Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy has proposed his first budget that breaks with years of deficit-financed spending policies in the county but takes the politically risky road of raising property and income taxes to pay for county services. Property taxes would rise by $100 a year for a home valued at $200,000, while local...
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The Cecil County Council voted late Thursday afternoon in Elkton to support most of County Executive Tari Moore’s Fiscal 2014 budget proposal, repeatedly rejecting proposals by Councilors Diana Broomell (R-4) and Michael Dunn to (R-3) to slash money for county public schools, public safety and public works projects. The votes showed the intentions of...
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The renowned Christiana Care Health System’s hospital and trauma center in Delaware recently opened a satellite “Emergency Department” in Middletown that provides a new source of medical services to southern Cecil County, Maryland residents—but local ambulance transport in emergencies is still a while away. The new $34 million, 36,500 square foot emergency medical services...
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Cecil County volunteer fire companies are challenging a proposal by the county’s emergency services director to create a new government-operated basic ambulance service. Instead, they propose a paid driver service, covering the Cecilton and Hack’s Point areas of southern Cecil County, that would be operated by the two fire companies in those areas. The...
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