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Monday, April 15, 2024
Pocomoke City's 2024 young lady trio!
It's The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel's 60th birthday.
(Shore Daily News)
The CBBT opened to traffic on April 15, 1964. The bridge at the time was considered to be one of the 7 engineering wonders of the modern world.
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CBBT opened 60 years ago today - Shore Daily News
Anonymous said...
The untold story...The Bridge-Tunnel Commission financed this project by issuing about $200 million in tax free bonds. By 1970 they defaulted on about $100 million of the bonds, many of which were held by local residents, including my grandparents.
FBI National Academy graduate-
FBI Director Christopher Wray presents diploma to Lieutenant Bethany Ramey of the Worcester County Sheriff's Office at her recent graduation from the FBI National Academy. Ramey has been with the Sheriff's Office since 2001 and currently is its Commander of Juvenile Services Division.
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
Recognition for our Public Safety Dispatchers-
E.S. Va. fire danger-
Accomack, Northampton Counties
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wakefield VA 831 AM EDT Sun Apr 14 2024
...INCREASED FIRE DANGER TODAY... The combination of dry fuels, relative humidity values of as low as 25 percent, and southwest winds gusting to 25 mph will increase the potential for the spread of wildfires today. Residents are urged to exercise caution handling any potential ignition source...including machinery... cigarettes...and matches. Be sure to properly discard all smoking materials. Any dry grasses and tree litter that ignite will have the potential to spread quickly. Virginia residents are reminded that open burning is prohibited before 4 pm each day through April 30th.
Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper; 1951, 2003, 1905, 1967, 1890.
April, 1951
Democratic Messenger
Footnote: The stock car track was at The Pocomoke Fairgrounds.
March, 2003
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Salisbury Daily Times (via Somerset Herald)
May, 1905
Peninsula Enterprise
*August, 1967
(Peninsula General Hospital, Salisbury)
Salisbury Times
April, 1890
Baltimore American