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		<title>Cecil County Commentary: No Electricity, Internet or TV&#8211; South County Realities, Does Elkton Understand?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY Down here in Earleville, and other south-of-the-Canal environs of Cecil County, local residents often wonder if our county government in Elkton understands, or cares, about the challenges that many rural residents face. That was particularly true on Monday, when all of Earleville was without electricity, wireless phones, well-water pumping or toilet flushing capacities, and Internet or satellite TV services for most of the day. Our local electricity provider, Choptank Rural Electric Co-Operative, is a great, locally-admired service provider—showing up within minutes of devastating weather catastrophes such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Since it is a co-operative—organized under federal programs to bring electricity to rural areas—Choptank is not profit-motivated and has always had customer service as a top priority. Choptank notified customers in advance that power would be cut off for most of the day due to needed repairs, but their estimated time for outages was vastly longer than anticipated. So local residents were powerless from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. And this was on a clear, sunny day, with no unusual weather problems. Since the rural electric co-operatives do not generate their own power, they must buy power from larger profit-making entities—like Delmarva Power on the Eastern Shore. As a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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