Cecil County Commissioners were asked Tuesday to support spending $100,000 to add sidewalks to a multi-million dollar construction project to upgrade Razor Strap Rd. in North East, in large part because a proposed subsidized housing development would let a Boys and Girls Club use its recreation center. It was the latest example of a...
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Tags: Boys and Girls Club, cecil county, Department of Public Works, Diana Broomell, DPW, Ingerman Group, low income housing, New East Crossing, North East, Razor Strap Rd., razorstrap, Robert Hodge, Scott Flanigan, sidewalk, snow plowing, subsidized housing
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The Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday adopted operating and capital improvement budgets that will give property owners their second consecutive “Happy Meal” tax cut— yielding savings of about the cost of a family’s fast-food meal—while delaying many construction projects. But unlike last year’s contentious budget process, this year the County Commissioners were unanimous in their...
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A Cecil Times Special Report Valerie Falcioni, a new Cecil County Ethics Commission member appointed last December, is slated to take over the chairmanship of the panel this week, after two long-term members resigned recently. The three remaining members of the five-seat panel were all appointed last December. Falcioni is a longtime friend of...
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Tags: Bruce Hemphill, cecil county, Diana Broomell, Diana gillig, ethics, Ethics Commission, ethics panel, Jason Allison, North East, PSC, Public Service Commission, Robert Hodge, state ethics, town, Valerie Falconi, Valery Falcioni, Walt Rozanski, water, William (Bruce)Hemphill, worksession
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Cecil County taxpayers are getting a significant cost break on legal advertising of properties that are delinquent on their county property taxes, thanks to competition to the Cecil Whig. And County Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4) gets a “pat on the back” for being technically and legally right on her contentious challenges on the issue....
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No bad deed goes unrewarded, at least in Cecil County politics. A few weeks ago, Robert Gorman was slinging mud at Circuit Court Judge Keith Baynes in the primary election contest in which Gorman’s longtime political pal, Del. Michael Smigiel, was running for a judicial seat. Smigiel lost overwhelmingly but now the Smipkin political...
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Tags: "Chris Zeauskas", cecil county, charter, charter advisory, charter government, child molesters, cronyism, E.J. Pipkin, Joyce Bowlsbey, Judge Keith Baynes, Michael Smigiel, PAC, predators, primary election, Republican Central Committee, Robert Gorman, robo-call, robocall, Smipkin
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