Last Updated on May 17, 2025
Photos by Members of the Photo Interest Group – June 2020
At each meeting, members of the Photography Interest Group select the photos to be honored by displaying them on this CCICharlestown website. This month’s photographs are by Gloria Davis, John Chasse, Bill May, Janet Allan, John Oxenham, and Dick Crebs.
Scholars’ Fund Campaign Goal Accomplished!
THANK YOU and congratulations Charlestown residents! With your support and generous donations, our 2020 Campaign exceeded the goal and raised a total of $218,266 for the Charlestown Scholars' Program. This year’s campaign had the challenge of occurring in the early...
MaCCRA Holds Zoom Meeting on June 6
MaCCRA elected officers for the next fiscal year starting July 1, 2020. Stephen Harders joins, President Ann MacKay, President as the new Treasurer. The returning officers are Lorrie Rogers, Collington, Grace Smearman, Mercy Ridge, and Dave Hall, Carroll Lutheran...
Managing a Mask and Your Hearing Aids
Submitted by Dick Crebs - Good tips on wearing a mask if you have hearing aids.
Charlestown Black Lives Matter Protest
submitted by Dick Crebs and Naomi Benzil. On Saturday, June 6th, about 50 Charlestown residents participated in a Black Lives Matter protest. We maintained social distance. There were no police and no rioting.
CVS Pharmacy Pickup Instructions
Pharmacy Non-Contact Pick Up Instructions: 1. Call CVS Pharmacy (410-737-8820) and speak with a staff member to place orders for prescriptions or over-the-counter items.2. Inform the CVS staff member you would like to pick up your order.3. Call the pharmacy before...
Ideas and Recipes for Charlestown’s Delivered Food
Peggy Crebs has submitted ideas and recipes for Charlestown delivered foods. Ed Piechowiak has added additional suggestions.
(1) Uses for the Delivered Dole Fruits
(2)Other Uses for the Bourbon Sauce and Uses for Marinades
(3)Sprucing up Delivered Soups– Tomato, Chicken, Mushroom
(4) Using Delivered Foods for New Recipes, such as a Chicken Stew with a Nut Butter, Chicken Piccata, and Easy Meat Sauces
Call Peggy for any recipes. They will be delivered via inner-community mail.
Residents Allowed to Pick up Mail Beginning June 4
Effective Thursday, June 4, 2020, residents are now able to collect their own U.S. Postal Service and cubby mail as part of the administration's Safer at Home phase 1 reopening plan. The following process has been instituted: • Residents whose last name begins with A...
Charlestown Environment
Bert Clegern, our resident biologist, has prepared a 22-page document on the natural history of Charlestown, the background on the development, and the outdoor and indoor environment on our 110-acre campus.The Appendices are listed as separate documents to allow...
Don’t Toss Out Your Stimulus Payment With the Junk Mail
Photo Credit: AARP/TaxesThe AARP website warns you not to throw away your stimulus payment in the form of a prepaid debit card. This card, also known as an Economic Impact Payment (EIP) card is sent to you in a plain envelope, marked from “Money NetworkA network consists of two or more computers that are linked in order to share resources (such as printers and CDs), exchange files, or allow electronic communications. The computers on a network may be linked through cables, telephone lines, radio waves, satellites, or infrared light beams. See also... READ MORE Cardholder...