Check out these photos from last week's issue of the Kent County News.
CHESTERTOWN — Enjoying the first snowfall of the year, Mike Smith, with snowball in hand, chases 8-year-old daughter Cecilia around Fountain Park on Sunday, Jan. 31.
CHESTERTOWN — Enjoying the first snowfall of the year, Mike Smith, with snowball in hand, chases 8-year-old daughter Cecilia around Fountain Park on Sunday, Jan. 31.
The mostly frozen-over Eastern Neck Narrows certainly made the Tundra Swan Boardwalk at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge look like the tundra on Friday morning, Jan. 29.
EASTERN NECK — A bald eagle lands on the frozen-over Eastern Neck Narrows Friday, Jan. 29. As it came in for a landing, the eagle fought against heavy winds to make it down onto the waterway that was almost completely frozen over.
Two-year-old Henry Divilio waves to his brother Tommy Divilio, 4, as he goes sledding by Sunday morning, Jan. 31 in Chestertown. The brothers were playing in Wilmer Park, using the backsides of the Broad Reach sculpture for their sled runs.
Snow geese are harbingers of the changing seasons. They fly south for the winter in huge, honking flocks that may appear as a “V” formation or simply as a large “snowstorm” of white birds. Their diet is entirely vegetarian, consisting of grasses and grains. At winter’s end, snow geese fly north to their breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra. Our photograph was taken Saturday, Jan. 30 in Worton.
Tools of a waterman’s trade — work boat, skiff and nets — are undisturbed Saturday, Jan. 30, the day before snow and icy rain fell in Kent County’s first winter storm of the year.
CHESTERTOWN — With sub-freezing temperatures and the forecast of snow for the weekend, it was not surprising to see horses turned out with their blankets. Our photograph of Trout Walk Farm on Morgnec Road was taken Saturday, Jan. 30.
With sub-freezing temperatures and the forecast of snow for the weekend, it was not surprising to see horses turned out with their blankets. Our photograph of Trout Walk Farm on Morgnec Road was taken Saturday, Jan. 30.
Kent County’s first winter storm of the year, a one-two punch of snow and icy rain that started Sunday, Jan. 31 and continued into Tuesday, delayed the start of in-person instruction for area schoolchildren.
A salt truck treats state Route 313 in Massey in the late afternoon Sunday, Jan. 31 as light to moderate snow continues to fall in the upper end of Kent County. Icy rain and snow continued on Monday and into Tuesday in the first winter storm of 2021.
The Clarence A. Hawkins Sr. Building at the Kent County Community Center in Worton will serve as the site of a Kent County Health Department-operated mass vaccination clinic.
Heather Mizeur has announced that she is running against U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.-1st, in next year’s congressional election.
Main Street Historic Chestertown will open a grant application window Friday, Feb. 5 for funding to help downtown businesses offset pandemic-related expenses.
Pictured is a silverpoint drawling of Frederick Douglass created by Evie Baskin of the Artists’ Gallery in Chestertown. The piece will be on display at the gallery in honor of Black History Month.
All the headstones in the Quaker burial ground in Millington have been moved to the rear of the property in what had formerly been the Vansant family plot.
In a file photo from October 2016, only a handful of headstones still stand in the Quaker burial ground in Millington. They are probably from the second half of the 19th century. Many Quakers considered tombstones ostentatious and would mark graves with only field stones.
The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends gifted this Quaker burial ground to the Town of Millington in 2019. The burial ground is on a 50-foot-by-328-foot strip of land between Cypress Street and Back Street. This photo was taken in 2016.
Loss to a large storage building and equipment belonging to Brown’s Lawn & Tree Service is estimated to be $230,000 as a result of a fire Jan. 29, according to the Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal.
Judy Crow talks about her family's operation at Crow Vineyard and Winery on "Maryland and harvest."
It is a multigenerational operation as family members work Crow Vineyards and Winery in Kennedyville. The farm will be featured in the upcoming episode of “Maryland Farm and Harvest.”
Ken Kozel, president and CEO University of Maryland Shore Regional Health, and Sherri Hobbs, chief quality officer, display the “A” grade Leapfrog recognition received for each of the medical systems three hospitals.
Anyone interested in running for the Millington council must file their paperwork at the town hall by Friday, Feb. 12.
Lancelot, a 16-pound cat, is looking for a good home. The Animal Care Shelter for Kent County is open by appointment only. Submit an application at kenthumane.org, and staff will set up an appointment with you.
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