It was before COVID 19, even before HIV. It was before Spotify, even before CDs. It was before SpaceX even before the Space Shuttle. Can it be that we’ve published 480 issues of the Caroline Review? It doesn’t even seem that long ago when we were celebrating the 30th...
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But, Along Came Coronavirus
In February of this year I announced that I would not be seeking reelection to the Caroline County Board of Education. After 18 years of school board service I was, and remain ready to step back and allow someone else the opportunity to serve. I also want to be able...
Shore Noir: A Notorious Local Personality Rediscovered
Photo: Nettie (with glasses) in a group that includes future Caroline County Commissioner Charles Dean Sr. at the beach. He worked for her "squiring" guests around the resort. Prominent teacher, suffragette, and businesswoman Nettie Caroline Dean Carter was born this...
Accepting COVID-19 Small Business Emergency Relief Grant Applications
Caroline County Economic Development is accepting applications through November 30, 2020. Grant assistance is available for small businesses that experienced economic injury and disrupted operations due to COVID-19. The grant reimburses eligible expenses for...
Caroline Awards Relief Grants to Businesses
On June 1, the County Commissioners and Economic Development announced $2.2 M in federal grant funding available for small businesses with disrupted operations due to COVID-19. In the first round, 75 applications were received, resulting in over $640,000 in grants...
2020 – A Year That Will Live in Infamy
“A Day that will live in Infamy”, original words used by Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to describe the atrocity of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, is eerily an appropriate description of the year 2020. And it is barely half over....
Farm to Food Bank Program
Entering into its second decade, the Farm to Food Bank program sponsored by the Maryland Food Bank has become an important avenue of donated local fruits and vegetables to needy citizens throughout the state, and especially so on the Eastern Shore. With the recent...
Blessing Boxes
In the summer of 2017, Kennedy Thomason and her friends in the youth group at St. Luke’s UMC in Denton were looking for a community project when Kennedy took a reference from her mother Katie and turned it into a great way to help the needy in the county. Teaming up...
An Ode to the Strawberry
Like nearly everything else in the Age of the Coronavirus, May was just not the same this year.Say what you will about the thoroughbred horse racing Triple Crown, the Indianapolis 500, the NASCAR All-Star Race, and other events the month annually features. Each has...