State Roundup: Primary care physicians join effort to get more Marylanders vaccinated
Chesapeake Bay Bridge panorama by Peter Peretz with Flickr Creative Commons License
PRIMARY DOCS TARGET HARD-TO-REACH MARYLANDERS: The state’s primary care physicians are poised to take a more active role in administering coronavirus vaccines following a Friday morning announcement by the Maryland Department of Health that it has expanded a critical program aimed at vaccinating the state’s most hard-to-reach residents, reports Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter.
Gov. Larry Hogan Friday announced that the state of Maryland has opened up direct scheduling for mass vaccination sites. The state’s pre-registration system is closed, and all 831,872 pre-registrants have now been offered appointments, David Higgins reports for the Southern Maryland Chronicle.
Maryland Fishing Report – April 28
April 28, 2021
Sulley and Oli Francis went fishing with their dad at Loch Raven Reservoir recently and each caught their largest largemouth bass to date – pictured is Sulley with his catch. Photo by Steve Francis
This promises to be an exciting week for fishing, no matter what species of fish you hope to catch. The trout stocking program is finishing up an intensive stocking program this week, warm summer-like temperatures beckon all to the outdoors, and the trophy striped bass season begins in portions of the Chesapeake Bay May 1.
Starting Saturday, the Chesapeake Bay from Brewerton Channel to the Virginia state line, excluding all bays, sounds, tributaries, creeks and rivers, except Tangier Sound and Pocomoke Sound, opens up to striped bass fishing for fish 35 inches or larger, with a one fish per person per day creel limit.
Maryland Fishing Report – Dec. 9
December 9, 2020
David Shaw shows us some of the rewards that can be found when fishing this time of the year as he caught and released this largemouth bass in the Sassafras River recently Photo by David Shaw
This week concludes our Maryland Fishing Report for 2020 look for our winter update in early February, and for our weekly reports to resume in March 2021.
Despite colder temperatures there is still plenty of good fishing ahead in the winter months. Many will now shift their focus to freshwater and ocean fishing with freshwater providing the easiest opportunities and definitely the more comfortable.