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		<title>Deputies, &#8216;Transparency&#8217; Advocates Challenge Hornberger at Budget ‘Town Hall’; Schools, Library Backers Join Chorus of Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS In the past, Cecil County budget hearings usually sounded like polite beg-a-thons, with primarily schools and libraries advocates pleading for funds. But this year, a budget “town hall” meeting in Elkton was a chorus of anger and direct challenges to County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s policies, lack of spending “transparency” and short-changing of Sheriff’s deputies. As a solid blue line of Sheriff’s deputies&#8211;some in full uniform and others in polo shirts bearing the agency’s insignia&#8211; stood in the back of the Elk Room at the county administration building on Thursday (3/3/2021), two deputies spoke for them and voiced their outrage. “We are in a crisis,” said Michael Zack, a 19-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office and a former president of the FOP union representing deputies. Consistently low pay here, even as surrounding agencies have significantly boosted pay and are actively recruiting law enforcement officers, has led to a brain drain of experienced deputies here, he said. “While seeking election, deputies listened to you” saying that she was “a supporter of law enforcement,” Zack told Hornberger, who was seated in the front of the room but did not respond to citizen speakers. But Zack said that “townships in Pennsylvania” and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State, Exelon Settle Feud on Conowingo Dam, Susquehanna/Bay Pollution; Good News for Eels, Not So Much for Cecil County</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Gov. Larry Hogan and Exelon announced on Monday (10/29/2019) a settlement of a longstanding feud over federal licensing for continued operations of the Conowingo Dam in Cecil County, with $200 million invested over 50 years in the Susquehanna River and Upper Bay areas for water quality improvements. But the deal, which will clear the way for issuing a new license for the dam, does little if anything to remove the huge stockpile of leaking sediment behind the dam that has contributed to major pollution of the upper Chesapeake Bay. The agreement, hashed out after several years of intermittent feuding between the state and Exelon Generation Company, the dam’s owner, is good news for eels that will be able to slither through the dam to the Susquehanna River with greater ease. And a whole new population of mussels will be dancing in their shells in a new mussel hatchery that will be created on Exelon-owned land along the Susquehanna. The new $25 million mussel project, including land value, is expected to capitalize on the creatures’ water filtration abilities to help reduce existing water pollution. Gov. Hogan said the mussel project would include creation of a “state of the art” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Property Values Rise in South County; Home Sellers Benefit, Residents Could Face Higher Tax Bills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home values rose 9 percent in southern Cecil County and parts of Elkton over the past three years, according to new state property assessments&#8211; reflecting a resurging real estate economy in the county and a blessing for homeowners who suffered major losses in values during the recession that left them with mortgages higher than their property was worth. But the new valuations could mean higher tax bills for some residents. The Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation (MDAT) recently issued new property valuations for one-third of Cecil County, covering southern Cecil County and parts of Elkton in an area designated as “Group 1.” One-third of county properties are re-assessed by the state each year, with all properties re-evaluated over a three-year cycle. The new assessments calculated that residential properties rose in value by 9 percent over their last evaluation three years ago, while commercial property values in the area rose by 11.4 percent in the “Group 1” area. Gary Duffy, supervisor of assessments for the Cecil County office of MDAT, told Cecil Times that the Group 1 area of the new assessments covers the south county, including Earleville, Cecilton, and Chesapeake City, plus sectors of Elkton south of I-95 and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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