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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>Cecil County Farm Museum to Abandon County-Owned Site; Wetlands Problems Cited</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizers of the long-stalled Cecil County Farm Museum, proposed a decade ago for a Cherry Hill-area site, have told county officials they will give up their lease on the county-owned land and look for another location. That action will leave the county holding an 84-acre property with access and wetlands problems that is now worth much less than the county paid to buy it in 2002. During their Tuesday worksession, county staff told the Board of Commissioners that the Cecil County Farm Museum, Inc., a non-profit group set up to build the museum, wants out of the rent-free 99-year lease that was signed in November, 2002. For over a year, the county has been dealing with problems caused when the museum group built a road that violated wetlands protection regulations, resulting in protests from the Army Corps of Engineers and the state Department of the Environment. To fix environmental problems with the road could cost $250,000, which the group felt was too costly, so they decided it would be cheaper to rip out the road and restore the land to its previous condition, the commissioners were told. Then the group will abandon that site and look for another location. That [&#8230;]]]></description>
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