A Caroline County family is searching for five goats that mysteriously disappeared from their property Saturday evening.  Tiffany Collins Cummings says the goats, Daisy, Moose, George, Henry and Moo, also known as Bob, had never wandered away from the farm before.  A pet sitter went outside around 7:30 PM to put the goats in their pen for the night, only to discover they were gone.  Security camera footage from earlier that evening shows the goats grazing in the front yard.  Shortly after a gray pickup truck passed by, the goats begin slowly walking toward the entrance of the driveway.  Cummings says the animals are extremely friendly and closely bonded with her family, and have been in their care since June.  A $1,000 reward is being offered for the goats if they are found alive.  The family reported the goats missing to police and contacted Caroline County Animal Services, and flyers with photos of the animals have also been posted around the area.  Anyone with information about their whereabouts is asked to contact Cummings using the information provided on the missing-goat flyers. 

Most likely voters in four Midshore counties support building a new Chesapeake Bay Bridge, according to a new poll. Even more of them say protecting farmland and open space should be part of that plan.  According to the poll, 63% of likely voters across the Midshore, including Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot counties,  support a new bridge. Among those supporters, two thirds said better traffic flow and fewer delays are the main reason.  The poll also found that 85% of residents in the counties most affected by the bridge support creating a fund set aside for land conservation.  Officials with the Maryland Transportation Authority have called a new Bay Bridge the “largest infrastructure project in Maryland’s history.” Even so, completion is likely a decade or more away, and no money has been committed to build it. The full poll report is posted at eslc.org/resources.