Watermen Struggle as Ice Halts Oystering

Watermen Struggle as Ice Halts Oystering

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Bitter cold and ice have brought oystering to a standstill across parts of the Mid-Shore, leaving watermen tied to the dock and out of work. Frozen waterways have made it too dangerous to head out, and local…

Extreme Cold Leads to Rare Freezing of Choptank River

(CAMBRIDGE, Md) – The extreme cold that’s Eastern Shore the last couple of weeks has left its mark on the Choptank River. Plenty of pictures taken over the course of this cold snap have shown large portions of the Choptank and surrounding harbors frozen over. For one Cambridge man who feeds the local ducks up to 100 pounds of food a week, it inteeruprts something he enjoys regularly. “We haven’t had a streak of cold weather like this in a long t…