Archive for September, 2012
Holy Cricket! What is going on with Schooley Mill?
The inter-web is a-twitter with the rumor that horses are going to be shut out of Schooley Mill Park in Howard County. The following notice has been widely circulated via email (so much so that we can not find the original source or author): “The county is planning to put a six-acre cricket field at [...]
Maryland will miss beloved 4-H Leader Shirley Geis
UPDATED 10/17/12 It is with heavy heart that we report that beloved 4-H leader Shirley Geis (Clarksville) died September 19. She would have been 83 on September 21. We extend our deepest condolences to her son, farrier Dean Geis, Dean’s wife Lori, and to all the members and alumni of the Spur & Stirrups 4-H [...]
GoDaddy Goes – taking equiery.com and 53 million other websites with it
Maryland horse owners and horse-business owners know that the 10th of the month is ‘EQUIERY DEADLINE!” Well, Monday, September 10 was also the day that a hacker shut down the web hosting site GoDaddy, taking down 53 million domain names with it. Equiery.com was one of those sites. (For more information, please see CNN.) For [...]
Maryland horsewomen Dori Johnson & Caroline Gardner have that Touch of Class
Two Maryland-born polocrosse players who compete at the national and international level have been named the August “Touch of Class” award winners by the Maryland Horse Industry Board (MHIB). Dori Johnson (who we in Maryland know by her maiden name of Wiseman) and Caroline Gardiner returned this month from representing the United States in a [...]
