Take-home vehicles subject to IRS rules
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https://easternshorepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/20241018_post_up.pdfThursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Outdoor burning bans-
Outdoor burning bans have been implemented in Worcester, Somerset, and Wicomico Counties.
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All existing outdoor burn permits have been rescinded,” Environmental Programs Director Bob Mitchell said.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.
Public raises unsettling issues at Accomack School Board meeting.
(Shore Daily News)
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Accomack School Board Meeting highlights controversy - Shore Daily News
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Reminder: Pocomoke Halloween Costume Contest-
(Photos courtesy WULFHAUSE PRODUCTIONS)
Random sampling. See all the contestant photos before voting.
Scroll to the costume section on the Pocomoke City Facebook page. After viewing all of the contestant photos vote for your favorites.
Pocomoke's Halloween Costume Contest voting is LIVE on the Pocomoke City Facebook page! Simply "like" the picture(s) of your choice to cast your vote through October. Winners will be announced on Halloween!
Pocomoke Christmas Parade new website-
Monday night on December 2nd 2024, we will celebrate our 52nd year!
Pocomoke City will be transformed into a "Winter Wonderland", playing host to one of Delmarva’s largest night time Christmas parades.
Check out the new website for:
Fire & EMS Application
School Band Application
Misc. Application
Float Application
Dance/ROTC/Equestrian Application
Rules & Info
Contact
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Worcester Job Fair soon.
(WMDT)
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 job fair upcoming at Snow Hill Volunteer Fire House - 47abc (wmdt.com)
Monday, October 14, 2024
Worcester tops Maryland counties for DUI conviction rate.
Worcester County Sheriff's Office
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!
Maryland eyes IV fluid shortage.
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Sunday, October 13, 2024
Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper; 1941, 1892, 1993, 1983.
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December, 1941
Worcester Democrat
July, 1892
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The Weekly Herald (Baltimore)
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Baltimore Sun
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Salisbury Daily Times
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Recollections from generations past (Mary Dryden- 2)
Mary Dryden (1902 - 1983)
TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS FROM 1980 INTERVIEW
INTERVIEWER: Who was the first to get the first car around here?
MARY: It was either Mr. John Houston or Dr. John Phipps.
INTERVIEWER: Do you remember getting your first car?
MARY: Yes.
INTERVIEWER: What was it like?
MARY: It was called a Liberty. In fact, we didn’t have a car until 1920 and I was
the driver.
INTERVIEWER: I bet that was fun. Do you remember going to any Farmer’s
Day or any fairs?
MARY: Oh Yes. Pocomoke had it’s fair. That was a big excursion. Then we
went to Red Hills the first Wednesday in August, and then the first Thursday
we went to Farmer’s Day.
INTERVIEWER: What happened at Farmer’s Day?
MARY: Well it was a picnic and we usually went in the water that morning and
people who could swim, if they enjoyed swimming, and the rest sat away.
INTERVIEWER: Do you remember much about Assateague. Did you go over there?
MARY: No. We used to go to Pope’s Island Coast Guard Station at George
Island Landing. We would go by boat and then we’d walk across the sand
and the marsh and go to the beach and go into the ocean.
INTERVIEWER: Do you remember an alligator named Jake?
MARY: No.
INTERVIEWER: How about any legends or superstitions around here?
MARY: There was a farm hand on the Pocomoke Road that had a snake that
walked.
INTERVIEWER: It walked?
MARY: Yes, it would take a few steps. I had never seen it but that was one of
the legends. I don’t remember the name of the first one, but some man who
was an oysterman, he worked down in the oyster bay and sailed, was lost at
sea. His wife used to say that she heard him calling her sometimes at night.
INTERVIEWER: How about the storms?
MARY: Of course, the one in 1933 when the inlet was cut. It’s the one I
remember because it occurred on my wedding anniversary. My husband and
I had planned a little trip, but we weren’t able take it. We had big one in 1954, I
believe it was, and 63, I believe. But I don’t remember any real bad ones when
I was a child.
.INTERVIEWER: How about big snows? Do you remember any big snowstorms?
MARY: Oh yes. Back in, everywhere in 1946 we had one. A real blizzard. The
men had to go to Snow Hill and my husband and three other men here in
town started but they didn’t get any further than beyond Girdletree. They
couldn’t make it.
INTERVIEWER: What type of music was popular when you were a child? What
type of music did you listen to?
MARY: Well when we started dancing, I think first it was waltz. I remember the
turkey trot and the …..
INTERVIEWER: Were there any fairgrounds? Did Stockton have a fair?
MARY: Well the fire company used to have a fair in the summertime. Then we
had medicine shows.
INTERVIEWER: What were they like?
MARY: They were mostly similar to puppet shows. Punch and Judy and
things of that sort. And I remember one summer or two, Stockton had a
couple nights of entertainment similar to minstrels.
INTERVIEWER: What was that?
MARY: Well Pocomoke had this minstrel and they would put on shows and
have music.
INTERVIEWER: Sort of like a festival?
MARY: Somewhat similar.
INTERVIEWER: Is there anything else that you remember that we haven’t talked about?
MARY: In 1926 the new school was built in Stockton. It was one of the first
more or less modern schools in the county. As I say that was finished in 1926.
And it stood for fifty years or more, but it’s been demolished now. Then the
children were later bused to Snow Hill or Pocomoke, which hurt Stockton.
Stockton had a very disastrous fire in 1906. I don’t remember much about
that, but I remember a few things.
INTERVIEWER: What part of Stockton?
MARY: The middle of the town. They were all wooden buildings at that time.
There were two stores that were destroyed and the hotel.
INTERVIEWER: What was the hotel name?
MARY: (unintelligible). Mrs. (audio not clear).
INTERVIEWER: Is that a place that everybody went?
MARY: Well in those days, salesmen traveled on horse and carriage. There
was a livery stable adjacent to the hotel. These men stayed at the hotel and
would put their horses at the livery stable.
INTERVIEWER: Was there a place in town that all of the adults and everybody
sort of hung around?
MARY: (audio not clear) office, were primary for the men. He liked to play
dominoes. In those days when people went to the store to do their buying,
there were usually benches or chairs around the pot belly stove and they
could sit around and chat.
INTERVIEWER: See if you can think of anything else.
MARY: The night of the fire, there were a couple of stores in front. The lady
had a millenery shop at the time, came out of her shop with her nickel lamp
in her hand and was walking down towards the bay and the other lady had
put as much of her yarn and such, as much as she could, in a baby carriage
to save it. The pet dog of a friend of mine was just there and she ran up the
railroad track.
INTERVIEWER: What did you normally do on Sunday? Did you have a big
dinner?
MARY: Yes. We usually had a big dinner around one o’clock. In the morning I
went next door to the Methodist Church to Sunday School. My mother was
speaker, and we had to act older. And then in the afternoon we went to the
Episcopal Sunday School and mother was superintendent there, and then
they asked her to lead. So that’s what, we went to church mostly on Sundays.
INTERVIEWER: Thank you very much.
MARY: You are certainly welcome.
(A recollections interview with another long-time resident will be published next Saturday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.)
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