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		<title>Concert Series Ends with Inna Faliks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 58th season of the Washington College Concert Series concludes with a performance by pianist Inna Faliks in Decker Theatre on Sunday, March 28, at 4 p.m.
The young Ukrainian-born musician has established herself as one of the most passionately committed, exciting and deeply poetic pianists of her generation. Since her acclaimed debut with the Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Old Testament&#8217; Wargotz vs Mikulski</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/old-testament-wargotz-vs-mikulski/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/old-testament-wargotz-vs-mikulski/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANNAPOLIS &#8211; Queen Anne&#8217;s County Commissioner Eric Wargotz made his candidacy official for U.S. Senate by filing candidacy papers Friday at the State Board of Elections in Annapolis.
In an interview with Capital News Service just before filing his candidacy, Wargotz said he considers himself a &#8220;constitutional conservative&#8221; and an &#8220;Old Testament kind of guy.&#8221;
Challenging Sen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DCA Starts &#8220;Think Chestertown First&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/downtown-chestertown-association-starts-think-chestertown-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Wheelan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trade & Mercantile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, March 18th the Downtown began a new life and direction.
Led by the Executive Committee of the Downtown Chestertown Association, the DCA members voted yesterday to launch a campaign to encourage residents and visitors to Think Chestertown First. This new broad, highly visible education and marketing campaign will draw attention to the value our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counting Heads to Cut School Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/counting-heads-to-cut-school-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/counting-heads-to-cut-school-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANNAPOLIS &#8211; A Republican proposal to fund local school systems based on a more accurate number of students attending classes has sparked criticism that the move would siphon money from the jurisdictions that need it most.
The state currently allocates funding to schools based on annual head counts of students taken Sept. 30. House Minority Leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tractor Thief at Large</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/tractor-thief-at-large/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disturbances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the wee hours of Thursday somebody sneaked onto the Morgnec Road property of William Cooper of Chestertown and stole his tractor valued at $49,000.
The suspect is unknown at this time.
The Kent County sheriff’s office is on the lookout for a 5000 Series John Deer 4wd enclosed cab utility tractor.
The tractor was last seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Professionals to CONNECT! in Rock Hall March 24</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/young-business-people-to-connect-in-rock-hall-march-24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/young-business-people-to-connect-in-rock-hall-march-24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trade & Mercantile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Kent County Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s young professionals organization, CONNECT!, kicks off the year with this spring mixer at the Rock Hall Yacht Club on March 24, 2010 from 5:00-7:00pm. Membership in CONNECT! is open to all local men and women under the age of 40, whose companies or organizations are members of the Kent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author on Fall of Berlin Wall March 29</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/acclaimed-author-and-journalist-on-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-march-29/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/acclaimed-author-and-journalist-on-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-march-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author and journalist Michael Meyer will present a talk on his latest book, The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall, at Washington College’s Hynson Lounge, Hodson Commons on Monday, March 29, at 7:30 pm. A book signing will follow.
Meyer will provide a riveting eyewitness account of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Vignola’s Hot Club At The Mainstay March 25</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/frank-vignola%e2%80%99s-hot-club-at-the-mainstay-march-25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/frank-vignola%e2%80%99s-hot-club-at-the-mainstay-march-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Wheelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of Django Reinhardt&#8217;s 100th birthday, guitar virtuoso Frank Vignola, a leading proponent of Reinhardt&#8217;s gypsy jazz style of playing, and longtime Mainstay friend and favorite returns with a topnotch quartet, Frank Vignola’s Hot Club, for a tribute to one of his earliest musical influences at the Mainstay in Rock Hall on Thursday March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yacht Broker Charged with Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/yacht-agent-charged-with-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/yacht-agent-charged-with-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disturbances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A yacht salesman has been extradited from Arkansas to face charges of bilking his clients in Kent County out of $320,000.
A report Thursday by the Sheriff’s Office said Edwin Leroy Blakesley was charged in January on 17 counts of defrauding yacht buyers and sellers.
Blakesley owned and operated Yachts Unlimited and conducted businesses at several locations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Marriage #10</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/adventures-in-marriage-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/adventures-in-marriage-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disturbances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The kitchen may be a dangerous place for marital discord, with lots of sharp objects and bowls.
Kent County Deputy Michael Piasecki reported Thursday on his response to an unhappy abode on Kansas Avenue in Chestertown, subsequent to a housewife finding innovative use for a container. As he reported, “It was determined that the suspect had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homemade Microwaveable Meals</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/homemade-microwaveable-meals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/homemade-microwaveable-meals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Taylor Robson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curiosities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Go forage and nuke!” I used to tell my kids when they were young, hungry, and I was trying to meet a deadline. I could say that insensitive thing to them with some impunity – as well as the usual guilt &#8212; because there was almost always nourishing stuff in the frig just waiting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston MFA Curator on Larrabee Photography</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/boston-museum-of-fine-arts-curator-to-speak-on-larrabee-photography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/boston-museum-of-fine-arts-curator-to-speak-on-larrabee-photography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curiosities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Art and Art History, Kohl Gallery, the Black Studies Program and the Gender Studies Program present, “The Photographer’s Eye: Constance Stuart Larrabee’s Images of the Ndebele Peoples (South Africa)”, a lecture by Christraud Geary, Teel Senior Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to be held on Thursday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lemony Sniket Kicks Off Sophie Kerr Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/author-daniel-handler-aka-lemony-sniket-kicks-off-2010-sophie-kerr-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/author-daniel-handler-aka-lemony-sniket-kicks-off-2010-sophie-kerr-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curiosities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Handler, author of the bestselling children’s book collection A Series of Unfortunate Events (under the pen name of Lemony Snicket), kicks off this year’s Sophie Kerr Weekend with a talk entitled “Why does Lemony Snicket Keep Following Me?&#8221; in Decker Theater on Friday, March 26, at 4 p.m.  A book signing will follow.
Snicket’s A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Editor: More FASTC Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/letter-to-editor-more-fastc-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/letter-to-editor-more-fastc-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First the Queen Anne County Commissioners vote unanimously ‘for’ the FASTC Project.  After being run over by a group of activists, they pulled back their support “pending more complete information”.  A public information and forum process began, courtesy of higher level prodding from leaders like Senator Mikulski and Congressman Kratovil.  The County Commissioners dropped out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington College Returns to the Smithsonian</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/washington-college-returns-to-the-smithsonian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/washington-college-returns-to-the-smithsonian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trio of Pulitzer Prize winning authors are set for the 2010 “American Pictures” series.  Civil War historian James M. McPherson; cartoonist, author and illustrator Jules Feiffer; and cultural historian David Hackett Fischer will bring their unique perspectives to three iconic images in this spring&#8217;s series.
The “American Pictures” series &#8211; a joint program of Washington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Reform by the Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/health-reform-by-the-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/health-reform-by-the-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; As many as 261,000 uninsured Marylanders could receive health care coverage and approximately one million families and 122,100 small businesses could receive tax credits to offset health care costs under the current health care reform plan, according to a new congressional study.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce released reports Wednesday for each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kratovil Says Don&#8217;t Judge FASTC Yet</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/kratovil-says-dont-judge-fastc-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/kratovil-says-dont-judge-fastc-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; Rep. Frank Kratovil spoke out about a proposed State Department training center for the first time in months Wednesday, saying the plan shouldn&#8217;t be judged before the pending environmental assessment is complete.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s allow the process to work,&#8221; Kratovil said in a news release. &#8220;Right now, my goal is to get the facts on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fabulous Fiber at Artworks</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/fabulous-fiber-at-artworks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/fabulous-fiber-at-artworks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Artworks Gallery at 306 Park Row in Chestertown features its eighth annual Fiber Show in April, with a champagne and chocolate reception on Friday, April 2, from 5-8 p.m.
Sheep wool spun into fiber art. Stitching and crewel work. Needlework.  Invited artists will surprise and impress. Over a dozen local experts will participate, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director of National Gallery to Lecture on April 5</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/director-of-national-gallery-to-lecture-on-april-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/director-of-national-gallery-to-lecture-on-april-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington College Department of Art and Art History and Kohl Gallery present the Janson-La Palme Annual Distinguished Lecture in European Art History, &#8220;The National Gallery in the New Century,” a talk by Earl A. Powell III, Director of the National Gallery of Art, to be held Monday, April 5, 5:30 p.m., in the Hotchkiss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locals Work to Hit New York Stage in May</title>
		<link>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/locals-work-to-hit-new-york-stage-in-may/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chestertownspy.com/2010/03/locals-work-to-hit-new-york-stage-in-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spy Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A musical comedy written and produced by two Eastern Shore men will have its New York debut May 13 in New York City&#8217;s The Tank theater at 354 West 45th St.
&#8220;Celluloid&#8221;, with book and lyrics by Earl Lewin of Chestertown, and music by Dick Durham of Church Hill, premiered in 2006 to critical acclaim at [...]]]></description>
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