Eastern Shore counties abandon challenge about one month after filing it Maryland’s $340 million settlement with the owner of the Conowingo Dam can now move forward, after a group of Eastern Shore counties dropped their challenge of the deal. The withdrawal came less than a month after the administrative appeal was originally filed. Officials at… Read More
Lawrenceburg’s Board of Works, Utility Board and City Council met on Jan. 5 and approved routine minutes and a set of administrative actions while taking up several items with community impact. The Board of Works approved an agreement allowing dredged material from the Tanners Creek boat docks to be placed on a private landowner’s property,… Read More
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — There are new efforts to repair coastal damage in Old Orchard Beach caused by record high tides and strong storms two years ago. It will cost more than $1 million to undo what tides destroyed in minutes, mostly paid for with federal and state disaster funds. Local families whose homes flooded… Read More
All along Mississippi’s shoreline, engineers determined to protect coastal cities from nature’s forces are confronting an urgent problem: The beaches are shrinking. Years ago, swimmers and sunbathers sprawled across white sand that stretched far beyond the bustling beach highway. But so much of it has disappeared over the decades that now, in some spots, waves… Read More
