Saturday, March 7, 2015

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview.

 2002.. Tougher graduation requirements facing Somerset County high school students; 1962.. Snow Hill Chapter presents medical gift to Peninsula General Hospital; 1942.. Electricity will reach half of lower Eastern Shore rural areas; 1956 Popular Eastern Shore restaurant celebrates anniversary with 1936 prices.



1885.. What can Duffy's Malt Whiskey do for you? It's making many claims in its advertising and attributes a rousing endorsement to the editor of the Pocomoke City newspaper.

It's this Sunday right here at The Pocomoke Public Eye!  

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Friday, March 6, 2015

Openings Delays Closings




City Hall will be opening at 10am. Be safe today everyone!

 All branches will open at 10 a.m. Friday, March 6.
Be safe. We are rooting for yesterday's storm to be the LAST one of the winter!


Victim ID'd in Horntown Trails End Fire



HORNTOWN, Va. (WBOC) – One person is dead after a fire at the Trails End campground in Horntown Tuesday.

According to Sheriff Todd Godwin, a structure fire was reported at approximately 10:51 p.m. March 3. After firefighters arrived on the scene and put out the fire, they discovered a body inside the structure. The Accomack County Sheriff's Office and Virginia State Police were notified and responded.

The victim is identified as Adron Wilson Knight, Jr., 46, of Greenbackville.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. According to the sheriff, it appears the fire started in the kitchen area of the home. Sheriff Godwin also says at this time the fire and death appear to be accidental.

Anyone with information on this fire is asked to contact the Accomack County Sheriff's Office at 757-787-1131 or 757-824-5666. Tips may also be submitted online at accomackcountysheriffsoffice.org

SOURCE: [WBOC.COM]

Todays Hamburger Prices


Thursday, March 5, 2015

Pocomoke City Police Department

As another winter storm comes onto Delmarva Chief Kelvin Sewell and the Pocomoke City Police Department want our residents to stay safe and warm. The falling temperatures and snow and ice will be a threat to our community thru late tonight. We are urging our residents that if you do not need to go out please stay home and off our roadways so the SHA can work on making them safe for everyone. If you must venture out please modify your driving for the conditions; slow down, use caution, allow extra distance between vehicles, and allow extra time to reach your destination.
As temperatures fall and the snow and ice arrive in our area please remember to check on the elderly and bring your pets inside out of the cold. The Maryland State Police have activated the Snow Emergency Plan for all of Worcester County effective from 11:00 AM on today's date until lifted.


Happy Birthday Brenda



You are missed immensely. 

Pocomoke Police Department Press Release

Press Release 


Pocomoke Police Department
1500 Market Street
Pocomoke, Maryland   21851
410-957-1600



February 2015

2-01-2015 Kalifah Milton, age 20 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Disorderly Conduct.

2-2-2015 Kalifah Milton, age 20 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Unlawful removal of property.

2-5-2015 David Tull, age 33 of Bloxom, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less $100.

2-6-2015 Reginald Mills, age 56 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Driving While Intoxicated and Driving under the Influence.

2-6-2015 Demetrius Mills, age 26 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Disorderly Conduct and Failure to Obey a Lawful Order

2-7-2015 Moneeka Reese, age 24 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $100.

2-9-2015 Lowell Rolley, age 54 of Marion Station, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Driving While Intoxicated and Driving Under the Influence.

2-13-2015 Michael Brooks, age 38 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on a Outstanding Warrant for Driving while Suspended through Somerset County.

2-16-2015 Lydia Kinsell, age 45 of Snow Hill, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $100.

2-16-2015 Kyle Thompson, age 29 of Salisbury, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $500.

2-17-205 Breon Turlington, age 30 of Melfa, VA was arrested by the PocomokeCity Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant  for 2nd Degree Assault and Malicious Destruction of Property.

2-18-205 Tremayne Rogers, age 33 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the  Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $100.

2-21-2015 Kristina Holcomb, age 44 of Greenbackville, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $500.

2-24-2015 Xavier Arnold, age 26 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant for  Assault.

2-24-2015 Devin Lockley, age 19 of Oak Hall, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant for Theft.

2-27-2015 Alphonso Shockley, age 52 of New Church, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

2-28-2015 Devin Bryant, age 26 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Assault and Reckless Endangerment.




A Pocomoke Juvenile, age 15 was arrested for 2nd Degree Assault.
A Pocomoke Juvenile, age 17 was arrested for 2nd Degree Assault.
A Pocomoke Juvenile, age 16 was arrested for Theft.


Nine (9) additional Arrest were made for various traffic violations.




Kelvin D. Sewell

Chief of Police

March 4, 2015

Many thanks to the following new & renewing PACC Members!


Automated Copy Systems, Inc.
Selby Sign Co., Inc.



Members:
This is a great time of the year to stop by the Chamber Office to make sure we have your most updated rack cards, brochures, business cards, etc. for both visitors and locals.
Contact Debbie at
for more information.

March Business After Hours
 Please join us at the Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum on Thursday, March 26 from 
5 - 7 PM
2 Market Street
Pocomoke City, MD  21851

March General Membership Luncheon


 

Wednesday
March 18, 2015
(12:00 - 1:00)

Don's Seafood & Chicken House
1344 Ocean Highway
Pocomoke City

Featured Speaker:
Michael Franklin
CEO
Atlantic General Hospital

Register online at
Call Deb 410 957-1919 OR
email at
pocomokechamber@gmail.com

Sunday, March 1, 2015

TIME MACHINE ... 1934, 1889, 1989, 1886, 1959.

"Friendliest Town On The Eastern Shore."  Our tradition runs deep.  Excerpt from a letter to the editor from a visitor to Newtown, (former name of Pocomoke City) published in the Baltimore Sun, April 28,1847.

This place (Newtown) is a pretty snug little village, containing about 500 clever and hospitable inhabitants; it has good wide streets, quite clear of that "eye sore," known mostly over the Peninsula by the name of "deep sand"; the houses, though built of frame, are generally built substantially and with some discretion and taste; there are two neat, new, and quite handsome frame churches in it; as for the merchants of the place, suffice it to state that they are very clever and hospitable.  F. Mezick, Esq., the landlord with whom I stopped, and his very obliging and jolly assistant, are richly deserving of a passing notice, for the good treatment and the extension of the many civilities to "the stranger."

(Reader-friendly viewing of news archive/historical archive material)


February, 1934
The News-Herald (Franklin And Oil City, Pa.)

COAST GUARD TRIES TO GET FOOD, FUEL TO 350 MAROONED

NORFOLK, Va., Feb 15. -UP-  Coast Guard patrol boats today attempted to navigate ice-choked Chesapeake Bay in an effort to get food and fuel to 350 residents of Tangier Island.

The patrol also attempted to aid two men ice-bound in an open boat off Saxis Island. 

Suffering was widespread among the Tangier inhabitants because supply boats have been unable to break through the heavy ice. If the Coast Guard is unsuccessful in getting food and fuel to Tangier, which is off the coast of Maryland, airplanes will be used to drop provisions.


July, 1889.. 


Peninsula Enterprise



November, 1989
The News (Frederick, Md.)

'Friendliest Town' opens shelter

POCOMOKE CITY (AP) - Officials in the town that bills itself as the "Friendliest Town on the Eastern Shore," said they have learned there are many misconceptions about the homeless since they opened the area's first homeless shelter two years ago.

 "The people we have seen are not chronically poor," said Daniel P. Blair, a Pocomoke City businessman who helped launch the emergency shelter and now serves is its part-time director. "These are everyday working people who have gotten into some bad problems. Look in the mirror. These people could be you or me." 

Two years ago, a grant from the Presbyterian Church allowed a group of volunteers to renovate a two-story frame. At first, some people objected. Members of this rural community feared the urban elements they saw so often on television: alcoholics, drug abusers and mentally ill derelicts lining up for soup kitchens, pushing grocery carts and sleeping on steam grates. 

Today, Pocomoke City's Samaritan Shelter has become an accepted part of the small town. 

Over the past six weeks, Samaritan Shelter has housed 34 people. Its sponsors predict at the current rate it may house more than 300 people over the coming year. In comparison, the shelter provided lodging for 110 people in its first year of operation. 

The shelter serves a three-county area that includes southern Worcester County, Somerset County and northern Accomack County, Va. Most tenants have been battered women who left their abusive husbands, but did not have the resources to rent an apartment or buy furniture.


The Samaritan Shelter today.


February, 1886 (Time Machine archive)
(Iowa State Reporter- Waterloo, Iowa)

  A GOOSE FARM- There is a goose ranch on the eastern shore of Virginia, covering nearly 3,000 acres, over which the feathered occupants, nearly 5,000, are free to roam.  The farm is devoted exclusively to producing the raw materials needed for the fine down quilts.  Several species of geese are bred, all of them being however of American lineage.  The largest specimen of all is of snowy whiteness.  The birds are regularly fed with corn or other grains, and are given the utmost freedom consistent with the prevention of straying and loss.  Herders are employed to keep a watchful eye on them, and sheds for shelter are provided in case of inclement weather, but the birds very rarely use them.  

About every six weeks the plucking takes place.  Only the breast and portions of the sides are touched, and feathers of the back, the wings and the tail being left intact.  It requires nearly 190 average geese to furnish a pound of the down, though the smaller feathers, which are also taken, weigh much heavier. These feathers, however, form an entirely separate grade from the valuable down.

The average life of a goose is said to be forty years, and they produce from five to ten eggs per annum, a large portion of which are hatched.  A bird hatched in February is in condition for plucking the following August, and so on thereafter every six or eight weeks.  The feathers are packed in sacks , and sent to the Philadelphia factory, where they are trimmed, washed, steamed and otherwise prepared for their legitimate use.

1959..


"Barbie" makes her first television commercial. View it here:
http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/first-barbie-doll-commercial-from-1959/



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