Harry Hepbron, a former two-term Cecil County Commissioner and the founder of the award-winning Dove Valley Vineyards and Winery in Rising Sun, filed his candidacy for Cecil County Executive Friday as a Republican. Hepbron, a plain-spoken businessman and farmer, enters an increasingly crowded field in the first-ever Cecil County Executive contest. Other Republicans contending...
Read more »
Tags: campaign finance, cecil county, Cecil Times, ceciltimes, county executive, Diana Broomell, Dove Valley, election, Elkton, farmer, Harry Hepbron, Michael Smigiel, North East, Paul Trapani, Pete Pritchard, Politics, Republican, Rising Sun, Robert McKnight, Tari Moore, vineyard, winery
Posted in campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, Elections, politics, Republicans, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Cecil County will pay a private landowner for a Rising Sun-area farm preservation easement, the first installment of up to $2 million in new local government-paid incentives to preserve farmland. During a worksession Tuesday, County Commissioners briefly reviewed the proposal to purchase an easement on a 152 acre farm on Route 274 near Rising...
Read more »
Tags: Bill Kilby, Bill Miners, budget, Cecil Times, ceciltimes, chesapeake city, Craig Whiteford, Diana Broomell, easement, farm, farmland, farmland preservation, james mullin, Michael Dunn, Planning Commission, recordation fee, Robert Hodge, tax, William Kilby, William Miners
Posted in Business, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, politics, real estate, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
When Del. David Rudolph (D-34B) eked out a tiny margin of victory in a three-way general election contest last year, his supporters breathed a sigh of relief and told themselves it wouldn’t happen again: “There’s always redistricting,” they hoped. Rudolph’s redistricting prayers seem to have been answered in the new maps proposed by a...
Read more »
Tags: 34A, 35A, 35B, 36th District, Carl Roberts, cecil county, Cecil Times, ceciltimes, David Rudolph, district, District 36, Donna Stiffler, election, Glen Glass, Havre de Grace, Mary-Dulany James, news, Politics, Port Deposit, redistricting, Rising Sun, Susan McComas
Posted in campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, census, Democrats, E.J. Pipkin, Elections, governor, Michael Smigiel, politics, real estate, Republicans, Rising Sun, Uncategorized | No Comments »
What’s in a name? In Cecil County—and especially in Perryville—there has been a lot of confusion over the two Mike Dawsons. But one of them recently filed election documents intended to make his identity clear to local voters. Michael W. Dawson (MWD) was the Constitution Party candidate last year for state Delegate in District...
Read more »
Tags: ballot, Cecil Times, ceciltimes, Constitution Party, David Rudolph, delegate, delegate 2010, election, election board, Mad Mike, Michael A. Dawson, Michael W. Dawson, Perryville, pipkin, Politics, Republican, Republican National Convention, Smigiel, Smipkin, Smipkins, Three Amigos
Posted in Business, campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, Elections, Michael Smigiel, politics, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Uncategorized | No Comments »
What part of you lost the vote—and the state Ethics Board also disagrees with you—does Cecil County Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4) not understand? Like a child who refuses to accept a parent’s declaration of no cookies before dinner, it was déjà vu all over again Tuesday, as Broomell once again refused to accept defeat...
Read more »
Tags: cecil county, Cecil Times, ceciltimes, commissioner, conflict of interest, corruption, Diana Broomell, ethics, financial disclosure, james mullin, jim mullin, Robert Hodge, Tari Moore
Posted in Business, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, education, Elections, politics, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 16 Comments »