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Who’ll Let the Dogs Out? Days from Deadline, Cecil County Scrambles to Handle Animal Control

August 28, 2012

A Cecil Times Special Report Just days before a Friday deadline for Cecil County to assume responsibility for animal control, the county government is scrambling to cobble together a plan using wildlife trappers/pest removal contractors and a commercial boarding kennel, which is currently unlicensed, to handle emergency-only calls for help. What emerged from a...
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Posted in cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, Michael Halter, politics, real estate, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 28 Comments »

New “Workforce” Family Housing Proposed for Cecilton, a First for Southern Cecil County

August 27, 2012

A New Jersey-based developer is proposing construction of 60 apartments in Cecilton under state and federal assisted housing programs that will allow for reduced rents, the first project of its kind in the area. The estimated 120 people expected to live in the development, to be called Parkland at Cecilton, would bring a significant...
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Posted in Business, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Times, Cecilton, census, chesapeake city, county commissioner, Elkton, real estate, seniors, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Farmers’ Tractorcade Protests Cecil County Commissioners ‘Tier’ Maps, Property Rights Limits

August 22, 2012
Farmers’ Tractorcade Protests Cecil County Commissioners ‘Tier’ Maps, Property Rights Limits

About 20 tractors, in classic John Deere green and a few blue Fords, formed a political conga line on Route 40 Tuesday afternoon and circled the Cecil County administration building in Elkton, to protest a map adopted by a majority of County Commissioners that would sharply limit many farmers’ property rights. It was the...
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Posted in Business, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecilton, county commissioner, governor, Martin O'Malley, politics, real estate, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 15 Comments »

The Bridges of Cecil County: Deja vu Do-Overs

August 15, 2012

News Analysis If you were going to write a Cecil County version of the saccharine popular romantic novel, “The Bridges of Madison County,” it would be more like a rather tedious historical novel, full of the same places and the same characters, doing and saying the same things over and over but at least...
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Posted in Business, campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Cecilton, county commissioner, Elections, politics, real estate, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 13 Comments »

NOTE to Cecil Times Readers: Gone Fishin’

July 24, 2012

NOTE to CECIL TIMES readers: Cecil Times is taking a summer break for two weeks. So we will be absent from our usual front-row seat at the weekly circus in Elkton, otherwise known as the Commish meetings. We will be checking periodically for comments on the website and info from readers at our Cecil...
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