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		<title>State Virus Deathtoll Rises; Job Shutdowns Skyrocket Unemployment Numbers; Cecil County Gives Aid to Small Biz</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 virus pandemic escalated its destructive path on Thursday (4/2/2020) as the Maryland death toll doubled in two days and out-of-work state and local residents filed massive new claims for unemployment benefits. The state Health Department posted new figures on the number of confirmed cases Thursday morning, showing 2,331 Marylanders have tested positive for the virus and 36 people have died. On Tuesday, the death toll stood at 18, with 1,660 confirmed cases. The number of confirmed cases will no doubt rise significantly as the state, which was late to launch widescale testing, began drive-through testing programs on Wednesday at three Motor Vehicle emissions sites and FedEx field in Prince George’s County. In Cecil County, which recorded its first fatality linked to the virus earlier this week, county health officials reported early Thursday afternoon that the number of confirmed cases of the virus stood at 23. The state Health Department’s report, posted several hours earlier, listed Cecil’s figure as 20 cases. The statewide report generally lags local county figures by a day or more. Meanwhile, 84,230 Marylanders filed new unemployment claims last week, according to numbers released Thursday by Maryland’s Department of Labor&#8211; almost double the number of people [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County COVID-19 Cases Rise to 3, Local &#8216;Emergency&#8217; Declared; Gov. Hogan Closes &#8220;Non-essential Business,&#8221; Offers Small Biz Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 23:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County now has 3 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, prompting County Executive Alan McCarthy to issue a “declaration of emergency” on Monday to accelerate county access to state emergency services and supplies programs. In addition, Gov. Larry Hogan ordered closure of all “non-essential businesses” while announcing several new programs to aid small business affected by the pandemic. Speaking during a Facebook Live online press conference, McCarthy announced two new confirmed cases in Cecil County: a male in his 50s who lives in Elkton, and a female in her 40s who lives in Elkton. The first confirmed case, announced on Sunday, involved a woman in her 20s in the western area of the county. McCarthy further identified that patient’s location as the Rising Sun area. All three patients are “self-isolating at home.” Lauren Levy, Cecil County’s Health Officer, said there were no clear ties among the confirmed patients but that public health experts were conducting contact tracing interviews to try to identify the patients’ contacts and movements to identify possible other individuals who may have had contact with them She said county residents with health concerns could contact local health experts at 410-996-1005. She also urged residents to “remain [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: All Over But the Shouting; $415K in Spending Cuts Won&#8217;t Block Tax Boosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s all over but the shouting on Cecil County’s Fiscal 2018 proposed budget, after the County Council made its last round of budget decisions on Thursday and added back $49,100 in funds the panel had previously cut. The Council is set to formally adopt the budget next week at its 6/6/2017 evening meeting, at which there will no doubt be a fair amount of political rhetoric and at least one vote against the budget. But County Council President Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) extracted a promise from Council members that there would be no last-minute surprises at that session and members would stick by the decisions they had made in two lengthy worksessions on the budget. “I’d like things to run smoothly,” she said. The Council’s decisions amount to less than half-a penny on the property tax rate, and Bowlsbey said after the final worksession that she had also obtained assurances from a majority of the Council that the money derived from the spending cuts would be allocated to the county’s depleted emergency reserve funds—the “unassigned fund balance”&#8211;rather than taking off a miniscule fraction from the property tax rate. The county’s current property tax rate is 0.9914 per $100 of assessed property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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