MD DNR grant program now open to applications for 2025

(July 21, 2023) Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials recently announced the Grants Gateway application period is open for local governments and organizations for Fiscal Year 2025.

According to a news release, funding is available for projects across the state that restore local waterways, increase communities’ resilience to climate change and storm impacts, strengthen local economies, develop the next generation of environmental stewards, and foster sustainable development and use of Maryland waterways with projects that benefit the general boating public.

The department’s Grants Gateway provides a streamlined, single point of entry to several state and federal programs, maximizing the resources available to restore the Chesapeake Bay and help coastal communities.

The program, now in its fourth year, enables communities better access to financial resources and a more intuitive reporting and management process.

Grants are funded through the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund, the Waterway Improvement Fund, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program.

More information on the programs can be found on the Department of Natural Resources website.

(July 21, 2023) A nationwide bicycle tour to promote PTSD911, a documentary film that highlights the struggles of first responders, is ending this week with the final screening in Ocean City.

For the past two-plus months, film director Conrad Weaver and his friend, John Patterson, have been on the PTSD911 Coast to Coast Bike and Film Tour, traveling across the country on bicycles promoting the film and the people featured in it.

The pair Astoria, Oregon, on May

15 with plans to stop and stay in fire houses in various cities and towns along the way in exchange for screenings of the film.

At 7 p.m., Friday, July 21, they are showing the film for the final time at the at the Ocean City Performing Arts Center on 40th Street.

For more information about the tour and film, visit ptsd911movie.com/coast2coast/. To buy tickets to the Ocean City screening, visit: ptsd911.myshopify.com/products/ptsd911-ocean-city-md