South River Source

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health issued a water quality alert on Wednesday, notifying the public that Weems Creek in Annapolis is closed due to a wastewater spill. Weems Creek is a tributary of the Severn River. It is located southeast of Route 50. The bridges that cross the creek include Ridgely Avenue and [...]

Shady Side 5th graders have been busy. Aside from their usual schoolwork, the students walk over to Discovery Village every couple of days to check on the oysters they’ve been growing off the pier and in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation‘s (CBF) huge oyster-growing vats. The students also put together a business plan and raised $1611 [...]

No more taking the “back route” from Davidsonville to a Bowie Baysox game by crossing the one-lane bridge on Governor’s Bridge Road. The bridge is closed. Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation officials closed the bridge due to deteriorating conditions. The bridge crosses the Patuxent River. The bridge was one of three [...]

Recently, students from Davidsonville Elementary‘s Green School spent the afternoon planting native vegetation at the Davidsonville Wildlife Sanctuary as part of the South River Federation‘s Watershed Restoration Project. Alongside teachers, parents and South River Federation staff members, the students planted 80 native trees, shrubs and grasses throughout the Sanctuary. According to Jennifer Carr, volunteer coordinator [...]

Hattie the Blue Heron? Seemore D. Bay Blue Heron? Wade Blue Heron? Those are the three names in contention for naming the blue heron on the Maryland license plate. In the first two weeks of April, the Chesapeake Bay Trust has been accepting suggestions to name the famous Blue Heron on the organization’s official logo [...]

For the past couple of years, Gov. Martin O’Malley has gone to Mike’s Crabhouse in Riva to unveil the numbers of the states annual crab population survey. For the past few years the numbers have been stellar, owing to conservation measures put in place in 2008. This years numbers showed a reversal in the trend. [...]