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		<title>Cecil County Budget Review Highlights Jobs (and Jabs); Fair Hill Trots Out Best to Impress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy’s first budget, which boosts spending for economic development and job-creation efforts, drew scrutiny from the County Council this week as McCarthy and state officials saddled up to try to bring elite four-legged tourists and the humans who love them to the county for a potential multi-million dollar jackpot. Chris Moyer, the county’s new Director of Economic Development, told the County Council on Tuesday (4/18/2017) that the executive’s proposed budget provides a 5.7 percent increase in Fiscal 2018 over the current budget year for economic development efforts, including tourism promotion and agriculture as well as business and job development. He said his agency “fully appreciates that the county has limited resources,” but urged the council to support the budget request as one that will pay off for the county in the long run. Several of the increases would benefit the tourism promotion office, with hiring of a part-time office services assistant and a higher advertising and promotion budget. The tourism office received kudos last year for hosting the return of the Bassmaster international fishing competition to Cecil County, an event that was estimated to contribute as much as $2 million to the local economy. The tourism [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials Apologize for Delayed Response to Water Issues Near Earleville Dump, Bottled Water Given at Local Meeting; Some Wells Had 1,000 Times Max Manganese</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2016 22:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over 20 years, Earleville residents living near a federal shipping channel dredge spoil dumpsite fought for recognition, accountability and an immediate solution for pollution of their drinking water wells. Finally, on Saturday 5/28/16, they got an apology, free bottled water, and the concerned attention of Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration, represented by the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). But the polluters-in-chief—the US Army Corps of Engineers—were nowhere to be seen or heard at a hastily called community meeting at Bohemia Manor High School in Chesapeake City to discuss recently disclosed high levels of manganese in both untreated wellwater and water treated with home filtration systems. The high levels of manganese—which has been linked to neurological and brain damage in young children in multiple studies and neurological problems in older adults in some research—were recorded by the Cecil County health department in 2013 and 2014 well tests, and forwarded to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in mid-2014 for review. But the federal agency only responded, with alarm bells about the manganese levels in local well tests, a few weeks ago. [SEE the exclusive CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT, published last week on 5/25/16, here: [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State Transpo Chief Boasts of Pressing Enviro Agency to OK Pearce Creek Dumpsite; New Railyard in Cecil Co linked to Commuter Trains to Elkton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELKTON&#8211;State transportation officials converged on Elkton on Tuesday 9/30/14 to outline state spending priorities in Cecil County, as Transportation Secretary Jim Smith boasted of multi-agency meetings to pressure for quick approval of an environmental permit to allow resumed shipping channel dredge spoil dumping at an Earleville site that has polluted local residents’ drinking water wells. “We’re setting deadlines,” Smith said, for a decision by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) on issuing a permit for renewed dumping at the Earleville site. He said there would be “an announcement by November 21.” However, by state law, MDE has one year from the 7/1/14 date on which the US Army Corps of Engineers formally filed its application for a state water quality certification that is needed before shipping channel dredge spoils could be dumped at the Earleville site. (Dumping at the Pearce Creek site in Earleville was barred over 20 years ago by MDE due to concerns over pollution of area aquifers that serve residential water wells. An independent federal study by the US Geological Survey issued in January, 2013, confirmed that the Corps dumpsite had polluted aquifers and local residents’ water supply, including concentrations of arsenic and multiple other toxic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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