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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>
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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>Water Park Resort Planned in Perryville; New Era in Cecil County Economic Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS A new $200 milllion water park and resort, planned for Perryville near the existing Hollywood Casino, could mark a new era in Cecil County economic development—with a potential ripple effect to attract other new amenities to the western area of the county and revive past development dreams that were dashed by the last recession. Great Wolf Lodge, which operates 18 resorts with the nearest location in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania, is expected to build a hotel with at least 450 rooms, a conference center, restaurants and shops. Those facilities would be centered around its water park, climbing wall and other recreational amenities. The project will be located adjacent to the casino in the long vacant “Chesapeake Overlook” site on about 44 acres in Perryville. Another adjacent 55 acres of open land could become attractive to other developers looking to piggyback on the waterpark’s lure to visitors. Cecil County officials announced the project, which is expected to open by summer, 2022, at a Tuesday morning (12/18/2018) worksession of the County Council but rumors of such a project have been circulating in local government and real estate circles for months. The project is expected to create from 400 to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>McCarthy Withdraws Sewer Fee Boost; Council Political Concerns May Set Back Cecil Exec Drive to Stop Reserve Fund Raids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2018 23:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy has withdrawn his proposed major increase in sewer user fees as part of his Fiscal 2019 budget, saying he wants to review alternative rate structures to give small users a break. But the action may signal a setback for McCarthy’s overall budget plans to end policies to tap emergency reserve funds to pay for day-to-day operations. The County Council had been slated to review the proposed rate increases in depth at its Tuesday (5/15/2018) worksession, with an appearance by county Director of Public Works Scott Flanigan. But his appearance and the meeting agenda item were cancelled, after McCarthy ordered the rate increase proposal withdrawn on Monday. McCarthy told Cecil Times on Tuesday that he withdrew his proposed rate increases so that county finance and public works officials could review the matter and perhaps come up with a more gradual rate increase and possible special rates for senior citizens and “small users” of sewage treatment services. “I want to see if we can come up with a more equitable way” to generate needed revenues to operate county sewage treatment facilities, he said. That review will take the sewage services rate increase off the table [&#8230;]]]></description>
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