Sep022010
By admin on September 2, 2010
The Historical Marker Database is an illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information viewed through the filter of roadside and other permanent outdoor markers, monuments, and plaques. It contains photographs, inscription transcriptions, marker locations, maps, additional information and commentary, and links to more information. Anyone can add new markers to the database and update existing marker pages with new photographs, links, information and commentary.
Posted in History
Sep012010
By admin on September 1, 2010
Manhattan Beach, a quiet residential community in Severna Park, Maryland, is bordered by Cypress Creek, the Magothy River, Dividing Creek and Governor Ritchie Highway (Maryland-2). Auto access from Ritchie Highway at Jones Station Road is limited to tree-lined Manhattan Beach Road. Residents organized the Manhattan Beach Civic Association (MBCA) in 1929. Manhattan Beach became a Special Community Benefit District within Anne Arundel County on May 15, 1992. Neighborhoods within the community–Manhattan Manor, Manhattan Woods, Oak Grove, Buckingham Estates and Windrush Farm—are included in the district, with MBCA acting as administrator. All property owners in the special tax benefit district are assessed an annual tax of $25 as part of their county property taxes. Anne Arundel County returns the aggregated funds to the MBCA for Community Center maintenance, insurance and community upkeep.
Posted in HOA Tagged civic association, HOA, homeowners association
Aug302010
By admin on August 30, 2010
University of Maryland Extension is a statewide, informal educational system, sponsored jointly by the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. We strive to educate citizens and help them to apply practical, research-based knowledge to critical issues facing individuals, families, communities, the State and the world. County Extension offices are located in each of Maryland’s 23 counties and in Baltimore City.
Posted in Anne Arundel County, Community Groups, Education Tagged county extension offices, department of agriculture, university of maryland
Aug282010
By admin on August 28, 2010
Established in 1998, the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County (CFAAC) provides scholarships and grants to nonprofit organizations across the county. We are your center for charitable investment in your community. The mission of CFACC is to grow philanthropy and build community. We foster greater giving and new philanthropy in our community to address the most pressing need today and in the future. CFAAC is an independent, tax-exempt charity created by and for the people of Anne Arundel County. We connect donors with the causes they care about.
Posted in Anne Arundel County, Community Groups Tagged charity, scolarships
Aug282010
By admin on August 28, 2010
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Office is a division of the National Marine Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation, which works to protect and restore coastal and marine habitat at the national level. The Office is also a key collaborator with NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team, which integrates NOAA’s program activities to address priorities at both the national and regional scale.
NOAA has been a partner in Chesapeake Bay Program restoration and protection efforts since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1984.
Posted in Chesapeake Bay, Government, Nature, Water Tagged chesapeake bay program, environmental protection agency, fisheries office, habitat conservation, marine habitat, national marine fisheries, national oceanic and atmospheric administration
Aug272010
By admin on August 27, 2010
Kinder Farm Park is located in central Anne Arundel County, Maryland within close proximity to the Chesapeake Bay. The park is on 288 acres and was purchased by the county in 1979 from the original owners, the Kinder Family, who operated a typical Maryland farm from 1898 to the late 1970’s when it was no longer farmed. The farm was primarily operated as a cattle farm after World War II. The county believed the farm could be restored as it had been in the 1930’s and it has been designed to represent a 1930’s depression era farm.
The purpose of the Friends Group is to support the Farm Park with funding and to conduct volunteer activities to highlight a typical working farm set in Maryland during the 1930’s. Due to the unique nature of Kinder Farm Park, the Kinder Friends Group is unique in both the activities it supports as well as the causes for which it seeks funding. The region clearly is well served by having such a Farm Park open to both county and non-county visitors.
Posted in Anne Arundel County, Community Groups, Parks Tagged cattle farm, kinder farm park, maryland farm, volunteer activities
Aug252010
By admin on August 25, 2010
The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority‘s mission is to plan and develop waste management systems that meet the highest environmental standards while providing the most efficient and reliable waste disposal services possible. We take an integrated approach to waste management by combining recycling with combustion and energy recovery, composting and landfilling. At the same time, we place a special emphasis on waste reduction. An underlying goal, inherent in all Authority projects, is to minimize waste disposal costs.
Posted in Government, Maryland Tagged energy recovery, environmental standards, landfilling, recycling, waste disposal authority, waste disposal services, waste management systems
Aug222010
By admin on August 22, 2010
Winchester-on-the-Severn is a community of approximately one hundred homes located just outside of Annapolis near Arnold. The Winchester on Severn community association has an executive board consisting of current community volunteers. Winchester on Severn association owns five separate waterfront properties that include a community beach with a pavilion, children play area on open grass, privately maintained white sand beach and lots of parking. The association also has two separate docking areas with some shallow and some deep water slips. The community web site includes community news and history, beach calendar and reservation form, and boating information.
Posted in HOA
Aug212010
By admin on August 21, 2010
Arundel Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, Christian ministry which works in partnership with people from all walks of life to provide, through new construction or renovation, simple, decent and affordable housing for low-income families in Anne Arundel County. Arundel Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1987 and has built over 85 homes in Anne Arundel County and the areas of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay.
Posted in Anne Arundel County, Housing Tagged affordable housing, habitat for humanity, low income families
Aug212010
By admin on August 21, 2010
The Arnold Preservation Council is uniting the people of Arnold to enhance our character as a desirable community that preserves its rural heritage and healthy environment by advocating responsible growth, linked neighborhoods, local small businesses, and our excellent schools.
Posted in Community Groups, History
Aug192010
By admin on August 19, 2010
Built in 1830s, Pleasant Plains Farm was the Designers Show House in September, 2000. The owners, Philip and Sue Dodds continue repairing and rebuilding the main house and the surrounding buildings and grounds on this wonderful 150 acre farm near Annapolis Maryland. The web site chronicles the ongoing restoration.
Posted in History
Aug182010
By admin on August 18, 2010
The Harbour School provides a supportive, caring and individualized education to students with learning and other disabilities in grades one through twelve by assisting each child to attain academic and personal achievement and sucess commensurate witha the child’s abilities. Personal achievement including success in social, phyiscal and vocational skills.
Posted in Education
Aug142010
By admin on August 14, 2010
Hidden Ridge is a residential community in Arnold. The HOA web site features a message board, pictures, community news, bylaws, and newsletters.
Posted in HOA
Jul312010
By admin on July 31, 2010
The Annapolis Arts Alliance is “an organization dedicated to all the arts. Whether you are a professional or amateur artist, a patron of the arts, a visitor or a resident in our capital city; the creative arts make our lives richer. Our goal is to provide one collective voice for anyone interested in or touched by arts.”
Posted in Annapolis, Arts, Community Groups Tagged Annapolis, arts alliance, creative arts
Jul242010
By admin on July 24, 2010
The Annapolis Chamber Players (ACP) specializes in mixed chamber music for winds, strings, and piano. Through rewarding programming that combines well-known works with lesser-known gems, ACP introduces, educates, and fosters an appreciation of this important musical genre. ACP provides a wide variety of programming and instrumental combinations from duos to sextets featuring works from the Baroque to 21st century.
Posted in Annapolis, Arts, Music Tagged Annapolis, chamber music
Jul172010
By admin on July 17, 2010
The mission of the SPCA shall be to serve as the leading private nonprofit organization within Anne Arundel County which exists to protect animals from acts of cruelty and neglect.
To promote humane care and concern for animals by educating the public and by working to end pet overpopulation.
To provide shelter and rehabilitation to animals in need.
To work for the passage and enforcement of laws which promote and provide for the humane treatment of animals.
Posted in Community Groups, Pets Tagged acts of cruelty, pet overpopulation, private nonprofit organization, spca of anne arundel county, treatment of animals
Jul102010
By admin on July 10, 2010
The Bay Theatre Company will stage Apocalyptic Butterflies by Wendy MacLeod, a quirky comedy set in rural New England at Christmastime, December 14, 2007 – January 19, 2008. The bloom is off the rose for Muriel and Hank as they cope with a new baby and the pressures of marriage. With the help of their eccentric in-laws, they rediscover compassion and reawaken their love.
Posted in Arts, Events Tagged comedy, theater, theatre
Jul032010
By admin on July 3, 2010
Broadneck Select Baseball is a non-profit organization based on the Broadneck Peninsula in Annapolis, Maryland whose mission is “to create a competitive baseball environment for kids 11-18 to develop, expand and improve fundamental skills with the goal of playing high school baseball”. The 11 to 14 year old teams participate in the Chesapeake Baseball Association, the Mid-Maryland Travel Association or in the Anne Arundel County leagues, as well as participating in a variety of tournaments throughout the season against a broad range of teams from Maryland/Delaware/Virginia. Broadneck Select fields high school level teams after the baseball season that play in the Mickey Mantle and Connie Mack leagues run by the Anne Arundel Amateur Baseball Association (AAABA).
Posted in Sports Tagged amateur baseball association, baseball, high school baseball, non profit organization
Jun262010
By admin on June 26, 2010
Archaeology in Annapolis is a partnership between the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Historic Annapolis Foundation. Begun in 1981, the Archaeology in Annapolis project has been concerned with promoting better understandings of Annapolis’ diverse past through the interpretation of material culture.
Posted in Annapolis, History Tagged Annapolis, anthropology, archaeology, department of anthropology, History, university of maryland college park
Jun192010
By admin on June 19, 2010
Asbury Broadneck United Methodist Church is an historical African American church. It is reported that the church began before 1851 when enslaved men of African decent started meeting at a placed called “Old School House Hill” to praise God in their own way. This was before they could afford a church house. But, the first church was built only yards from the original meeting location on St. Margaret’s Road, which is now Meeting House Lane south of Route 50 east of Annapolis, MD.
Posted in Religion
Jun122010
By admin on June 12, 2010
Anne Arundel County Animal Control enforces all Animal Control laws, responds to animal related complaints, conducts investigations of cruelty and problem situations. 411 Maxwell Frye Road Millersville, Maryland 21108 410-222-8900
Posted in Anne Arundel County, Pets
Jun042010
By admin on June 4, 2010
The Severn River Association is the oldest organization dedicated to the preservation of a river in America and Anne Arundel County’s largest and oldest civic group.
Posted in Community Groups, Nature, Water Tagged anne arundel county, civic group, severn river
May212010
By admin on May 21, 2010
Orchard Knolls Homeowners Association, incorporated in 1989, is a self-managed, all volunteer community.
Posted in HOA Tagged HOA, homeowners association
