Cecil Times: Assault Cases Dropped Against Two Deputies

From Cecil Times . . . .

Separate assault cases against two Cecil County Sheriff’s Deputies have been dropped, according to court records. In addition, a civil suit filed by the deputies against Sheriff Barry Janney– challenging their assignments to  menial, non-law enforcement duties pending the outcome of their criminal cases has been dismissed.

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NWS Prediction: 16.7-inches of Snow for Most of Cecil County

Mt. Holly, NJ – February 9, 2010 – 3:15 p.m.  – As Cecil County residents get ready for back to back major snow storms, the National Weather Service afternoon forecast from the Mt. Holly Office predicts this Tuesday afternoon that most of the county will be blanketed with 16.7 inches of additional accumulation.  The far northwestern part of Cecil, toward Rock Springs and Oakwood, should have 20 inches, while the prediction for southern Cecil County is 13.7-inches.  Click here for the full statement from the National Weather Service.

The Bohemia Eurekas Begin Playing Vintage Base Ball

By the Eclipse Base Ball Club of Elkton

Elkton, Maryland, February 8, 2010  — The region’s premier 19^th century base ball organization, the Elkton Base Ball Club is announcing the formation of its newest team within the club.  The Bohemia Eurekas will begin playing vintage base ball in the Spring of 2010.  Players are wanted immediately to form the new team within the Elkton Club.  The first team within the Elkton Base Ball Club is the Eclipse who are the 3 time defending Maryland State Champions and the 2009 Mid Atlantic League Champions.

Vintage base ball is baseball played using the same rules and customs that were common in the 1860s using the same style uniforms and equipment that were used in the Mid 19^th century.  The Eclipse play a 40 match schedule from early April until late October.  Its home matches are at Historic Elk Landing which is located off of Landing Lane in Elkton.  Players range in age from 21 to 65 and come from all walks of life from students to school principals, from farmers to executives, from mechanics to airline pilots and everywhere in between.  Members reside not only in Cecil County but also in southern New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and the rest of the state of Maryland.

The Eurekas will be based on a historically accurate account of one of the first clubs that played in Cecil County in 1866.  The original club played at Cyote’s Corner near Chesapeake City and were one of the finest in the region.  The modern Eurekas will eventually have the same type of uniform that the original club used and use the same style wooden bats and balls.  No gloves however are needed as they didn’t come in to existence until the mid 1880s.

The Eurekas will play about a 12 match season to start in 2010 against regional clubs.  Their home matches and practices will take place at Elk Landing.  Commitment time is usually just 2-3 days a month from April until October.  All instruction and guidance will come from current members of the Eclipse BBC of Elkton.

To learn more or to sign up for the new club, please contact us at elktonbase_ball@yahoo.com or go to our website at elktonbbc.com for more information.

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The Elkton Base Ball Club aka the Eclipse Base Ball Club of Elkton are a part of the Cecil County Parks and Recreation Department and a subcommittee of the Historic Elk Landing Foundation.  For more information about the club please contact us at elktonbase_ball@yahoo.com.  www.elktonbbbc.com

Snow Storm Wrap Up From Stations 2 & 12: Five Calls Answered by Emergency Responders

From the time the paralyzing snow storm swept into Cecil County Friday evening, until 4:00 a.m. Monday morning, the Chesapeake City Volunteer Fire Company staffed its stations with emergency responders.  In a wrap up of the big snow storm, which dumped 27-inches on Port Herman, according to the National Weather Service, the company reports that its fire and EMS crews at stations 2 & 12 responded to five emergencies.  Click here to read the details on the wrap up.

Commissioners to Meet Wednesday Elkton Announces; Doesn’t Disclose Agenda

The Mayor and commissioners of Elkton have announced that the board will meet in a workshop session Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 4:00 p.m. at the town hall.  That’s the extent of the announcement so we’re unable to provide readers with information on the public policy matters the board is going to consider since they don’t publicize that information.

As we’ve said many times, it would be helpful for better government in Elkton, if the political leaders informed the public about subjects under discussion.   Other towns in Cecil County find it helpful to inform citizens about what’s going on and they allow them to comment at workshops.   This failure to inform the public is one of the elements that created problems when the mayor and commissioners approved a fee waiver on a Collins Street Property. 

A former five term mayor of Elkton, Jim Crouse, trying to comprehend (as was everyone else in the audience) a decision the board had made at its last workshop commented,  ”We don’t even know what you’re approving,” as he referenced the action that surprised audience members.  That board action is now resulting in another legal proceeding against the town as two citizens ask the court to issue an injunction.

Tweets from Cecil Times: Teabaggers, Snow Removal, Turning Down the Thermostat & Campaign Funding

Since we find the tweets from Cecil Times informative as we try to stay informed about political and civic affairs in the county, we’ve added an RSS feed to that Twitter account.  It’ll help readers of Someone Noticed keep up with the insightful microblog posts from that valued source for local content.

Here are some recent tweets, but surf over to the Twitter site to check out other posts.

• Snow costs to hit Cecil County govt. hard. Would ‘teabaggers’ deny $ to emergency services? Turn down thermostats, but spend $ to plow snow
• Cecil County Commissioner candidate Joe Janusz: 40% of the Democrat’s campaign $ is from Slagle family, developers and custom homebuilders
• Cecil govt. thermostats at 74 degrees to save $. The rest of us wear sweaters and set at 68. http://somd.com/news/headlines/2010/11219.shtml

The Big Dig Continues in Elkton

It’s going to take a few days to get things cleaned up from the powerful February storm that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the greater Elkton area,  starting early Friday evening.  But crews from the town, the county and state were out in full force, making substantial progress as the day advanced.  Most state highways were largely down to wet pavement by afternoon.  Secondary roads were an entirely different matter since paveed surfaces on many were still snow-packed, while wind-driven drifts filled in spots that were recently cleared.  Work seemed to be progressing more rapidly in the northern part of Cecil, where winter precipitation amounts were a little lighter.        

On a trip up Woods Road outside Chesapeake City this afternoon, the route was perfectly clear, until we hit the Delaware State Line.  Called Steele Road on the other side of the Mason Dixon Line, that eastern side of the route was untouched by Delaware snow removal equipment.       

In Elkton about mid-day Pubic Works was working hard to clear the town hall and police station parking lot.  Late in the afternoon attention shifted to the downtown area.  Someone Noticed thanks all those public works crews and State HIghway personnel for helping people cope with a near record-breaking storm.       

They’re making the best use of available time since AccuWeather says another powerful storm is expected to move into the area late Tuesday afternoon. and continue into Wednesday.  “Early indicators are that this could be another big one for Baltimore and Philadelphia,” the private service says.  The National Weather Service has already issued a winter storm watch for  Maryland counties west of the Chesapeake Bay, including Harford.          

The Delaware side of Woods Road was untouched by snow removal equipment, while the Cecil Co. part was clear.

 

 

    

The sign at the Delaware State Line, the place where the Cecil County snow plows turned around.

 

Elktkon Public Works crews doing an efficient job at mid-day Sunday clearing the police station and town hall parking lots.

Snow Storm Hits Southern Part of County the Hardest

Feb 7, 2010, 2:55 p.m.  – As the big dig continues around the county this  Sunday afternoon and the thermometer struggles to hit the freezing mark, people are talking about how much snow they received in their area.  Just out from the National Weather Service is a storm report containing official data.  Residents in the southern part of the county received higher accumulations, the white stuff stacking up to 27″ in Port Herman while Galena reported 30-inches.  In the northern part of Cecil, Colora recorded a mere 19.8.”

 Here are the snow fall totals for  stations in or near the county.  Click here to  go to the Weather Service site for more information. 

 Colora — 19.8-inches

Elkton – 21-inches

Fair HIll — 18-inches

Galena – 30-Inches

Newark – 24.3-inches

North East – 20-Inches

Port Herman -  27-inches

“Pop Goes Cecil.” a Documentary by Robert Moreland

After reading about an informative local documentary called “Pop Goes Cecil” in the Cecil Land Use Alliance newsletter (CLUA), we watched the informative and creative work.  Documentarian Robert Moreland, a Cecil College student, prepared this work for an exhibit at the college.  Focusing on how development is changing the county in recent decades, it documents the changes that have taken place here during the student’s lifetime.  We enjoyed watching the documentary and hope to see more local videography from Robert and others about Cecil County.  Congratulations Robert for a fine piece of documentary work capturing the changes that are taking place in the landscape here, as the county addresses’ its land development policies.

Keep Up With Breaking Cecil Co. News As Major Snow Storms Moves Through

Saturday, Feb. 6, 9:15 a.m. – The powerful storm that swept into the area late Friday afternoon continues to dump lots of snow on Cecil County this Saturday morning. The near blizzard situation is expected to continue throughout most of Saturday and nearby counties, such as Harford and Kent, are under official blizzard warnings. The latest graphic from the National Weather Service predicts Cecil will be blanketed by 25-inches of snow and advises to expect extensive blowing and drfiting due to high winds.

To help you keep with up the breaking news as the storm struggles to move out of Maryland, Someone Noticed has a few websites which provide informative real time news relevant to Cecil County.

• Chesapeake City Volunteer Fire Co Call & News Log – The PIO at Stations 2 & 12, Dave Campbell, maintains an active news feed on the web. As the storm rolled into the Chesapeake region and people headed home from work, duty crews were placed in the fire stations for the duration of the storm. In addition, the Company responded to an automobile accident at 213 and Courthouse Point Road and one other call. Click here to keep an eye on emergency response news from this part of Cecil County.
• Power Outages in Cecil County – So far the grid is holding up well in the county. At 9:15 this morning, only 370 of the nearly 43,000 Delmarva Power and Light Customers were without power. The largest cluster was just north of Chesapeake City where nearly 400 customers had lost electricity. Delmarva notes that the power for that area should be back on in an hour or so. Much small groups of customers have lost power in North Chesapeake City and Fredericktown. This real time data is updated frequently and includes much more helpful information, including mapping. As long as you have a power or a web capable smart phone, you’re able to keep up with happenings on the grid in Cecil county.
• MD Dept of Transportation Traffic Maps - Related to highway travel, this state agency maintains interactive maps showing traffic incidents and flow, roadway weather conditions, accidents, closures, and webcams at locations such as the Conowingo Dam. Click here to stay current in highway information through Maryland.
• National Weather Service – Mt. Holly – Most informative for keeping up with weather conditions, we grabbed this graph from the Weather Service showing that they’re now expecting Cecil to be blanketed with 25-inches. There’s much more detailed info on the web there.