In 1968, Mark Frostrom, Sr., was operating a backyard car repair business with his father, Robert Frostrom, Sr., when he met his wife, Diane. Her new VW Bug wouldn’t start, and her parents called the Frostroms to take a look. Life was different then.   “Dad worked on people’s VW’s in the evenings after he got off work from Bob Lawrence VW,” remembers Christy Frostrom, Mark’s sister and partner in the current family business, Frostrom Subaru. “My earliest memories of the business are of pumping the brake pedal for Dad as he bled the brakes on a customer’s car and standing on a 2x4 as extra weight while he leveraged a VW engine back in.”   Everyone pitched in. That’s just the way things were.   The Frostrom family business started in 1970 with good old-fashioned industry experience, integrity and hard work. Community support fueled their efforts, and in a short time, they went from a backyard garage repai... » Click here for the full story.

When was the last time you and your family connected, really connected, with nature in a meaningful way? Have you ever glided down a silent creek under your own power, where the only sounds that reach your ears are your paddle as it delicately breaches the surface of the water, the crisp fluttering of avian wings as they rise from a perch, and the wind itself as it whispers across your face? If answering those questions requires a pause, then it’s probably time to cast off the restrictive trappings of civilization, and truly immerse yourself in the primordial majesty of nature. For those of us on the Eastern Shore, such blissful respite waits only minutes away, in Berlin at Ayers Creek Adventures.   “We really have a total cross-section of visitors here, people of all ages and from all backgrounds,” said Steve Taylor, who with wife Suzy Taylor launched Ayers Creek Adventures in April. “We have lots of families, sure, but we also have many couples, individ... » Click here for the full story.

Some remember December 14, 2006, as one of the foggiest nights this area had seen in years. Visibility was down to zero. Perhaps the 1998 Bell 407 helicopter shouldn’t have flown that evening, but Christmas was in the air and 42-year-old former Green Beret Joshua Freeman had just left one Christmas party and had promised to attend another one.   The helicopter, with Freeman and the pilot aboard, disappeared into the thick night, never to arrive at its destination.   Joshua Freeman was lost to the world that night, leaving behind his three young children. And the successful builder-developer and CEO of Carl M. Freeman Associates also left behind someone else as part of his illustrious legacy – his wife, Michelle. Thanks to her own talent, intelligence and tireless dedication, she is seeing to it that her husband’s spirit will touch the lives of hundreds of thousands for generations to come, just as it had touched hers.   In 2007, Michelle founded t... » Click here for the full story.