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		<title>BULLETIN: Harry Hepbron, ex-Commissioner, Winery Owner, Files for Cecil County Executive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in the GOP primary are first-term County Commissioner Tari Moore (R-2); Pete Pritchard, an unsuccessful candidate for county school board in the past; and Paul Trapani, a political neophyte and owner of a Chesapeake City-area marina. A Democrat, Robert McKnight, the mayor of North East, has also filed for County Executive. But other candidates may emerge before next week’s 1/11/12, 9 PM deadline to file candidacy papers. An unidentified woman picked up papers for the County Executive race at the Board of Elections office in Elkton on Friday, sources said. Hepbron is a popular figure in the western area of the county and among farm and business owners countywide. He served two terms as a county commissioner before being defeated by Brian Lockhart (D) in 2006. Hepbron came back to run for his old District 3 seat in the GOP primary in 2010, but came in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County to Pay Big Bucks for Farm Preservation Easement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Sun. The proposal, which has been pending before the commissioners since May, was formally introduced at the evening commissioners’ meeting, with a vote expected in two weeks. The property is owned by Jacob and Virginia Carson, who plan to sell the farm to an Amish family but want to ensure it is preserved as farmland for the future. They will obtain money from the actual sale and also money from the preservation easement, which will be funded by federal and county money. The resolution prepared for the Commissioners to introduce at their evening meeting listed total cost of the easement at $550,770, including $12,770 in acquisition costs and fees. The Cecil Land Trust has now obtained approval for federal Farm and Ranchland Protection Program funds in the amount of $244,000. That amount will be turned over to Cecil County to reimburse part of the up-front costs [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>House Redistricting: Cecil County Shifts Districts, Rudolph Gains Friendlier Turf, James Departs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Democratic-controlled gubernatorial commission late Friday. His all-Cecil County district has been renumbered as District 35A and redrawn to bypass some more heavily GOP areas in the western section of the county while moving eastward into more friendly Democratic areas. At the same time, Cecil countians will be saying goodbye to a longtime Delegate, Mary-Dulany James (D-34A) of Havre de Grace, whose district was redrawn to omit a small section of Cecil she represented for years. Instead, there will be a new Cecil-Harford district 35B. And southern Cecil County will see its clout diminished in a re-drawn 36th District, where Caroline County gains a significantly larger share of the turf. State Planning Department data show the new all-Cecil House District 35A has a voting age (18 and over) population of 32,021. In the new map, 6.2 percent of the voting age population is African-American. (Rudolph’s old district [&#8230;]]]></description>
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