Buoyed by their recent success at ending the spreading of sludge in Susquehanna State Park in Havre de Grace, opponents vow to seek an end to the practice on parkland across Maryland.

The permit request for acreage just inside the park gate was withdrawn Aug. 24 and will not be renewed, according to the applicant.

“We are in this for the long haul,” said Diane Rogers of Quaker Bottom Road, who lives a few hundred yards from the park entrance. “I want to see our parks stay public and not have fields shut down.”[…]