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WCPS Seeking Input on School System Calendar
Worcester County Public Schools
October 21, 2024
Worcester County Public Schools (WCPS) is currently seeking input from all school system stakeholders on what's important to them in the school system calendar. This input will be utilized by the WCPS Calendar Design workgroup to create calendar options for the 2025-2026 school year that will go before school system leadership and ultimately the Board of Education for consideration and approval.
To participate in the survey, simply click here:
or scan the QR code below to be directed to the survey tool. The survey will accept responses now through November 1, 2024.
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Worcester County Sheriff's Office
SCAM ALERT!
Please be aware of an ongoing phone scam in which the caller pretends to be a Commander from the Worcester County Sheriff's Office, using the name of a REAL deputy, and demands money for missed jury duty or an arrest warrant. THIS IS A SCAM! Neither the Worcester County Sheriff's Office or any Law Enforcement Agency will demand payment over the phone. Hang up immediately and do not arrange payment. Do not give out any personal or financial information.
Similar scams have involved impostors claiming to be with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) or the IRS (Internal Revenue Service). If you believe you may have been a victim of a telephone scam (shared personal or financial info), call or office at 410-632-1112.
Interview Begins
INTERVIEWER: This is an interview with Katherine Etchison
KATHERINE: My name is Katherine Stevens Etchison.
INTERVIEWER: How old are you?
KATHERINE: I am 86 years old.
INTERVIEWER: What are your parent’s names?
KATHERINE: My mother’s name was Stella Adkins Stevens and my father’s name was Alexander Hartley Stevens. My grandparents, my mother’s mother was, Katherine Savage Adkins and her father was John Henry Adkins. My father’s mother was Mary Jane Truitt Stevens Handy. She was married twice. His father’s name was A. Sidney Stevens. He was the first lawyer in Pocomoke. He lived in a house that was torn down to build the Post Office. It was very much like the Costen House. It was the same type of house as the Costen House. What’s your next question after the parents?
INTERVIEWER: Your childhood, and homelife. The chores you did.
KATHERINE: I had to clean lamps every Saturday morning. Frequently my mother made beaten biscuits and I would help beat the biscuits. She’d always make them out. We generally had to clean our own rooms and sometimes yards. But that was about the extent of our chores.
INTERVIEWER: Where did you live?
KATHERINE: We lived in many houses. My father had six children. His father died when he was twelve years old, and he was the oldest of four children. And before my grandmother remarried, married Mr. Handy, my father hadn’t really gotten out and kind of shift for himself. He rented houses. We’d move quite frequently, and everybody said we did because my mother was a great homemaker. And she used to light the house up quite a bit. My father would rent a house that wasn’t especially attractive, but by the time my mother had…that we had lived there for a while and she had sort of taken charge, it was sold. And we’d have to move again. So, we lived in quite a few houses. The last house my father owned was the original Hartley Hall. We lived out there when we were growing up.
INTERVIEWER: How long did you live there?
KATHERINE: How long did we live at Hartley Hall? About 30 some years. 35, 36 years. Of course, I was married, and I lived in Washington. And my sister, Rosemary, was married and lived in Columbus, Ohio.
INTERVIEWER: Did you have any jobs besides the things you did around the house?
KATHERINE: Did I have any what?
INTERVIEWER: Jobs
KATHERINE: I taught school. I’m a retired schoolteacher.
INTERVIEWER: When you were younger.
KATHERINE: When I was growing up? I don’t remember any jobs, except just chores around home.
INTERVIEWER: Where did you go to school?
KATHERINE: I graduated from Pocomoke High School and then I went to the Towson Normal School. It was the Normal School then. It was only two years. I started my first teaching position in Montgomery County, and I taught in Gaithersburg.
INTERVIEWER: What kind of a teacher were you?
KATHERINE: Elementary teacher. I taught sixth grade most of the time. After my husband died, I returned to Pocomoke to live with my mother. I taught here.
INTERVIEWER: In Pocomoke?
KATHERINE: In Pocomoke. I had heard that the third grade was always a nice grade to teach. I was nearly ready to retire. So, I asked the superintendent if he would let me have a third grade. At the time when I first came down, I was principal over to Stockton of just four teachers. And so when I went to Dr. Cooper and asked him if I could have a third grade, he said, “I think you’ve lost your mind!” and I said, “No, I’ve always heard that a third grade was the nicest grade to teach.” And I said, “I’d like to try it before I retire.” So, he gave me a third grade. But I’ve always kind of regretted it, because sixth grade was my…I mean, they told me when I was going to Normal School, they told me then that I should have older children. I couldn’t get down to the third-grade level, I mean, in my conversation and so forth.
INTERVIEWER: Which church did you go to?
KATHERINE: The Presbyterian Church. We were all Presbyterians. The Presbyterian Church, the present one. The Dennises, that owned Beverly, were members of the Presbyterian Church. And Mrs. Dennis, I remember, Mrs. Jane Dennis, used to come in Sunday mornings, and in those days, they used to go in mourning, and wear their mourning clothes for years. She used to wear a black kind of a turban with long veils, all the way down to the hem of her skirt, and she used to have little white (audio not clear) around here and around her neck. But otherwise, she’d walk into church with this veil trailing in back of her, and she sat next to the front row. To reach church, she came in a carriage, and she had a footman and a driver. And they used to drive in the driveway that approached the side of the church. And the driver went back and parked the cart.
And the footman that she had in those days told a story that I think might be interesting. “I remember my mother saying, that when the Freedom War was over”, this was footman Richard… “I always , remember my mother saying when the Freedom War was over, and there was shouting and yelling, and the slaves were free, Ms. Jane Dennis told the colored people they could go, but that whoever wanted was welcome to stay. Some wandered off, but my people stayed and at Beverly my life had been wrapped like the (audio not clear)) that have cared for me. There wasn’t any schooling then, what learning you got you just picked up. Grandfather was a blacksmith.” Now this is a colored fellow talking. “And wheelwright for the farm. And at seven I was put to work pulling weeds and cutting grass. I was a footman and later a butler. Miss Jane, she had a big carriage with a driver and a baggage man sat up high in front. She in the carriage and me as her footman on the step in the back. When we came to a gate, I’d jump down, open the gate, and jump back up. The carriage never stopped. The Dennises owned farms all over and we really traveled around. All plowing was done with oxen. Horses were for driving only.
INTERVIEWER: So, he lived in Hartley Hall after that?
KATHERINE: Yes, he lived at Hartley Hall. There is the carriage that they drove to church. A picture of it.
INTERVIEWER: They must have been awful rich to drive something like that.
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Effective immediately, Worcester County Fire Marshal Matt Owens issued a burn ban, and ALL outdoor burning is banned for an indefinite period of time in Worcester County.
The ban applies to all outdoor ignition sources, with the following exceptions: proper use of gas and charcoal grills, campfires at the County’s commercial, State, and Federal campgrounds, permitted official Ocean City bonfires, private property recreational campfires that are limited to a fire area of two feet with a height of three feet, public fireworks displays, and volunteer fire company training exercises.
“Due to the County’s current dry conditions, the burn ban is effective immediately,” Fire Marshal Owens said. “This ban should reduce the number of out-of-control outside fires, which cause safety concerns for area residents, visitors, and especially responding fire personnel.”
The ban will remain in effect until the dry conditions dissipate.
All existing outdoor burn permits have been rescinded,” Environmental Programs Director Bob Mitchell said. “Our water tables are extremely low, and this is confirmed by County and USGS monitoring well networks. We have extremely low precipitation totals, and the US drought monitor has the county under a moderate drought category.”
For further information, contact Fire Marshal Owens at 410-632-5666.
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Pocomoke City will be transformed into a "Winter Wonderland", playing host to one of Delmarva’s largest night time Christmas parades.
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SNOW HILL, Md. – If you’re a business owner in Worcester County, or if you’re looking for a job, mark your calendars for the county’s upcoming job fair.
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Worcester County's DUI Conviction Rate Was the Highest in the State!
Every year around August, the National Study Center (a subsidiary of University of Maryland Shock Trauma) does an analysis of the DUI arrests that were made during the previous calendar year (2023). Our conviction rate, in Worcester County, has been the highest in the state for many years now. The total number of arrestable cases in Worcester County for 2023: 898 Impaired driving arrests. This past calendar year, Worcester County had a conviction rate of 90.7%! We are thankful for our States Attorney’s Office in securing these convictions. We are proud of our allied law enforcement partners in our county, for being the best partners!
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