunday, June 13-16, got a huge publicity lift at the last Easton Town Council meeting on June 3 with an outpouring of support for the local LGBT+ community from ordinary tax-paying residents who were upset about comments by two members of the council at its previous meeting. (Video […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/10/letter-to-editor-delmarva-pride-festival-fun-food-support-and-free-advice/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/19/letter-to-the-editor-who-did-it/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/19/letter-to-the-editor-who-did-it/#comments Sun, 19 May 2024 11:09:45 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/19/letter-to-the-editor-who-did-it/ Throughout history, we search for answers, understanding, and perhaps truth. We even had games which searched for truth.  Remember Clue, the board game from the late 1940’s?  Who did it, where was it done, and how was it done? Was it Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum or Mrs. Peacock; did it happen in the kitchen; did […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/19/letter-to-the-editor-who-did-it/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/04/29/letter-to-editor-the-proposed-hotel-restaurant-development-at-98-cannon-has-some-issues/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/04/29/letter-to-editor-the-proposed-hotel-restaurant-development-at-98-cannon-has-some-issues/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:43:36 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=176255 While we are excited to learn about the preliminary plans of Urgo Hotels and Resorts for a much-needed new riverfront restaurant at 98 Cannon Street, we have questions and reservations about a concept proposal that includes a 42-room hotel in that small, environmentally sensitive and historic location adjacent to the Chestertown Marina. We believe there […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/04/29/letter-to-editor-the-proposed-hotel-restaurant-development-at-98-cannon-has-some-issues/feed/ 8 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/04/01/letter-to-editor-legal-challenge-to-striped-bass-regulations-gets-wide-support/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:35:35 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/04/01/letter-to-editor-legal-challenge-to-striped-bass-regulations-gets-wide-support/ A lawsuit was recently filed in Federal court by the Delmarva Fisheries Association (DFA) and the Maryland Charter Boat Association (MCBA). The suit challenges a mandate for new Striped Bass fishing regulations in Maryland. The mandate is from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Since the lawsuit was filed there has been an outpouring of […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/27/letter-to-editor-with-memories-of-escaping-russia-a-plea-for-aid-to-ukraine/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/27/letter-to-editor-with-memories-of-escaping-russia-a-plea-for-aid-to-ukraine/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:00:29 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/27/letter-to-editor-with-memories-of-escaping-russia-a-plea-for-aid-to-ukraine/ I write this history of my family’s escape from the horror of life under the Russians during the early 1940s because I feel deeply that Ukraine under the Russians would be tragic. My story begins when I was a little girl in Latvia. It must have been a traumatic experience in 1944 for my parents, […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/27/letter-to-editor-with-memories-of-escaping-russia-a-plea-for-aid-to-ukraine/feed/ 6 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/17/letter-to-editor-a-golf-commentary-on-life/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/17/letter-to-editor-a-golf-commentary-on-life/#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:04:35 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=174414 As even the best golfers know, some holes are played better than others, largely because of the various challenges they present in real-time. There is a perspective that life is the same . . . that is, some days are better than others, but God willing, there will be another day after the night, and […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/17/letter-to-editor-a-golf-commentary-on-life/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/14/letter-to-editor-tench-tilghman-chapter-meeting-planned-in-chestertown/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:58:13 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/14/letter-to-editor-tench-tilghman-chapter-meeting-planned-in-chestertown/ Please share with your readers that the Colonel Tench Tilghman Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will meet on Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 11:00 AM at the Chester River Yacht & Country Club in Chestertown, Maryland. Anyone interested in joining should email Warren Tewes at wdtewes@gmail.com by February 28, 2024. We’ll also […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/04/letter-to-editor-lets-pivot-on-206-cannon-street/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/04/letter-to-editor-lets-pivot-on-206-cannon-street/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:00:02 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=174072 I have been a resident of the historic district of Chestertown for almost fifteen years, the past three years full-time.  Chestertown is my only home. It was place that brought me to the Chester River and this historic district in our small town. I vote here, and I answer the summons for jury duty when […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/04/letter-to-editor-lets-pivot-on-206-cannon-street/feed/ 4 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/01/20/letter-to-editor-on-my-reappointment-to-the-historic-district-commission/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/01/20/letter-to-editor-on-my-reappointment-to-the-historic-district-commission/#comments Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:41:02 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=173760 Before I begin, I would like to express my deep appreciation to Mayor Foster and the members of the Town Council for reappointing me to the Chestertown Historic District Commission earlier this week, and for their support throughout this process. I have been reluctant to engage in the public and online conversation concerning the Chestertown […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/01/20/letter-to-editor-on-my-reappointment-to-the-historic-district-commission/feed/ 5 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/01/08/letter-to-editor-a-year-of-environmental-triumphs-at-chesapeake-bay-environmental-center/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:33:07 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/01/08/letter-to-editor-a-year-of-environmental-triumphs-at-chesapeake-bay-environmental-center/ The year 2023 marked a post-covid new beginning for CBEC. With its focus on ‘hands-on, feet-wet’ educational and recreational experiences on and near the Chesapeake Bay, CBEC hosted over 30,000 visitors, including over 4,500 students, teachers, college interns, and adult learners. As one science teacher commented, “CBEC offered a perspective most students had never experienced. […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/14/letter-to-editor-first-compromise-step-for-new-hotel-design/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/14/letter-to-editor-first-compromise-step-for-new-hotel-design/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:07:55 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=173106 Realtor Nancy McGuire triggered a compromise procedure for the Armory in her recent “reply.”  Why waste anymore $$ of hotel developer Hersha and associates forcing them to attend several more, costly show-and-tells before the Historic District Commission? McGuire points out that demolishing a certified building requires the applicant to show the HDC what will replace […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/14/letter-to-editor-first-compromise-step-for-new-hotel-design/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/11/letter-to-the-editor-why-pick-on-three-college-presidents/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:00:43 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=173032 Armed and supplied by United States taxpayers, Israel is killing thousands of civilians in Gaza while Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is bent out of shape by three university presidents’ responses to her shallow yes-no questions about the First Amendment and campus anti- semitism. In other words, as the relentless bombing and street fighting in Gaza […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/08/letter-to-the-editor-206-cannon-street-house-scope-and-style-are-misplaced/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:00:21 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=172986 My husband and I attended our first Chestertown Historic District Commission (HDC) meeting on 12/6.  We were not seeking project approval but had been alerted to a significant “new construction” project on the agenda.  I found out about it via a circulated email documenting details of this approval request first introduced at the September HDC […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/30/letter-to-editor-ditch-the-couch-for-shop-locally/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:41:05 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/30/letter-to-editor-ditch-the-couch-for-shop-locally/ Ten years ago, I was discussing strategies for marketing events with another business owner, and she said,”Our biggest competition is people’s couches.” This struck me as true back then, but more so now. The convenience of online shopping from the comfort of your couch is tempting. Streaming services offer easy entertainment. As an artist, I […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/20/open-letter-to-chestertown-historic-district-on-the-armory/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/20/open-letter-to-chestertown-historic-district-on-the-armory/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:32:00 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=172321 I am writing as a Chestertown Historic District citizen, property owner and business owner for the past 40+ years.      This matter is, as it should be, a classic Chestertown debate based on the past, present and future . . . and no one is right or wrong.  Instead, all opinions are valid and contribute to […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/20/open-letter-to-chestertown-historic-district-on-the-armory/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/17/letter-to-editor-regarding-the-recent-mural-of-frederick-douglass-in-easton/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/17/letter-to-editor-regarding-the-recent-mural-of-frederick-douglass-in-easton/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:00:44 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/17/letter-to-editor-regarding-the-recent-mural-of-frederick-douglass-in-easton/ We at The Bailey-Groce Family Foundation, Inc. and Operation Frederick Douglass on the Hill are committed to preserving the legacy of Frederick Douglass by ensuring accurate and respectful portrayals of our ancestor and his accomplishments. The Bailey and Groce Family families are primary descendants of Perry Bailey, the older brother of Frederick Douglass and the […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/17/letter-to-editor-regarding-the-recent-mural-of-frederick-douglass-in-easton/feed/ 6