<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Cecil Times &#187; Rock Springs</title>
	<atom:link href="https://ceciltimes.com/tag/rock-springs/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://ceciltimes.com</link>
	<description>News and Views for Cecil County and the Eastern Shore of Maryland</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:25:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38</generator>
	<item>
		<title>Cecil County Economy: Two Employers Contrasts, Florklifters vs. Skilled Tech Jobs; Store Cashiers Top Future Job Growth</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2017/01/cecil-county-economy-two-employers-contrasts-florklifters-vs-skilled-tech-jobs-store-cashiers-top-future-job-growth/</link>
		<comments>https://ceciltimes.com/2017/01/cecil-county-economy-two-employers-contrasts-florklifters-vs-skilled-tech-jobs-store-cashiers-top-future-job-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elkton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State's Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anirban basu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OId Dominion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PILOT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rock Springs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sage Policy group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilcat point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workforce]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://ceciltimes.com/?p=5026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County had some good economic development news this week, for a change, with the formal announcement of 700 jobs with online retailer Amazon coming to a mega-warehouse near Perryville. But enthusiasm should be tempered with a dose of economic reality on the shortcomings of the local workforce and the paucity of better-paying tech jobs that could expand the local economy and taxbase. While Amazon will bring warehouse operations, employing forklift operators and order-pullers to its “fulfillment center” at a new 10-year leased facility at the Principio business park off Route 40, the quality of the local county workforce and job creation expectations do not bode well for the future in Cecil County, where a new study of workforce skills and expected job opportunities projects that the highest number of new jobs through 2022 in the area will be for low-paid store cashiers. At the same time, a high-value new employer in the county that has built a permanent, owned and operated facility had a positive workforce view—because it recruited computer and technology-savvy workers from other areas. John Ragone, managing director of energy development partnerships for Old Dominion Electric Co-operative, told the Cecil County Council this week that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://ceciltimes.com/2017/01/cecil-county-economy-two-employers-contrasts-florklifters-vs-skilled-tech-jobs-store-cashiers-top-future-job-growth/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Cecil County Chatter: 2002 Legacy Brings New $ Windfall; Thanks, Nelson and Harry</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/05/cecil-county-chatter-old-commissioners-legacy-brings-new-windfall-thanks-nelson-and-harry/</link>
		<comments>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/05/cecil-county-chatter-old-commissioners-legacy-brings-new-windfall-thanks-nelson-and-harry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 23:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Chatter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[county commissioner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["phyllis kilby"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil chatter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choptank Rural Electric Cooperative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Commissioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Hepbron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson Bolender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old Dominion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rock Springs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://ceciltimes.com/?p=3075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Commissioners’ 2002 Move Paves Way for Extra Revenues to County Now Who needs a fading casino when a little-known small power plant near the Pennsylvania state line has been a goldmine of revenues to Cecil County— providing a total of $54.2 million over 20 years? And what could be better than a new expansion of that facility that will bring in a proposed additional $40.7 million? Some members of the government establishment in Elkton were falling all over themselves recently to try to claim credit for a proposed new expansion of the Rock Springs power plant facility. But if a majority of the old three-member Board of Commissioners had not put the wheels in motion in 2002, there wouldn’t be any cause for political crowing now—and taxpayers’ might have had to foot a much larger burden for basic county government services for the past ten years. It was in 2002 when a two-member majority—Commissioners Nelson Bolender and Harry Hepbron—agreed to support construction of the Rock Springs power plant, located off Route 222 near the state line. And they negotiated a “payment in lieu of taxes” (PILOT) agreement, covering property taxes and ‘personal property’ or inventory taxes paid by businesses, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/05/cecil-county-chatter-old-commissioners-legacy-brings-new-windfall-thanks-nelson-and-harry/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
