Friday, June 9, 2023

Pocomoke High's Principal Rayne flies with the Thunderbirds!

(WMDT)


                                                 

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. –  Hometown Hero and Pocomoke High School Principal Jenifer Rayne took the skies with the US Airforce Thunderbirds, in recognition of her service to her students at Pocomoke High School.

It’s part of Thunderbird’s Home Town Hero program...

(View video and news story:)

Pocomoke High School Principal flies with the Thunderbirds - 47abc (wmdt.com)

 

            (Pocomoke High School Facebook)



Results of Friday's Worcester Board of Ed Closed Meeting

 

Cuts and reductions required due to the recent County Commissioners budget action.  

(View Board of Ed's full statement:)

Board of Education Approves Changes to the FY24 Budget - Worcester County Public Schools (worcesterk12.org)


Pocomoke Church Histories- CHAPTER FIVE

 



(Worcester Democrat)

This series of articles continues next Saturday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.


Air Force Thunderbirds using Wallops airfield

 (Shore Daily News)


The Air Force Thunderbirds will use the airfield at Wallops to stage their scheduled performance at the Ocean City Air Show Saturday. 

Friday the Thunderbirds and other flight teams will be departing for practice flights over Ocean City beginning at 1 p.m.  

The observation deck at the Visitors Center will be open until 4 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

The air show is scheduled to take place at Ocean City Saturday.

Public accessibility improvements coming to OC museum

 


           From the office of State Senator Mary Beth Carozza-


Time Machine Preview

This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:


PLUS

1957  ..

Salary increase for Worcester school teachers?



Circa late 1980's-2007

Maybe you were one of those who read the late Edna Davy Muir's local newspaper column that reminisced about simpler times on the Eastern Shore.  Edna was a newsmaker as well and there were aspects of her life you may not have been aware of as evidenced in four news clippings from 1943 in a Wilmington newspaper.

2003  ..

Fuel prices were up. How did they compare to today?


Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Funding for Worcester County public schools

 


(View full news article:)

06.08.23-Bayside-Gazette.pdf (baysideoc.net)

Eastern Shore feeling effects from Canadian wildfires

Dorchester-Wicomico-Somerset-Inland Worcester-Maryland Beaches-

459 PM EDT Thu Jun 8 2023

...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY NIGHT...

The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code ORANGE
Air Quality Alert across the Maryland Eastern Shore...for Fine
Particulates.. until midnight EDT Friday night.

Air quality is expected to reach code ORANGE...which is unhealthy
for sensitive groups...and means individuals with respiratory and/or
heart ailments...older adults...and children should reduce prolonged
or heavy outdoor exertion.

An Air Quality Alert means that Fine Particulates concentrations
within the region may approach or exceed unhealthy standards. For
more information on ground-level ozone and fine particles please
visit the Maryland Department of the Environment Web Site at
http:www.mde.maryland.gov/programs/air/

 

For more info call 410-632-1100 extension 1108.

 

Recollections of Pocomoke City's Bethany Methodist Church

 This Saturday, 6/10, here at The Pocomoke Public Eye-



This column was published in 1942 with the author's recollections dating back to the mid-1800's.


Sunday, June 4, 2023

Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper, 2006, 1922, 1878.

 




                                                  

                                                                              

                                                                                                                    


     
                                 

                                     


                                       









Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ray Boston, a local farmer who lived on what is now Sheephouse Road, was a huge purchaser of Dumorite from Du Pont. He purchased it by the truckload and stored it in an old chicken house on his farm. In the winter, when farming chores were finished, he would hire his services to other local farmers for land clearing, stump removal and really quick digging of ditches. He hired my father and grandfather as part of his crew and I occasionally tagged along just to see the spectacle. My grandfather was in charge of priming and rigging the initial blasting caps and I can still remember how it was done. I remember one time on Greenbackville Road, near present-day Captain's Cove, a land owner desired to have a pond dug. We just placed 5 entire cases (about 300 lbs.) in a shallow depression, lit the fuse and ran like hell. Needless to say, we had a huge pond that is still there to this day.


January, 2006


Salisbury Daily Times



February, 1922
Democratic Messenger

                            




*December, 1878

                                                                The News Journal (Wilmington, De)