Worcester County Fair

Although wet grounds forced cancellation of The Worcester County Fair, its' organizers are displaying pictures of this year's entries online.

See story:

http://www.wboc.com/story/39089148/worcester-county-fair-moves-to-social-media

Mark Your Calendar

POCOMOKE CITY'S LAST 4TH FRIDAY OF THE SEASON IS SEPTEMBER 28TH, 5-8 P.M.

Online version of the September 4th Friday Vendor Registration - Click Here!

or Download the Vendor Registration Form - Click Here!

Rules  and Regulations for Vendors - Click Here!

Hurricane Preparation

(From WBOC)

Worcester County Emergency Services Urge Citizens to Prep for Hurricane Florence

Posted: Sep 10, 2018 6:05 PM -04:00Updated: Sep 10, 2018 6:08 PM EDT
WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. - Worcester County Emergency Service (WCES) is urging people in the area to start preparing now for Hurricane Florence.

The hurricane is strengthening as it moves towards the U.S. and is expected to bring heavy to Delmarva from Thursday into Saturday.

WCES asks locals to visit their website to learn their evacuation plan in case of an emergency. Director Fred Webster says the website has a new mapping program that includes evacuation orders and zones.

“Worcester County is mapped into three evacuation zones, from greatest to least risk of threat from wind speed, storm intensity, and storm surge, which causes flooding,” Webster said. “Zone A, in pink identifies addresses most at risk. Zone B is orange, and Zone C is green and includes addresses least at risk. Addresses further inland that are not color coded are not expected to evacuate in any storm scenario.”

WCES says that those who live in low-lying, flood prone areas or mobile homes should prepare now for the possibility of an evacuation, due to the current weather forecast. 

You can view your evacuation zone at www.knowyourzonemd.com, enter your address to prepare yourself for this week's potential weather emergencies. 

TIME MACHINE: 1839, 1933, 1956, 2013.

August, 1839

The National Gazette (Philadelphia, Pa.)

October, 1933

The Salisbury Times

Footnote:

The arena was located at the Pocomoke Fair Grounds.  I recall that the arena was no longer there in the early 1950's when stock car races were held at the Fair Grounds. -tk

April, 1956

Worcester Democrat

September, 2013

(excerpt)

The Chincoteague Beacon

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A Pale Blue Dot- Revisited

Earth from four billion miles away taken by the Voyager spacecraft as it was about to leave our solar system.

( A quote from the late astronomer Carl Sagan.. referencing a picture of earth appearing as a tiny unspectacular pale blue dot hardly noticeable in the vast universe surrounding it.)

“We succeeded in taking that picture from [deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity--in all this vastness-- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us... To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” 

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

TIME MACHINE: 1941, 1990, 1891, 1884.

August, 1941

The Salisbury Times

January, 1990

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Daily Times (Salisbury)

May, 1891

 

Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)

September, 1884

The News (Frederick, Md.)

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TIME MACHINE: 1953, 1927, 2006, 1934.

June, 1953

 

 

 Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)

January, 1927

The Baltimore Sun

April, 2006

The Dorchester Star (Cambridge)

May, 1934

The Evening Sun (Baltimore)

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Back To School Event!

Sunday, August 26. 10 a.m. to 12 Noon At Cypress Park

The Pocomoke City Police will be hosting our Annual 
Back to School event for Pocomoke City children and families. Free school supplies for Pre-K to 8th grade. Proof of Pocomoke City School attendance or proof of address required. While supplies last. School supplies will only be given away on this day. Please do not come to the police department the next day for supplies, we will have to turn you away.

TIME MACHINE: 1996, 1900, 1892.

December, 1996

Daily Times (Salisbury)

December, 1900

 

 

Peninsula Enterprise

August, 1892

Juniata Sentinel And Republican (Miffintown, Pa.)

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