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Maryland Farm & Harvest Visits Garrett, Harford, Prince George’s, and Queen Anne’s Counties During Season-Ending Episode
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Episode Celebrates the “Best of” Eight Seasons of MPT Series
Bees from a hive at Hope Honey Farm in Hyattsville. Photo Credit: Maryland Public Television’s Maryland Farm & Harvest.
ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 5, 2021) – Maryland Public Television’s (MPT) popular original series
Maryland Farm & Harvest, now in its eighth season, will feature farms and locations in Garrett, Harford, Prince George’s, and Queen Anne’s counties during an episode celebrating the “best of” eight seasons of the popular original series. The final episode of the season airs on Tuesday, March 9 at 7 p.m.
Maryland Senate health disparity bill loses mention of racism
Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - At first, the bill addressing the role of racism in health disparities in Maryland laid out the context plainly: Racism is rooted in the foundation of America, from the time chattel slavery began in the 1600s, to the Jim Crow era, to the declaration of the war on drugs that eventually led to the mass incarceration of Black people, and it has remained a presence in American society while subjecting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to hardships and disadvantages in every aspect of life.
A long-distance road trip has ended badly, or at least paused, for a California couple.
Pennsylvania State Police say they found 27-year-old Dejon Beachem of Lancaster, California walking in the travel lane of Interstate 81 South in Harford Township at around 12:20 a.m. Saturday, February 27.
Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News (file)
Troopers say Beachem apparently ended up walking in the middle of the road after he and the 38-year-old woman he was traveling with in a commercial vehicle got into a fight.
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The woman said the altercation started after Beachem stood up in the truck and began to intentionally urinate on the passenger seat. The woman told troopers Beachem hit her several times with a closed fist before she sprayed him with pepper spray to get him to stop.
MPT Series Maryland Farm & Harvest Visits Baltimore, Harford, and Worcester Counties During Feb. 16 Episode
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February 12, 2021
Photo Description: Karen Vaughan of Dairy Crisis Farm tends to one of the calves at her Harford County farm. Photo Credit: Maryland Public Television’s Maryland Farm & Harvest.
ANNAPOLIS, MD – Maryland Public Television’s (MPT) popular original series
Maryland Farm & Harvest, now in its eighth season, will feature farms and locations in Baltimore, Harford, and Worcester counties during a new episode airing on Tuesday, February 16 at 7 p.m.
Maryland Farm & Harvest has been taking viewers on journeys across the state since 2013, telling hundreds of stories about the farms, people, and technology required to sustain and grow agriculture in Maryland, the state’s number one commercial industry.