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Q - What's this website all about?
A - As the home page subtitle states, this website is about everything on the North
Point Peninsula of Baltimore County, Maryland, USA.
Q - Where is Edgemere?
A - Edgemere, Maryland is the largest community on the North Point Peninsula
of Baltimore County. It's easily accessible via the Baltimore Beltway
(I-695) Exit 42, the Patapsco River, and the Chesapeake Bay.
Q - How many people live in Edgemere?
A - According to the 2000 Census, 9,248 people. Click here to download
the full census for Edgemere:
http://censtats.census.gov/data/MD/1602424950.pdf
Q - What area does this website cover?
A - We consider the North Point Peninsula to be all of the land south of Old
Battle Grove Road, and between Bear Creek, Patapsco River, Chesapeake Bay, &
Back River.
Click here to see the North Point Peninsula.
Q - How old is Edgemere?
A - There's not an exact establishment date of Edgemere,
but in the
early 1900's, people from several neighborhoods gathered in one of the
churches to select a name for the community where the present SPHS building
is located. After much discussion, the name Edgemere was chosen by
combining "edge," a margin or boundary, with "mere," from the Old English
for sea or lake.
An earlier reference to what may have been Edgemere was made by a British
Army officer during the invasion of September 12, 1814, that stated they
passed through a small collection houses at a crossroads 3-miles from the
beach head.
Q - Why does some of my mail arrive
saying that my address is in "Sparrows Point"?
A - The United States Postal System designates the 21219 zip code as being
Sparrows Point - even though no one lives there. Be glad they deliver
your mail at all!
Q - Where can I stay when I come to
visit Edgemere?
A - If you're fortunate, with friends or family. If not, you'll have
to stay in any number of hotels around the Beltway. Edgemere has no
hotels.
Q - Why is our area often referred to
as Dundalk?
A - Because dumb people say dumb things.
Q -
Why are some groups on MyEdgemere and others not?
A - Some of the groups, teams, & organizations have
taken advantage of our offer of free websites and others have not. If
you want your group's website here,
click this and learn
how.
Q - Why don't you do news stories on this site?
A - There are more than enough local newspapers
covering Eastern Baltimore County. MyEdgemere.com's mission is
the North Point Peninsula, not reporting about it.
Q -
How often is the website updated?
A - MyEdgemere.com is updated everyday in some
way. It may be just adding scores to the SPHS Team Schedules, or major
updates to our group's pages.
Q -
How many hits do you get during the day?
A - We don't count hits; we count "unique
visits" to the site. A unique visit is a single visit by each computer
that accesses any page. It can never count as a new visit that day.
As of
February 1st, 2005, we're averaging
940 unique visits a day.
Q -
Why don't you have a message board were people can post things?
A - Message boards contain very little useful
information and tend to be used by perverts & low-life's.
Q -
Can I announce family reunions, weddings, and such on MyEdgemere for
free?
A - Yes - so long as it's not a for-profit business.
Businesses can advertise on MyEdgemere.com for far less then the
local print outlets.
Q -
Who owns this website?
A - MyEdgemere.com is privately owned &
maintained by and for people that love the North Point Peninsula.
Q -
Have you ever thought about doing interviews with prominent people?
A - No. But now that we think about it - No.
Q -
Why don't the local politicians have websites on MyEdgemere?
A - See the answer above about Message Boards.
Q -
Why do you call the site MyEdgemere, when you cover so many other
communities & neighborhoods?
A - Calling it
MyEveryCommunity&NeighborhoodOnTheNorthPointPeninsula.com seemed a bit
wordy to us.
Q -
Where's the best place to experience Winter on North Point?
A - Bermuda.
Q -
Why does your website look weird in Netscape?
A - Because Netscape is a 2nd rate browser.
Q -
You used to have a lot of links to stories from the Dundalk Eagle.
Where'd they all go?
A - The Dundalk Eagle is now charging to use
their achieves. We don't believe the stories are worth the cost.
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