Tilghman Island News

Maryland emergency management officials have received funding to construct a radar and video tower on Tilghman Island.

The Star-Democrat of Easton reports that officials expect to build the 140-foot tower at an inn that the state owns and leases out as a conference facility.

Drew Koslow, the Choptank Riverkeeper, reports that while walking the shore of Harris Creek in Talbot County, he saw an "amazing" abundance of oysters growing in the intertidal zone, inundated by water at high tide but exposed to the air at ebb.

I've been to buffets all of my life, having grown up where the "salad bar" was conceived by the Lettuce Entertain You restaurant group.