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		<title>Delaware Road Takes Heavy Toll in South Cecil: Angry Residents Demand End of Truck Invasion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was anger in the air, and some gallows humor, as about 100 southern Cecil County area residents gathered in Cecilton Wednesday evening (3/20/2019) to question state and local officials on efforts to counteract the invasion of heavy trucks, and speeding cars, in the Warwick and Cecilton areas as drivers trying to avoid newly imposed tolls on US 301 in Delaware clog rural roads in Maryland. Cecil County and Maryland state officials fielded questions and provided answers, but there was a glaring absence of officials from the Delaware Department of Transportation (DELDOT), the architects of the 301 tollroad project. A small contingent of Delaware State Police truck enforcement officers did attend, apparently as a show of solidarity with their counterparts from Maryland, with whom they have recently conducted joint truck weight enforcement efforts on both sides of the state line. Toward the end of the nearly two-hour session, Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy told the crowd that he thought an “abatement” of the tolls for a trial period, while various solutions were explored, would be a positive step. He said he would raise the prospect of suspending the tolls in further talks with DELDOT and try to enlist the help [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Expert Cries &#8216;Fowl&#8217; on Chicken Farms; Cecil Co Council Questions Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past several months, a vocal group of local residents and allies in environmental groups have protested, waved signs and flocked to Cecil County government meetings to protest a proposed new organic chicken farm near Zion that they feel will reduce their property values and cause environmental harm. On Tuesday, they brought a public health expert to Elkton to argue their case. But the expert, Dr. Jillian Fry, an assistant scientist and project director at the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, repeatedly said under questions from County Council members that scientific data was unavailable to document certain health risks or “the science isn’t there yet.” Nevertheless, Fry said, “It seems people interpret a lack of local evidence proves there is no risk and that’s not true.” Fry noted that air pollution and emissions of particulate matter from large-scale poultry operations, such as those on the lower Eastern Shore, posed a greater risk of asthma for humans living near the farms. Large exhaust fans on chicken houses emit ammonia, “pathogens,” particulates and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s), Fry said. Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) inquired what was the asthma rate in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiers, Tears and Taunts: Cecil County Commish Blasted on &#8220;Tier&#8221; Maps; Broomell Bashes Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were tears from farm families fearful of losing their land legacy, taunts from property rights advocates and angry outbursts by Cecil County Commissioner Diana Broomell against her critics and a fellow commissioner, as an overflow crowd jammed a public hearing in Elkton Tuesday night on a proposed ‘tier” land preservation map endorsed by a three-vote majority of the Commissioners. The comments were spirited and overwhelmingly against the proposal. But at one point the verbiage spilled over into an attack by Broomell (R-4) against members of the Cecil County Patriots, the local “tea party” group that has been outspoken against the plan, and yet another attack by Broomell on her fellow county commissioner, Robert Hodge (R-5). Broomell was a prime architect of the so-called “Draft 4” version of the “tier” maps that are being drawn under directives from new state legislation designed to control land development as part of Chesapeake Bay clean-up efforts. But the core of the local controversy that played out at the public hearing was whether the “Draft 4” map puts too much privately-owned land into a no-growth category, well beyond what the county’s relatively new Comprehensive Plan called for. It was that “Draft 4” map that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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