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Thursday, June 8, 2023
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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/
Recollections of Pocomoke City's Bethany Methodist Church
This Saturday, 6/10, here at The Pocomoke Public Eye-
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Sunday, June 4, 2023
Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper, 2006, 1922, 1878.
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.
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Pocomoke Church Histories- CHAPTER FOUR
This series of articles continues next Saturday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.