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		<title>Cecil County Schools to Require Masks for Students, Staff to Keep Schools Open Despite High COVID Rates, Low Vaccinations; 2 Politicians Fuel Anti-Mask Furor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 01:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) will require students and staff to wear protective masks indoors, and on school buses, when classes resume on 9/1/2021, Schools Superintendent Jeff Lawson announced Wednesday (8/25/2021) in a video posted online. The masking rules are in response to high rates of COVID-19 infections in the county and rising counts of childhood infections. Lawson said the decision was designed to keep the schools open and prevent potential mandatory quarantines that could result in school closings if there were rising positivity rates for COVID-19. “It’s about keeping schools open,” he said. “This has been a constant challenge,” Lawson said of the past year in coping with the ups and downs of the pandemic and requirements to quarantine students after positive tests. CCPS was one of the more “open” school systems in the state during the last academic year, mixing online learning options with gradually increasing in-person classroom teaching with social distancing, masks, and shield options. But infection outbreaks required some shutdowns of in person learning programs. Lawson said the new mask rules would, under state and federal guidelines, permit smaller group quarantines if a student tested positive for COVID and make it less likely that an entire [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State Prosecutor Opens Criminal Probe in Hornberger Campaign Case, Court Told; Ex-Election Aide Denies Forgery; Judge to Rule Next Week</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2020/08/state-prosecutor-opens-criminal-probe-in-hornberger-campaign-case-court-told-ex-election-aide-denies-forgery-judge-to-rule-next-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 00:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day-long hearing in a Cecil County Circuit Court case seeking to void Danielle Hornberger’s apparently winning campaign for County Executive in the Republican primary election brought new allegations of potential document forgeries and additional revelations of behind-the-scenes contacts between Hornberger and a local elections board official. In addition, it was disclosed for the first time that the Office of the State Prosecutor (OSP) has officially launched a criminal investigation into the matter. Judge Thomas G. Ross, formerly a Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court judge now on senior status and who is hearing the case here, said he would consider the testimony and evidence and render a decision in five days, or Tuesday 8/18/2020. A surprise witness, Lora Walters, the now ousted former deputy director of the local BOE, testified, despite warnings that she could face legal jeopardy if she waived her Fifth Amendment rights. She said she “wanted to tell my story” and denied forging any documents. She had been summoned to appear as a witness, but had avoided being served with the summons, yet she showed up at the hearing without a lawyer. An amended complaint also named Walters as a defendant in the case, which was filed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Rise as Gov. Hogan Hopes to Re-Open State; Tests Lag on Shore—Hogan to Shore: “Drop Dead???”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT NEWS ANALYSIS Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has a plan to re-open the state’s economy in a safe, staged fashion while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic but the numbers—rising infections, deaths and miniscule testing rates in the state—are getting in the way. And while most of the state’s virus testing, hospital expansion and emergency steps have focused on the Baltimore area and Washington suburbs, there is a growing threat on the Eastern Shore that has not been addressed. Unless the state steps up its attention to the rising virus problems on the Eastern Shore, we will be left to wonder if that famous New York Post headline of many years ago might be revived and modified to assert: “Hogan to Shore: Drop Dead.” On Tuesday (4/28/2020), the Cecil County Health Department reported, as it had a day earlier, that the local death toll from the virus stood at 8 people and provided an updated count of 165 residents testing positive for the virus. The state report issued Tuesday still did not update the fatalities for Cecil County and listed the 6 deaths from an earlier report. However, the 8 fatalities reported locally made Cecil County the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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