Member Happenings

Wednesday, April 15 - Salem United Methodist Church's Chicken Salad Sale; 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM; call 410 957-2234 for more information.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, April 17, 18 & 19 - LIVE: The Sound of Music; Friday & Saturday at 7:30 PM; Sunday at 2:00 PM Go to www.marvatheater.com for more information.

Saturday, April 18, 2015 - The Worcester County Historical Society will hold its annual Chicken 'n Dumplings Dinner at the Pocomoke Community Center. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Dinner served at 6:30 PM. The event will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the ending of the Civil War. (see flyer below)

Saturday, May 2 - Samaritan Shelter sponsoring 6th Annual Frank Voss Memorial Spaghetti Dinner & Bake Sale, 4:00 - 7:00 PM. Held at Salem Methodist Church Hall on Second Street. $8.00 (Adults); $3.00 (Children 3-6); Free for children under 3. Tickets available from Enchanted Florist, First Shore Federal Bank and Market Street Deli.

Call 410 957-4310 for more information or email: thesamaritanshelter@gmail.com.

April General Membership Luncheon

April

 General Membership Luncheon

Wednesday, April 15 at 

Lin's Asian Cuisine

(12:00 - 1:00 PM)

Guest Speaker - Heather Davis

Junior Achievement of the 

Eastern Shore

Menu Options:

General Tso's Chicken

Vegetable Lo Mein

Chicken w/ Broccoli

Beef w/ Broccoli

$12.00

Register online at  pocomoke.com or

email 

pocomokechamber@gmail.com

or call

410 957-1919

Cypress Festival Program Ad Orders & Payment Due by April 15, 2015

40th Cypress Festival Program

Ad Orders & Payment 

Due by April 15, 2015

This Year's Festival:

June 17, 18, 19 & 20

  

If you wish to place an ad in this year's Cypress Festival Program or be a sponsor and have not been contacted by a Chamber Board member, please call Deb at 410 957-1919 or email at pocomokechamber@gmail.com.

Credit Card payments can be made by calling the Chamber office.

     

Your support is appreciated!

Pocomoke Police Press Release

Pocomoke Police Department

1500 Market Street

Pocomoke, Maryland 21851

410-957-1600

www.pocomokepd@comcast.net

    March 2015

3-3-2015    Matthew Monroe, age 38 of Crisfield, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $100.           

3-4-2015    David Gottleib, age 59 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000.

3-4-2015    Rene Robles, age 44 of Virginia Beach, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000.

3-4-2015    Eddie Munoz, age 44 of Hampton, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000. Munoz was also arrested on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-4-2015    Dominique Robinson, age 59 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Malicious Destruction of Property.

3-8-2015    Jeffrey Wright, age 29 of Pocomoke City MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-9-205    Delano Harmon, age 38 of Atlantic, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-11-2015    Tyrone Beauford, age 44 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-11-2015    Paris Schoolfield, age 23 of New Church, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.    

3-12-2015    Billy Roberts, age 86 of New Church, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $100.

3-15-2015    Gloria Purnell, age 48 of Princess Anne, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less $100.

3-17-2015    David Spain, age 30 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Failure to Obey a Lawful Order.

3-17-205    Kimberly Carey, age 24 of Snow Hill, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft Less than $10,000.

3-17-2015    Michael Carey, age 35 of Princess Anne, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000.

3-08-2015    Rosalie Garrett, age 49 of Salisbury, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $100.

3-21-2015    Christina Heath, age 29 of Salisbury, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $500.

3-24-2015    Linwood Bonneville, age 54 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-24-2015    Francis Crippen, age 34 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-25-2015    Marshall Fisher, age 45 of Bloxom, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-25-2015    Henry Hickman, age 43 of Parksley, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-25-2015    Richard Burton, age 45 of Melfa, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-26-205    William Nock, age 51 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Disobeying a Lawful Order.

A Pocomoke, MD Juvenile, age 17 was arrested for False Statement to a Police Officer.

A Crisfield, MD Juvenile was arrested for Theft less $100.

A Crisfield, MD Juvenile was arrested for Theft less than $100.

A Pocomoke, MD Juvenile was arrested for Reckless Endangerment.

A Pocomoke, MD Juvenile was arrested for numerous traffic violations.

Thirty One (31) additional Arrests were made for various traffic violations.

Kelvin D. Sewell

Chief of Police

April 7, 2015

   

Pocomoke Police Press Release

Pocomoke Police Department

1500 Market Street

Pocomoke, Maryland   21851

410-957-1600

www.pocomokepd@comcast.net

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

Cypress Festival Opportunity

     The annual Cypress Festival will be held this year on June 17, 18, 19 & 20.

     The Cypress Festival is the main fundraiser for the Pocomoke Chamber of Commerce and the signature festival for Pocomoke. This event could not come together without the support of the local business community.

     This year marks the 40th year that the Cypress Festival has been held.  We are in the process of planning and creating the official program for the event.  Board members are taking orders now for paid ads that local businesses wish to place.  Sponsorships are also an option.

     We appreciate you for advertising in this year's Cypress Festival Program.  Beginning in May, over 2500 full color copies of the program will be distributed.

     If you wish to place an ad or be a sponsor and have not been contacted by a Chamber Board member, please call Deb at 410 957-1919 or email at pocomokechamber@gmail.com.

     

Ad orders & payment are due by April 15, 2015.

TIME MACHINE ... 1922, 1832, 1939, 1936, 1902, 1980's.

"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 archives/historical archives material)


April, 1922

This coming week marks the anniversary of the disastrous Pocomoke City fire of April 17, 1922.

The pictures below of the fire's aftermath were taken by Pocomoke City resident Jake Mason. 

(Pictures courtesy of Choppy Layton)

                                         

                                                     (Excerpt from The Washington Times)

May, 1832
The Village Herald (Princess Anne)

Female Seminary.

MISS HAYNIE

HAS opened in Somerset County a Seminary for the Education of Young Ladies- English Grammar, History, Rhetorick, Arithmetick, Geography, Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, Chymistry, French, Music, and Plain and Ornamental Needlework, are taught at this Seminary.

TERMS.
Board and Tuition in all of the branches enumerated, except French and Music, $25 per quarter. Music $12 per quarter. French $4 per quarter.

Terms for day Scholars.
Tuition in all the English Branches $5 per quarter. Reading and Writing $4 per quarter. 

Bedding and Washing extra charges.

A deduction will be made for the vacation in August.

Olney, near Princess Anne.
May 8, 1832. 


1939- A typical monthly residential electric bill on the Eastern Shore of Virginia..

"In the 1930's the Hopkins Hardware Store owners also owned the generating plant and it was later sold to the Accomack-Northampton Electric Co-op."

(Image courtesy of Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac)

June, 1936 (Time Machine archive)
(The Daily Mail- Hagerstown, Md.)

PRISONERS WILL COLLECT GARBAGE

SNOW HILL, Md., June 26. (AP)-  The city's prisoners at the county jail here became garbage collectors today.

Mayor John O. Byrd and city council did away with private contracts for collecting garbage and decided to let the prisoners do the work.  

State's Attorney Thomas F. Johnson and the Worcester County Commissioners approved the plan for working the city's prisoners.


May, 1902 (Time Machine archive)
(Ledger Enterprise- Pocomoke City) 

(Article referencing road improvements in some areas of the Eastern Shore)

"As yet Worcester County has not taken any steps in this direction, and the time has come when we must do something or our neighbors will have much better roads than we.  What better plan could be adopted by our county authorities than the building of a road from Pocomoke City to Snow Hill on scientific principles."  


1980's.. The latest in home video!

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about?  It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!  



PPE remembers JMMB.

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview.

1922.. Disastrous April fire rakes Pocomoke City; 1832.. Seminary for the education of young ladies opens in Somerset County; 1939.. You'll be envious of this Eastern Shore of Virginia typical home electric bill; 1936.. Prisoners given garbage collection duties in Snow Hill; 1902.. Envisioning a new road from Pocomoke City to Snow Hill; 1980'S.. (Ad) "Reggievision" has arrived.

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

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about?  It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!

Would you consider helping The Pocomoke Public Eye as one of our contributors of current local items of interest?  Please contact pcitypubliceye@gmail.com

"American Pie"

There's this..

..and there's the other "American Pie."  In the news today, 1971's classic hit that reflected on life during the early rock and roll era.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/08/gloomy-don-mclean-reveals-meaning-of-american-pie-and-sells-lyrics-for-1-2-million/

UNEXPLAINED..SO FAR.

GOOGLE has compiled NASA images of a large unidentified circular object on the surface of Mars measuring 3 1/2 miles across.

More at:  http://www.inquisitr.com/1986692/google-ufo-disc-mars-nasa/

TIME MACHINE ... 1999, 1941, 1893, 1946, 1954, 1893.

"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)


January, 1999
Somerset Herald (Princess Anne)

County, towns try to head
off Y2K computer glitch 

By Liz Holland

When the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, some experts are predicting the world could be thrown into chaos due to a glitch that causes computers not to recognize the Year 2000.

The glitch — which affects personal computers and equipment containing computer chips — could affect anything from utilities and the stock market to elevators and heating systems.

But despite what happens in the outside world, Somerset County, Princess Anne and Crisfield officials said they expect to be ready locally. 

About nine months ago, the county formed a committee to assess the Year 2000 computer problem, which is commonly called Y2K. 

Although the county expects to have all of its equipment Y2K compliant in time, certain things, such as utility service, will still be out of local control. The worst case scenario, the committee decided, would be for a massive
power outage to leave vital services in the dark.

Part of the county's efforts has included making sure those areas have back-up generators to ensure the continuation of police, fire and ambulance services, Adams said. Work on the high-risk areas is currently about 90 percent cornplete, he said. 


December, 1941 (Time Machine archive)

A system of guard duty was put into effect to allow Maryland State Guard members to return to their civilian jobs. The armories in Pocomoke City, Crisfield, Salisbury, and Cambridge remained under guard and closed to all public activities. All guard members were under orders to report to their armories each evening for roll call and orders.


October, 1893

Accomac deals with pig pens and Sunday bicycle issues.

(Peninsula Enterprise)

April, 1946 (Time Machine archive)

School news reported by students in the "PHS Speaks" column in Pocomoke's Worcester Democrat newspaper included items about a month long competition among home room classes for cleanest rooms...the annual Commercial Day program under the direction of Miss Mary Emily Matthews...an Easter Party being planned by Miss Pearl Bratten's 5th and 6th grade classes...a victory garden project under the direction of Mrs. Wilson...a fried chicken dinner for faculty and Chef Club members, directed by Miss Mable Jones...the organization of an Aviation Club to make model airplanes and collect information about important flights, under the direction of Mrs. Mae Taylor...and the organization of a Camera Club under the direction of Mrs. Cutright. 


April, 1954
The Salisbury Times

Pocomoke City Tops Ocean City    

Mason Pitches 5-Hit Ball

Pocomoke City ruined the home opener of Ocean City High yesterday afternoon with a 12-1 setback.

Robert Mason hurled a five-hit victory, whifting 12 and walking but two.  The big blow of the day was a sixth inning pinch-hit homer by Dennis Lees with two aboard.  Dick Bundick and Dick Parsons each laced out two hits apiece.


1893

Here's the reason Gold Dust washing powder says housewives need their product.

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about?  It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!



PPE remembers JMMB

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview.

1999.. Officials in Somerset County prepare for possible year 2000 computer glitch; 1941.. Lower Shore National Guard members remain on active duty but can resume their civilian jobs; 1893.. Pig pens and Sunday bicycle riding are issues in Accomac; 1946.. Pocomoke students write about activities of the day at PHS. 1954.. Several Pocomoke High baseball players are standouts in game with Ocean City High; 1893.. (Ad) See why Gold Dust washing powder says housewives deserve their product.

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

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about?  It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!

AN IMPORTANT POCOMOKE PUBLIC EYE PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE!!

Stay on your P's and Q's today or someone will be saying.....

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK

It was warmer on the northern tip of Antarctica last week than here on Delmarva.  In fact, according to multiple news sources, that section of the coldest place on Earth reached a record breaking temperature of +63.5 degrees (F) on March 24th.  The previous record high was +63.3 (F) the previous day.