Monday, November 4, 2024

Sunday Bay Bridge traffic alert-

 


(WBOC)

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY, MD– Queen Anne's County Officials announced traffic impacts for the upcoming Bay Bridge Run Nov. 10th.

Starting at 7 a.m., the course will take runners from the bay's western shore across the bridge's eastbound span, along Pier One Road and up MD-8 to the Chesapeake Bay Business Park.

The Queen Anne's County Office of the Sheriff says the eastbound span will be closed from midnight to 2 p.m. on Nov. 10, with two-way traffic on the westbound span.

                                   

This week's public schools calendar-

 

WORCESTER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS


Somerset Couty schools closed NOV 5 Election Day.

Accomack County Public Schools closed NOV 5 Election Day (teachers will report for a workday.)

Wicomico County Public Schools closed NOV 5 Election Day.

Pocomoke projects on Worcester slate-

 

Worcester unveils five-year plan for capital projects

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Worcester unveils five-year plan for capital projects | News | oceancitytoday.com

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Time Machine: 75th Anniversary Edition items; plus 1913, 1888, 2003, 1962.

 

Note: Some dates for the Worcester Democrat are not available for November and December, 1924.  In lieu of our "100 Years Ago This Week" news we're publishing items from the newspaper's July, 1955 75th Anniversary Edition.  







V F W. AUXILARY CHARTER MEMBERS- Charter members of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 8622 are (left to right) front row: Mary P. Mapp, Mary Rantz, Doris East, Margaret Ardis, Gladys Wooster, Muriel Mazzo, President Nelda Maddox, Mary Wooster, Gladys Flemming, Virginia M. Tull. Back row: Dorothy Atkinson, Annie E. Maddox, Florence Mariner, Mildred Townsend, Edith M. Nash, Eleanor R. Bunting, Marjorie L. Cross, Hester M. Lane, Marie Rucker, Ruth Mariner, Post Commander E.L. Fleming.  Absent when the picture was taken are Ada McDaniel, Inez Melson, Emma Phillips, Myrtle Stant, June Coons, Marie B. Darby, Dorothy Davis, Frances Howard and Evelyn Hurley. 




(Willow Street Station)



October, 1913

Crisfield Times


March, 1888
Peninsula Enterprise




*August, 2003

Salisbury Daily Times

*March, 1962


The Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.)

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