Posts Tagged ‘Patapsco Heritage Greenway’
Patapsco Heritage Greenway Seeks Applicants for Executive Director Position
The Patapsco Heritage Greenway is a non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to preserving, protecting, interpreting, and restoring the environment, history and culture of Maryland’s Patapsco Valley between Daniels and Elkridge. The…
Read MoreMaryland Heritage Areas Authority Awards 50 Grants to Support Heritage Tourism Nearly $2.7 million awarded
The Patapsco Heritage Area received just over $160,000 in five grants from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority including Management and Marketing grants for Patapsco Heritage Greenway, $30,000 in funds to…
Read MorePatapsco: Silent Witnesses to an Enduring Current by Riley Goodman
Patapsco: Silent Witnesses to an Enduring Current by Riley Goodman New Art Exhibit to Open As Part of Ellicott City’s Flood Commemoration Anniversary Ellicott City, MD — The Patapsco Heritage…
Read MoreOella Garden- Part I
The Oella & Ellicott City Entrance Garden started out as a neglected piece of land that was overrun by invasive plants. In 2008, to honor the Oella community’s bicentennial, a…
Read MoreEagle Project- Historic Oella Cemetery
On Saturday, June 3rd, several scouts and adult leaders from Troop 764 in Halethorpe, Maryland, as well as volunteers from the Patapsco Heritage Greenway, participated in an Eagle Scout service…
Read MoreHoward County Stormwater Solution Programs
On a sunny weekday afternoon, I met with Rachel Beebe, a Sustainability Project Manager at Howard Country’s Office for Community Sustainability, to discuss Howard County’s stormwater programs, detailed below. If…
Read MoreStream Watchers in Action
For citizens who care about our local waterways, the Patapsco Heritage Greenway’s Stream Watch program allows us to make an impact as citizen scientists and volunteer stewards. Stream Watchers can…
Read MoreQ&A With Patapsco Heritage Greenway Executive Director Mary Catherine Cochran
Howard County native Mary Catherine Cochran’s impact on the preservation of Howard County’s unique history and environment began in 1999 with Vision 2020, an exercise that drafted goals for the…
Read MoreHoward County WIN- Discussing Stormwater Impacts
Last week I attended my first Howard County Watershed Improvement Network (WIN) meeting. WIN is a group of stakeholders with a shared interest in protecting and restoring local watersheds. It…
Read MoreLost and Found: A flotilla of figurines from Ellicott City flood
Among all the debris that washed out of Ellicott City in the July 30 flood was a beer keg from a local brewery that ended up on the shores of…
Read MoreBrandt Dirmeyer- Our New CBT Corps Member
Patapsco Heritage Greenway welcomes Brandt Dirmeyer, a Chesapeake Bay Trust Conservation Corps Member, who will be with us for the next year. Instead of introducing him in our words- we…
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