Go to the end of this page for guidelines to get your story on AroundCrownsville.com
How to read a blog
-Stories are posted as they come in so they appear newest story first.
-You can use the “find” or “search” function on your browser to search all the posts, a specific category or page
-Pages are permanent posts
Directory includes entries on local businesses, schools, and organizations including non profits. Each entry includes at least contact information and may include links to their websites, past stories from my column or even photos.
Calendar is a running chronological list of events and dates to remember. The weekly calendar on the home page is take from this information.
Coupons and Good Deals are just that. Crownsville businesses will post coupons, sales, and other good deals. Coupons can be downloaded through your browser to print and redeem. Check this page often so you don’t miss anything.
-Make a comment: If you would like to comment on a post, click on “No Comment. That seems a little backward like going to “start” to turn off your computer. ”No Comment” just means that no one has commented, not that readers may not comment.
-Categories: Categories group similar stories together. I’ve tried to choose obvious names. Cooking categories have recipes. Lost and Found may have a lost cat and a found cat. Nature Log includes sightings of birds, animals, and plants around the area.
-Archives groups posts by the date they were posted. If you know about when an item appeared, it might be easiest to find it in the archives. I am also in the process of posting the articles from my column. I am posting them according to their dates of publication. These are the full articles before they were edited by the newspaper.
-Links includes links to site of interest and to sites that have partnered with this site. These sites have some reasonable connection to aroundcrownsville.com
About my background and my plans for this site
Back in the late 1990′s I was privileged to work with a group of volunteers concerned about Crownsville’s future. We were members of the Crownsville Small Area Committee appointed by then county executive John Gary. For over two years we learned about roads, sewers, zoning, schools, developments, the environment, and more. We listened to Crownsville residents and heard what they wanted to see in Crownsville’s future.
I learned a lot during those two and a half years. I learned that Crownsville has deep roots that nourish a strong tree with spreading branches. It is a community of history and families who farm, own businesses, and make their homes in the quiet watershed of the Severn and South Rivers.
I have spent the last ten plus years listening to the people of Crownsville and writing their stories in the former Around Crownsville column on The Capital. I had stories for all but a half dozen Fridays since September 1998. Now, I am bringing our stories and more to the internet.
AroundCrownsville.com will continue to share the news and stories of Crownsville’s history and its residents. Its stories trace back to the time of the revolutionary war. It’s been home to peach orchards, a tomato cannery, and a pipette calibration lab. It welcomes those who help others. Its homes are full of authors, artists, inventors, scientists, and entrepreneuers. Its schools value young learners and work to help them become capable, engaged citizens. Taken together, Crownsville’s history, its institutions, its businesses, and its people create an area poised for a bright and rich future grounded in its communities and in the energy of its residents with stories to be told.
You can share your news and stories on AroundCrownsville.com. It’s a work in progress that will become a place to announce your community news and events or get your school announcements out to your audience. You can tell a story of a service project and a scout troop. You’ll find a directory of local businesses and a calendar of events. Its categories are here to inform and to give you a voice. It will be home to General’s Highway Council of Civic Associations (GHCCA) information and announcements.This site abides by rules of civility, etiquette, honesty, and mutual respect and is edited according to those precepts.
Enjoy the features of Around Crownsville provided by local experts and officianados and watch for new features as the site develops. You can be a contirubtor by sending your news to me at elaine@aroundcrownsville.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Elaine Nagey
Guidelines
Like I said above, this site abides by rules of civility, etiquette, honesty, and mutual respect and is edited according to those precepts. Also, I learned at work — is it kind, is it true, is it necessary. This site is a good news site. That doesn’t mean the content isn’t serious. It does mean it’s not nasty, sensationalized, or in any other way like a tabloid. Submitting a story is as easy as sending an email to elaine@aroundcrownsville.com or clicking on Comment.
1. I expect that you are honest in what you submit. This belief may be naive, but I will trust until given reason to no longer trust.
2. Credit your sources: If you are using information from someone else, give them credit. It is your responsibility to have permission to use someone else’s work. This doesn’t mean you can’t submit someone else’s work, but you must have permission (that you can prove), and you must credit that party. I’m sure Aunt Suzy would be flattered if you submitted her recipe for marzipan stuffed eggplant with spicy tomato chocolate sauce.
3. Please provide your contact information to me including name, phone, address. I will not distribute it without your permission. I may need to contact you about your post by phone.
4. Please provide accurate contact information you wish the public to see in anything you submit. Remember, your post is public. While there’s no such thing as privacy on the internet, there’s a difference between being careful and being scared to a point of inactivity. You want your post to accomplish your goal.
5. You may not engage in slander through a post. I won’t post nasty things anyone writes about someone else so don’t even try.
6. Be brief — 200-300 words tops.
7. Understand that your post may be edited. I will edit for grammar, spelling, clarity, and/or accuracy.
8. You are responsible for the accuracy of anything you submit including dates, times, and locations of events for posts or for the calendar. Double check your facts before you submit anything. You don’t want 400 people showing up for Friday pancake supper on Saturday.
9. Duration – generally, your post will run for two weeks.
10. Photos- you may submit a photo but you must provide names of everyone in the photo & contact info, and you must have their permission to post. If you ask me to dowload a photo from a public site, I will assume that you had permission to make that original post.
11. Any transactions or interactions in which readers engage as a result of using this site are the responsibility of the reader not of AroundCrownsville.com or Elaine Nagey. Exercise the same caution you would when acting on any public information or providing information to the public.
12. Enjoy– this site is meant to help build community within the Crownsville area.