The Cecil County Council, including Council President Robert Hodge (R-5), demanded answers Tuesday when told that the US Army Corps of Engineers would soon be presenting a design plan to state environmental officials to deal with the Corps’ polluted dumpsite in Earleville and would meet with county officials after talks with the state. Council...
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Cecil County Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) went into battle-mode Tuesday over the pollution of Earleville residents’ drinking water by the US Army Corps of Engineers, asking fellow Council members if they were willing to “fight the battle”– and saying she was ready to do so. Bowlsbey asked for a special worksession of the County...
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COMMENTARY Down here in Earleville, and other south-of-the-Canal environs of Cecil County, local residents often wonder if our county government in Elkton understands, or cares, about the challenges that many rural residents face. That was particularly true on Monday, when all of Earleville was without electricity, wireless phones, well-water pumping or toilet flushing capacities,...
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If you take a paycheck, most employers expect you to show up for the job. But taxpayers didn’t get the job done by one of their employees when Cecil County Del. Michael Smigiel (R-36) was a no-show as the House of Delegates passed one of the most locally reviled bills of this year’s General...
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It was the Scott Flanigan show at the Cecil County Council Tuesday morning, as the county’s Director of Public Works, with a supporting cast of staff and consultants and charts projected on the wall, waded through the muck of the county’s Seneca Point sewage treatment plant– and made a strong case for spending $29...
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