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		<title>Smipkins Install Crony as Cecil County Towns Rep on Regional Panel; Mayors Cry Foul</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2012/01/smipkins-install-crony-as-cecil-county-towns-rep-on-regional-panel-cecil-county-mayors-cry-foul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report The mayors of Cecil County’s eight municipalities have signed a letter protesting the sudden installation of Michael A. Dawson, a new Perryville town commissioner, as the representative of the county’s towns on the Upper Shore Regional Council. The action was taken, in apparent violation of state law, late last week during an unannounced meeting of the panel convened by members of the Smipkin political organization, with which Dawson is aligned. It was just the latest in a long string of sub-rosa actions involving the USRC, including failure to notify the public of its meetings, attempts to close meetings to the public and press contrary to the state’s Open Meetings Act, failure to post meeting minutes on its website for years, and conducting other business outside public view. During the winter convention of the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO) at a resort in Cambridge, a meeting of the USRC was convened by State Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36). County Commissioners from the three counties covered by the regional body—Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s counties&#8211; attended but there was no public notice in advance, on the USRC’s website or other public means. The installation of Michael A. Dawson [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Politics: A Tale of 3 Mayors in Port Deposit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s smallest town, Port Deposit (population 653 in the latest census) is gearing up for a vigorous campaign for mayor, with one current and two former mayors contending for the post in the upcoming May town election. It is a study in contrasts between small town dedication to service and some of our county-wide agenda-driven politics. Current Mayor Kerry Anne Abrams, a public schools paraprofessional assigned to Bainbridge elementary, has more time on the job than her rivals, Wayne Tome—also a former Cecil County Commissioner—and Rob Flayhart. Abrams served as mayor from 1996-99, filling a vacancy, before being elected in her own right in 2007. Tome served as the town’s mayor from 1999 to 2003, when he lost to Flayhart, who served as mayor from 2003 to 2007. Port’s residents are a hardy lot, stoically braving intermittent flooding from the adjacent Susquehanna River on a regular basis when the up-river Conowingo dam opens its floodgates as it did recently. It is a town of hopes and dreams, from its long ago heyday as a bustling port through decades of dwindling commerce and the closing of the Bainbridge naval facility to more recent dreams of revival and rebirth that often [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Cleanup Plan Worries Cecil County; Towns-County Fight Looms</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2011/02/bay-cleanup-plan-worries-cecil-county-towns-county-fight-looms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan submitted to federal authorities last December will have “a significant impact on everyone” and the burden of enforcement could be dumped on the counties, Cecil County Commissioner Robert Hodge (R-5) told fellow commissioners. Moreover, the program could pit the county against its incorporated towns as they vie for allowable wastewater discharge flows. At the Cecil County Commissioners workshop session Tuesday, Hodge voiced “serious, serious concerns” after attending a meeting of Eastern Shore local leaders and environmental officials to discuss the program. Maryland and other states near the Bay are under orders from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to reduce nutrient pollution running off into the Bay under a program that sets “maximum daily loads” for pollutants. Maryland submitted its plan in December 2010, and EPA commended the state for its multi-pronged efforts to combat pollution from agriculture, septic and sewage treatment systems, and urban run-off. Governor Martin O’Malley stunned state and local lawmakers a week ago when, in his State of the State message, he advocated legislation—subsequently introduced in the General Assembly—to sharply curtail septic systems in rural areas such as Cecil County. The state’s plan submitted to the EPA in December also included a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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