Sunday, January 27, 2019

TIME MACHINE: 1937, 2001,1957,1908.




October, 1937




January, 2001




                                                                                               


















The Daily Times (Salisbury)

July, 1957

 
The Morning News (Wilmington)


December, 1908


Baltimore Sun



1957.. Bridge On The River Kwai is the Academy Award winning motion picture.

1966.. #1 records include Cherish (The Association), Winchester Cathedral (The New Vaudeville Band), Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys).


The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011.  I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area..a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.








Wednesday, January 23, 2019

The Numbers Game And Worcester's Low Ranking In Receiving State Aid To Education

Why are we here in Worcester County receiving the second lowest amount of state funding for education?  If you want to try to follow the financial dots an article in Ocean City's "OC Today" tells why we don't fare too well, proportionately, in receiving state aid for our Worcester County schools.

https://www.oceancitytoday.com/news/worcester-second-lowest-in-state-in-education-aid/article_036c130c-1a8f-11e9-a315-fba768d81f35.html


Monday, January 21, 2019

Chief's Vacancy Filled

 
(lowereasternshorenews.com picture)

Local media reports say Lee Brumley will fill the vacancy of Chief Of Police in Pocomoke City. Brumley is a retired Pocomoke City Police veteran and has been working with the Somerset County Sheriff's Office for many years.

Sunday, January 20, 2019

TIME MACHINE: 1899, 1935, 2007, 1921.


July, 1899





January, 1935


 
 
Worcester Democrat

Footnote: Edna Davy Muir authored the popular "Life In The Country" feature in the Salisbury Daily Times for nearly 20 years. Her last original column was published December 29, 2007. She passed away the following day.  

December, 2007







(excerpt from separate obituary)
Footnote: Muir's first marriage ended after a few years and in 1989 she married Daily Times reporter Brice Stump who was some 30-plus years her junior. 
  

June, 1921


Democratic Messenger


The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011.  I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area...a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.


Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Mid-Winter Surprise On Assateague!

(The Dispatch)


ASSATEAGUE — In a mid-winter surprise, a new foal was born to the herd of wild horses on Assateague Island last week.

(Full article)
https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2019/01/16/surprise-winter-foal-born-on-assateague/

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Think WARM! We may need it.

(Washington Post weather blog)
"The polar vortex has fractured, and the eastern U.S. faces a punishing stretch of winter weather"


(Click below for the chilling prediction)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/15/polar-vortex-has-fractured-eastern-us-faces-punishing-stretch-winter-weather-just-underway/?utm_term=.bb199a9aadc7&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1


Mallards Has Closed



(Salisbury Daily Times)

Pocomoke City's Mallards on the River closed its doors permanently over the weekend. 
Owner John "Johnny Mo" Morrison announced the closure on the restaurant's Facebook page Sunday, Jan. 13. The eatery opened in 2017 after taking over the $1 million restaurant building in downtown. Previously the building housed Riverside Grill. 
"​It is with extreme regret that I am announcing that we will be permanently closing our newest location, Mallards on the River on Sunday January 13, 2019," Morrison wrote in the Facebook post. "After a 13 month run it has proven to be unsuccessful. It is an accumulation of too many reasons to list, one of them being the long commute from Melfa, VA."

PPE FOOTNOTE:

Long before the time of the Riverside Grill and Mallards On The River a retired ferry boat, The Emerson C. Harrington, was brought to the north side of the river at Pocomoke City in 1938 and used as a hotel and restaurant.