We’re BAAACK– Sorry, all, for taking a few days off but we had a crisis of sorts to deal with. But we are back with some observations on good things happening in our southern Cecil County neck of the woods. We stopped in to visit Vic and Mary Priapi, proprietors of Priapi...
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It is long overdue, but the Cecil Whig is finally waking up to the fact that it has online competition from local news bloggers that have frequently written about issues that the Whig either did not cover at all or did not publish in print or put online until a day or more...
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It was nice to see the Whig write about housing foreclosures in Cecil County in Tuesday’s editions, focusing on a counselor who is working with families and their mortgage lenders to find solutions. We’ve been hearing about the foreclosure “crisis” nationally for quite some time so it was overdue for the Whig to...
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It’s not every weekend that you get to meet some real-life angels in Cecil County. Unfortunately, it is all too common that we see or hear of some folks “demonizing” others with whom they have a disagreement. The “angels” we met were the hundred or so people who came out for the...
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The Cecil Whig posted on its website Wednesday afternoon a four-paragraph item on the Phyllis Kilby Board of Appeals story we’ve been covering since last week. We were very amused to see the Whig posted a headine, “BREAKING NEWS: Board Rules in Kilby’s favor,” at 1.28 p.m. on Wednesday 9/24/08. The Cecil Times actually...
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It was worth missing family time and TV comedies to witness Maria Mastrippolito, a member of the Cecil County Board of Appeals, as she fumbled, stumbled and mumbled her advocacy for her neighbor, mentor and gal-pal, former Cecil County Commissioner Phyllis Kilby, at Tuesday night’s (9/23/08) meeting of Cecil County Board of...
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Former Cecil County Commissioner Phyllis Kilby won a zoning appeal before the Cecil County Board of Appeals Tuesday night (Sept. 23) on a 3-2 vote, ruling that her Rising Sun area ice cream, soup and sandwiches emporium isn’t really a restaurant and does not need a zoning special exception. Leading the...
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Former Cecil County Commissioner Phyllis Kilby and her family business enterprises are on the hot seat before the county Board of Appeals this week. The case involves “Kilby Cream,” which Mrs. Kilby bills as an ice cream parlor located on land owned by Kilbys, Inc., of which she is the long-term President. ...
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Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, R-1st, is backpedaling from his strongly positive comments on the Democratic Obama-Biden presidential ticket during a WYPR radio broadcast this week. Obama-Biden is a great ticket, and we need to break with past policies, according to Gilchrest, but that isn’t REALLY an endorsement. Funny how in this latest flipper-oo by Gilchrest...
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Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, R-1st, who was defeated in the Republican primary, has declared his support for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and VEEP running-mate Sen. Joe Biden in an interview with Baltimore public radio WYPR. (Read the brief report here: http://www.politickermd.com/danielreiter/3660/gilchrest-throws-support-behind-obama-biden It might seem like more of the same, since Gilchrest has endorsed Democrat Frank...
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Just when you thought you remembered the latest name of your local bank that has been merged with some other bank comes news that there is yet another local merger in the works. But this time you won’t have to learn a new name. People’s Bank of Elkton is the latest on the merger bandwagon....
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Things are starting to heat up, or at least show some signs of life, in the two contested Cecil County Commissioner races on the ballot in November. The signs are going up, the websites are being ramped up and the fundraisers are fast and furious. District 5: (to replace the retiring Mark Guns)– Republican...
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Supporters of the November referendum to allow slot-machines in Maryland may get a major infusion of cash, as much as $2 million, from Magna Entertainment, which owns Laurel Park and Pimlico in Baltimore, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. That would come on top of an unspcified amount expected to be put into the fray...
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