A Cecil Times Special Report The Cecil County Commissioners decided in a recent closed door meeting to turn down—on the usual 3-2 vote– a proposed new school of technology on the Elkton site of the vacant Basell property that already has science labs and could be bought and renovated for about one-third the cost...
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Posted in Business, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, education, Elections, Elkton, politics, real estate, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 9 Comments »
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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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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In a much larger than usual voter turnout Tuesday, Perryville voters re-elected James Eberhardt as mayor, repudiating newcomer town Commissioner Michael A. Dawson and his outspoken attacks on town officials and employees. After the polls closed at 7 p.m., the elections board tallied the votes of 495 residents, with Eberhardt winning 320 votes to...
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Tags: cecil county, election, James Eberhardt, Jim Eberhardt, MAD Mike Dawson, mayor, Michael A. Dawson, Perryville, Politics, town council, vote
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A Cecil Times Special Report When is a newspaper not a newspaper? That’s what the Cecil County Commissioners have been trying to decide for over a year, and at stake is $152,000 a year in county funds that have been given exclusively to the Cecil Whig for legal advertising. A Circuit Court judge, the...
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